nry
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Hey again all, after a huge break of 5 or 6 years, my life now has space again for another aquarium
Pretty much stemming from babysitting a neighbours goldfish in a 'lacking' plastic tank and the kids have loved it, I'll likely be going for a low-tech 80cm tank next week to set up with the kids over the summer holidays.
At the moment it's looking likely to be a Juwel Primo 110 LED - I've looked at loads and my old Juwel Rekord 54L was a good buy and as much as I prefer external filters, the Juwel internals I feel are some of the better ones for filter volume.
I'm planning to stick with the inbuilt lighting, probably put some substrate down beneath some sand and stick to lower light planting, but I will be dosing light levels of fertilisers, not sure on Excel but I don't want this one to become CO2 or EI based, the workload to maintain that isn't what I'm after, just something that looks good, the kids enjoy and is easy to look after.
It's going in the kitchen well out of direct sunlight which was always an issue with my last tank - we've moved house since so in the future, there is plenty of space for a super massive aquarium in the living room once we start to furnish it, somewhere around 5-5.5 feet in width..,.for now, a smaller 80cm which is still nicely bigger than my old 60cm!
I'll start a new setup thread once it all gets going
Pretty much stemming from babysitting a neighbours goldfish in a 'lacking' plastic tank and the kids have loved it, I'll likely be going for a low-tech 80cm tank next week to set up with the kids over the summer holidays.
At the moment it's looking likely to be a Juwel Primo 110 LED - I've looked at loads and my old Juwel Rekord 54L was a good buy and as much as I prefer external filters, the Juwel internals I feel are some of the better ones for filter volume.
I'm planning to stick with the inbuilt lighting, probably put some substrate down beneath some sand and stick to lower light planting, but I will be dosing light levels of fertilisers, not sure on Excel but I don't want this one to become CO2 or EI based, the workload to maintain that isn't what I'm after, just something that looks good, the kids enjoy and is easy to look after.
It's going in the kitchen well out of direct sunlight which was always an issue with my last tank - we've moved house since so in the future, there is plenty of space for a super massive aquarium in the living room once we start to furnish it, somewhere around 5-5.5 feet in width..,.for now, a smaller 80cm which is still nicely bigger than my old 60cm!
I'll start a new setup thread once it all gets going