Shallow - The Future?

[Jon1706]

Hi George / everyone this is really interesting and after reading this it something that I would love to know more about because I think it look great in a living room or office. I got a few questions so I'm really sorry if they seem dumb lol sorry in advance.
You said you "you can run lower lighting than usual to achieve nice carpets and/or compact plant growth" so what lighting would you go for something like this Arcadia Classica 150W Metal Halide Pendant Light or would this be a over kill?
As for the water circulation could you get away with running just lily pipes or just a spray bar? and no power heads even with C02? And while on the subject of C02 could you run it in a tank like this or would there be to much C02 evaporation. I know the size of this tank is 60x 80x30cms but could you do one say 60x60x30cm and still get the same benefits of the 60x80x30 with the depth and ect ?
Again sorry for all the questions
Jon

 

[Mark Evans]

so what lighting would you go for something like this Arcadia Classica 150W Metal Halide Pendant Light or would this be a over kill?

not really. you could have a 400w bulb if it was physically suspended high enough. I've run a 150MH over a 60L with no issues what so ever.

 

[PM]

so what lighting would you go for something like this Arcadia Classica 150W Metal Halide Pendant Light or would this be a over kill?

not really. you could have a 400w bulb if it was physically suspended high enough. I've run a 150MH over a 60L with no issues what so ever.

Except the environment 😉

 

[LondonDragon]

Except the environment 😉

And the pocket!!

 

[a1Matt]

Except the environment 😉

And the pocket!!

and having a floodlit room

 

[Mark Evans]

I didn't mean literally. hypothetically speaking.

OK, do it how you see fit.

 

[eternal optimist]

keep checking to see if pics have been posted yet for this...

i'm putting a bit away each week to buy one of these and going to diy a cabinet for it with diy suspended light rig. cant wait to see what george has done here!

 

[Mark Evans]

here's a good example.

http://naacademy.pl/Galerie/JAPAN-2009- ... ?photo=224

 

[nry]

Man love and plant love all in the same photo 🙂

 

[nry]

Some seriously good photo's and tanks in that gallery, navigation is a bit weird though.

 

[nry]

One of these?

 

[Mark Evans]

if you register, there's tons of great images from NAG. it's in polish, but use google translate to help register...

 

[LondonDragon]

Bit off topic but what plant is this??

http://naacademy.pl/Galerie/JAPAN-2009- ... m?photo=21

 

[Mark Evans]

i reckon it's bolbitis paulo.

It's insane isn't it. it must of taken years to get it that big.

 

[viktorlantos]

i think this is more of a japanese fern. in Japan they use many ferns above the surface levels. but i am not familiar with that which species is this.

 

[GreenNeedle]

I'm not so sure they'll take off. Not in a huge way at least. The dimensions remind me of those coffee table tanks that everyone used to slag off!!!

I wonder if the coffee tables will re-appear on mass if these sort of dimensions do become popular?

AC

 

[sarahtermite]

It does look gorgeous (potentially); but it'd be hard to fit into my tiny house! 🙁

 

[mitchelllawson]

Anyone have a link on were you would even think about buying one of these tank, they look amazing.

 

[Themuleous]

A few of our sponsours will custom make tanks almost without limit on their dimentions so give them a try or google it 🙂

Sam

 

[LondonDragon]

TGM do them, from their recent newsletter: http://www.thegreenmachineonline.com/ar ... bb364f4bae