Looks awesome Alastair, and I agree with BigTom, love the modern, shiny look, and especially the contrast with the tannin-rich, natural looking layout of the tank itself. It really looks like as if someone took a piece of nature, and it is being displayed as a memory of times gone past; would not look out of place in the Starship Enterprise, Captain's Ready Room; much better looking than the reef tank Picard had.
Thanks for the kind comments. I always always wanted one of the profiles, and it's a shame they stopped producing them. The only downside to them is that they have side opening doors which means fitting in an alcove could be tricky. Beautiful tanks though. Really well built too.
That was my exact aim, to make it look like I've literally taken the water rocks leaves sand bed etc from their habitat and popped it into my tank.
I kind of did take everything from nature, just not borneo ha.
P's I loved picards tank
Good to hear your move went well - by your description of your local area , doesn't sound like Denton though !!
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Hiya Richard
Yep sure isn't Denton. I'd be lucky to find a leaf for a tank. Here I have unlimited access to hundreds of alder cones, beech leaves oak leaves wood etc.
looking good mate.. any updates?
Great idea with the wood on the wall to add depth too
Cheers bud,
Update yes: the wood grew a not so nice looking fungus on as I'd intentionally left the bark on most of it, and despite numerous soaks, hot water etc it appeared and looked unsightly.
That took a while to go, and I also struggled massively with the cycle. It would start to show nitrite and the day after the cycle would crash.
Soooooo..... I reverted to drastic measures. I wasn't buying pure ammonia to dose daily, I used the next best thing, good old pee in a jug. Worked wonders
The tank is now fully cycled and ready for all my lovely choccos and paros to finally come back home.
The advantage of the massive delay due to it not cycling, has meant that there is now heaps and heaps of live food appeared in the tank overtime so I'm going to have some well fed fish.
Just goes to show though, or rather makes you wonder exactly what's in our tap water.
I've also had some luck, the most that was on the wood when I collected it outdoors, hadn't died once underwater. It's become darker and much shorter and spreading slowly but very healthily across the wood and I've no idea what it is