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I believe so. Word on the street is they migrated in from Mexico and killed off most of the green ones we used to have.Wow! The water delivery system looks great!
Is the lizard a brown anole?
Nothing gets past you, Ed!P.S. - Can you find the lizard? lol
To the right of the masterflex.
Thanks, dude!Really nice build and love the scape.
Looking good!Well... i think my hardscape is basically done!
Added a 6th bag of soil today. The sand went in last week, with a styrene plastic border wall.
I used the same stuff to create some substrate supports within the soil as well, especially on the right side.
The only thing I may add is some small gray rubble haphazardly along the substrate division.
I cut and screwed the long skinny branch into the main branch right where it seemed that an old branch used to be.
Stainless steel screw with a little wood filler to cover the head.
Hopefully with some plants covering that area it will look pretty natural.
Also started running the tubing from the canisters to the glassware.
And finally, the Auto Top-Off and Auto Water Change are both fully functional.
The AWC changes out equal amounts of water. I haven't officially timed it yet but I think it's moving around half a liter per 30 seconds.
That will run automatically many times per day. I have yet to calculate an approximate amount I want to change over the course of 24 hours.
ATO and AWC Input are on the right and AWC Output is on the left.
Here's the ATO and AWC input lines as I was connecting them to the lines coming in through the wall.
So it's just about time to start looking for plants!
I guess that's the next discussion and where I'm really going to need help.
And I do need to finish gathering Co2 gear.
Thank you. I don't have my DIY any longer. I'll be picking up a GLA shortly.Looking good!
Are you gonna use your DIY regulator for the CO2?
What will you use for a diffuser?
Thanks!That scape is gorgeous!
Thank you, haha.I've followed your builds in the past and the attention to detail is amazing. I wish I had the patience to make things this clean. Looking forward to updates.
Yessir! Thank you for asking. It's finally planted (partly), filled and running!!! I will update this afternoon.Any update Dennis?
Dry Start is an option for carpeting plants. You don't have to worry about them floating out of the soil when filling the tank and decreases the shock (i think) when you do finally flood. But it takes too dang long and you have to be constantly misting the plants and keep the tank covered. I just didn't see the benefit being worth the hassle. And I had no issues with them floating. Everything stayed put.I don’t know much about freshwater but I thought the norm was doing a “dry start” for plants. Any reason you didn’t go that route?