Over time, the grow and mature in my passion of my knowledge, I realized that a couple of things were not going in this pool.
First of all lighting, wholly insufficient to create a self-respecting plantacquario. 36W total of about 90l net far too few to grow plants such as corns and gloss or red plants healthy and so I began reading about the changes that could make the cover to increase the lighting and, after adding 2 neon t5 without any invasive changes, I have completely renovated the cover by inserting four 24W T5 fluorescent lights for DIY with obtaining this result
With up to 96W 90L I would say that things will improve greatly and so I can afford to cultivate any plant.
For those who were wondering how much light the plants need this is a very interesting link that can be used as a broadly
neon t5 Why?
I decided to go and abandon t5 t8 essentially because they allow me to greatly increase the power available in the space of a T8 18W T5 24W there is one, and also the penetration of T5 is truly remarkable, allowing to illuminate the background without losing much intensity.
I think the same if not more than lighting to T5 there is only the hqi for the moment, but I think these lamps have drawbacks and are less practical to use. I do not exclude, however, to try them in the future, interests me.
The neon lights are turned on by two of electronic ballasts Relco , ballast cheap but they do their job very well.
only sore point of t5? Warm really quite easily reach 50 ° C inside the cover and causing water heating (winter but they are comfortable)
Using t5 I was posed the problem of overheating of the water, especially during the summer the temperature reached 30 ° C safely and the plants do not fare well at that temperature. Here
So the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a system of fans automatically controlled by a thermostat, measuring the water temperature through a probe, the fans start when you reach 25.5 ° C and off at 24.5 °.
Here is a picture of the thermostat which was unsolder the probe and placed in a tank
And here is a picture of the fans it incorporated aquarium hood
In this way exceed the summer no problems it was really easy.
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