Biulu
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I will give this journal another try. Twice the tank broke as a result of my living room floor not being levelled out. So all the weight of around 200 litres was on the bow, which cracked.
I ordered a few days ago a new tank with the same measurements so I could use the base and the hood with the lights again. Today I was preparing everything for the carpinter to come tomorrow to level out the base and to get started with the planting and scaping. It involved moving the temporary tank on the base to another table for which I needed the help of the guard of the condominiums in which I live.
I was very disappointed to find out that the tank that I had ordered didn't have the right measures! Bummer! The bow is 5 cm less than it is supposed to be and the height 10 cm less than supposed to. The 10 cm height I could have lived with if it were not for the angels I plan to have there, but the difference in the bow means I cannot use my hood and that is unacceptable. Especially as I have imported all the lamps and reflectors for it from Europe.
Now I have to take the tank all the way back to Mexico city (7 hours ride) on the bus, which means using 'maleteros' (guys that carry your luggage) and taxis and another waiting time of 5 days to get the correct one. I hope to bring the tank back on Monday and then hope to have the correct tank after easter.
I had also already bought more plants. I was lucky to find some as tropica has stopped delivering as the euro is too high compared to the peso. Now we have an 'informal' circuit of aquarium lovers that buy and sell over the internet. I found a young student which provided me with L. repens, H. polysperma and M. micranthemoides. Furthermore I found 2 aponogeton plants in the local fish market (this is the place where the aquarium businesses from the province come and buy their stock).
They also had bacopa. At first I didn't want to take it as normally bacopa disintegrates quickly in my tanks, but they assured me that it was not local, but imported bacopa. ANd yes, the leaves do look different, so I am going to give it another try.
Some data about the tank:
180 litres or 47.5 US gallons or 39.5 UK gallons
Sera Floredepot substrate with fine gravel on top
Marineland 1200 external filter
2 T5 24 W and 2 T8 15 W, which gives me 1.6 WpG, still low light
Plants:
S. platophylla
C. wendtti
A. barteri and A. barteri nana
Microsorum
B. carolina
Aponogeton
H. polysperma
L. repens
tiger lotus
M. micranthemoides
Future inhabitants:
2 moon angelfish
17 cherry barbs
5 otocinclus
5 C. julii
6. C. puntatus
Thank you for reading
I ordered a few days ago a new tank with the same measurements so I could use the base and the hood with the lights again. Today I was preparing everything for the carpinter to come tomorrow to level out the base and to get started with the planting and scaping. It involved moving the temporary tank on the base to another table for which I needed the help of the guard of the condominiums in which I live.
I was very disappointed to find out that the tank that I had ordered didn't have the right measures! Bummer! The bow is 5 cm less than it is supposed to be and the height 10 cm less than supposed to. The 10 cm height I could have lived with if it were not for the angels I plan to have there, but the difference in the bow means I cannot use my hood and that is unacceptable. Especially as I have imported all the lamps and reflectors for it from Europe.
Now I have to take the tank all the way back to Mexico city (7 hours ride) on the bus, which means using 'maleteros' (guys that carry your luggage) and taxis and another waiting time of 5 days to get the correct one. I hope to bring the tank back on Monday and then hope to have the correct tank after easter.
I had also already bought more plants. I was lucky to find some as tropica has stopped delivering as the euro is too high compared to the peso. Now we have an 'informal' circuit of aquarium lovers that buy and sell over the internet. I found a young student which provided me with L. repens, H. polysperma and M. micranthemoides. Furthermore I found 2 aponogeton plants in the local fish market (this is the place where the aquarium businesses from the province come and buy their stock).
They also had bacopa. At first I didn't want to take it as normally bacopa disintegrates quickly in my tanks, but they assured me that it was not local, but imported bacopa. ANd yes, the leaves do look different, so I am going to give it another try.
Some data about the tank:
180 litres or 47.5 US gallons or 39.5 UK gallons
Sera Floredepot substrate with fine gravel on top
Marineland 1200 external filter
2 T5 24 W and 2 T8 15 W, which gives me 1.6 WpG, still low light
Plants:
S. platophylla
C. wendtti
A. barteri and A. barteri nana
Microsorum
B. carolina
Aponogeton
H. polysperma
L. repens
tiger lotus
M. micranthemoides
Future inhabitants:
2 moon angelfish
17 cherry barbs
5 otocinclus
5 C. julii
6. C. puntatus
Thank you for reading