JoseDB
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Hey!!
So decided to get myself a birthday present, under the guise of 'But Freddie <our 2 year old> will love it!'
Always fancied a fish tank and the now empty spot we carved out for the Xmas tree was calling out to me!
Quick hardware overview;
100L tank on a purpose-built solid oak cabinet
Fluval 206 Canister Filter
Aqua Range 'LCD Smart' Heater 200W
Fluval Fresh & Plant Full Spectrum LED, 32 W, 61-85 cm
Fluval LED WiFi Module (with completely custom micro server controlling it that I wrote over the last week because the Fluval app is utter %^Ā£$ - more on that in another thread!)
Being a complete novice and it being a somewhat spur of the moment decision (we just went to the garden centre to 'look' at the fish!), I've relied pretty heavily on the guidance of the staff (Maidenhead Aquatics @ Gaulton) who have all been great and are fish hobbyists themselves, so I figure they know what they are talking about! I'm now joining here to get long-term knowledge!
So far I've got the tank, aquascaped it (look at me with the terminology!) with a load of plants that I don't know what they are without looking at the labels I have in the cupboard, left it a week and with some bio starter magic stuff, and now it has 2 angels and 6 cardinal tetra in there.
Seems to be going OK! The 2 angels are establishing a pecking order by the looks of it, nothing malicious but the silver one is definitely letting the other one know who's boss! Hopefully they'll work it out and chill in the next couple of days.
Plan over the next few weeks is to add a bristlenose plecos (as they look like a leopard shark when grown up and my little 'un loves sharks!), a loach of some kind to eat algae, and something orange that shoals mid tank (as the tetra seem to be enjoying the bottom of the tank). Any comments/suggestions around this are most welcome!
I don't think I have any pressing questions (yet!), probably because I don't know enough to ask anything! Please feel free to point out any major DO's and DON'T's based on all I've blathered on about
For now, I'll just leave you with a few pics of it, and a video demo of the web app I wrote for the lights.
Ciao!
So decided to get myself a birthday present, under the guise of 'But Freddie <our 2 year old> will love it!'
Always fancied a fish tank and the now empty spot we carved out for the Xmas tree was calling out to me!
Quick hardware overview;
100L tank on a purpose-built solid oak cabinet
Fluval 206 Canister Filter
Aqua Range 'LCD Smart' Heater 200W
Fluval Fresh & Plant Full Spectrum LED, 32 W, 61-85 cm
Fluval LED WiFi Module (with completely custom micro server controlling it that I wrote over the last week because the Fluval app is utter %^Ā£$ - more on that in another thread!)
Being a complete novice and it being a somewhat spur of the moment decision (we just went to the garden centre to 'look' at the fish!), I've relied pretty heavily on the guidance of the staff (Maidenhead Aquatics @ Gaulton) who have all been great and are fish hobbyists themselves, so I figure they know what they are talking about! I'm now joining here to get long-term knowledge!
So far I've got the tank, aquascaped it (look at me with the terminology!) with a load of plants that I don't know what they are without looking at the labels I have in the cupboard, left it a week and with some bio starter magic stuff, and now it has 2 angels and 6 cardinal tetra in there.
Seems to be going OK! The 2 angels are establishing a pecking order by the looks of it, nothing malicious but the silver one is definitely letting the other one know who's boss! Hopefully they'll work it out and chill in the next couple of days.
Plan over the next few weeks is to add a bristlenose plecos (as they look like a leopard shark when grown up and my little 'un loves sharks!), a loach of some kind to eat algae, and something orange that shoals mid tank (as the tetra seem to be enjoying the bottom of the tank). Any comments/suggestions around this are most welcome!
I don't think I have any pressing questions (yet!), probably because I don't know enough to ask anything! Please feel free to point out any major DO's and DON'T's based on all I've blathered on about
For now, I'll just leave you with a few pics of it, and a video demo of the web app I wrote for the lights.
Ciao!