20g Cork Scape Build

Glue'd

Everything is glued up and setting. I now have to paint the back, and begin rinsing, I'd like to run water through the tank for a full day before adding substrate or anything else, just to rinse it all out and get things saturated.

This will be the hardest part of the project, waiting for the glue to dry!!!

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lol. I didn't take it that way! they're all attempts... practice really, for the next one.

I'm going stir crazy tonight, with nothing left to do on this right now. the filter is connected, everything is glued in place, I painted the background dark brown... now all I need to do is wait for the silicone to cure.

sigh.
 
Oh darn, I just found this and we're still at the "waiting" stage. I hate waiting too.. much too impatient for my own good.

Your arrangement looks so nice. When I got a red claw crab last year, the gal suggested something to float that he could crawl on top of whenever he wanted to dry out. She had just been using some random slabs of styrofoam. Okay, that would work temporarily. Then I saw something about floating cork bark and thought that would be the perfect thing.. I don't know how long it'll last, but it should be fine for many, many years - if not indefinitely.
 
yeah, it should last a long time, and it's cheap stuff. what I'd worry about with the red claws is their instinct to burrow. they don't just need air, they really need a land mass they can dig a burrow into, so that the bottom of the 2-3" hole is actually at the water line. I thought it was just speculation until I witnessed it, the last red claw I had dug her burrow and guarded it. it was pretty impressive actually.
 
well, after hooking it all up, and running water through it just now, part of me is thinking it might be smarter to run a heavier filter on this one. I have 2 eheim 2213's just collecting dust, and they're both more reliable than the Tom mini canister that just took me a half hour to get to run right. I dunno. I do worry that it's too much flow, and it makes the table that much more crowded...

If I do use the eheim as the primary filter, I will also then swap the tom canister into place where the tom micro pump is now, to power the spray nozzle and circulation nozzle in the false bottom. that might actually be a better way to go.

thoughts?
 
No thoughts on the filters but more seems like a good idea.

I bought some cork bark to try in a 55g. I'm going to silicone it to slate so I can move it.
 
keep in mind, it is VERY bouyant. you might want to silicone it to something heavier than slate... or a big piece of slate. or the glass.

last night, I replumbed all the filters. it's a windy tank today, with a ton of current, but I'm sure that will slow down once I stack the filter with media and add gravel and plants to the tank...

but, now the filtration is an eheim 2213 running the main spray bar, and the tom mini rapids cannister running the lower nozzles. I'm so glad I decided to change it.
 
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