Saturday, August 4, 2012

My triple split 40G

See the tank picture and design on my GTAA post below.

Link to GTAA thread.

Equipment:
40G Breeder tank x 1
Glass divider x 2
Tank lids (two pieces) x 1
Coralife 36" Dual T5NO light (6500K x 1, 6700K x1)

Filtration:
- Fluval 205 x 1 (connected to DIY UGF)
- Fluval slim 15 HOB x 2


Air: part of the output from a Tetra 100. (3 x airstones)

Substrate: 16L of Akadama, medium grain.


Opinions,
- Large amount of water in tank, water very stable.
- Space saving (comparing to 3 individual tanks)
- Water is pretty leveled (sec1 is about 1cm higher than sec2, sec2 1cm higher than sec3) with very good water exchange (tested).


Issues:
- Mistake using the medium grain Akadama, I wish I had at least use 1.25" of smaller grain substrate. The problem with this is that baby shrimps can actually "easily" get to the next section easily. The first CRS dropped the babies in this tank from sec3, and I ended up seeing at least 1 in sec1, 4 or 5 in sec2 LOL

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