I Waaaants It, Precious!
Feb. 26th, 2006 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
platedlizardThis is for the fish-geeks.
24 gallon nano cube with 72 watt high intensity compact flourescant lighting! That's three watts per gallon, a bit low for a reef tank (7 watts per gallon is ideal) but ought to be fine for mushroom and soft corals. It's also ideal for a planted freshwater aquarium. Right now I am dreaming of getting two of these things, one for my 'big' planted tank I want, and the other for my dream-reef. It has a built in three stage filtration system, as is it should be just fine for the plants (although I may remove the charcol, because the plants ought do enough chemical filtration on their own, that's what plants do!). I may have to add a protien skimmer to the reef tank, but there's room for that.
The bad thing about them is that they don't have metal halid lighting. I can understand why, with that closed lid there would be massive build up of heat and that would be bad, but it means that the tank would not have the glitter lines! I want my lighting to appear natural, damnit! Oh well.
And all for the low, low price of $160, according to Drs. Foster and Smith's.
*drool*
24 gallon nano cube with 72 watt high intensity compact flourescant lighting! That's three watts per gallon, a bit low for a reef tank (7 watts per gallon is ideal) but ought to be fine for mushroom and soft corals. It's also ideal for a planted freshwater aquarium. Right now I am dreaming of getting two of these things, one for my 'big' planted tank I want, and the other for my dream-reef. It has a built in three stage filtration system, as is it should be just fine for the plants (although I may remove the charcol, because the plants ought do enough chemical filtration on their own, that's what plants do!). I may have to add a protien skimmer to the reef tank, but there's room for that.
The bad thing about them is that they don't have metal halid lighting. I can understand why, with that closed lid there would be massive build up of heat and that would be bad, but it means that the tank would not have the glitter lines! I want my lighting to appear natural, damnit! Oh well.
And all for the low, low price of $160, according to Drs. Foster and Smith's.
*drool*
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Re: Hi.
Date: 2006-03-02 01:55 am (UTC)I would give my left arm for a 125 gallon tank, so consider yourself lucky. My *real* dream-reef would be a swiming pool-sized wonderland, with such good filtration that I could keep reef sharks. But for that I would have to marry Bill Gates, and I think he's taken.
I live just outside the wonderful magic kingdom of Rosaria* (which doesn't have a king, but does have a Queen and a Prime Minister... I love my city!) and would love to hook up with someone from my area since all the fandom people I know are either A) not anywhere near me or B) underage (which means their parents don't want them hanging out with strange adult women, not that I blame them).
My fannish interests are pretty far ranging, everything from anime and magna, to fantasy novels, science fiction, etc. I don't game, though.
*Rosaria: Portland, OR, and sometimes it does feel like a magic kingdom!