Jake101
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After we moved to a small apartment I got a subtle hint that the large aquarium was not suitable to our current interior design. I had to admit that I wasn't happy with the outcome of the previous tank, so I didn't mind at all to start this new one.
LFS was selling a nice 84 litres Opti-White tank, but the cabinet became a huge issue. The only design style cabinet I found in Sweden was ADA's cabinet with a ridiculous price tag (about 1000 euros), so no thank you. I had a contact with several stores abroad, but no luck sending it to Sweden. One store tried, but the first cabinet was lost by a delivery service and other damaged during the transportation, so they gave up. In the end I found one from Hungary and everything went smoothly.
Specs:
84 litres rimless Opti-White tank, 60 x 40 x 35
JBL CristalProfi e701 and Eheim surface skimmer
2 x TMC AquaRay Mini 400 led tiles
Seachem Flourite Black Sand
No CO2
Low-tech EI ferts
Seachem Flourish Tabs
Plants, otherwise from the previous tank except microsorum:
Microsorum pteropus
Cryptocoryne moehlmannii
Cryptocoryne walkerii
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Sagittaria subulata
Hygrophila corymbosa
Hygrophila polysperma
At the moment there are few Amano Shrimps, but the main livestock will be pygmy corydoras and ember tetras.
Rinsing Seachem Fluorite sand was a pain in the butt until I figured out a decent method. I filled one-third of the bucket with Fluorite and let the water run in the bucket for some minutes. I tilted the bucket a bit so that the flow on the surface was a directed. At first the sand produced a lot of foam, but when the water turned from brown to greyish the rinsing was apparently done enough.
The picture was taken about 12 hours after adding the sand and planting.
LFS was selling a nice 84 litres Opti-White tank, but the cabinet became a huge issue. The only design style cabinet I found in Sweden was ADA's cabinet with a ridiculous price tag (about 1000 euros), so no thank you. I had a contact with several stores abroad, but no luck sending it to Sweden. One store tried, but the first cabinet was lost by a delivery service and other damaged during the transportation, so they gave up. In the end I found one from Hungary and everything went smoothly.
Specs:
84 litres rimless Opti-White tank, 60 x 40 x 35
JBL CristalProfi e701 and Eheim surface skimmer
2 x TMC AquaRay Mini 400 led tiles
Seachem Flourite Black Sand
No CO2
Low-tech EI ferts
Seachem Flourish Tabs
Plants, otherwise from the previous tank except microsorum:
Microsorum pteropus
Cryptocoryne moehlmannii
Cryptocoryne walkerii
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Sagittaria subulata
Hygrophila corymbosa
Hygrophila polysperma
At the moment there are few Amano Shrimps, but the main livestock will be pygmy corydoras and ember tetras.
Rinsing Seachem Fluorite sand was a pain in the butt until I figured out a decent method. I filled one-third of the bucket with Fluorite and let the water run in the bucket for some minutes. I tilted the bucket a bit so that the flow on the surface was a directed. At first the sand produced a lot of foam, but when the water turned from brown to greyish the rinsing was apparently done enough.
The picture was taken about 12 hours after adding the sand and planting.
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