Cheap plants, less nitrate! POTHOS

[BichirKing]

I used lava rock and sponge.

 

[Ulu]

Hmmm . . . those boxes didn't fit on the 55 as I had hoped.

I made a new lid for a 30 tall today, and cut one box to make a new lamp.

I plan to do the same on my other 30 tall and put pothos on that.

 

[Ulu]

I made a temporary diverter from my inflow pipe, and I'm getting pretty good flow to the planter. In fact everything is going through the planter, as I have blocked off my secondary (circulation) feed.


I bought quite a bunch of pothos. This 30 has a big hole in the lid so I just stuffed The Roots right through it and rested them on some fake plants.



This guy may decide to chew on the roots. I don't know if he will like the pothos but he is normally murder on live plants.

 

[Ulu]

I cut the bottom off of one planter and nested the two together for reinforcement.


I used the bottom to make an LED lamp, from the LEDs that used to be in the plastic hood.



I used all the original LEDs, wiring, switch, and plugs.

 

[BichirKing]

Looks good @Ulu
heres mine finished up,

 

[Ulu]

Looks like you are using a grow light of some sort.

This is my cheapie Kmart grow light. I got this on sale for $14 about a year ago.
Now K-Mart is no more . . .


I used a couple of bent wires and some rubber bands to suspend it. The wires just plug through some holes I drilled in the flower boxes. If you misalign the holes slightly, you get a good friction fit and they stay put.

 

[Ulu]

This was a quickie setup, using a flower box, two small plastic bins which house LED lights from a used hood for the 20g below, and a LED clip-on light I made from various junk, to light the ivy.


The water feeds from an air hose bleeding off the pressure pipe of the 30 tall to the left, and returns thru the 3/4" PVC pipe to the 30.

But it sits on a 20 which houses little Sunshine.

Sunshine's lamp is too dim though. I need more LEDs on the circuit.

 

[exodus1500]

It has a bunch of 6-8 foot runners

 

[Ulu]

Does anyone know if this works in brackish water?

I want to convert my tank with pothos planter attached.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Doubt it would work, however you could filter the tank with hornwort, which apparently can be acclimated to brackish