Back to Basics - Going Old School

[fr499y]

That it is. It's from the cube that all the stock came out of. The massive sponge was squeezed into the tank and the ceramic's dumped in this tank.

[fr499y]

New tubes arrived. BROKEN *Sigh* One out of the three was fine so that's gone in to replace the older blue tube. The one tube i really wanted was the 2700k colour temp, so I've sent a RMA off to get them sorted. At least i can now run 3x T5's so that's something. Timer changed to 7 hours on, that's if the timer will actually work as planned. Something else to look at i suppose.





Plenty of good growth already

[Martinspuddle]

Keep the lily well trimmed, not allowing the plant to reach the surface if you want to keep it small, also better to keep them in a submerged pot otherwise in time you'll have runners everywhere!

[fr499y]

Oh yeah, kept them before. This is a runner. The original bulb is to the right of this plant. I'm hoping it takes over! the plan is a nice jungle tank running the old school way of fish keeping lol. The crinum has doubled in size already since putting it in this tank.

I'm still a believer in T5's being the best for growth and general colours ( especially with marine! )

[Martinspuddle]

I'm going to keep my Nymphaea rubra, the red lily is nice and compact, the green however has become a unruly pain, so this weekend it's coming out!

[fr499y]

just hack it down to the base, a hard prune keeps them compact.

[Martinspuddle]

just hack it down to the base, a hard prune keeps them compact.

Would love to but it has six runners I know of and oh boy are they growing fast!

[fr499y]

So after picking up a couple more endler types for the smaller tank, I moved 5 to this one. 3 of the larger fry ( one starting to show black on its tail ) and two of the fully grown males.

[Martinspuddle]

Pictures?

[fr499y]

Yay! Replacement T5's will be posted soon so thats good news. Be good to replace the two 8 year old bulbs with new ones ( one has already been changed ).