My Good Deed For The Day

Sweeden

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Well few weeks back i popped into my nanas to say "how do" and obviously for tea and cake, whilst sat in front room noticed her 4ft tank was dark green. so got chatting about it to find out she had a air pump driven gravel filter. So i said i would buy her a filter to help out and that it would mean less cleaning of the tank.

So i bought a fluval 4+ of 'coldcazzie' and it arrived monday (really good member), i got back from uni today and took it straight up to my nans via the LFS. Bought her some tapsafe too.

So to start i removed the lid and all tubes, then put the fish in my goldfish bowl while i did cleaning (this was cruel and you shall see why when you look at photos of fish, but i had no option)

Anyway swirled around the gravel and siphoned alot out, then scrubbed glass. I removed the broken gravel filter, then replanted gravel, plants, stones and wood. Added the filter and started to fill the tank.

Anyway here is the results of a good 2 hours
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Theres 3 of these guys
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and one of this guy
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Can someone tell me what he is now i know he has orange fins and orange tail fin

C+C Welcome
 
The three big fish are tinfoil barbs Barbonymus schwanenfeldi and the other one is probably a rainbow shark Epalzeorhynchos frenatum.

Make sure you keep an eye on the ammonia levels (I'm sure you nan will be thrilled to be seeing so much of you ;) ) as ther might have been quite a lot of bacteria in the undergravel filter, even if it wasn't working properly :)
 
As said above, Just keep an eye on the stats. But all in all. Great stuff :) im sure it looks alot better now than it did :) :good: Well done :)
 
Am just about to do full range of tests, brought some water home with me as i forgot my kit but will go up again in 2 days to see how it is
 
Am just about to do full range of tests, brought some water home with me as i forgot my kit but will go up again in 2 days to see how it is
bless your nan :blush:
i bet she is very impressed with the newlook tank.

is it a bird?
is it a plane?

NOOOO!!!
ITS SUPERAQUARIST!!!!
lol well done mate you may have just saved they're life :good:

very nice end result :lol:
 

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