oddn0ise
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Here's my previous tank before work commenced:
Tropical fish/plant layout June11 by oddnoise, on Flickr#
I’ve been keeping tropical fish for about 15 years now and over the last seven years I have focused on creating planted layouts but with a fair share of non plant friendly exotic fish. In 2005 I made the top 300 in the ADA Planted Tank Competition but ever since have lost ground and I'm now ranked well outside the top 1,100.
My Eheim Pro 2 filter had developed a leak and it was time for a change - on August 24th 2012, I decided to gut my 270 litre tank.
After a visit to ADC in Central London, I came away with a wide array of ideas and made the decision to finally bin my 10 year old Pea Gravel , all 60 kilos of it, and start again from scratch.
I’ve made some mistakes and learnt many things along the way so hopefully this Journal will help others make the right moves.
The cost of the upgrade has been close to £1,500, I wanted a quality set-up and one that wouldn’t require daily attention so I’m sure things could have been done on a cheaper budget but I feel I have a safe, up-to-date, and easy to maintain set-up now.
Next year will see a move to a new Optiwhite tank but this is the last major upheaval to my 10 year old 270L tank that's built into a fireplace.
I'll update pictures along the way and start with a simple set-up list followed by a more detailed walk-through.
Here goes:
270 Litre tank with black background
Sera External Filter UV400 running Siporax, Eheim Lav, and Sera Peat
Lighting 2 x TMC Aqua Grow 1000 units contolled by TMC 8-channel controller
Carbo Plus carbon block soon to be replaced with JBL CO2 602 unit
Sera Heating cable
ADA Aqua Power Soil base with Amazonia on top
Tree roots held in place for the near future with rocks
Plants are temporary until tank is fully matured, layout still to be decided upon
London Tap water mixed with Nutrafin Aqua Plus and initially run through Sera Peat
ADA and EasyLife fertilisers
And some videos are here too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/oddn0ise
Tropical fish/plant layout June11 by oddnoise, on Flickr#
I’ve been keeping tropical fish for about 15 years now and over the last seven years I have focused on creating planted layouts but with a fair share of non plant friendly exotic fish. In 2005 I made the top 300 in the ADA Planted Tank Competition but ever since have lost ground and I'm now ranked well outside the top 1,100.
My Eheim Pro 2 filter had developed a leak and it was time for a change - on August 24th 2012, I decided to gut my 270 litre tank.
After a visit to ADC in Central London, I came away with a wide array of ideas and made the decision to finally bin my 10 year old Pea Gravel , all 60 kilos of it, and start again from scratch.
I’ve made some mistakes and learnt many things along the way so hopefully this Journal will help others make the right moves.
The cost of the upgrade has been close to £1,500, I wanted a quality set-up and one that wouldn’t require daily attention so I’m sure things could have been done on a cheaper budget but I feel I have a safe, up-to-date, and easy to maintain set-up now.
Next year will see a move to a new Optiwhite tank but this is the last major upheaval to my 10 year old 270L tank that's built into a fireplace.
I'll update pictures along the way and start with a simple set-up list followed by a more detailed walk-through.
Here goes:
270 Litre tank with black background
Sera External Filter UV400 running Siporax, Eheim Lav, and Sera Peat
Lighting 2 x TMC Aqua Grow 1000 units contolled by TMC 8-channel controller
Carbo Plus carbon block soon to be replaced with JBL CO2 602 unit
Sera Heating cable
ADA Aqua Power Soil base with Amazonia on top
Tree roots held in place for the near future with rocks
Plants are temporary until tank is fully matured, layout still to be decided upon
London Tap water mixed with Nutrafin Aqua Plus and initially run through Sera Peat
ADA and EasyLife fertilisers
And some videos are here too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/oddn0ise