flatfish55
Seedling
- Joined
- 25 Oct 2012
- Messages
- 18
Hello everyone.
Like a few other people on here this is not my first experience with aquariums but,it is
my first attempt at a planted one so here goes.
The tank is a braced one made by clearseal and my plan is to be very loosely based
on a South American theme ie most of the fish will be South American but probably only
about half of the plants will be.
The substrate is river sand with Osmocote granules underneath and there are about 9
pieces of bogwood.I`m using an Eheim classic 600 filter, two 200w heaters and the lighting
is twin 38watt t8s with reflectors. So that the change from dark to light and visa versa is not
too sudden I have fitted an LED strip from Ikea which is 1.8 watts and comes on 1 hour before
and 1 hour after the main lights.
The plants I have so far are Anubias barteri `nana`
4 types of Echinodorus
Hygrophila angustifolia
Microsorum phillipine
microsorum needle leaf
Rotala rotundifolia
Sagittaria subulata
Staurogyne ?
and a small grid of Fissidens fontanus.
The fish I would like are 3 small shoals of tetras,a small shoal of Corydorus Sterbai
a pair of Rams, a pair of Apistogrammas,a pair of honey Gouramis and possibly a couple of Angels.
I had forgotten how exciting it is setting up a tank,hopefully there wont be too many mistakes
made but I know that on this forum there are many knowledgable folks who can help me if needed.
I am going to try putting some pictures on here but I am a complete noob so it might take a while.
Anyway I`m sure you`re getting bored now so thanks for reading.
Mark.
ps I`ve tried to post pictures but failed
Like a few other people on here this is not my first experience with aquariums but,it is
my first attempt at a planted one so here goes.
The tank is a braced one made by clearseal and my plan is to be very loosely based
on a South American theme ie most of the fish will be South American but probably only
about half of the plants will be.
The substrate is river sand with Osmocote granules underneath and there are about 9
pieces of bogwood.I`m using an Eheim classic 600 filter, two 200w heaters and the lighting
is twin 38watt t8s with reflectors. So that the change from dark to light and visa versa is not
too sudden I have fitted an LED strip from Ikea which is 1.8 watts and comes on 1 hour before
and 1 hour after the main lights.
The plants I have so far are Anubias barteri `nana`
4 types of Echinodorus
Hygrophila angustifolia
Microsorum phillipine
microsorum needle leaf
Rotala rotundifolia
Sagittaria subulata
Staurogyne ?
and a small grid of Fissidens fontanus.
The fish I would like are 3 small shoals of tetras,a small shoal of Corydorus Sterbai
a pair of Rams, a pair of Apistogrammas,a pair of honey Gouramis and possibly a couple of Angels.
I had forgotten how exciting it is setting up a tank,hopefully there wont be too many mistakes
made but I know that on this forum there are many knowledgable folks who can help me if needed.
I am going to try putting some pictures on here but I am a complete noob so it might take a while.
Anyway I`m sure you`re getting bored now so thanks for reading.
Mark.
ps I`ve tried to post pictures but failed