Aquascaping in Low-Tech - Page 4 - Aquascaping

**davemonkey** · 05-30-2011, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Gumbie

I'll have to hurry so that Jark and I are prepared to launch our new product line at the 2011 convention.

HAHA! Sign me up for one of those as well!

f1ea · 05-30-2011, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Gumbie

Ah, got it. I deleted the word “pressurized” from my post. I think I’ll give the DIY CO2 a try in one tank. I'll have to hurry so that Jark and I are prepared to launch our new product line at the 2011 convention.

good luck!! and make sure you remove ALL of the juice jug's labeling. Wouldnt want your costumers to think you're affiliated with Mott's

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Still waiting for davemonkey to comment. My question was in response to his compliment on a low tech tank that according to the poster was “Pretty much no maintenance... only change DIY CO2 every 2 weeks.”

I think it’s a great thread and like to see photos of tanks that are more stylized but still considered low tech or NPT. It would be helpful to know which tanks are being given CO2 bubbles.

ah you meant my tank... in any case Dave never specifically complimented my tank. Maybe he re-write his post to do so

Anyway.... no i dont think DIY is high tech. Far from it. Pressured CO2 is really high tech, mainly because it requires the work of several industrialised machines to make it happen. A co2 tank could be low maintenance... but its still tech.

In my case, there's much more technology going on in my lights and HOB filter than the DIY CO2 in itself, so i think you should have been more concerned with those. But for some reason lights, filters and UV lamps are "exempt" for NPTs........

Here's a good controversial one: i think Excel is much more techy than DIY CO2. Excel is an industrialised product and YOU have to add it every day, there is no natural process going on in the tank or around it to synthetise Gluta and introduce it to your tank. You can't make Gluta from stuff you'd find in your patio.

Now, the reason i dont use it is not because it is high tech... i dont use it because i have to pay attention to it, and dose it daily. I prefer being able to leave my tanks completely unattended for a week without worrying about an algae mess.

Michael · 05-31-2011, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by f1ea

Here's a good controversial one: i think Excel is much more techy than DIY CO2. Excel is an industrialised product and YOU have to add it every day, there is no natural process going on in the tank or around it to synthetise Gluta and introduce it to your tank. You can't make Gluta from stuff you'd find in your patio.

Let us not forget that gluteraldehyde is toxic--very toxic. I used to work with the stuff long ago when I was a lab tech, and all those warnings on the label are there for good reason. Even the fumes can cause permanent scarring on your corneas.

Gumbie · 05-31-2011, 05:27 AM

Michael,
Being ignorant of all things carbon, I mistakenly googled “is Excel a form of CO2” and got quite an education.

F1ea,
Dave did compliment your tank, it was just inclusive. I think it is superb as well (and similar to mine).

I guess we’ll have to include you in our venture since without your remark, Jark wouldn’t have proffered his prototype. Remove the juice jug labels? Hmmm, perhaps Motts or Ocean Spray would like to sponser our gambit (e.g., Lowes, Viagra, Goodyear decals on race cars).

My tanks have plants, fish, snails, HOB filters and T5HO lights on timers. I use Flourish Tabs occasionally, and Prime in w/c. That’s it. I never considered them low tech or low maintenance, definitely not high tech. I feed the fish and check on the plants daily. I do weekly water changes because.....because I do.

Low tech, high tech, I guess it all comes down to semantics.

niko · 06-26-2011, 09:35 PM

El Natural, good flow, only biomedia, sunlight + that swivel light at night.

Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZThj5YG04

--Nikolay

houseofcards · 06-27-2011, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by niko

El Natural, good flow, only biomedia, sunlight + that swivel light at night.

Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZThj5YG04

--Nikolay

Does that tank belong to someone you know?

niko · 06-27-2011, 10:40 AM

Yes, right here in DFW.

But there is MUCH MORE to see. All these tanks are El Natural.

Here (sit before opeing link, you may faint):

https://picasaweb.google.com/ddasega...ngPart1Inside#

--Nikolay

Tex Gal · 06-27-2011, 12:34 PM

Wonderful pxs Niko! What a great meeting we had!

niko · 06-28-2011, 12:55 PM

Just stumbled on this on Facebook. It's Ghazanfar's tank apparently.

The title says:
"No filter. No ferts. No CO2. Ambient light."

Don't know what substrate. It matters not - we are expanding this hobby into a new direction for sure:

LOW TECH AQUASCAPING.

--Nikolay

niko · 06-28-2011, 12:59 PM

I think Michael needs to setup the tank he has been beating around the bush about - low tech Iwagumi.

Besides being mindblowingly boring in real life Iwagumis seem to normally make use of even less plant species than Ghazanfar's tank above (if it's his). But I still think his tank is probably the first US low tech iwagumi ever. And I don't think that particular tank is boring in real life or on that picture.

--Nikolay