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Vote for 2019 Tank of the Year
We're winding up another great year on Tropical Fish Forums. The holidays are coming and we at TFF are going to celebrate in style.
Fishforums.net is proud to announce our 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR poll. We had 12 top notch winners over the last 12 months in our Tank of the Month Contests. We need your help to decide which tank is the best of the best! We are asking all members to vote for the tank that you feel deserves the title of 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR.
TFF is offering a first prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card to the winner of this poll. This poll will close at 1:24 PM on Wednesday January 1st. Please do your part and cast your vote for 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR!
Please view all 12 entries before voting. You are allowed to change your vote if you wish. No comments are allowed in this poll. Fishforums.net thanks you for your participation in our contests.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all our fine members.
......................................................................
Let the Games begin!
..................................................................
January Winner: Fishmanic
Click on video below. On mobile devices, it is best viewed in landscape mode. Double click to enlarge to full screen.
"Fisherman's Paradise"...Japanese Zen Garden Themed 35 gallon tall hex tank
Inhabitants:
9 Serpae Tetra, 3 Black Skirt Tetra, 1 full grown Angelfish, 1 Bushynose Pleco
Equipment:
200 watt Aqueon shatterproof heater with two indicator leds ..heat on/ heat off
Aquaclear 50 filter loaded with 2 sponges, filter floss, and ceramics
Air pump operated sponge filter ... sized for 40 gallon tank
Danner two outlet air pump hooked to sponge filter and one airstone
Substrate:
two toned blue gravel, various sized rocks,
Additions:
custom platform/cave made from rocks and flagstone, handmade wooden Japanese bridge made from bamboo chopsticks and toothpicks, glazed clay "fisherman" ornament, manzanita driftwood to support upper level of anubias and a medium-sized malasian driftwood supporting lower level of anubias
Plantings:
annubias nana, water wisteria, and watersprite (floating)
Fertilizers: Seachem Flourish complete once a week, Seachem Trace weekly, seachem root tabs
Water changes: 50% about every 7-9 days, also do moderate gravel clean using the python water changer device
Parameters:
0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 10 nitrates, hardness 175, temperature 77.3 (digital thermometer)
Filter service:
change filter floss and squeeze out sponges (in tank water) every two weeks
clean filter box and tubes monthly
Lighting:
15 watt t8 fluorescent tube and low powered led fixture...lights on 12 hours/day
Feeding:
Cobalt brand flake twice a day..freeze dried bloodworms about twice a week (presoaked), freeze dried daphnia occasionally, frozen shrimp as a treat, hikari algae wafer once or twice a week.
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February Winner: Deanasue
click on video below
This tank is a 20G long with a Penguin 200 Bio-wheel filter.
This is my 65 gallon Aquarium. I put it together about a year ago and have been slowly adding to it ever since. Not yet at the finished look I want it to have, but very close.
Stocking:
Fish:
- Nine Black Skirt Tetras
-A trio of breeding Ancistrus
-Six Bronze corydoras (pet store only had six a year ago, will add more when the bronze corys are back in my area)
-Seven Neon tetras
-Six juvenile Angelfish (new addition)
Plants:
Vallisneria - back left corner
Bacopa - front left corner
Anubis Nana petite - back left corner on wood
Anubias barteri - left/center on wood
Anubias barteri Nana - right/center on wood
Crinum Calamistratum - back/center new addition, still small, can only really see one shoot in the picture.
Christmas Moss - along the center lower piece of wood (It over took the entire tank so tore it all out, put it in a new tank and added a bit to that piece of wood)
Cryptocoryne Crispatula var. Balansae - back right corner (new addition from yesterday, hopefully will get a more filled out look in the coming months)
Cryptocoryne Wendtti - center/right in front of wood and crypt balansae (new addition from yesterday, hopefully will get a more filled out look in the coming months)
Maintenance:
Ferts: I make my own solutions out of Potassium Nitrate (KNO3), Potassium Sulfate (KSO4) and Monopotassium Phosphate (KH2PO4). I dose once a week to bring nitrates up to 5 ppm, potassium to 8 ppm, and phosphate to 1ppm. When I see that nitrate is almost at 0 ppm, I redose Ferts.
Weekly Water Change:
*Gravel Vac substrate
*Clean Filter sponges
*Water change 60-70%
Equipment:
Pump and hose for water change, Tetra 200w heater (aqua one 300w back up for quarantine tank), Aqua One Aquis 1200 canister filter, air pump, air stone.
Hardscape:
-Spider wood
-Pool filter sand
Water parameters:
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - less than 5ppm
Gh - 8 - 16 dgh
Kh - 8 - 16 dgh
Ph - 7.5
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April Winner: GuppyLover3x
My tanks not reached the end target yet, but I’ll enter anyway.
This is my 10 gallon guppy tank it’s been set up for 3 months. The tank has an overhead light, that changes to blue for night time view. Stays on for around 8-10 hours per day.
Tank dimensions - 51.3 x 26 x 32.8cm (L x W x H)
They wouldn’t keep still for this photograph, apologies!
Water parameters
Nitrates: 10
Nitrites: 0
Ammonia: 0
PH: 7.2
GH: 11
KH: 7.2
Cl2: 0
Temperature: 78F
Tank maintenance
50/75% weekly water changes including gravel vaccum
Filtration
Fluval U1
Media is cleaned every 2 weeks
Live stock
5 male guppies
Feeding schedules
Once daily - mainly flakes and dried blood worms every so often
Live Plants
Echinodorus Bleheri x 4
Echinodorus Harbii
Substrate
Aquarium gravel
Future plans
Awaiting replacement delivery of a digital heater that’s fully submersible (hence the current low water line)
Add another few guppies
To add another box of sparkly/glitter aquarium gravel tonight #guilty.
I’ve made sure this hasn’t reflected on the light in the photo.
.....................................................................
May Winner: maxnorton
Date setup: 01 May 2019
Tank Name: unknown.
106Litres (3ft size)
Filtration: JBL CrystalprofilE702 external filter & sponge filter.
Lighting: NICREW Super Bright LED lamp.
Plants:
Micranthemum 'Monte-Carlo'
Spiky moss
Alternanthera reineckii 'Rosanervig'
Cardamine lyrate
Limnophila sessiliflora
Anubias mini mini
Marsilea Hirsuta
Echinodorus bleheri
Lysimachia nummularia aurea
Rotala rotundifolia
Microsorium pteropus
Ferts:
Aquacare Plant Gro
Airation: Airpump into sponge filter & exsteral filter.
Water management: Partial water changes, then once cycled big water change.
Substrate: Tetra Active substrate. black, white & blue/grey gravel.
Heater: Aquel Easy Heater 150w.
Water testing: Freshwater master Test kit.
Cycled so far Day 8.
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June winner: Moony42
THIS MY BETTA ACE'S TANK
SIZE: 2.5 GALLON
LIVING INSIDE: BETTA SPLENDENS
NAME OF SPECIMEN: ACE
MATERIAL OF TANK: GLASS
LIGHTING: LED WATT 50 FOR PLANT GROWTH
FEED FOR SPECIMEN:TETRA BITS
PLANTS:COMMON AQUA FERN,COMMON AQUA GRASS ETC
HOW MUCH TIME TANK HAS BEEN THERE FOR: 5 MONTHS
NAME OF TANK: RAINFOREST PARADISE
DECOR: SMOOTHENED ROCKS
SOIL/GRAVEL/SAND:MIXED GRAVEL
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July Winner: Peepss
click on youtube video below
Hey guys!
Here’s a look at my new tank. I took a couple smaller tanks & combined them in May & this tank has been up and running for a little over a Month. I put a lot of love into this tank & I am SO happy with how all of the fish are getting along and having such a great time in their new digs. This is the most rewarding part of the hobby.
size: 60 gal
fish stocking: 4 Neon Tetra, 2 Siamese Algae Eater, 2 Scissortail Rasbora, 2 Blue Moscow Guppy, 2 Variegated Cobra Guppy, 1 Opaline Gourami, 1 Bristlenose Pleco,2 Julii Cory, 3 Angelfish- Zebra, Gold, & Silver... aaaand a few ghost shrimp
water parameters: amm.0; nitrite.0;nitrate;10ppm
Planted with CaribSea Planted Aquarium substrate & sand
Plants: crypt, javafern, amazon sword, anubias, cryptwendtii, cryptocorynes balansae, pygmy chainsword, wisteria, hornwort
lighting: Fluval AquaSky 35W
filter: Marineland Magniflow 360 Canister (also an established filter to boost the new cycle)
Bubbler in rock decor
Thanks for checking out my tank!
..............................................
August Winner: SpeedyTheBetta
note: picture not available....awaiting update from member
Plants:
- Echinodorus bleheri
- Echinodorus major
- Limnophila sessiliflora
- Ceratopteris thalictroides
- Cryptocoryne wendtii
- Cryptocoryne balansae
- Microsorum pteropus
- Eleocharis parvulus
Fluval Flex Aquarium:
- Capacity: 15 US Gal (57 L)
- Dimensions: 16 x 15 x 15" (41 x 39 x 39 cm)
- Pump Output: 132 US Gal/h (500 L/h)
LED Light:
- LEDs: 48 + 6 RGB
- Wattage: 10.8 W
- Lumens: 2450 lm
- Color Temp.: 7500 K
Light duration per day:
5h on, 4h off, 5h on
Gravel:
2-3mm
Soil:
Terra preta
Fish:
1x Speedy the Betta
5x Corydoras
5x Otocinclus
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September Winner: Buffy1977
Hello all
New to all this, and still learning lots, but I’ll try and do a write up.
200 litre Fluval Roma tank. 2 weeks old. Moved from a smaller tank. 1st time using live plants.
Sand and planted.
Root Sticks and fertiliser
Fluval 306 and my old internal filter too currently whilst still establishing.
Home to
1 platty
1 danio
1 golden algae eater
2 gourami
2 pleco
10 neon tetra
2 lamp eye
3 other tetra
2 Cory julii
2 silver flying fox
2 frogs
1 whiptail catfish
Pair of dwarf cockatoo cichlids
2 redline torpedo barb
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Winner October: Lilyann
Shrimp Vase: 12" x 12 " Cylinder Arrangement:
Recently set up, so still cycling ( for 6 weeks) before add shrimp. Shrimp will be tangerine tigers.
Filtration: Dennerle Nano Filter
Lighting: ATLEDtis Clip-on light. Another one on the way. Need one for front and back.
Substrate: Landen Sand.
Wood: Mopani on Slate
Stone: Manten rock
Plants:
Submersed/Emersed
Aquatic Reed ( type unknown)
Eleocharis vivipara
Submersed:
Marsilea quadrifolia
Blyxia japonica
Crypt. "green gecko"
Crypt. Parva.
Emersed Plants:
Mixed tillandsia
Bromeliad
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Winner November: howard_hopkinson
My aquarium contains the following: Yoyo loaches, Corydoras Amandajanea, Angelfish, Cardinal tetras, Platys, Zebra Danios, Pearl Gouramis, Honey Gouramis and Dwarf Gouramis. The tank also contains 6 Zebra Nerite snails.
My tank is a Fluval Roma 240 litre with a Fluval 307 external filter, a Fluval 300watt heater and Fluval Aquasky 2.0 30watt led lighting.
The tank is planted with Java moss, Amazon Swords, Vallisneria(jungle) and Ambulia(asian marshweed) and a few small foreground plants I don't know the names of.
The temperature is 25.1C and water parameters are as follows: PH7.0 Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates are around 5 to 10.
Decorations are some Mopani wood, A very large resin castle and a resin tree root. I also have a printed aquarium background poster.
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December winner: Aussie_Bristle
THE FAIRY GARDEN
TANK & SETUP
103L x 46W x 62H, 263.8L/77.6G(US)
Filters are AquaOne Nautilus 2700UVC & an AquaOne Maxi 102F internal filter that runs the air filter. The lighting includes a 10.0 UVB fluorescent light and a PetWorx 36W blue/clear LED light. Heater is a 200W AquaOne that sits around 24 - 26 degrees.
FISH:
9 x Swordtails
8 x Goldfish
3 x Empire Gudgeons
11 x Corys ( 3 x bronze, 5 x albino, 3 x pepper)
2 x Chinese algae eaters
1 x Siamese flying fox
2 x Bristlenose (1 x albino and 1 x peppermint)
7 x Rosy barbs
They eat a range of everything. Pisces tropical flakes, Tetra freezer dried bloodworms, sinking algae waffles and frozen bloodworms. I also add a variety of fruits and veggies 2 times a week eg. Rockmelon, cucumber and zucchini.The goldfish and the algae eaters go crazy for it.
PLANTS AND SUBSTRATE
There is a range of Val, Elodea, ambulia (sticks now) & Hornwort (also sticks from the goldfish eating the leaves) that bed in a flooring of Riversand. Ihave Calgrit mixed in the riversand to help with the PH level and also calcium. No fertiliser is used.
PARAMETERS
PH: sits around 7.0 - 7.5
Ammonia. 0.0
Nitrate: 20-40ppm
Nitrite: 0.0
GH: 180ppm
KH: 40ppm
I do a water change every 1-2 weeks and condition with Seachem prime every water change or when needed. Cleaning is done every few days via net and a non scratch sponge. I also run my fingers through the substrate to help filter the debris. I also test the water with an API test kit.
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...................................................TOTY..................
Vote for 2019 Tank of the Year
We're winding up another great year on Tropical Fish Forums. The holidays are coming and we at TFF are going to celebrate in style.
Fishforums.net is proud to announce our 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR poll. We had 12 top notch winners over the last 12 months in our Tank of the Month Contests. We need your help to decide which tank is the best of the best! We are asking all members to vote for the tank that you feel deserves the title of 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR.
TFF is offering a first prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card to the winner of this poll. This poll will close at 1:24 PM on Wednesday January 1st. Please do your part and cast your vote for 2019 TANK OF THE YEAR!
Please view all 12 entries before voting. You are allowed to change your vote if you wish. No comments are allowed in this poll. Fishforums.net thanks you for your participation in our contests.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all our fine members.
......................................................................
Let the Games begin!
..................................................................
January Winner: Fishmanic
Click on video below. On mobile devices, it is best viewed in landscape mode. Double click to enlarge to full screen.
"Fisherman's Paradise"
"Fisherman's Paradise"...Japanese Zen Garden Themed 35 gallon tall hex tank
Inhabitants:
9 Serpae Tetra, 3 Black Skirt Tetra, 1 full grown Angelfish, 1 Bushynose Pleco
Equipment:
200 watt Aqueon shatterproof heater with two indicator leds ..heat on/ heat off
Aquaclear 50 filter loaded with 2 sponges, filter floss, and ceramics
Air pump operated sponge filter ... sized for 40 gallon tank
Danner two outlet air pump hooked to sponge filter and one airstone
Substrate:
two toned blue gravel, various sized rocks,
Additions:
custom platform/cave made from rocks and flagstone, handmade wooden Japanese bridge made from bamboo chopsticks and toothpicks, glazed clay "fisherman" ornament, manzanita driftwood to support upper level of anubias and a medium-sized malasian driftwood supporting lower level of anubias
Plantings:
annubias nana, water wisteria, and watersprite (floating)
Fertilizers: Seachem Flourish complete once a week, Seachem Trace weekly, seachem root tabs
Water changes: 50% about every 7-9 days, also do moderate gravel clean using the python water changer device
Parameters:
0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 10 nitrates, hardness 175, temperature 77.3 (digital thermometer)
Filter service:
change filter floss and squeeze out sponges (in tank water) every two weeks
clean filter box and tubes monthly
Lighting:
15 watt t8 fluorescent tube and low powered led fixture...lights on 12 hours/day
Feeding:
Cobalt brand flake twice a day..freeze dried bloodworms about twice a week (presoaked), freeze dried daphnia occasionally, frozen shrimp as a treat, hikari algae wafer once or twice a week.
.........................................................................
February Winner: Deanasue
click on video below
This tank is a 20G long with a Penguin 200 Bio-wheel filter.
- Substrate is black sand.
- Temperature is kept at a steady 75F.
- Inhabitants include neon tetras, green neon tetras, glo light tetras, guppies, platies, and a bristle nose pleco ( which lives inside the trunk of the tree). Other inhabitants are Malaysian trumpet snails, pond snails, and ramshorn snails.
- Plants are Anubias, anacharis, banana plant, and amazon sword. Parameters are 0, 0, 10.
- Tank is cleaned weekly using a Python vacuum and a 70% water change is done.
- Choice for water conditioners is Seachem Prime.
- New Life Spectrum Small Fish Food, Ken’s Veggie Sticks, and frozen blood worms.
- This tank has been up and running about a year.
- ..............................................................
This is my 65 gallon Aquarium. I put it together about a year ago and have been slowly adding to it ever since. Not yet at the finished look I want it to have, but very close.
Stocking:
Fish:
- Nine Black Skirt Tetras
-A trio of breeding Ancistrus
-Six Bronze corydoras (pet store only had six a year ago, will add more when the bronze corys are back in my area)
-Seven Neon tetras
-Six juvenile Angelfish (new addition)
Plants:
Vallisneria - back left corner
Bacopa - front left corner
Anubis Nana petite - back left corner on wood
Anubias barteri - left/center on wood
Anubias barteri Nana - right/center on wood
Crinum Calamistratum - back/center new addition, still small, can only really see one shoot in the picture.
Christmas Moss - along the center lower piece of wood (It over took the entire tank so tore it all out, put it in a new tank and added a bit to that piece of wood)
Cryptocoryne Crispatula var. Balansae - back right corner (new addition from yesterday, hopefully will get a more filled out look in the coming months)
Cryptocoryne Wendtti - center/right in front of wood and crypt balansae (new addition from yesterday, hopefully will get a more filled out look in the coming months)
Maintenance:
Ferts: I make my own solutions out of Potassium Nitrate (KNO3), Potassium Sulfate (KSO4) and Monopotassium Phosphate (KH2PO4). I dose once a week to bring nitrates up to 5 ppm, potassium to 8 ppm, and phosphate to 1ppm. When I see that nitrate is almost at 0 ppm, I redose Ferts.
Weekly Water Change:
*Gravel Vac substrate
*Clean Filter sponges
*Water change 60-70%
Equipment:
Pump and hose for water change, Tetra 200w heater (aqua one 300w back up for quarantine tank), Aqua One Aquis 1200 canister filter, air pump, air stone.
Hardscape:
-Spider wood
-Pool filter sand
Water parameters:
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - less than 5ppm
Gh - 8 - 16 dgh
Kh - 8 - 16 dgh
Ph - 7.5
....................................................
April Winner: GuppyLover3x
My tanks not reached the end target yet, but I’ll enter anyway.
This is my 10 gallon guppy tank it’s been set up for 3 months. The tank has an overhead light, that changes to blue for night time view. Stays on for around 8-10 hours per day.
Tank dimensions - 51.3 x 26 x 32.8cm (L x W x H)
They wouldn’t keep still for this photograph, apologies!
Water parameters
Nitrates: 10
Nitrites: 0
Ammonia: 0
PH: 7.2
GH: 11
KH: 7.2
Cl2: 0
Temperature: 78F
Tank maintenance
50/75% weekly water changes including gravel vaccum
Filtration
Fluval U1
Media is cleaned every 2 weeks
Live stock
5 male guppies
Feeding schedules
Once daily - mainly flakes and dried blood worms every so often
Live Plants
Echinodorus Bleheri x 4
Echinodorus Harbii
Substrate
Aquarium gravel
Future plans
Awaiting replacement delivery of a digital heater that’s fully submersible (hence the current low water line)
Add another few guppies
To add another box of sparkly/glitter aquarium gravel tonight #guilty.
I’ve made sure this hasn’t reflected on the light in the photo.
.....................................................................
May Winner: maxnorton
Date setup: 01 May 2019
Tank Name: unknown.
106Litres (3ft size)
Filtration: JBL CrystalprofilE702 external filter & sponge filter.
Lighting: NICREW Super Bright LED lamp.
Plants:
Micranthemum 'Monte-Carlo'
Spiky moss
Alternanthera reineckii 'Rosanervig'
Cardamine lyrate
Limnophila sessiliflora
Anubias mini mini
Marsilea Hirsuta
Echinodorus bleheri
Lysimachia nummularia aurea
Rotala rotundifolia
Microsorium pteropus
Ferts:
Aquacare Plant Gro
Airation: Airpump into sponge filter & exsteral filter.
Water management: Partial water changes, then once cycled big water change.
Substrate: Tetra Active substrate. black, white & blue/grey gravel.
Heater: Aquel Easy Heater 150w.
Water testing: Freshwater master Test kit.
Cycled so far Day 8.
...............................................
June winner: Moony42
THIS MY BETTA ACE'S TANK
SIZE: 2.5 GALLON
LIVING INSIDE: BETTA SPLENDENS
NAME OF SPECIMEN: ACE
MATERIAL OF TANK: GLASS
LIGHTING: LED WATT 50 FOR PLANT GROWTH
FEED FOR SPECIMEN:TETRA BITS
PLANTS:COMMON AQUA FERN,COMMON AQUA GRASS ETC
HOW MUCH TIME TANK HAS BEEN THERE FOR: 5 MONTHS
NAME OF TANK: RAINFOREST PARADISE
DECOR: SMOOTHENED ROCKS
SOIL/GRAVEL/SAND:MIXED GRAVEL
.............................................
July Winner: Peepss
click on youtube video below
Hey guys!
Here’s a look at my new tank. I took a couple smaller tanks & combined them in May & this tank has been up and running for a little over a Month. I put a lot of love into this tank & I am SO happy with how all of the fish are getting along and having such a great time in their new digs. This is the most rewarding part of the hobby.
size: 60 gal
fish stocking: 4 Neon Tetra, 2 Siamese Algae Eater, 2 Scissortail Rasbora, 2 Blue Moscow Guppy, 2 Variegated Cobra Guppy, 1 Opaline Gourami, 1 Bristlenose Pleco,2 Julii Cory, 3 Angelfish- Zebra, Gold, & Silver... aaaand a few ghost shrimp
water parameters: amm.0; nitrite.0;nitrate;10ppm
Planted with CaribSea Planted Aquarium substrate & sand
Plants: crypt, javafern, amazon sword, anubias, cryptwendtii, cryptocorynes balansae, pygmy chainsword, wisteria, hornwort
lighting: Fluval AquaSky 35W
filter: Marineland Magniflow 360 Canister (also an established filter to boost the new cycle)
Bubbler in rock decor
Thanks for checking out my tank!
..............................................
August Winner: SpeedyTheBetta
note: picture not available....awaiting update from member
Plants:
- Echinodorus bleheri
- Echinodorus major
- Limnophila sessiliflora
- Ceratopteris thalictroides
- Cryptocoryne wendtii
- Cryptocoryne balansae
- Microsorum pteropus
- Eleocharis parvulus
Fluval Flex Aquarium:
- Capacity: 15 US Gal (57 L)
- Dimensions: 16 x 15 x 15" (41 x 39 x 39 cm)
- Pump Output: 132 US Gal/h (500 L/h)
LED Light:
- LEDs: 48 + 6 RGB
- Wattage: 10.8 W
- Lumens: 2450 lm
- Color Temp.: 7500 K
Light duration per day:
5h on, 4h off, 5h on
Gravel:
2-3mm
Soil:
Terra preta
Fish:
1x Speedy the Betta
5x Corydoras
5x Otocinclus
.........................................
September Winner: Buffy1977
Hello all
New to all this, and still learning lots, but I’ll try and do a write up.
200 litre Fluval Roma tank. 2 weeks old. Moved from a smaller tank. 1st time using live plants.
Sand and planted.
Root Sticks and fertiliser
Fluval 306 and my old internal filter too currently whilst still establishing.
Home to
1 platty
1 danio
1 golden algae eater
2 gourami
2 pleco
10 neon tetra
2 lamp eye
3 other tetra
2 Cory julii
2 silver flying fox
2 frogs
1 whiptail catfish
Pair of dwarf cockatoo cichlids
2 redline torpedo barb
.........................................................................
Winner October: Lilyann
Shrimp Vase: 12" x 12 " Cylinder Arrangement:
Recently set up, so still cycling ( for 6 weeks) before add shrimp. Shrimp will be tangerine tigers.
Filtration: Dennerle Nano Filter
Lighting: ATLEDtis Clip-on light. Another one on the way. Need one for front and back.
Substrate: Landen Sand.
Wood: Mopani on Slate
Stone: Manten rock
Plants:
Submersed/Emersed
Aquatic Reed ( type unknown)
Eleocharis vivipara
Submersed:
Marsilea quadrifolia
Blyxia japonica
Crypt. "green gecko"
Crypt. Parva.
Emersed Plants:
Mixed tillandsia
Bromeliad
...............................................
Winner November: howard_hopkinson
My aquarium contains the following: Yoyo loaches, Corydoras Amandajanea, Angelfish, Cardinal tetras, Platys, Zebra Danios, Pearl Gouramis, Honey Gouramis and Dwarf Gouramis. The tank also contains 6 Zebra Nerite snails.
My tank is a Fluval Roma 240 litre with a Fluval 307 external filter, a Fluval 300watt heater and Fluval Aquasky 2.0 30watt led lighting.
The tank is planted with Java moss, Amazon Swords, Vallisneria(jungle) and Ambulia(asian marshweed) and a few small foreground plants I don't know the names of.
The temperature is 25.1C and water parameters are as follows: PH7.0 Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates are around 5 to 10.
Decorations are some Mopani wood, A very large resin castle and a resin tree root. I also have a printed aquarium background poster.
......................................................
December winner: Aussie_Bristle
THE FAIRY GARDEN
TANK & SETUP
103L x 46W x 62H, 263.8L/77.6G(US)
Filters are AquaOne Nautilus 2700UVC & an AquaOne Maxi 102F internal filter that runs the air filter. The lighting includes a 10.0 UVB fluorescent light and a PetWorx 36W blue/clear LED light. Heater is a 200W AquaOne that sits around 24 - 26 degrees.
FISH:
9 x Swordtails
8 x Goldfish
3 x Empire Gudgeons
11 x Corys ( 3 x bronze, 5 x albino, 3 x pepper)
2 x Chinese algae eaters
1 x Siamese flying fox
2 x Bristlenose (1 x albino and 1 x peppermint)
7 x Rosy barbs
They eat a range of everything. Pisces tropical flakes, Tetra freezer dried bloodworms, sinking algae waffles and frozen bloodworms. I also add a variety of fruits and veggies 2 times a week eg. Rockmelon, cucumber and zucchini.The goldfish and the algae eaters go crazy for it.
PLANTS AND SUBSTRATE
There is a range of Val, Elodea, ambulia (sticks now) & Hornwort (also sticks from the goldfish eating the leaves) that bed in a flooring of Riversand. Ihave Calgrit mixed in the riversand to help with the PH level and also calcium. No fertiliser is used.
PARAMETERS
PH: sits around 7.0 - 7.5
Ammonia. 0.0
Nitrate: 20-40ppm
Nitrite: 0.0
GH: 180ppm
KH: 40ppm
I do a water change every 1-2 weeks and condition with Seachem prime every water change or when needed. Cleaning is done every few days via net and a non scratch sponge. I also run my fingers through the substrate to help filter the debris. I also test the water with an API test kit.
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