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Cheers for all the information I have gotten quietly from this site.
This August I moved from a aqua one 320 to a 110l tank.
Brand new on eBay for £50. (Pick up only)
Came with two fake rock arches.
I bought a eheim 2213 loaded it with ehiem mech and substrate pro.
Ran it for two weeks prior on the previous tank to load it with bacteria.
I decided to use soil with a gravel cap. And sand for a channel between the plants.
Soil is a hydroponic organic mixture. Washed and mixed with 45% tesco kitty litter.
The two fake rock arches I mounted together with a black PVC elbow making a tunnel. Then soiled that up and planted as much cuba carpet plant as I could afford. I also connected a pipe decor item on top in the middle of the PVC elbow giving one more angle for my loaches to hide.
It has been heavily planted and currently going through a cloudy algae period.
I have been told this will pass. Hair algae has shown up for the first time, so I went out and purchased three small Siamese algae eaters. They seem happy eating the algae.
The fish I migrated from the previous tank are as follows:
Mint the Paradise fish
Twin the Tiger barb
Horse the Zebra danio
Mr spotty fish the Pokadot loach
Sick the Golden algae eater
Mr stripy slippery the Black banded leporinus.
(All named by my 4 year old daughter)
Today I added:
3 tiger barbs
4 zebra danios
1 pokadot loach
3 Siamese algae eaters
And 3 amano shrimp (even though I know that they might be loach food, I figured that maybe they will not appeal to my loaches who are quite reclusive.
(None of these have been named as of yet)
So I am waiting on a water test kit to get some idea what is going on chemically.
And toying with the possibility of a co2 inline reactor. I have a little brother that works for NASA. One of his jobs is figuring out a way to remove CO2 from the space environment. He owes me a favour, so hopefully in a month or two he will be giving me a wicked bit of kit to try out on the tank. (Fingers crossed)
But here is a photo...(ignore the cucumber)
Just waiting to see some growth and hopefully no deaths...
Cheers
R
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Cheers for all the information I have gotten quietly from this site.
This August I moved from a aqua one 320 to a 110l tank.
Brand new on eBay for £50. (Pick up only)
Came with two fake rock arches.
I bought a eheim 2213 loaded it with ehiem mech and substrate pro.
Ran it for two weeks prior on the previous tank to load it with bacteria.
I decided to use soil with a gravel cap. And sand for a channel between the plants.
Soil is a hydroponic organic mixture. Washed and mixed with 45% tesco kitty litter.
The two fake rock arches I mounted together with a black PVC elbow making a tunnel. Then soiled that up and planted as much cuba carpet plant as I could afford. I also connected a pipe decor item on top in the middle of the PVC elbow giving one more angle for my loaches to hide.
It has been heavily planted and currently going through a cloudy algae period.
I have been told this will pass. Hair algae has shown up for the first time, so I went out and purchased three small Siamese algae eaters. They seem happy eating the algae.
The fish I migrated from the previous tank are as follows:
Mint the Paradise fish
Twin the Tiger barb
Horse the Zebra danio
Mr spotty fish the Pokadot loach
Sick the Golden algae eater
Mr stripy slippery the Black banded leporinus.
(All named by my 4 year old daughter)
Today I added:
3 tiger barbs
4 zebra danios
1 pokadot loach
3 Siamese algae eaters
And 3 amano shrimp (even though I know that they might be loach food, I figured that maybe they will not appeal to my loaches who are quite reclusive.
(None of these have been named as of yet)
So I am waiting on a water test kit to get some idea what is going on chemically.
And toying with the possibility of a co2 inline reactor. I have a little brother that works for NASA. One of his jobs is figuring out a way to remove CO2 from the space environment. He owes me a favour, so hopefully in a month or two he will be giving me a wicked bit of kit to try out on the tank. (Fingers crossed)
But here is a photo...(ignore the cucumber)
Just waiting to see some growth and hopefully no deaths...
Cheers
R
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD