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275L Chaotic Balance. South American Community

WaterCulture

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Location
Liverpool, England
Hi all hope you are well.

Id just like to share my Aquaone275, (63cm Cube) Its been set up for about 5 months now, October 2020

Its set up as a South American community (Not including the SAE)

Fish -
8 Sub-Adult Angelfish
14 Cardinal tetra
5 Black widow tetra
3 Diamond Tetra
4 Orange flash Apistogramma (1male/3female)
2 Bristlenose Pleco (m/f)
1 SAE
4 Peppered Corydoras
6 Ottocinclus
Infinite number of Malaysian trumpet snails

I would list the plants, but honestly there was no real planning to this scape, its a combination of assortments of plants ive pulled from other scapes and sort of just placed into this tank as it was supposed to be a short term thing until i got the supplies together for an actual planned scape, However life took a bit of a detour, but i quite like how its turned out anyway, sort of a pseudo dutch/nature style hybrid

Lights -
2 Nicrew 24/7 LEDs
3 30W LED Floodlights (8 hour photoperiod)
Filter -
50L Sump system filled with various sponges, K2, Alfagrog and some bogwood im currently waterlogging
2000L generic Pond Pump as the return
Co2-
5Kg Fire extinguisher
Co2art Dual stage regulator
JBL Inline diffuser (comes on 2h before photoperiod, and shuts off 1h before end of photoperiod)
Generic drop checker
Ferts-
Aquariumplantfood EI mix, alternating micro and macro daily
Substrate-
Alfagrog base layer
Tropica substrate
Tropica aquasoil
some cheap china made generic aquasoil i had laying round
Topped with 2-4mm crushed lava rock
Hardscape -
30Kg Black Lava Rock
Water -
50% Water change every thursday
Tap water treated with Seachem Safe (Liverpool water is pretty soft, so fortunately i dont need an RO/DI system)

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Thanks everyone.
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Amazing. As the water is so soft, do you add anything to harden?
My manchester water is so soft it just melts shrimps and snails, and many plants.
 
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