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Hi! Just wanna say hello! I've been lurking around "The Barr Report" forum for the last couple years now and heard good stuff about this forum.
I've had a few aquariums in the past and have successfully had 3 planted tanks:
1. 25 gallon low-tech tank with basically a huge Java fern that looked like an inverted pyramid and school of bosemani australian rainbows and cats
2. A 48 gallon at my workplace that I converted to a planted tank with tonnes of Amazon sword, ludwigia, rotala and so much Java fern growing in on a massive driftwood that it was nearly invisible and DIY CO2
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3. And finally a lowly 10 gallon in our condo with high light and DIY CO2 and the most varieties of plants I could stick in there. I actualy made a blog about my progress and would have pictures if I hadn't of switched ISPs and lost my whole website and then at the same time formatted my computer and didn't backup my aquarium pics...except this tiny preview thumbnail that my brother managed to find on his computer
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That was 2 1/2 years ago and since then we moved to another town and I didn't want to setup the tank till we settled in a house. Just buying our first house this last summer my aquarium fever returned. I've been buying parts slowly as I could afford to over the last couple years for my new 33 gallon setup.
I got a nice frameless 33 gallon aquarium, Onyx sand, a Hydor inline heater, an Eheim canister filter, a glass ADA CO2 hand-made diffuser, a Milwaukee CO2 regulator and pH controller, a couple of CO2 cylinders. I just mounted the 2x55 PC lighting system from AH Supply in my totally AWESOME canopy that my dad, who is an amazing carpenter, made custom for me--and also put some nice doors on this old TV cabinet.
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Inspired by Tom Barr's article on giving a planted tank a jump start by growing an emersed carpet of HC and other plants I got excited and ordered a pile of plants from Arizona Gardens. Little did I know it would take over 2 months since then and I still wouldn't have recieved them. Never answering my emails and bad communication was very frustrating with them. I guess there problems with the brokerage documentation at the border so they shipped it out again and again and still never recieved it. Well, long story short I'm still waiting after repeated long-distance phoning to Arizona. Hopefully in the next few days!!
In the meantime I'm feverishly looking around these forums and getting more and more excited about trying my emersed planting experiment. The plants I'm planning to grow emersed is Java fern on driftwood, anubias nana, HC, glosso, and lobelia (small form). Not sure how the lobelia will do but it's a pretty stiff and sturdy plant.
I look forward to talking with everyone and posting pics on my progress through my new blog!
I've had a few aquariums in the past and have successfully had 3 planted tanks:
1. 25 gallon low-tech tank with basically a huge Java fern that looked like an inverted pyramid and school of bosemani australian rainbows and cats
2. A 48 gallon at my workplace that I converted to a planted tank with tonnes of Amazon sword, ludwigia, rotala and so much Java fern growing in on a massive driftwood that it was nearly invisible and DIY CO2
3. And finally a lowly 10 gallon in our condo with high light and DIY CO2 and the most varieties of plants I could stick in there. I actualy made a blog about my progress and would have pictures if I hadn't of switched ISPs and lost my whole website and then at the same time formatted my computer and didn't backup my aquarium pics...except this tiny preview thumbnail that my brother managed to find on his computer
That was 2 1/2 years ago and since then we moved to another town and I didn't want to setup the tank till we settled in a house. Just buying our first house this last summer my aquarium fever returned. I've been buying parts slowly as I could afford to over the last couple years for my new 33 gallon setup.
I got a nice frameless 33 gallon aquarium, Onyx sand, a Hydor inline heater, an Eheim canister filter, a glass ADA CO2 hand-made diffuser, a Milwaukee CO2 regulator and pH controller, a couple of CO2 cylinders. I just mounted the 2x55 PC lighting system from AH Supply in my totally AWESOME canopy that my dad, who is an amazing carpenter, made custom for me--and also put some nice doors on this old TV cabinet.
Inspired by Tom Barr's article on giving a planted tank a jump start by growing an emersed carpet of HC and other plants I got excited and ordered a pile of plants from Arizona Gardens. Little did I know it would take over 2 months since then and I still wouldn't have recieved them. Never answering my emails and bad communication was very frustrating with them. I guess there problems with the brokerage documentation at the border so they shipped it out again and again and still never recieved it. Well, long story short I'm still waiting after repeated long-distance phoning to Arizona. Hopefully in the next few days!!
In the meantime I'm feverishly looking around these forums and getting more and more excited about trying my emersed planting experiment. The plants I'm planning to grow emersed is Java fern on driftwood, anubias nana, HC, glosso, and lobelia (small form). Not sure how the lobelia will do but it's a pretty stiff and sturdy plant.
I look forward to talking with everyone and posting pics on my progress through my new blog!
