fishenthusiast
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Nice stand! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Nice stand! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Yes, the tank alone is like a piece of art.
As for the background, if you don't plan on painting it, you can experiment with other materials such as rice paper for an interesting effect.
Awesome yea Ada are top of the line my Ada mini m was perfect . I think the fogged look would be coolI don't think I could bring myself to spray paint onto it lol it's too nice!
Ooh yes I never thought of rice paper! Fogged contact was an idea I was toying with aswell. I'm thinking the lighter back lit look better than black. [emoji106]
The tank arrived today! If u haven't seen an Ada tank in person before then u need to find one because they truely are an amazing thing!
The lines are so clean and the silicon is completely invisible! It really is amazing quality!
Here's a picture of the bare tank and then one with it on the stand.
http://pho.to/AhqpO
Not sure what colour background yet but I will most likely go with black.
Without thick seams of silicon and a rim ....how is that thing held together? I imagine filling it and all the sides springing apart. Lol
That is a lovely looking tank! Many years from now, I'll look into those for my next tank. You can't go wrong with a black background, or even blue. It'll look nice if you have a lot of green plants.
Very nice BertHad the day off today so I decided I'd get the hardscape in. Really happy with it and i now have a pretty good idea of what plants I want and where they will go.
I've put polystyrene triangles in the back corner to give me the height without using too much substrate. I pulled it in from the glass so u can't see it from any side.
I've also put in substrate supports in the upper section between the rocks to stop the substrate from settling back to flat.
The white background is just so you can see the scape as it blends into the brick wall behind lol.
Pics: http://pho.to/AhtmV
Lighting brackets and the wifi controller turned up today! I can control the timer, colours, lighting intensity etc all from an app on my phone [emoji106][emoji16]
Also went to the LFS and picked up a canister filter. I got an aqua one 1000 as I like the ease of cleaning them and the connections are nice and strong.
The filter will give me 7x turn over when full of media. Should be plenty as my stock will either be a school of tetras or no fish at all.
I also decided I hated the scape so I've completely changed it. It's been rescaped for over a week now and I'm still happy with it so I think it's what I'll run with [emoji106]
Power supply for the lights sparked out the back of it when I turned it on and it was hissing with electricity so I've thrown it away and I'll have to get a new one [emoji20]
Pics tomorrow [emoji16][emoji106]
Nice stand! Is that an aqua one filter?