This has got to be one of the slowest start-ups ever on UKAPS. The tank was supposed to be a 50th birthday present to myself, but my birthday was back in July! I'm thinking of renaming it "Deferred Gratification"...
Spec-
Tank size: 100cmx45cmx55cm high, c. 200 litres, opti-white (12ml glass) on ADA-style cabinet, all from Aquariums Ltd
Filter: Eheim Thermo 2180 filled with Siporax, standard green pipes and spraybar on back wall
Light: Arcadia Series 4, 150w MH plus 2x24w T5
Co2: TGM pressurised set-up - 3KG bottle via Aquamedic reactor filled with Siporax, with solenoid
Ferts: EI all-in-one via dosing pump, home-brewed from dry powders
Substrate: ADA Aquasoil Amazonia over ADA Powersand Special
Hardscape: Seiryu stone
Flora: all Tropica from TGM; HC Cuba x14, Pogostemon Helferi x7, Eleocharis Parvula x7, Staurogyne x5, Hydrocotyle Verticillata x5 (only used 2 pots), Rotala Rotundifolia x5, Vallisneria nana x5, Limnobium laevigatum x1.
Lights on 6hrs (2x24w T5s only, luminaire up high)
Co2 on 7hrs (on 2hrs before lights on, off 1hr before lights off)
Thanks for looking - as they say...