Very much a work in progress

[Rasbora]

Just leak testing at the moment.

Now, what shall I do with 'em?

 

[Robbie X]

Nice little tank rack, how big are the tanks & what sort of filtration, lighting etc are you running?
Love the wood in the top right tank, great alien looking shape

 

[Rasbora]

Tanks are 60x42x42 cm, each with a GroBeam 600. Filtration ... not sure about that yet. Looking for a nice piece of Redmoor for the top left.

 

[Martin in Holland]

tank 1; Iwagumi
tank 2; Jungle
tank 3; Dutch
tank 4; Cichlid

I think you got most bases covered than

But for real....you could make different habitat tanks ( Amazon, Asia...) and still have tanks to scape with stones and/or wood

 

[Rasbora]

I like your thinking Martin. I'm loosely planning on (clockwise from top left):
1. South America.
2. Asia.
3. Africa.
4. East Midlands

Filtration suggestions welcome. Needs to be easy to maintain and I'm not going for 4 separate externals.

 

[Edvet]

hamburger matten filter and a small pump, use the whole back wall for it and you can stuff the heater behind it.
If i had that set up i would do:
1) apistogramma sp.
2) betta/parosphremus sp.
3) kili sp.
4)nannostomus spp

 

[Martin in Holland]

if you have room enough behind your tanks you could use hang-on filters

 

[Tim Harrison]

Looking forward to seeing the East Midland biotope...it's where I'm from, so I'll be keeping a critical eye on this venture

 

[Rasbora]

Progress is steady but slow. Still fiddling around with heaters and filters. Cycling and resisting the urge to start stocking
Plants next week - don't get too excited, it's going to be low tech and fairly simple.

 

[Rasbora]

A little progress today, got some plants in!

Clockwise from top left:

1: Ongoing

2:
Christmas moss, Vesicularia montagnei
Cryptocoryne beckettii
Cryptocoryne undulatus
Hygrophila corymbosa

3:
Bolbitus heudelotii
Moss balls, Cladophora aegagropila
Spiky moss, Taxiphyllum sp.

4:
Anubias barteri
Ceratophyllum demersum
Egeria densa
Eleocharis parvula
Java moss, Taxiphyllum barbieri

 

[Jaap]

Tanks are 60x42x42 cm, each with a GroBeam 600. Filtration ... not sure about that yet. Looking for a nice piece of Redmoor for the top left.

What intensity do you have the GroBeam 600 at? Also at what distance from the substrate?

 

[Rasbora]

Full intensity, about 50cm from substrate, cover glasses which are kept clean but diffuse light though condensation.
This is definitely a low light setup. Other than floaters, growth is very slow, but there is very little algae too so it's very low maintenance, which is what I want.

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

Full intensity, about 50cm from substrate, cover glasses which are kept clean but diffuse light though condensation.
This is definitely a low light setup. Other than floaters, growth is very slow, but there is very little algae too so it's very low maintenance, which is what I want.

Well let's see some pictures then!

 

[Rasbora]

Well let's see some pictures then!

Fair point!

Top left has a small school of Corydoras pygmaeus breeding happily, top right has galaxy rasboras breeding away.
Bottom left just has a few Ammano shrimp in it for now, bottom right has an ever growing shoal of white cloud minnows.
I'm planning on stocking more fish next month.

I also added a couple of small tanks for growing on, shrimp, etc on the top of the rack:

Only some baby galaxy rasboras in there at present.