The Tranquility Effect...

The LED makes a big diffierence.
You must be happy with it.

 

Yeah for sure really chuffed with it.

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Just some advice needed from my fellow fish keepers. I was thinking of maybe removing the three rocks on the left side of the tank. I like the look and feel but thinking of rather removing it as I want the stunning wood piece the main focus point any thoughts. Maybe plant a nice fern in its place surrounded by some other plant or something.



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Also, get some moss on that wood.

 

Thinking of doing it someday

 

Its easy and goes quick. Fishing line and moss is all you'll need. That vallis will start shooting soon, letting it run at the back also looks nice. Vallis looks awesome after it grows high enough and starts blocking some of the light out.

On lighting. If you want lighting thats +- 6500K get some LED spots. I'm running 2 10W on one of my tanks and it grows plants just fine. For high lighting I would get 3 50W spots. They are cheap and powerful and doesn't heat up, you can touch them. Paid R80 a light for the 10W's, and because its point lighting it give the ripple effect on the bottom. The color is as close to sunlight that I've seen.

This the growth with 2x10W's. Shooting like crazy. Now imagine what 3x30W or 50W's would do.

 

Did it once before bud, thanks for the info, do currently have 1 x 30w floglo tube and the new 1 x 18w led 6500k tube sure it will be fine for my low tech plants especially the leds

 

Those LED spots are an idea to keep in the back of my mind, should I decide to change the T8 tubes I have over my shrimp breeding tanks.

 

Yeah very clever idea, but come on people @Pezulu I asked for some advice earlier today about the rocks on the left side, gone on leave it there lets stray away from the led spots

 

Currently doing 80 liters wc per week 40 liters on Wednesdays and 40 Liters on Saturdays working out nicely, just filled the bin Saturday morning and later in the afternoon around 16h00 water in bin was 25 degrees no hassles with heating water with heaters just our natural heat of the sun only started out with 20 liters every 3 or 4 day for the first few days after starting the tank up and then did a 30 liter wc last week and then started with 40 liters this past weekend. Temps in bin will probably rise above 25 degrees with the extra heat this week will just add little bit of cold water to bring temps down a bit with a couple of drops of prime for safety sake. Enjoy my Tranquility Effect.

 

NB!!!! Thread Name changed Please Note my 245 Liters of Tranquility has been renamed to The Tranquility Effect..

 

I must have missed the earlier post.
The stones look OK where they are.
Leave them until you definitely know if you want to change it.

 

So I felt the Amazon swords where hiding too much behind the rocks. So I moved them to the left and moved those rocks into its place. Looking sweet now swords looking awesome in its new spot.

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That does look good.

 

Thanks bud water just needs to clear up again after moving stuff around.

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Turned off the airpump for total tranquility looks awesome. Enjoy




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What type of bloodworms are preferred these days I can recall camcom or something a few years ago, please advise.

 

Any input people

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I don't know about any different types of bloodworms.
As far as I know bloodworms are the larvae of a non-biting midge Chironomidae.

 

Lol I meant the different brands just wanted to know which type of frozen bloodworms everyone uses.

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