Celestial glade
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3rd November 2008
Still on the never ending hunt for 30ppm alongside large plantmass and not any great success so far. I have ditched the aesthetics. The Lily pipe and glass inlet are out. the glass diffusor is out. Lots of plastic is in and bubbles galore disturbing the view which I don't really mind that much.
The setup I have settled on at the moment is the powerhead in the rear which then runs into an old Fluval Internal filter spraybar pointing to the front. Just in front of the powerhead is the filter intake. At the front corner the powerhead outlet extension and deflector is fitted onto the original Tetratec outlet instead of the spraybar. The Boyu inline diffuser is back in place.
The filter flow and CO2 bubbles blast out of the outlet which is angled downward slightly by the deflector. Then the bubbles get pushed downward in all directions by the spraybar. Any bubbles that try to get back to the surface are pushed back down again. In theory this should work really well.
I removed the 'test' Rotala Macrandra from the front as it was geting bent in two from the flow at the front.
4th November 2008
I still wasn't happy so I made more changes. DC was a nice light green in the dense area on the left opposite where I now have the Rhinox again.
I now have the powerhead rear left pointing along the back to the right corner. The Philippine once fully re-grown should hide it there. Then I have the glass filter inlet in the right rear corner. The Rhinox is one third from the back on the right hand side where the flow from the powerhead pushes it towards the front. Then I have the Lily outflow front right from the side pointing along the front to the left. The other pieces of glass are the dropchecker itself. and the 99p Wilko glass thermometer.
Bubbles are getting all the way across the tank. Hardly any hitting the surface. The bubbles that don't 'vanish' through diffusion are noticeably smaller when they reach the left hand side.
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