Richard40
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So almost two weeks ago my Aqua One Nano 80 burst at the seal and as a result 130 litres of water, soil, fish, shrimp evacuated the tank onto my laminate dining room floor. Everyone’s aquarium nightmare 😐😢
Yes it happened to me. So, rather than dwell on it and stress about it I went about bringing forward purchasing an EA Aquascaper 900 which I was going to buy after my wedding next summer. After a 7 hour clean up, I convinced the missus and 3 days later I had one sat in my back room. Pic attached.
I ordered all my hardscape and plants from Aquarium Gardens and yesterday for the whole day went about planning, laying and planting.
So the details
The Tank
EA Aquascaper 900 with black gloss cabinet
Filter & Heater
Oase Biomaster Thermo 600
Pre filter
Changed the pre filter sponges to coarse sponges. Drilled more holes in the plastic pipe to allow more flow.
A medium blue sponge is at the bottom of the canister.
Media is Biohome Ultimate which has two trays above the medium sponge. The second to last tray with a bag of Seachem Purigen 100ml. The top tray is a fine filter sponge which I changed as the current one is the orange coarse sponge (Why this is I don't know).
Heater is the Biomaster heater 300 watts. Currently running at 22 degrees.
Filter output
EA Aquascaper lily pipes 16/22
Twinstar nano sterliser to help prevent algae growth
Light
Twinstar 900S running for 6 hours for the first two weeks and 8 hours after.
Currently at 50% intensity and ramping up every 5 days once moving to 8 hours a day.
Using the Twinstar dimmer I'm ramping up half an hour each side of it turning on or off.
L000 15.45
L050 16.15
L050 10.15
L000 10.45
CO2
CO2 art regulator with solenoid and bubble counter. CO2 art inline diffuser.
2kg fire extinguisher
Hanna PH probe to test the PH from CO2 on to lights off.
Water & water changes
Tap water which is soft.
Use a hose pipe to drain the tank to 25%. Once at 25% removed, I use an Oase 1000 pump which pumps water from a bucket in my kitchen sink (primed) straight back into the tank to do large water changes.
Currently changing 70% of the tanks water daily which I will do for a week.
Substrate
Used Tropica soil from my Aqua One. I sieved this and washed out any roots or dirty water before adding. I also topped with 9 more litres of fresh soil on top.
ADA La Plata sand
Fertiliser
Will be using EI salts from www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk and overdosing slightly when I start tomorrow.
Plants
Microsorum trident on wood
Anubias Petite
Anubias Pangalino
Bucephalandra Red and wavy Green
Cryptocoryne Balansae
Crytocoryne Lucens
Crytocoryne Willissii
Crytocoryne Wendtii Tropica
Monte Carlo
Rotala sp. green
Limnophila Hippuiroides
Mini Christmas moss
Clean up crew
I will be putting 15 amano shrimp and 20 red crystal shrimp in the tank to start with
20 clithon corona snails
6 ottocinclus
Hardscape
Dark seiryu stone
River wood
Dennerle Plantahunter natural Rio Xingu gravel
That's it, so I'll try and keep this updated. Had an issue straight away when performing a large water change with the wood falling and thus releasing a soil leach from the old soil making the water cloudy. I also needed to plug the gaps at the front with some more rock as the soil was escaping onto the sand. It's still not perfect on the pictures, it will just need siphoning out and fresh sand laying.
Yes it happened to me. So, rather than dwell on it and stress about it I went about bringing forward purchasing an EA Aquascaper 900 which I was going to buy after my wedding next summer. After a 7 hour clean up, I convinced the missus and 3 days later I had one sat in my back room. Pic attached.
I ordered all my hardscape and plants from Aquarium Gardens and yesterday for the whole day went about planning, laying and planting.
So the details
The Tank
EA Aquascaper 900 with black gloss cabinet
Filter & Heater
Oase Biomaster Thermo 600
Pre filter
Changed the pre filter sponges to coarse sponges. Drilled more holes in the plastic pipe to allow more flow.
A medium blue sponge is at the bottom of the canister.
Media is Biohome Ultimate which has two trays above the medium sponge. The second to last tray with a bag of Seachem Purigen 100ml. The top tray is a fine filter sponge which I changed as the current one is the orange coarse sponge (Why this is I don't know).
Heater is the Biomaster heater 300 watts. Currently running at 22 degrees.
Filter output
EA Aquascaper lily pipes 16/22
Twinstar nano sterliser to help prevent algae growth
Light
Twinstar 900S running for 6 hours for the first two weeks and 8 hours after.
Currently at 50% intensity and ramping up every 5 days once moving to 8 hours a day.
Using the Twinstar dimmer I'm ramping up half an hour each side of it turning on or off.
L000 15.45
L050 16.15
L050 10.15
L000 10.45
CO2
CO2 art regulator with solenoid and bubble counter. CO2 art inline diffuser.
2kg fire extinguisher
Hanna PH probe to test the PH from CO2 on to lights off.
Water & water changes
Tap water which is soft.
Use a hose pipe to drain the tank to 25%. Once at 25% removed, I use an Oase 1000 pump which pumps water from a bucket in my kitchen sink (primed) straight back into the tank to do large water changes.
Currently changing 70% of the tanks water daily which I will do for a week.
Substrate
Used Tropica soil from my Aqua One. I sieved this and washed out any roots or dirty water before adding. I also topped with 9 more litres of fresh soil on top.
ADA La Plata sand
Fertiliser
Will be using EI salts from www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk and overdosing slightly when I start tomorrow.
Plants
Microsorum trident on wood
Anubias Petite
Anubias Pangalino
Bucephalandra Red and wavy Green
Cryptocoryne Balansae
Crytocoryne Lucens
Crytocoryne Willissii
Crytocoryne Wendtii Tropica
Monte Carlo
Rotala sp. green
Limnophila Hippuiroides
Mini Christmas moss
Clean up crew
I will be putting 15 amano shrimp and 20 red crystal shrimp in the tank to start with
20 clithon corona snails
6 ottocinclus
Hardscape
Dark seiryu stone
River wood
Dennerle Plantahunter natural Rio Xingu gravel
That's it, so I'll try and keep this updated. Had an issue straight away when performing a large water change with the wood falling and thus releasing a soil leach from the old soil making the water cloudy. I also needed to plug the gaps at the front with some more rock as the soil was escaping onto the sand. It's still not perfect on the pictures, it will just need siphoning out and fresh sand laying.