We have a winner in Tropical Fish Forums'
August Tank of the Month Contest
We had 2 awesome tanks entered in this month's TOTM contest.
It was a very close contest, but only one could win...
And the winner is.......
August Tank of the Month Contest
We had 2 awesome tanks entered in this month's TOTM contest.
It was a very close contest, but only one could win...
And the winner is.......
Let's all congratulate him
This is a Fluval Roma 125. I removed all the trim as I wanted a 'rimless' tank (was initially worried about whether some essential structural elements had been removed along with the trim, but it's been fine). Current scape is about 2 years old.
Fish:
A pair of pearl gourami (1 male, 1 female)
Approx 9 green neon tetra
Approx 12 ember tetra
3 lambchop rasbora
Approx 5 otocinclus
Approx 5 amano shrimp
Plants:
Vallisneri in the back
Hygrophila polysperma
Java fern (not doing so well)
Loads of anubias
Amazon frogbit on the surface
I don't bother with ferts as I've chosen slow-growing plants and am happy to see how they grow with minimal input from me.
The lighting I got from Amazon. I have no idea what the watts, etc., are.
Filtration is an external cannister filter with Biohome Ultra. The flow is kept on the surface for oxygen exchange, etc., but I don't want too much movement of water within the tank itself, as the gourami prefer sluggish, slow-moving water.
I feed them every day with micropellets.
Regarding maintenance, I perform partial water changes once or twice a week, and that's about it, aside from occasionally cleaning the glass. We had an algae outbreak a few months ago, but decided to let it play out and see what happened (it went away after a while).
