Re: [GSAS-Member] Desktops

[Shamus Young <machismo@eskimo.com>]

Thanks for the responses Phil and Connie

I wasn't concerned about having too many plugs, more like not being able
to regulate the light with a plug timer because it would also turn off the
filter.

Plants with the BiUbe might not be an issue, if the lighting gives off a
poor spectrum.  I'd probably just want anubius and java fern/moss, so it
could probably all be tied to driftwood.  I had severums for so long I
never learned how to grow plants, so I'm starting out easy. Though I've
already managed to kill a couple of Java ferns. The anubius are doing
great, though.

Regarding the temp on paradise fish-- I always thought that they prefered
about 70-72, which is what my desk at work holds steady at.  Going warmer
would certianly open up my options in fish. When I bred them, I'd keep
them at 70, and jack to 80 and stop filtration and bam-- bubble nest.

Hmmm, I may take the 2 gal in to work as well and put shrimp and some
plants, maybe a snail for the algae. Time to read up on shrimp.  And thus
it begins, again.

Shamus





On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:

> >>2) Does the Eclipse 12 have separate electrical cords for the filter and
> light?  With me not being there most weekends, I'd like to put the light
> on a timer.
>
> I have an Eclipse 12 that currently houses my great-great-grandchildren
> paradise fish, five striped ones in fact :-)  The light and pump do have
> separate power cords.  Of course, I also have a bubbler and a
> credit-card-size heater, so that's two more plugs...
>
> I also have an Eclipse 2gal (not set up, no light) and an Eclipse 3gal (set
> up on my desk right next to me here with shrimp), I love those tanks.
>
> 3) Does anyone have experience with the BiUbe?
>
> Those things weird me out - they look impossible to clean, and who wants a
> tank without substrate?  Where will the plants live? :-)
>
> Phil
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