Recent content by hydrophyte

Just kind of randomly appeared in my Instagram feed. Check out some of their other posts/reels. This Las Vegas-based custom aquarium manufacturer & installer has some nice show pieces exploring the broad & shallow tank idea with other really nice hardware. I have seldom seen freshwater...

Thanks for stopping by! I'll round up a few more things and explain the connection with these ideas. Kitebuilding and kite flying are really rich areas to explore and a nice way to get outside. If you might want to pick it up again, that Urban Ninja kite is extreme fun to fly and available as a...

I formatted a new poster for the Mars terrarium project mainly with pics I had handy already and got it mounted too. I'm expanding the astrobiology with a new idea, kites, among a few other additional concepts. I'll explain more later when I have more components built, but here is the...

The Tesla valve is intended to generate uni-directional water flow between two enclosures (with a siphon return) in combination with a very rustic donkey-powered pump mechanism. It's still only conceptual and I don't know if it will work yet, but I have most of the parts now and I hope to set...

Looking good!

Congratulations for the new home! Tank is looking great!

Took me a few hours in CorelDRAW to get the design looking right.

I have another new project combining a rustic pump mechanism with a Tesla valve and a large-diameter siphon for water flow between two tanks. There is also a neat model ecosystem concept to go with this. This HDPE sheet sure machines nice. I hope that five valves will be enough for each side...

I just ran into a more recently uploaded ripple tank video I had not seen previously. This one offers a more thorough demonstration of physical principles with varied dipper configurations. The ripple generator uses a mini cam & follower mechanism.

Happy planting in there! So what happened to the fan idea? A fan could take some pressure off the chiller and its power consumption.

Very nice! Did you explain what the fern on the background is?

Happy plants in there! You know what might look really nice would be a Lagenandra meeboldii positioned at the waterline along the back with foliage up in the air. This plant would normally prefer to be rooted in a soil substrate, but so long as you maintain fertilization it will root OK on the...

Fantastic as always. Nice to see you are leaving the 75p running. That tank is lovely.

Yeah I could maybe fit a couple more rice fish. Though they are going to grow. a bit more. I also wondered about a single specimen of something else as a centerpiece fish. Any ideas?

Lovely little setup. I have an antique glass battery case from the 1890s (a comparable size and shape to this tank) and I've wondered about putting a little project in it. This is some nice inspiration.