My New Tank

[idlefingers]

I got my new tank yesterday! Yay! I was thinking I'd get either a Jewel Rio 180 or 240, but when I got to the shop and saw an Eheim Classic 100 (200ltr / 51g) with and external filter, heater, etc. I couldn't resist.

Got home with it at about 3pm and then spent the next 7-8 hrs getting it set up, cleaning sand, moving water from here to there, getting water and plants out of my old tank and into the new, bagging fish up.. the list goes on!

I only took a few pics as I set it up and they were all pretty shoddy, but you get the idea..

The bubbles went pretty quickly, now just waiting for the couldyness to go away. I didn't really plan where to put the plants because I was just wanting to get things in there. Gonna shift things around in the next couple of weeks, add some stones and bogwood.

Now I need to decide what to do with my 126ltr.. Ooohhhh the choices...

 

[cane76]

thats a great job you have done there

 

[guineapigqueen]

Thats a really nice tank you have there! I like the landscaping its good!

Emma x

 

[stang1]

Great job, it looks really good!

 

[idlefingers]

Thanks everyone! It's looking much better now the bubbles and clouds have cleared.

 

[bjanbkboi]

Beautiful Tank!! What kind of plants do you have in there?

 

[idlefingers]

No idea, really. I know what a couple of them are, but need to research that aspect some more.

 

[cardinal sinner]

Lovely looking tank you got there.Would love to know what the plants are.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

you have vallis and cabomba at the back (vallis is the straight one!)

front 2nd from right is water wisteria i think

2nd from the left (not counting the carpeting plant) is amazon sword

rest i can't see well enough or just don't know

tank looks great though, good job

 

[idlefingers]

thanks miss wiggle! I think You've got everything there except the other broad-leafed plants and the carpet which is Java Moss.

 

[cardinal sinner]

Its the broad leafed plants name im after. I have sum in my tank, all I know , is that it is a mid growing plant. Wish I could find out ,its driving me mad

 

[Miss Wiggle]

thanks miss wiggle! I think You've got everything there except the other broad-leafed plants and the carpet which is Java Moss.

I may well be wrong but i suspect the other broad leaf plant isn't a true aquatic plant, i've had it before and it never really grew and eventually just died (although plenty of plants in my care have so i wouldn't take that on it's own as evidence!), it also will support itself out of water which very few true aquatic plants do.

I'd post that pic in the plant forum and ask them as if it's not true aquatic you want to take it out as when it dies it will pollute the tank

 

[idlefingers]

I'm intrigued now.. I do think it is an aquatic plant, though - It's grown quite nicely in the past month or so since I got it and has very long roots.. It started out as just one main plant and I split and cut it a bit into three plants which are now much bigger than they started (the smaller one in the middle of the tank started off with just two leaves).

I'll have to get a better pic of it tonight and see what they say in the planted forum.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i'm no expert so i may be completely wrong, that was always my suspiscion though, at first mine did brilliantly, then after a month or two stopped growing then gradually started to die off. I think it's probably meant to grow partly submerged or something like that so while it does OK for a while underwater when it doesn't fairly soon break the surface it just stops growing and dies off.

anyway like i say i have no real evidence to back this up, just the confused ramblings of my mind

 

[cardinal sinner]

I have had this plant in my tank since I set it up in November.It is the only plant that has grown well really bushy & has strong root growth I cut it down when I rescaped my tank & would love some more of it. Would be interested to know the out come.