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funkyj · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: 50 gallon

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AnneRiceBowl · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

Looks good for a faux planted tank. lol

funkyj · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

There's java fern, java moss and anubias in it. Thanks for looking at it through your faux eyes.

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MelonHead · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:

Lookin' good funky...and good to see you back.

funkyj · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

Thanks.
I'm able to log on every once in a while now. Work has slowed down a little.

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clunkster · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

Not a bad looking little tank you have there Very Happy

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funkyj · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks. This isn't mine. This one is my wife's.

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clunkster · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

Whoops got the wrong one, mind you she has done a very good job with it hate-bravo

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funkyj · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

I clean it and decorate it for her, she picks out the fish other than the discus, some cories and some plecs.

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AnneRiceBowl · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:

hmmmmm...now I see the Java fern and the Jave moss. Where is the Anubias?

clunkster · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

AnneRiceBowl wrote:

Where is the Anubias?

Will give you a clue its in the tank Trilly-77-24

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funkyj · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

AnneRiceBowl wrote:

hmmmmm...now I see the Java fern and the Jave moss. Where is the Anubias?

Look a little to the left of the large driftwood near the center of the tank. You can only see 1 leaf and the rhizome. I had it in my 135 but it was dying, so I put it back in the 50 and its thriving. I don't understand why the plants won't grow in the 135, but in all the other tanks they will. I have 4 lights on it. You would think that would be enough. One day I will upgrade to T5.

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AnneRiceBowl · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

Moving on from clunk's poat...

What kind of lighting do you have on the 135? Wattage? Kelvin?

funkyj · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

2 15w, 2 20w chroma 50 bulbs.

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AnneRiceBowl · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Chroma 50 bulbs? Are those atinic (sp?) bulbs?

You only have 70W of light on the tank, and if you have actinic bulbs, then cut whatever the wattage is in half. So you really have next to no lighting in that tank. Even though Anubias are considered low light plants, that still less than a watt per gallon, which isn't really going to grow anything.