[GSAS-Member] desktop tanks

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

I've got a few tanks at work and since I get ZERO natural light in my
office, I've gotten a good education on which tanks can grow aquatic
plants at the low tech level and which don't. My favorite is the little
2.5 gallon nano tank with compact florescent, no heater, no filtration,
plants and red cherry shrimp & snails. The 12g Eclipse is just too tall to
do well with plants unless you stick with java fern, and java moss. Even
Crypts and Anubias have not done well in that tank. My 6g Eclipse does
better with plants but I prefer using a sponge filter to using the
biowheel tray.

Here's a version of my red cherry shrimp tank:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3730+18534+15494&pcatid=15494

This is a bit larger and the compact florescent fixture actually has
replacement bulbs! Mine doesn't (sigh). I don't use the little outside
power filter for red cherries.

Betty Goetz

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