Lufbramatt
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Hi guys, thought I'd start a journal of my new tang tank. Basically I've always wanted to keep fish, and having recently bought a house I have now got a permament space for a tank. Luckily I was given two free tanks (10G and 29G), 2x arcadia ballasts, a little eheim internal filter, and a load of equipment like nets, siphon etc that my dad had kicking around in the loft from when he kept fish. I have already set up and cycled the 10G, which is currently home to 4x brevis shellies, which are great fun to watch, I love their bulldog mouths with the little teeth and pink eye makeup! I've always loved the colour and behavior of cichlids, and as I live in kent with very hard pH8.0 water out of the tap, africans were the obvious choice.
After some thought, as the 29g was in a sorry state with clouded glass and needed a new lid, I set to work. I made a bracket to hang the light ballasts on the back of the tank, and tarted up the tank with some cheap, slightly damaged flooring from wickes. Only real investment was an Eheim 2322 external filter which I got for a great price from the classifieds on here, as my dad always ran UG filters which wont work with sand.
My initial thought was to set up a typical community with cories, tetras etc but those fish don't interest me that much, so I've decided to move the shellies to this bigger tank and maybe add a couple of ornatus julies for the rocks. Heres how the tank looks at the mo, needs a background (will be dark blue) and some more rockwork to make more caves at the rocky end, and I'll add the shells and java ferm from the 10g which I will break down. Also planning on adding some vallis along the back of the tank to add interest. I'm just going to swap all the cycled media from the 10g into the eheim external on this tank which will avoid another fishless cycle.
Lots more to come soon!
After some thought, as the 29g was in a sorry state with clouded glass and needed a new lid, I set to work. I made a bracket to hang the light ballasts on the back of the tank, and tarted up the tank with some cheap, slightly damaged flooring from wickes. Only real investment was an Eheim 2322 external filter which I got for a great price from the classifieds on here, as my dad always ran UG filters which wont work with sand.
My initial thought was to set up a typical community with cories, tetras etc but those fish don't interest me that much, so I've decided to move the shellies to this bigger tank and maybe add a couple of ornatus julies for the rocks. Heres how the tank looks at the mo, needs a background (will be dark blue) and some more rockwork to make more caves at the rocky end, and I'll add the shells and java ferm from the 10g which I will break down. Also planning on adding some vallis along the back of the tank to add interest. I'm just going to swap all the cycled media from the 10g into the eheim external on this tank which will avoid another fishless cycle.
Lots more to come soon!