BigJim
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It's really more of a design and proof of concept rather than a build thread. Here's my fixture. Here's what it can do.
I suppose it is a bit hypocritical that I don't have a background. In my defense this wasn't supposed to be the tank I did the LED build on. I was going to do it on my 40B, but I chickened out because I had zero faith in my electrical skills and I wanted to minimize the financial hit when all the magic smoke escaped from the circuit. I've been debating whether I should try a black laminate background, try to figure out how to paint the back of the tank with it set up, or just leave it and grow the plants thick enough to block out the back glass.
Thanks. The scape is a work in progress. I actually just pulled out the wad of guppy grass because it was annoying me and I spread out the telanthera a bit. The little cave/castle is actually my wife's. She likes it in the tank, so I leave it there. She actually wants to put a bigger, very similar castle in the tank. I feel like the tank needs some kind of hardscape, so we'll see.
I'm pretty excited about the glosso at the moment. All the new growth is practically flat on the floor of the tank. It's going to look like the tank is tiled with little green leaves at this rate.
The light green plant in the back left corner is asian ambulia. I didn't realize it was so demanding of light when I traded for it, so it died back to just a few sprigs. It's coming back nicely now and I'm hoping it'll get back to the thick bushiness it was when I got it. I can actually see how much it grew today alone.
I suppose it is a bit hypocritical that I don't have a background. In my defense this wasn't supposed to be the tank I did the LED build on. I was going to do it on my 40B, but I chickened out because I had zero faith in my electrical skills and I wanted to minimize the financial hit when all the magic smoke escaped from the circuit. I've been debating whether I should try a black laminate background, try to figure out how to paint the back of the tank with it set up, or just leave it and grow the plants thick enough to block out the back glass.
Thanks. The scape is a work in progress. I actually just pulled out the wad of guppy grass because it was annoying me and I spread out the telanthera a bit. The little cave/castle is actually my wife's. She likes it in the tank, so I leave it there. She actually wants to put a bigger, very similar castle in the tank. I feel like the tank needs some kind of hardscape, so we'll see.
I'm pretty excited about the glosso at the moment. All the new growth is practically flat on the floor of the tank. It's going to look like the tank is tiled with little green leaves at this rate.
The light green plant in the back left corner is asian ambulia. I didn't realize it was so demanding of light when I traded for it, so it died back to just a few sprigs. It's coming back nicely now and I'm hoping it'll get back to the thick bushiness it was when I got it. I can actually see how much it grew today alone.