My Rio 400

[basboi85]

Picked this bad boy up for £150 the other day so well chuffed

It come with the stand and a pair of working lights and a background picture.

So by the time I cleaned the tank and lots of efing and blinding as the background wouldn't go back on moved both external filters over and put all the sand and rocks and plants which I had and filled it let it settle for quite a few hours this is how it settled at gone midnight and added the fish and I'm waiting for my f.i.l to find his stupidly strong double sided sticky tape to put it back on

Lighting
Unknown brand but 1 bright white bulb and 1 red/ pink bulb
Filtration
I running at the moment a pair of ehiem external filters 2213 and a 2217

Air pump is a elite 802 running 2 air stones

Decor varied rocks
30kg of kids play sand
Varied plastic plants

Stock

4 wild guppies male
2 rainbow tetras
1 rummy nose tetra
1 unknown tetra

6 male sail fin mollies ( 2orange / 2silver / 1marble / 1Dalmatian )
12 female mollies ( 3black / 2 Dalmatian / 1 silver / 3 gold silver black / 1 grey / 1 orange black )

7 mollie fry ( 1 black / 6 orange black )

Future stock will have

Maximum of 10 platy fry as friend has had fry and not big enough tank for them
And possibly 8 -12 more guppies but fancy guppies

 

[Angele]

that looks really nice!

 

[SchottayB]

Good find!!

 

[basboi85]

Had a little change around today and added the background pic surprisingly to me it's made a huge difference Changed a few plants around and instead of having a fixed net fry trap I've used some packaging polystyrene to keep it afloat and free moving so it helps the fry get used to the rest of the tank

But I'm still after at least another 30 plants as I want this to be heavily planted so if I do have more fry which I'm sure wont be long till 2 more of my females drop there will be loads of hiding places

a couple of latest pics

I'll try and get some better shots later on

And thanks do all the positive feedback

 

[basboi85]

My little terror having a 5 min break earlier to chill and take in the scenery of my tank

Shame he has his mothers attention span ( like a goldfish) so I couldn't get away with staring at the tank any longer lol

 

[basboi85]

Well thought I would do a little update not much has changed since my last pics was put up

The only things that has changed is I've added a few more rocks
have 17 fry from 3 batches ranging from

12 days old 6 orange and black 1 pure black ( 3 have sailfin)
4 day old 9 varied colours from dark grey- silver - black
Born today 2 orange and black

And I inherited a pair of fish

Not sure what he /she is

This seems to be his new relaxing spot as he/ she is either here or hiding next to it

This is the clearest photo I have of the other fish

 

[fishprotector]

Albino and standard Chinese Algae Eaters?

 

[basboi85]

Managed to get a couple of shots through a multi shot ( 2 out of 40)

But the fry seem to be very camera shy which is getting annoying

 

[Huizenga]

Very colorfull aquarium Nice fish

 

[basboi85]

I've got so many ideas for it just so hard to choose what I want and thanks for the compliment

 

[Huizenga]

Maybe the Biotodoma Cupido is something for you. Beautifull fish that dont gat too big. Around the 15 cm.

 

[basboi85]

Few more updated pics

 

[basboi85]

Well I thought I would update since its been a while

Latest pics of my tank

My insane algae eater ( I believe that's its breed ) chilling out under the rocks

From left to right

And I seem to have a problem Molly that thinks his the boss of the tank

Yes that is a male Molly that is having a pop at a gourami double its size.

He's turned into the tank bully in the last couple weeks and none the wiser why ?? All the other males I have are quite peaceful.

I now have 9 Mickey Mouse platys about 40 fry from 3 months to 2 weeks old that are off to my lfs tomorrow and I'm hoping to be culling the Molly numbers and adding 4 more blue spotted female gourami and 1 male as I've fallen in love with them.

And I'm trying to find some big bits of bog wood that look like roots so I can hopefully change the scape for better

 

[slimeneo]

Love the fish and rocks I would suggest getting some real plants though

 

[basboi85]

well ive got a slight little update.

ive pulled most of the rocks out, all my livebearers are gone and ive added some nice big bits of wood,


added a internal to help things along

one of my 2 female gouramis

nice big root

top end of the tree that i wanted

thats about it really besides adding a rainbow shark .

and yes i will be adding live plants as soon as i figure out what type im after