Easier to model in freshwater setups, plants are simply more adaptable that coral systems across temperature and electricity-free arrangements
I'm still cheating here due to shining plugged in lights... But they can be windowsill ran as well
These systems are tests of ultra old (for nanos) ultra slow growing setups. They do not plug into anything, they're stand alone designed not to go stagnant, and to function off a period of hands off that starts -after- a long ramp up period of hands on
Most just cap the first go and see what happens, plants fade in time
If you stack and guide the nutrient losing first a while then stop, you provide a care pack that can sustain nicely without much intervention
in the case of this sealed glass arrangement several mos ago I stopped fertilizing it/held my breath for 15 seconds to pack in the co2 then slowly exhaled up under the pressure sealing lid and locked it, it's newer test arrangement.
Since then it's been recirculating the carbon and co2 as growth/decay-- it has dew cycles Humidity zone
Below is planted system early 2000s start date
Holds 3-4 gallons of water, but designed for max emersion growth. open topped, active evaporation Amazonian system. From 2003- until about 2010 I did not one water change using feeder guppies to substrate load the system. Only topoff and ferts sparsely flake feed too
It has a thirteen inch deep sand bed, two pounds of powered laterite at the bottom, specially designed stratifications in the bed that I feel will self-renew off cherry shrimp waste and never collapse or need replacing
The bowl is unfed, unheated, un circulated, averages 13 feet emersed growth. It's a slow grower, getting bamboo that tall takes a while
Metal halide helps
19 circumference acrylic sphere, this is the one that will run forever given top off and ferts occasionally.... That's a ton of command uptake just for three gallons. This is the most stable system I could design, it will run decades and not deplete.
I'm still cheating here due to shining plugged in lights... But they can be windowsill ran as well
These systems are tests of ultra old (for nanos) ultra slow growing setups. They do not plug into anything, they're stand alone designed not to go stagnant, and to function off a period of hands off that starts -after- a long ramp up period of hands on
Most just cap the first go and see what happens, plants fade in time
If you stack and guide the nutrient losing first a while then stop, you provide a care pack that can sustain nicely without much intervention
in the case of this sealed glass arrangement several mos ago I stopped fertilizing it/held my breath for 15 seconds to pack in the co2 then slowly exhaled up under the pressure sealing lid and locked it, it's newer test arrangement.
Since then it's been recirculating the carbon and co2 as growth/decay-- it has dew cycles Humidity zone
Below is planted system early 2000s start date
Holds 3-4 gallons of water, but designed for max emersion growth. open topped, active evaporation Amazonian system. From 2003- until about 2010 I did not one water change using feeder guppies to substrate load the system. Only topoff and ferts sparsely flake feed too
It has a thirteen inch deep sand bed, two pounds of powered laterite at the bottom, specially designed stratifications in the bed that I feel will self-renew off cherry shrimp waste and never collapse or need replacing
The bowl is unfed, unheated, un circulated, averages 13 feet emersed growth. It's a slow grower, getting bamboo that tall takes a while
Metal halide helps
19 circumference acrylic sphere, this is the one that will run forever given top off and ferts occasionally.... That's a ton of command uptake just for three gallons. This is the most stable system I could design, it will run decades and not deplete.
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