Well, I guess it would only be limited to the amount of maintenance I was prepared to perform.
I would build a tank into my livingroom wall. There would be a service room on the back side of the tank. All lighting for tank would be above tank on service room side. The tank would be 96Lx36Wx36D. The tank would be drilled on both sides with overflows built in on both sides. It would be lit with four 400 watt MH pendants with remote ballast. In the service room, there would be 2 registers with large vents coming from the Central air conditioner (The MH’s Will be HOT!!!) The color temp of the bulbs would be 6400K. I would start the tank off with substrate heating coils. Top those off with Red Florite on the right, blending to the left with onyx sand. There would be lots of driftwood pieces with maybe a few pieces of red granite. The filter would be a high output Pond filter (3000gph)with XtraLarge canister for biomedia . The Co2 system would consist of a 20lb bottle with dual gauge regulator and needle valve. I would inject Co2 directly in the canister for 100% absorption into the water column. This system would have a pH controller linked to a solenoid which would turn on and off flow of Co2 as needed. I figure I wont need a heater other than the MH’s and substrate heaters. BTW: The lights and pH controller would be hooked up via USB or serial to my computer. (That would be the best) I wont go into much detail about the plants that will be in the tank, I will tell you that there would be lots of ground cover with rich dense growth filled with vibrant colors. The fish would be a single school of 300 Rummey Nose Tetra’s. The algae eating army would be 50 ammano shrimp and 20 True SAE’e. Oh! Surface dwellers would be 15 Longfin Zebra’s I guess.
BTW: 50% water change per week would be a snap with the builtin water changing system. While I am thinking of it, lets add a nutrient dosing system for the plants. Let that be controlled by the computer also.
BTW2: Can you put MH’s on a dimmer? That would be nice to simulate the sunrise and sunset.
I got to stop this!!! I am actually think about doing this know. Geez! I got no life.
I would build a tank into my livingroom wall. There would be a service room on the back side of the tank. All lighting for tank would be above tank on service room side. The tank would be 96Lx36Wx36D. The tank would be drilled on both sides with overflows built in on both sides. It would be lit with four 400 watt MH pendants with remote ballast. In the service room, there would be 2 registers with large vents coming from the Central air conditioner (The MH’s Will be HOT!!!) The color temp of the bulbs would be 6400K. I would start the tank off with substrate heating coils. Top those off with Red Florite on the right, blending to the left with onyx sand. There would be lots of driftwood pieces with maybe a few pieces of red granite. The filter would be a high output Pond filter (3000gph)with XtraLarge canister for biomedia . The Co2 system would consist of a 20lb bottle with dual gauge regulator and needle valve. I would inject Co2 directly in the canister for 100% absorption into the water column. This system would have a pH controller linked to a solenoid which would turn on and off flow of Co2 as needed. I figure I wont need a heater other than the MH’s and substrate heaters. BTW: The lights and pH controller would be hooked up via USB or serial to my computer. (That would be the best) I wont go into much detail about the plants that will be in the tank, I will tell you that there would be lots of ground cover with rich dense growth filled with vibrant colors. The fish would be a single school of 300 Rummey Nose Tetra’s. The algae eating army would be 50 ammano shrimp and 20 True SAE’e. Oh! Surface dwellers would be 15 Longfin Zebra’s I guess.
BTW: 50% water change per week would be a snap with the builtin water changing system. While I am thinking of it, lets add a nutrient dosing system for the plants. Let that be controlled by the computer also.
BTW2: Can you put MH’s on a dimmer? That would be nice to simulate the sunrise and sunset.
I got to stop this!!! I am actually think about doing this know. Geez! I got no life.
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