Ben M
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Hi, I thought I would start a journal for my 40l nano tank. It is a Superfish Aquacube 40, with the standard 18W lamp and 100lph filter. I am dosing EI ferts and liquid carbon and doing a 50% water change weekly. The current stocking is a pair of lemon BNs and 2 or 3 small fry, approx 10 adult endlers and many fry, and some cherry shrimp. I hope to breed a lot of cherry shrimp, as there are only about 25 ish in ATM, and I'd like to have the tank full of them. This will probably mean thinning out the endler fry once they are big enough to move on.
The plants are Java fern, needle leaf Java fern, crypts and Anubias. I have bought some Pellia and a bit of moss that should be arriving in the post in a day or 2. The decor is what I previously had in the tank when I used it as a grow on tank for malawi cichlid fry, so it is ocean rock and coral sand. Today I added some small oak branches and some oak and beech leaves, which the shrimp and BN fry seem to be enjoying.
Here is a photo of the tank as it looks now:
I'm hoping to get the tank looking a lot better than it does now. I think that the crypts are too tall, and the normal java fern is also going to grow too large, so I think once the pellia and moss are growing I might try a different plant for the foreground. Do you have any ideas of what would be suitable in the coral sand and with the ferts I'm dosing?
Cheers,
Ben
The plants are Java fern, needle leaf Java fern, crypts and Anubias. I have bought some Pellia and a bit of moss that should be arriving in the post in a day or 2. The decor is what I previously had in the tank when I used it as a grow on tank for malawi cichlid fry, so it is ocean rock and coral sand. Today I added some small oak branches and some oak and beech leaves, which the shrimp and BN fry seem to be enjoying.
Here is a photo of the tank as it looks now:
I'm hoping to get the tank looking a lot better than it does now. I think that the crypts are too tall, and the normal java fern is also going to grow too large, so I think once the pellia and moss are growing I might try a different plant for the foreground. Do you have any ideas of what would be suitable in the coral sand and with the ferts I'm dosing?
Cheers,
Ben