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Jungle in a glass box
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FrozenShivers
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ATO arrived today, set it up on my 3-footer until this 4-footer is going and it's great! Should have done it ages ago. My Vuppa & metal pipes are setup on my plant holding tank, they will also be migrated onto this tank when it's time. I travelled to Premier Aquatics to collect tank and then Horizon Aquatics for a workshop yesterday, drove home this morning, around 12 hours driving so I'm very tired, was absolutely bricking it driving with the tank in the back 
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itudela
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I will definitely try doing a frame like yours if our new hobby grows in the upcoming years! Btw, are those ember tetras in your plant holding tank? Their colour is beautiful!
FrozenShivers
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I highly recommend! They are indeed ember’s, it’s probably the lighting that helps with that, using a Week Aqua P series 🙂
itudela
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They look great... I need to get that light and whatever you are feeding them!
Ash J
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How are you finding the flow distribution from the new metal pipes?
FrozenShivers
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For context, tank is 60x35x35cm so around 75litres with a Biomaster 250. Surface movement was barely visible with the previous lily pipe so the jet pipe certainly appears to show more plant movement and surface movement, I can understand why many people with similar size tanks upgrade to a Biomaster 350 when using lily pipe. I'll take a video of the tank for you to show you the flow when I get home from work.
I'm hoping that the jet pipe will enable my Biomaster 850 to reach the opposite end of the tank on the 120cm tank when it's up and running, but I will test test this when I'm setting it up.
Ash J
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Will be interested to hear how you get on once the 120 is setup. Where did you get these from? I'm looking at getting some stainless steel pipes myself as getting tired of the algae build up on the acrylic ones I have
FrozenShivers
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ClickyWill be interested to hear how you get on once the 120 is setup. Where did you get these from? I'm looking at getting some stainless steel pipes myself as getting tired of the algae build up on the acrylic ones I have
Viv Aqua/Viv International is the brand, they make some solid quality gear, sadly they shamelessly copy ADA though, even down to the branding of "VIV" which is written to look similar to ADA. I also have some of their tweezers from them and they are solid. I also got fed up of cleaning pipes etc 😀
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matty_
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How has the Strideways regulator been? Need to replace my co2 art regulator which has been dropping quite abit
FrozenShivers
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I have both the CO2Art and the Strideways, I highly recommend the Strideways, I've found it better to dial in and with a better needle valve also, plus you can add manifolds without needing to upgrade to a more expensive variant like the CO2Art if that's of any use to you.
matty_
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Perfect that is what i was reading when looking into them, the lack of their own site put me off alittle. I'll get an order in for one to try out, will replace the faulty co2 art one and should be higher quality 🙂Appreciate it!
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My plywood is at my work (off this week) but I'm back tomorrow so hopefully I can get them to cut it for me this week so I can crack on with the cabinet. Managed to stumble across some 6mm MDF in my attic which was left from previous homeowner, so I cut it to size so I have somewhere to practise scaping 😀 Sadly I don't have endless hardscape, but I most likely going to use this main piece I bought a while back and haven't used yet, it's the biggest piece I own, I want to make the scape relatively simple for maintenance as well as I want a lot of echinidorus etc and don't want to kill off the volume.
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AlemBa
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I love yoyr engineering skills and the mail wood is great 👍
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This is probably the slowest journal ever 😄 ....but some of my wood has been cut, so I spent the weekend sanding/priming/painting this 18mm board of ply to go onto of the cabinet, it's had another coat of paint this that photo was taken, not that it needs to look great as it's just for the tank to sit on.
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The Accidental Aquascaper
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Love aluminium extrusion. I have a sim rig made out of it and the channels are dust collectors, which can be quite tedious.
I've used the metalstore.co.uk to make a unit like yours. Used the 25mm box section and clamps. Basically Meccano for adults.
I've used the metalstore.co.uk to make a unit like yours. Used the 25mm box section and clamps. Basically Meccano for adults.