Hi all
This is my first journal on here and im currently cleaning the gravel out of my rio 125 tonight in prep for putting in some ADA amazonia I picked up from TGM on Friday. Im stuck on whether to do an Iwagumi with some schist rock I have or do a combined rock/redmoore as I also picked up a nice piece of this wood the other week from TGM which ive had soaking. I definitely want a carpet of HC though so have been giving the forum a thorough read!
This is the tank as it was before i let it fell apart. It looked quite messy compared to some of the posting here!
Im also not sure what to do with the back as I have a juwel black bumpy background siliconed in but they seem quite out of favour these days so i would welcome some comments when I post up some test layouts tomorrow
Equipment at the moment is;
Sera fil external 900 filter (juwel filter was remvoed at purchase time)
Sera internal co2 reactor (may be changing this for a rhinox 2000 or similar once funds allow)
Aquamagic drop checker (in the post)
Rio 125 with 18l of ADA Amazonia
2kg c02 FE with sera valve
Juwel 100w heater
3 * 18w T8 sera tubes (not sure if this will be enough for the HC?)
Im undecided what to do with the lighting at the moment as I find the inbuilt juwel lights a pain. Ive got an Arcadia luminaire 60cm 2*24W T5 from my other tank with a T5 compact (18w i think?) bolted onto it. Im not sure whether to shift this onto the rio but obviously the 60cm wont fit on the 80cm Rio. Any ideas on this?
Ideally i'd like to buy an 80cm 4*24W but cant afford it at the mo as the next pay packet will be going towards ferts and plants.
Lots of things have changed since I was last doing this through Allisons Aquarium (which sadly closed due to emigration). The Sera PH controller is going on ebay, the pump is being set to full flow and the ferts will be TPN+ for now (not sure if I can combine it with Sera florena which Ive got loads of?)
Any pointers on the above would be great, thanks
EDIT: tank after 5 months
This is my first journal on here and im currently cleaning the gravel out of my rio 125 tonight in prep for putting in some ADA amazonia I picked up from TGM on Friday. Im stuck on whether to do an Iwagumi with some schist rock I have or do a combined rock/redmoore as I also picked up a nice piece of this wood the other week from TGM which ive had soaking. I definitely want a carpet of HC though so have been giving the forum a thorough read!
This is the tank as it was before i let it fell apart. It looked quite messy compared to some of the posting here!
Im also not sure what to do with the back as I have a juwel black bumpy background siliconed in but they seem quite out of favour these days so i would welcome some comments when I post up some test layouts tomorrow
Equipment at the moment is;
Sera fil external 900 filter (juwel filter was remvoed at purchase time)
Sera internal co2 reactor (may be changing this for a rhinox 2000 or similar once funds allow)
Aquamagic drop checker (in the post)
Rio 125 with 18l of ADA Amazonia
2kg c02 FE with sera valve
Juwel 100w heater
3 * 18w T8 sera tubes (not sure if this will be enough for the HC?)
Im undecided what to do with the lighting at the moment as I find the inbuilt juwel lights a pain. Ive got an Arcadia luminaire 60cm 2*24W T5 from my other tank with a T5 compact (18w i think?) bolted onto it. Im not sure whether to shift this onto the rio but obviously the 60cm wont fit on the 80cm Rio. Any ideas on this?
Ideally i'd like to buy an 80cm 4*24W but cant afford it at the mo as the next pay packet will be going towards ferts and plants.
Lots of things have changed since I was last doing this through Allisons Aquarium (which sadly closed due to emigration). The Sera PH controller is going on ebay, the pump is being set to full flow and the ferts will be TPN+ for now (not sure if I can combine it with Sera florena which Ive got loads of?)
Any pointers on the above would be great, thanks
EDIT: tank after 5 months