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Just press the bottom at the very left (it says „FEED“) once, the pump will turn off and the controller will show „FE 10“, which means it will be off for 10 minutes (the number after FE counts down the remaining minutes). After the 10 minutes, the pump automatically switches back on.

Thank you very much!!!

I‘m thinking about this too, it is growing on its own Little Rock right now but I am afraid that it will expand on the rest of the reef. Maybe putting it somewhere else is a good idea

AI Hydra 32HD

@@passion4aqua thank you so much starting up a 35 gallon rn and been looking for a light just hard to research since I have so many options but I’m gonna go with yours!

Just pay attention that it can illuminate your whole tank, I think the area it can illuminate is something like 60x60 cm

Of course IKEA did not invent hydroponic setups, and there are other options. It is still an IKEA product though

Me too!

Very nice, agreed, the most important thing I learned that the most challenging thing is to get the tank running stable once, after that, it’s pretty easy!

Greetings back!

Thanks for the support, greetings back!

Thank you!!!

Thanks, looking forward to expanding it ;)

Happy to hear that! :)

Also when I add cleaning crew and maybe a shrimp and a little fish in there?

@@passion4aqua still dont think it's needed, skimmer might actually work against your favor and bottom out nutrients

Oh ok, thank you for mentioning that! I will think about it :)

Also, you forgot to list the light mount. I know I’ve seen it before but can’t remember.

No problem, happy to help! The mount is the „kind of“ official mount for the Hydra, the price is horrendous, but there are really no alternatives! I bought it in a German online store on a discount! Just google „AI Hydra 32 mount“ there are several options that are all equally overpriced

@@passion4aqua agreed!

If you know what you’re doing it is probably easy to build something yourself, but I didn’t want to risk it with a light this expensive… Good luck!

Ich geb mein bestes 😂

Also a nice possibility, didn’t even think about that actually… 😂

Happy to hear that it works well! Do you have filter material in the filter? And what kind of corals do you keep?

Thanks for commenting and sharing your experience!

@@passion4aqua In the filter I have a full stack of biorings and live rock with a small bag of carbon. I upgraded to an Oase Biomaster 250 thermo though to take advantage of the quick clean prefilter but I've stopped cleaning it entirely because I have a hard time keep nutrient levels up. At the moment I'm just keeping a mix of soft corals which is going pretty well so far. I have a mini video series going here on TH-cam of the progress from day 1 if you're curious about the filter setup. Going with a canister has been a non event so far though. I even had a cheato reactor ready because I was worried about nitrates but that was not required. So I took it out of the loop.

Thanks for the tip, I will look into it! Being able to add carbon is one of the reasons I decided to use an external filter in the first place!

@@passion4aqua The only thing that's kinda sorta annoying is cleaning the inflow (I used glass) but other than that, it's working great!

What issues with salinity do you mean? Refugium is unfortunately not an option, macroalgae might be an option for the future…

i hope. that it will be available in germany. His accents sounds like it though🤞

Wouldn’t be as efficient and a lot more work to maintain though… also I think this is a nice way to display the plants next to my tanks

I have never seen those at IKEA, but I already thought to myself that they didn’t come up with that right now for the first time…

@@passion4aqua I have two of the old kits, they were sold about eight years ago!

Thanks, I will have a look at it

@@passion4aqua they haven't been sold for well over five or six years! I used them to flow water through for my aquarium, just put two holes in the bottom for in- and outflow.

Smart, I am thinking about something similar for the future…

I unfortunately never watched Star Trek 😂

Nice to hear, hopefully I get those results as well!

It costs 50€

I think so too!

Can’t say anything about the durability of the product, but IKEA products are usually solid, and it really looks good in my opinion :)

I live in Germany where it’s available, but it’s a new product here as well, might come to different countries soon… but you can also google something like „ikea indoor herb station“ to find similar products

Yeah, that’s the typical effect when you buy a lot of aquarium plants!

Correct! 👍

Great idea, there are lots of ways to do this, and if it’s just about the efficiency, something like your setup is probably a lot better! Since I want to display it though, the look was also important to me, and I thought it was funny that it’s from IKEA 😂

I like that idea as well, might do it later this year!

Great idea, although I‘m not sure if there would be enough water circulation without water pressure…

I‘m looking forward to the journey as well! The carpet plant is Monte Carlo

Sad to hear that you think about it that way, but if that’s your feeling towards it it just wasn’t for you…

True, I might have to build something like that myself…

@@passion4aqua We built our own station with clear totes and it’s remarkable! Several tutorials on Utube. Good luck👍🏼

Thanks!

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That’s true, I might build something like that soon…

I think for the initial purpose of the product, the timer is pretty nice, and I think it’s better to have it like this one than none at all. But I agree, it can be a little bit unhandy sometimes, and of course, I would never use something like this for an aquarium or similar. Maybe I will also use an external timer to synchronize it with my tanks!

But plants require co2....

I am not sure about the oxygen thing, the problem is rather that some aquarium plants are just very picky about their water parameters and especially CO2! But thanks for the tip, might think about that!

@@tomclift7630 The CO2 is just for photosynthesis. Plants also need O2 to do normal cellular respiration and utilize the sugars the produce. Roots don't photosynthesize, but still need to do gas exchange for respiration.

@@passion4aqua Plants also require oxygen to do respiration. The phloem transport sugars to the roots, but the actual respiration happens locally in the cells. Regardless, adding more/bigger aeration would add more dissolved gas into the tank and would increase the levels of O2 and CO2.

Thank you, I didn’t know about that… one problem with bringing a lot of air into the tank though is that to my knowledge, Oxygen and co2 compete for their share of the water, which is the problem with too high co2 concentrations: it’s not an overdose of co2 that kills the animals, it a lack of oxygen. But I might look into this topic more, sounds interesting! Thank you for the tip

Thanks for the tip, I didn’t find any instructions in the manual tho

Might be the case, but I don’t have any experience in that direction ;)

because its common sense

I don’t think it’s common sense. It’s just that the plants don’t want to be submersed for a super long time, because that doesn’t happen to them in nature (usually). But if they get enough CO2 etc. it’s not a problem for them. Also there are true underwater plants, who obviously are well suited for living under water

@@passion4aqua yeah man but if thats not common sense for you then you simply don’t know anything about biology. There are only very few real Water living plants and all the rest only adaptations.

I didn’t know about that before having aquariums. And I believe that considering aquariums many people just accept that plants need CO2 without realizing why. That’s also the reason for the classical „My plants don’t need CO2 because in Nature there is also no Diffusor in the river“ type arguments… 😂

@@passion4aqua yeah i feel you

Thanks for the support!

Just FYI: I'm in the US, and I just googled "IKEA indoor herb garden" and found several options that look just like this one on Temu, Amazon, and other online retailers

Thanks for the effort!