Chris Tinker
Member
hello all, names chris, i live and work in Leeds, got a wife (the boss, you will see why) 2 kids 3 and 4months.
i use to have a 60litre tank that after 6 months got upgraded to a 210 litre oak tank from maidenhead
sold my house and tank etc, as i planned to build a 800litre wall divider, after 3 years we decided to move again (for the above mentioned kids) so it never got built.... boooo
new house and all funds are going in to this, still no kitchen or floors etc due to extension etc...
so as you can imagine tank funds are, well not allowed... got my daughter a little tank for growing tropods... yea that was boring too small to see much... que a friend gifting me an unused 60ltr biorb
now i bought some sponge, new air stone, cranked this bad boy up, and o it was bad, 3 days later the wife moaned about the noise (she was right but i wanted the tank so i was happy to ignore it)
so i turned it off, but i have got the bug! im on it again...
saturday i will be buying a second hand 300ltr tank for £250.00
and since im back on it im starting to think... which fish.
budget is so so so tight!
i still need as far as i am aware,
substrate
bog wood or stones
some plants (very basic but to provide colour and contrast)
and which fish to have....
this time i really want to focus on, this is my water, so i should have these fish...
so can you a) reccomend a site to input water parameters
b) if you know which fish will suit reccomend.
i use to have a community and over the years kept angel fish, blue rams, rummy nose, several tetras, loaches, chinese hill stream, shrimps
i am open to ideas ...
just done some readings
GH - General hardness 60
KH - carbonate hardness 40-60 measured twice and its in between
PH- 7.0
nitrite and nitrate zero as i would hope.
yorkshire water says....
i use to have a 60litre tank that after 6 months got upgraded to a 210 litre oak tank from maidenhead
sold my house and tank etc, as i planned to build a 800litre wall divider, after 3 years we decided to move again (for the above mentioned kids) so it never got built.... boooo
new house and all funds are going in to this, still no kitchen or floors etc due to extension etc...
so as you can imagine tank funds are, well not allowed... got my daughter a little tank for growing tropods... yea that was boring too small to see much... que a friend gifting me an unused 60ltr biorb
now i bought some sponge, new air stone, cranked this bad boy up, and o it was bad, 3 days later the wife moaned about the noise (she was right but i wanted the tank so i was happy to ignore it)
so i turned it off, but i have got the bug! im on it again...
saturday i will be buying a second hand 300ltr tank for £250.00
and since im back on it im starting to think... which fish.
budget is so so so tight!
i still need as far as i am aware,
substrate
bog wood or stones
some plants (very basic but to provide colour and contrast)
and which fish to have....
this time i really want to focus on, this is my water, so i should have these fish...
so can you a) reccomend a site to input water parameters
b) if you know which fish will suit reccomend.
i use to have a community and over the years kept angel fish, blue rams, rummy nose, several tetras, loaches, chinese hill stream, shrimps
i am open to ideas ...
just done some readings
GH - General hardness 60
KH - carbonate hardness 40-60 measured twice and its in between
PH- 7.0
nitrite and nitrate zero as i would hope.
yorkshire water says....