Silviu Man
Member
Dear All,
After six months of plans and thinking about this project, after I have studied all I can found about planted aqvarium, substrate, plants, filtration, light, ... and many changes in my current aqvarium trying to figure out how different plants are growing and thrive, I decide to start my new project, What Dream May Come.
The ideea of the project is inspired from the moovie (probable most of you have seen it) with the same title. Here is a trailer, that can give you a basic view over this subject :
In aqvarium I will try to show the part of Cris world after death, with their dream house, the rocky place and the hill with the soulmates tree, together with a corner of lost souls (but not insisting too much on last one). It is an abitious project but I am prepared for it.
The house (a roman clasical domus) will be made by granite and will be made by myself. I learn about modelig the granite, that eventually looks not so difficult if you have proper material and tools. Granite is unpolished, 2 and 3 cm, different with the piece. The house will be 6-8 cm high, 26-28 cm lenght, 12 cm width; these are the proportion I've calculated from the available pictures. The house will be placed on a rocky hill, in the left side of aqvarium. The hill will end wiht a steep rocky wall.
Here you will find a nice picture of the house, together with the rocky hill :
http://thirstforcinema.blogspot.ro/2014/02/what-dreams-may-come-1998.html
Then will be a meadow, growing slowly to a hill with a rocky plateau where the tree will stay in a partial shadow.
I will give more details togehther with pictures, step by step.
Now, technical details :
The aqvarium, stand and light will be made by a professional company, Aquadec.
Tank : 1400x550x700, with cross tighteners, Ultra clear diamnat glass, 12 mm.
Stand : Aluminium structure, covered by wooden countertop. The structure will totaly close the front so the aqvarium front wall will be shown like a display. This way all the equipments, including light, will be covered.
Light : 6x ...?w. Still working, taking into account the depth of teh tank, the volume of water and, nevertheless, the plants. But it will be suspended under a cover made by two sliding pieces, with two special fan for suspension system.
Plants ... A very long story! I have tested in my 100/20 litters aqvarium a lot of plants : HC, Marsilea, Althernanthera, Pogostemon, Staurogyne, Christmas Moss, etc. I will have there mostly low high plants. The trees will be made by moss on wood. Very important will be the combination of the plants in the left side and a clean meadow of HC in the right side, up to the tree. I will come back with details.
Filtration : 2 x Eheim Professional 3E 600T, 2x internal prefilters and 2 x surface skimmers.
Controler : still need to find a solution.
CO2 : professional CO2 addition with rechargeable cylinder 2 kg, ceramic diffusor and counter.
Substrate : one basic substrate (1 cm sand) + one fertil substrate + one planting substrate (that could be an universal one, like Tropica Aqvarium Soil)
Steps :
- making the aqvarium and stand
- making the light system
- making the house
(these steps in the same time)
- instalation of aqvarium and equipments
- first stage of aqvarium cycling : 3 weeks, only with water, basic substrate and some floating plants, low light, filtration working, bacteria addition, ...
- arranging and planting the aqvarium (three stages: the bottom, the rocky hill, the tree hill)
- second stage of aqvarium cycling : 1 week before fauna
- introduction of the shrimps, snails and fish.
As I said, I will show details from each step I pass by.
Any advice from you ... more than welcome! Thank you.
After six months of plans and thinking about this project, after I have studied all I can found about planted aqvarium, substrate, plants, filtration, light, ... and many changes in my current aqvarium trying to figure out how different plants are growing and thrive, I decide to start my new project, What Dream May Come.
The ideea of the project is inspired from the moovie (probable most of you have seen it) with the same title. Here is a trailer, that can give you a basic view over this subject :
In aqvarium I will try to show the part of Cris world after death, with their dream house, the rocky place and the hill with the soulmates tree, together with a corner of lost souls (but not insisting too much on last one). It is an abitious project but I am prepared for it.
The house (a roman clasical domus) will be made by granite and will be made by myself. I learn about modelig the granite, that eventually looks not so difficult if you have proper material and tools. Granite is unpolished, 2 and 3 cm, different with the piece. The house will be 6-8 cm high, 26-28 cm lenght, 12 cm width; these are the proportion I've calculated from the available pictures. The house will be placed on a rocky hill, in the left side of aqvarium. The hill will end wiht a steep rocky wall.
Here you will find a nice picture of the house, together with the rocky hill :
http://thirstforcinema.blogspot.ro/2014/02/what-dreams-may-come-1998.html
Then will be a meadow, growing slowly to a hill with a rocky plateau where the tree will stay in a partial shadow.
I will give more details togehther with pictures, step by step.
Now, technical details :
The aqvarium, stand and light will be made by a professional company, Aquadec.
Tank : 1400x550x700, with cross tighteners, Ultra clear diamnat glass, 12 mm.
Stand : Aluminium structure, covered by wooden countertop. The structure will totaly close the front so the aqvarium front wall will be shown like a display. This way all the equipments, including light, will be covered.
Light : 6x ...?w. Still working, taking into account the depth of teh tank, the volume of water and, nevertheless, the plants. But it will be suspended under a cover made by two sliding pieces, with two special fan for suspension system.
Plants ... A very long story! I have tested in my 100/20 litters aqvarium a lot of plants : HC, Marsilea, Althernanthera, Pogostemon, Staurogyne, Christmas Moss, etc. I will have there mostly low high plants. The trees will be made by moss on wood. Very important will be the combination of the plants in the left side and a clean meadow of HC in the right side, up to the tree. I will come back with details.
Filtration : 2 x Eheim Professional 3E 600T, 2x internal prefilters and 2 x surface skimmers.
Controler : still need to find a solution.
CO2 : professional CO2 addition with rechargeable cylinder 2 kg, ceramic diffusor and counter.
Substrate : one basic substrate (1 cm sand) + one fertil substrate + one planting substrate (that could be an universal one, like Tropica Aqvarium Soil)
Steps :
- making the aqvarium and stand
- making the light system
- making the house
(these steps in the same time)
- instalation of aqvarium and equipments
- first stage of aqvarium cycling : 3 weeks, only with water, basic substrate and some floating plants, low light, filtration working, bacteria addition, ...
- arranging and planting the aqvarium (three stages: the bottom, the rocky hill, the tree hill)
- second stage of aqvarium cycling : 1 week before fauna
- introduction of the shrimps, snails and fish.
As I said, I will show details from each step I pass by.
Any advice from you ... more than welcome! Thank you.