250l True The Eye Of My Camera

[DragonWish]

Dear people,

I'd like to share some photo's of my tank. I started a few weeks ago and it's still growing and growing.
The size of the tank is 130x40x50(cm)

Light: 154Watt (2x T5 54W and 1x T8 34 W) (the T5 are dimmable)
Co2: Set from JBL
JBL extern filter

Fish:
10x epiplatys annulatus
10x Microrasboras Galaxy (Celestichthys margaritatus)
3x Pseudogastromyzon cheni
2x Loricaria parva

Here are some pictures from set-up

30-01-2007
I connected the lightning

31-01-2007
I painted the whole tank from cream to a black/dark blue colour (I don't no the name for this colour in english)

And i bought some reflectors for above the T5 lamps

Aquarium with the technics

09-02-2007
Today the plant went into the tank

18-02-2007
In the second week I had some troubles with green algae

28-02-2007
Now I have some trouble with floating alg. I put some willow twigt into the aquarium. And the algae was all gone in 5 days

04-03-2007
The plants are doing well, and all the algae is gone.

Sorry for my bad English, I'm from the Netherlands.

 

[-*-MicHAeL-*-]

Fantastic tank, it looks great.

The name of the colour is Navy

 

[jamie2010]

stunning mate,well done.

 

[xingumike]

wow, thats some great growth there.

Nice tank

 

[fishstick]

Extremely beautiful tank and so quickly too. Did you put in the willow twigs to get rid of the algae or for decoration?

 

[DragonWish]

Extremely beautiful tank and so quickly too. Did you put in the willow twigs to get rid of the algae or for decoration?

To get rid of the algae

 

[guppy_man]

thats what i call planted have you used black bin bags for your background??

 

[blue acara]

beautiful tank looks very lush and healthy, nice photos as well.

 

[AndyOleszczuk]

Thats a gorgeous looking aquarium. Your plants and wood look great. Really natural and lush. Have you put any fish in yet ?

 

[wei0204]

It is so lovely, the plants are growing so rapidly... Good job.

 

[cleekdaFish]

wow its great

 

[stang1]

Great looking tank!

 

[DragonWish]

Thankx for the greet reactions!

Some more pictures

a Pseudogastromyzon cheni

The Didiplis Diandra

The Ludwigia inclinata verticala cuba With an annulatus

The left side of the tank

 

[kribensis12]

Beautiful tank!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you post a pic of your Galaxies?

 

[Canadian]

A question for your lighting. I am looking for some lights to put in my Malawi tank - I was looking for info on lights bright enough to show the colors of the fish nicely, and ecourage Green algae growth? What type, and where did you get your lights, and are they made in smaller sizes? thanks