TheresaM's live bowl project

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TheresaM

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Inspiration: all of the wonderful nano tank threads and photos being posted recently; reading about keeping various live foods for fish; Aqua_chem's dirted bowl information and photos.

Tank: Petco 1 gallon glass footed betta bowl, ordered online while on sale with free shipping

Substrate: Eco Complete capped with Tahitian Moon Sand

Plants: tenatively dwarf sag, ludwigia, moss (undecided), dwarf water lettuce

Stock: bumblebee nerite, MTS, 2-3 tiger shrimp

Extra goodies: I ordered scuds that will go in this bowl. Middle daughter is going to collect some live water from the Red Ceder River on the MSU campus:

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I was thinking about looking into collecting water locally but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to mix or not.

Very curious to see where this project goes!
 
Mattfinn said:
Another one! Mate three projects at once. WOOOOO

How's your budget looking for all these? hahaha
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Ssh!!! It's not too bad actually, of the 3 projects the biggest expense was the actual Spec 5 itself.

And it's a learning experience, right? :whistle:
 
You also come up with the best ideas ever



John,
Trust me I am not insane
 
Scuds shipped today, hope the bowl arrives tomorrow. Depending on how they're packaged the other option would be to put them in this:

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Had the youngest daughter collection some water from a small pond near our house over the weekend. Water tested well other than a pH higher than I expected. Just threw in some misc plant bits and mosses, have it sitting on a window ledge :whistle:
 
I'll be keeping along this thread. I'm currently hatching a plan for a 20g long that will be an attempt at a self-contained ecosystem, an idea that has been long discussed on this forum but generally criticized by many, myself included. I imagine these tanks will have a decent amount of overlap.


Where'd you get you scuds?

Also, I'm not sure that there's a point to capping EC, especially with a sand. It's not like dirt or any other substrate that needs to be kept down. I also don't think you really gain anything from locally collected water past the initial water, and in that case, you might be better off getting it from a lake or pond than a river.
 
aqua_chem said:
I'll be keeping along this thread. I'm currently hatching a plan for a 20g long that will be an attempt at a self-contained ecosystem, an idea that has been long discussed on this forum but generally criticized by many, myself included. I imagine these tanks will have a decent amount of overlap.


Where'd you get you scuds?

Also, I'm not sure that there's a point to capping EC, especially with a sand. It's not like dirt or any other substrate that needs to be kept down. I also don't think you really gain anything from locally collected water past the initial water, and in that case, you might be better off getting it from a lake or pond than a river.
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A 20 long will be awesome, definitely looking forward to seeing that build (y)

Scuds I got here, purchased some very nice Endlers from him not long ago: LIVEFINS | Endless Endlers, Round Tail Guppies, Scuds, Live Plants, Naja and More!!!

I've never used EC, if it's easy to plant I won't use the sand. Really found planting in dirt a pain, even with a small gravel cap.

Another question for you: I'm planning to set up something similar in a large jar for my daughter to have at college. I'm looking at something similar to this. Would the lid be a problem?
 
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Seems small. I would see how the larger bowl does first.

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Can't wait till it goes high tech. I'm gonna have to pick up my game with my 10gal I'm setting up. Still deciding whether or not I pull up what I've done and dirt it before I go any further. It isn't stocked yet other then some local pond snails. I think I may though just to experiment you know.
 
Well this project is on hold temporarily. I had ordered the bowl from Petco and got a shipping confirmation email. Without reading it put in in my orders file. Going thru that today I noticed that while it does say shipping confirmation the actual bowl is backordered. Ended up canceling that and ordered a 1g with lid from Target.
 
I got mine from a local craft store Michaels' maybe? I was unimpressed with Target's bowls.

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Ohh that's a beautiful jar, and it immediately has me thinking of what I can put in one :eek:.

Can't wait to see how this turns out.
 
Looks like this is going to turn into a 2 bowl project. I have a standard .5g bowl and the lidded 1g should be here by the end of the week. The scuds arrived today! They're in a temporary holding container until I open the EC and start working on the .5g later today. Really fascinating to watch!

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I had placed an order for some mosses then afterward got to talking with Han about my various projects...box arrived today with more bonus goodies than what I had actually ordered. Extra plants are a bit out of control but the last time I got a 10g from the Petco $1 sale it ended up turning into my Endlers tank so I don't think the spouse will go for that again :hide:

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This is the jar that I'm going to set up for the college daughter. Figure I'll just pack it full of plants, maybe add a shrimp or two:

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