• ScrotesforGoats@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s beautiful. I had a 20 gallon setup for a while but my water is too hard and I got tired of battling with it. Yours looks amazing though.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My water is basically liquid rock. Very few plants make it and PH is above 8. In my experience it’s better to go with it and adjust to what you can keep in it, rather than try to change the parameters. Rough plants, goldfish or some African chiclids work really well with hard wster

  • TransporterAccident1@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That’s gorgeous! I love the plants growing out the top.

    Sorry for my ignorance, but what are all of the terra cotta colored pipe like things toward the back?

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! Those are sewage pipes that I have made into filters. Half of them are intakes filled with sponges for mechanical filtration that then pur the water into the remaining pipes that are filled with bio filter media (ceramic rings) for biological filtration (breaking ammonia down to nitrite and nitrite down to nitrate). Works really well bit is too messy to clean. Must evolve this in future designs for easier maintainance.