Luminous Earth Aquarium - 1-gallon Planted Nano

I am trying something new and different, a planted nano setup in a bowl. I found these real nice little bowls manufactured by Live with Nature, the one-gallon Luminous Aquarium. The Luminous bowls feature artistically layered bits of color around their bases and top rim. I had never seen anything like this and the pictures in their online store were so pretty. Here is the link over to their main site:

www.LiveWithNature.net

I was impressed with the price tag on the Luminous, especially for a hand-blown, Made in the USA glass piece. While ordering I selected the Earth Aquarium. I liked the look of the natural, earthy hues in that one, and I imagined that the colors would contrast well with a little nano planting inside. Last night when I got home the box was waiting there for me.



I also got a quick shot of the Luminous in situ.



This will be a fun, refreshing little project. I intend to just light up the bowl with the diffuse sunlight coming through the window--It makes such a neat effect with the colors. I might dose with Excel.

Mainly I just really like the effect of the light coming through the glass. I did stick a plant in there quick--didn't get a picture--and the green contrasted real well against the brown and amber colors. Probably you wouldn't want to put plants in the green "Forest" model--it could get to be a muddled scene.

Hey fishycat I saw your response over in that other thread. Thank you for stopping by there. I need to go update that one.

I am planning to stock it with RCS. I did well with them in a provisional little no-tech 2.5g setup before.

Hey thanks for that link fishycat. That is a real interesting little article.

I wonder why she used bubblers in the 2-gallon setups(?). It seems to me that that would cause most of the desirable CO2 to outgas rapidly. Perhaps she set them up with a slow bubble rate.