chlwong

I have a lot of floating plants every other week (they grow like crazy in my tanks).
There's more Salvinia than frogbit so Salvinia is sold in (slightly larger) tropica sized cups that will be stuffed full.

Frogbit will be sold by the plant.

1 cup of Salvinia = $5
1 plant of Frogbit = $2

Pick up in the NW only!

Where do you buy your poret foam from?

So I ended up driving to badlands paintball. For my 20oz tank it was about $6.50 to fill it.
No Canadian Tire in the North ended up doing refills, unfortunately.

Will do!

Just called 3 other stores and they all said they don't... Might just have to make a trip down south

Weird. Maybe i'll try another canadian tire. The one I went to is across Northland, I even called back to double check.

I got myself a 20oz paintball tank from Canadian tire, and they told me they don't refill it.

Anyone know where I could refill it in NW Calgary? (NE works too)

Coventry Hills Petland is also a good location for freshwater fish. Not as large of a selection as pisces, but the fish and reptiles manager there, Devin, is good with bringing in what we want.

I'm looking for higher density ones. Something I can make use to make pre filter guards and things to just grow moss on.

Interesting, I'll keep them in mind!

Does anyone know where I can find T316 Stainless Steel mesh?
I've checked home depot and they don't carry any (or so says the guy I talked to, not sure if he knew what I was looking for).
I'm looking for larger sheets and preferably in Calgary. Don't really want to have to ship it to me.

Looking forward to see the actual images and perhaps a tip or two of photography tricks you picked up along the way.

One of my first tanks was a cherry shrimp tank.
2 months in, they were healthy and thriving!

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I'm still relatively new to this hobby. I only started last December and have enjoyed every minute of it.
I currently have 6 tanks set up and have been playing around with my camera to get some good shots.
I guess this will simply be a thread to showcase some of my stuff!
Hope you all enjoy them as much as I do!

Interesting!!

Honestly didn't know it was duckweed. I thought that the leaves were too thin.

I think I prefer this stuff over salvinia just by how it looks.

Thanks guys!

So recently, there's this floating plant that's been multiplying in one of my tanks. I like the look of it so I moved a handful to another one of my tanks.
Does anyone know the name for this thing?

I wanted to document my attempt at a dry start tank!
Hope you like it, any feedback is always appreciated!
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Tank: DoAqua! 45-F; 45x24x16cm, 5mm
Substrate: ADA Amazonia Aquasoil

Lighting: x1 Fluval Mini Power Compact Fluorescent Light (13W); x1 Clip on lamp w/ 26W (6500k) light bulbs

Filter: Eheim 2213

Heater: Fluval 100W heater

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June 3, 2016

Dry starting monte carlo as a carpet.
Got a little patch of staurogyne repens, as well as a little experiment with hygrophilia, ludwigia, alternanthera reneikii, and pogostemon helfri.

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June 22, 2016

I'm not too fond of the look of having that clip on lamp there, but i'm doing this tank on the budget side... Maybe i'll get another light somewhere own the line, but this should work for now!

Everything is growing very well! Glad it's turning out well so far.

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Interesting. Maybe they weren't too careful. They do seem pretty solid, just assumed they were easy to break from what was left!

I got a new shaft from bigal's since the bushings were also missing and $13 was fine.

Thanks guys!

Might give it a go and post back

Might give you some tips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyE8JN4B47A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqEGFh4MM5I

Yeah, i looked at those and i looked at other forums. Would stainless steel be okay? Someone said that it would eventually oxidize and create friction.

Someone else also cleaned out an ink tube from a pen and used that, which seems a little sketchy to me..

I got an eheim 2213 from a friend and he said he upgraded a while ago. Only problem was that the shaft was broken.
My understanding is that they use ceramic due to the low friction, etc etc. But it just seems extremely fragile and i know i'd probably break it again if i replaced it.

Has anyone ever tried replacing the shaft with a stainless steel one or another metal?

So I just got some almond leaves for my shrimp tanks. I was wondering if there would be any harm in adding a couple into my discus tank even though it's been well established for a couple of years?

not even close.

i wired up the entire 5m length, side by side with no space and did nothing against t5

it can be done of course but need to spend more cash on high power chips than a basic strip.

suggest to grab individual chips and wire them together seems like you'll get more power out of that than these types of strips.

Well, glad i didn't try the strip LEDs too. I was looking at videos about it...

I've also been looking at getting individual chips. This might be what i'm going with if i can't find anything good.

LED floodlights on ebay work decently. They don't LOOK nice though but they'll grow relatively undemanding plants fine. 10W would be fine on a nano probably.

For the LED floodlights, do you have one which you have used and would recommend?

Nah. I've bought a few off ebay and they're okay. Nothing great. I wouldn't really recommend them because they won't make your tank look nice but the light itself is relatively powerful for the price. I've had about a 40% failure rate in the first year, but they're pretty cheap so expectations have to be low haha. The ones I have look like this:

Interesting. I'll take a look around.

Thanks!

not even close.

i wired up the entire 5m length, side by side with no space and did nothing against t5

it can be done of course but need to spend more cash on high power chips than a basic strip.

suggest to grab individual chips and wire them together seems like you'll get more power out of that than these types of strips.

Well, glad i didn't try the strip LEDs too. I was looking at videos about it...

I've also been looking at getting individual chips. This might be what i'm going with if i can't find anything good.

LED floodlights on ebay work decently. They don't LOOK nice though but they'll grow relatively undemanding plants fine. 10W would be fine on a nano probably.

For the LED floodlights, do you have one which you have used and would recommend?

Oh yeah?
Are they strong enough for an HC carpet?

Does anyone know of some cheap LED lighting that i can use for my planted nano? (Calgary)