aaronnorth
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Tank size - 92cm (L) x 50cm (H) x 40cm(D) - BOW FRONT
Filter - fluval 205 external, peat, carbon, 4 sponges, polishing/ fine pad, lots of biomax
heater - fluval tronic 200w 26d/ 78f
substrate - natural pea gravel
ferts - root tabs next to root feeders, nutrafin plant gro weekly
lighting - 2 x 24w HO T5's, both are power glo, i intend on changing 1 of these to a red or pinkish colour - 1.2WPG or 2.4WPG if HO doubles it like supercoley1 says.
co2 - hagen natural plant system, 6 bubbles per minute
decor - 2 bogwood, thin long peice may go or it may get covered in a moss, rock, plant pot
fish - 2 clown loaches, 1 common plec (10"), 1 bronze cory, 2 bosemani rainbows, 3 silver mollies, 2 x-rays, 2 penguin tetras, 4 endlers & 7 fry (colour should come in about 1 wk, 3 wk old),
The endlers and maybe the x rays will be going a a 3g nano that i have just set up today
plants - green caroliniana cabomba, anubias barterii, hygro difformis/ wisteria, 3 amazon swords, 1 unknown plant that looks like a crypt
on order should arrive next wk - tiger lotus, red ludwigia, red cabomba, sagittara subulata, crypt wendtii, water cabbage
I have had this tank since end of november and my other tank had really poor lighting so all plastics which were then transfered into this one but i am just swapping all them for real so the ones you see on the left will be going as i hope to curve the plants round from the front right corner to the back left.
i had plastics in and then when i got my first few live in, most artificial have been removed , not long untill others follow!
i changed to live because it brings out the best in the fish and they help with nitrates and the don't damage fish. i was getting a lot of algae so this persuaded me more, i still get a little but when the others on order are in, i'll not be seeing much of that any more.
with plastics
with live and few plastics
close up on plants (bit blurry)
My plants have arrived and this is how it looks now:
right side
close up of plants
small plantlets growing behind rock
full tank shot
i have up rooted the green cabomba and took some cuttings off the bottom, i then placed them more spread out along the bottom. I tried the anubias barterii behind the rock but i didn't like it so i moved it back to the front. I then up rooted the H.difformis and bunched it together to fill the space up so you cant see the back. I then moved all the oxygenating plant and spread it along the rest of the space at the back. I put the red cabomba next to the green cambobma to fill the last space up and to cover the intake tube, i took a stem and cut it in half to make it grow 'from under' the other background plants. i then planted the vallis in front of the oxygenating plant but they are only plantlets. i then put the red ludwigia in front of the vallis. I then put 4 small cryptocoryne wendtii and 4 small sagittara subulata behind the rock, they have to develop more before they are completley visible, i have tried take a picture of them. lastly i put a red liger lotus in the middle.
It looks better now with more plants, once the small plantlets grow and the green cabomba reaches the top, then i will see whether more plants are needed.
All the plastics are gone except them few grasses around the airstone but i will try to replace the one that is seperate, (others are on a rock base)
i have this on the planted tanks section aswell so thats why it has quote marks on, ideas/ constructive critism welcome
