Flash's New World Journal

[flash22]

well here goes nothing

I am in the processes of upgrading my Rio 180 to a Rio 300 and looking to go over the American cichlids

so lets start................

Equipment list as follows:

Rio 300 with cabinet in beach
Ehiem Pro 2 2028
TMC 400 U.V. (unsure wether i am going to install this yet)
Xl juwel Background
4 juwel terracing pieces 3 A's and 1 B

First job was to get it from the car into the house what was a mission and a half. Once In the cabinet got built (gauwd bless the battery drill) then un box the tank and get it up on the stand. yay this took 2 days

Next job was to cut the Juwel jumbo filter box out as iam installing a Ehiem Pro 2 2028 instead on to the next job........................

silicone time !!! time to place the terracing where i want it take it out and silicon it then put them back one at a time..... now the hard part waiting for the silicon to cure...............another 2 days gone

Time for some gravel 20kg of pettex lakeland nature gravel just for the front part and 15 kg of dorset pea to back fill behind the terracing the rest will be top up with the pea shingle out of my mature Rio 180

Time for some pics....................................

 

[flash22]

Stocking.......................................

Current stocking in my Rio 180

4 koi marble angels (4-5")
2 golden killies
1 zebra killie
5 black skirt tetras (quite large now)
2 german blue rams
3 clown loach
3 kulli loach
2 zebra loach
1 honey goramis
2 black neons (jumbo size. lol. so not angel food)

2 common bn one male, one female
1 albino bn plec
1 king tiger

Oh and fergal the silver shark

Going to have a stock change what ever dont fit wil go into my other tank or to a good home

not sure what else to have in there once i have sorted the above list out but it looks like

silver dollars
Rams of some type
Dwarf cichlids

Got to do some more indepth research into stocking me thinks

 

[minxfishy]

Looking good

Hope that all the diff gravels/sand stay put for you, fill gently, though I think those plecs will move some of it around

 

[flash22]

Yep the terracing it well a trully stuck down my plec's dont move the gravel around that much its the Mts and loaches that do that in my rio 180

More updates coming soon (need to get some batterys for my camera first tho)

 

[flash22]

Disaster strikes

Transfered my tanks over Saturday no problems

Got up this morning to total devastation all but my tetras, 3 bn plecs, 1 golden killie and my last honey gouramis where dead the cause a duff heater !!!!

This was a gut wrenching morning for me as most of my fish i have had since thay were very young r.i.p. fishes

Back to square 2

 

[minxfishy]

Oh no, thats horrible, poor fishies, poor you.

RIP little guys