Show your Hardware, the unsung hero!

[billberet]

so everyone always shows their fish, but how about showing the hardware that keeps your fish looking good. here is my DIY setup.

90gal FW, 40gal FW, 20gal Marine
2 fluval FX5
sump
PVC hard plum return and intakes
DIY LED lighting
UV

150 gal FW
Fluval FX5
PVC Hard Plumbing
DIY LED (low profile lighting)

DIY intake pressure fit
reamed out pvc to pressure fit intake pipe.

DIY LED hood
aluminum strip bent to house LED strips

here is my 150 gal FW
using planted tank to filter nitrates.
so far I can do my water changes once a month. and all my chem levels are 0

 

[Delapool]

That's pretty incredible!

All mine is pretty much tucked away in the cupboards in the tank stand.

So my only hardware lately has been a straw pipe I made to drop pellets down for the (very shy) catfish.

 

[billberet]

I would drop my hardware in an instant if I could use a straw, lol.
planted tank has always been my holy grail, but my green thumb is not that green !!!

 

[Delapool]

A work in progress I haven't posted on hardware for a bit. Mostly all tucked away:

2 x canister filters.
1 x internal filter / powerhead.
1 x internal uv unit.
2 x heaters.
1 x air pump.
2 x lights (looking at getting underwater lights this pay ).
1 x CO2 bottle with solenoid & ph probe (spare CO2 bottle somewhere).
1 x Seneye Reef monitor.

That's it. Don't know why I'm not allowed a second tank (sniff).

 

[billberet]

A work in progress I haven't posted on hardware for a bit. Mostly all tucked away:

2 x canister filters.
1 x internal filter / powerhead.
1 x internal uv unit.
2 x heaters.
1 x air pump.
2 x lights (looking at getting underwater lights this pay ).
1 x CO2 bottle with solenoid & ph probe (spare CO2 bottle somewhere).
1 x Seneye Reef monitor.

That's it. Don't know why I'm not allowed a second tank (sniff).

looks great, how do you deal with algae????
it's a constant war for me.

 

[Delapool]

looks great, how do you deal with algae????
it's a constant war for me.

Sheer luck I think. It's just minor but still there.

Liquid carbon dosing helps with the black beard algae.

Then I just try to adjust the lighting down to match the co2 level and over-dose potassium for the stem plants (potassium being one on my tank they seem to run short of first, while nitrates and phosphate are coming from the fish waste).

 

[billberet]

Sheer luck I think. It's just minor but still there.

Liquid carbon dosing helps with the black beard algae.

Then I just try to adjust the lighting down to match the co2 level and over-dose potassium for the stem plants (potassium being one on my tank they seem to run short of first, while nitrates and phosphate are coming from the fish waste).

I have fake coral, I'm simulating a marine tank, so I can't use pleco's or other algae eating fish because they EAT THE CORAL !!!! and those pieces were expensive. so I just took a pvc pipe and extended my scrub brush.

 

[lksdrinker]

How about piles of extra/old/unused equipment that tends to gather in a fishroom over time?

 

[Fresh2o]

Well, that certainly is hardware. That stuff is fun to find at fish club auctions.
I could fit the CO2 tank inside the cabinet but it would be tight and I'd lose some valuable shelf space. So outside it sits...

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[billberet]

Well, that certainly is hardware. That stuff is fun to find at fish club auctions.
I could fit the CO2 tank inside the cabinet but it would be tight and I'd lose some valuable shelf space. So outside it sits...

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I like CO2 tanks, looks industrial.
you should pretty it up and make it part of the display, add led's to it, back light it, ....something like that.