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Permalink Reply by frroK on October 22, 2011 at 1:02pm

wow! how did you get glosso and dhg to grow woth no co2?? did you start this emersed?  looks great

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on October 22, 2011 at 9:23pm

pretty good with just CFL lighting

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Ding on October 22, 2011 at 9:27pm

@frroK Just give it time, man. It started out really crappy, like this

 

but before I knew it, it carpeted into nice fluffy ground cover.

 

@Hmoobthor thanks! I thought that if I had a high tech tank things would get big WAY too fast, so low tech was the way to go for me!

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Permalink Reply by kmt on June 3, 2012 at 7:00pm

Awesome end product, so how long did it take from start to finish to get your nice jungle?

I have dirt also with peace river gravel on top of that.  I just tore everything out and rescaped it, and have one 6500K 48 inch florescent bulb from home depot and a 48 inch flora-glo...kind of thinking the flora-glo isn't helping much, with such only a 3,500 K but wonder why it said it would help with plant growth, long term plant growth?  The plants were not growing very fast with two flora-glo bulbs.

Anyways, sweet tank, looking for a similar look without having to use ferts or CO2.

I have dwarf hair grass in it for about 2 weeks now, still looks weak.

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Permalink Reply by J Tang on October 22, 2011 at 11:54pm

Very nice work.  about 20 pygmy coryadoras would look cool in here

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Ding on October 29, 2011 at 2:51pm

@JTang , Yes I was thinking about a school of some kind but I do like the simplistic nature of Shrimps better, and with the cories they would all be eaten!

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 29, 2011 at 2:57pm

Where did you get the sponge from the one on the aquaclear 

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Ding on October 29, 2011 at 3:11pm

I made it myself from a large sponge I purchased from Wal-Mart. 

 

All I did was cut out a piece and cut an X in the middle and stuck it on my intake :D

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 29, 2011 at 3:54pm

Cool thanks 

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Permalink Reply by Danny1107 on October 29, 2011 at 6:11pm

so tempted to do something like this, love the look of your tank

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Permalink Reply by Mike King on June 12, 2012 at 11:00am

Your tank is sweet, I just started a 20L and hope to have it looking similar to this

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