What's on TV lately?

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Hey all. As some of you know, I stuck a 25 gallon tall tank into an old RCA TV a few years back. It has been my experimental plant tank, and it made me realize that I would rather mess with my reef than worry about plant nutrients. So I use what I call a "modified Walstead" method, which consists of limited addition of pressurized CO2, a half cap of Flourish with a 30% weekly water change, and the rest of the nutrients as fish food. It actually looks OK, although there is always a bit of BBA and the clown plecs tend to abuse the crypts.
The whole tank:
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Closer in. With the difference in illumination from top to bottom, it's hard to get a balanced photo without the flash. It's too bad, because the background simply looks black normally.
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One more.
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Looks great to me. I am into a low maintanance plant setup as well. I use Flourish excell as I don't want to have to buffer my water. I do get some extra algae but nothing that I find too distracting.
 
Looks nice! Hmmm...I don't really have any high-tech planted tanks. All mine get weekly water changes, 2 have the Carbo-Plus systems, and that's it. I have a bit of hair algae in one tank--a bit worse now since I have to feed the tank more for some juvenile brichardi, so the cherry barbs are lazier. When they get moved out, I'm not sure what will happen. Probably my easiest tank is a 55 with about 20W lighting, anubias, java ferns and crypts. They've all been growing like mad and have really filled in. It just gets water changes--no ferts or CO2. No algae problems, really--the glass needs cleaning about once every other month, no algae eaters in the tank other than a rainbow shark that spends most of his time hazing the UDC.
 
I take care of my parents 20 gallon with 2 wpg of NO light. I had planted some java fern and riccia. It gets a weekly 20% water change, is moderatley stocked and those ferns are too tall for the tank and the riccia needs to be trimmed once a month. The closest thing to an algae eater would eb the gourami or the fly fox, neither of which do that much. I run the magnetic scrapper on the front glass before each water change but that's it. I love low maintanence. Thank goodness for easy to grow plants that look good.
 
SomethingFishy said:
Hey I really like that. I've always wanted to do that, if I ever found an old TV like that.
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It's kind of funny. The woman across the street died, and this was in her basement. Her son-in-law told me just to take it. My wife would have bet a month's pay that it would be in our basement forever. I just started pulling the guts out and wiring things up, next thing you know, there's a tank in the box.

A year or so later, I saw the same model set, also non-functional, at an outdoor antique sale. The guy was asking $350. For a TV that didn't even work! Jeez!
 
I think that is such a cool idea! I need to do something like that! I would make it a sci-fi themed surrounding, though...
 
Ok, that is the coolest thing i've ever seen! I just love original tanks like that!

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Tenorplayer2008 said:
I think that is such a cool idea! I need to do something like that! I would make it a sci-fi themed surrounding, though...
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Oh yeah! Make it into a scene from an old sci fi movie, like The Day the Earth Stood Still or something. Now that would be cool!
 
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