Incoming: New Aquarium :d

[Maedhros]

So I've cleared a corner of my study and done a little measuring, and I'm pleasantly surprised by what I think I can fit in there. I thought I was going to be limited to a tiny tank (poky terraced house, lots of awkward nooks and crannies) but having actually taken a tape measure to the space, I'm now thinking a Juwel Lido 120 (capacity 120l). Still not enormous, but bigger than I thought I'd have room for! Has anyone got any experience with these tanks?

In terms of stocking (haven't included numbers yet as I don't even have the tank; I'm very open to suggestions about numbers, compatibility and other fish/critters I might consider)...

• Male guppies - I just love the colours!
• Mixture of schooling fish - I'm particularly attached to chili rasboras
• Scribble pleco - LFS had one. Stunning fish but totally unsuitable for what I had at the time; I left it, and I haven't seen one since.
• Endlers

What do you guys think?

PS - Maedhros will be staying in his current home. I'm set on the guppies, and I know he'd kill them!

 

[Shelster]

I have a juwel vision 180, one of the first things I did with mine, is get rid of the filter. I didn't get on with it at all, I also found it pretty poor, although I appreciate your space is limited, would you have the room to put an external on it? Bearing in mind you will have pipes coming out the back of the tank.
It would however give you that extra bit of much valued space inside the tank


Chilli rasboras are tiny, I couldn't believe it, you could have a lovely shoal in a tank the size you are looking at.
One of my new nano favs is the celestial danio aka galaxy rasbora, have a google of them

 

[NeonSagaris]

It all sounds very good! Looking forward to you getting it. Just one thing about the fish list though, Endlers and Guppies; not great together. Mixing them isn't good because then they breed like crazy and have loads of strange fry. The rest of the ideas however, are great.

 

[Maedhros]

Just one thing about the fish list though, Endlers and Guppies; not great together. Mixing them isn't good because then they breed like crazy and have loads of strange fry.

Eep! Definitely don't want mutant fry; perhaps I'll rethink the endlers! In all honesty I don't want fry at all if it can be helped...I wouldn't know how to raise them, and I'm too soft to let them all get eaten.

Shelster - thanks for the filter tip! I could probably fit in an external filter if needs be, although I've never set one up before - is it difficult?

 

[Essjay]

The endlers you'll find in the shops are all endler-guppy hybrids so I wouldn't worry about mutant fry. Personally, I'd go for all endlers, but I just prefer them to guppies

 

[Shelster]

I find my external filter so much easier to manage.
I have a fluval 305 on mine. I'm not sure how other makes are in comparison but have a search of them on you tube, that was what I did to see how I went about fitting and what media to use inside.

 

[the_lock_man]

It all sounds very good! Looking forward to you getting it. Just one thing about the fish list though, Endlers and Guppies; not great together. Mixing them isn't good because then they breed like crazy and have loads of strange fry. The rest of the ideas however, are great.

Female endlers and female guppies are both very drab colourless fish. The bright colourful ones are the males. If you only have males, the chances of having fry are, I would think, fairly low.....

• Male guppies - I just love the colours!
• Mixture of schooling fish - I'm particularly attached to chili rasboras
  
• Scribble pleco - LFS had one. Stunning fish but totally unsuitable for what I had at the time; I left it, and I haven't seen one since.
• Endlers

Chilli rasbos are great, but they tend to be shoaling rather than schooling, ie they only stick together in times of panic. And since they are so tiny, they can end up getting lost.

I've just bought a 100l tank, and have Celestial Pearl Danios, and Cardinal Tetras as my "shoaling" species - they do tend to stick together a bit more, and are just that bit bigger. However, if you are dead set on the chillis, make sure your tank has a decent level of plant cover. This will give them the confidence to swim in the open, safe in the knoweldge there's somewhere to run to if they feel it necessary. In an open tank, they'll just skulk down in a back corner.