bigmatt
Member
Hello all,
With the birth of daughter no.2, and after some hard thinking i decided to get rid of my big (215l) tank. I'd never really got it like i wanted and because of the dimensions of the tank i would have had to spend an unrealistic amount of cash to get it anything like. So, in it's place i now have three nanos! Big Whoop!
(sorry for the dubious quality of the pics - had to do them on my phone as having camera issues)
Two of these were sat in the garage doing nothing, and i miraculously ( ) acquired the Aqua El Shrimp tank after falling for a pretty little Betta in my LFS
Tank 1 - A Betta Place to Live
This is the hardscape in the Aqua El 20 litre tank. All three tanks had to be done on a budget so i used some Manzi wood that i got from Planted Box a while ago and never used, plus some river rocks that were sat in our garden. Substrate is a mix of Tropica Complete and dark river gravel, mixed together rather than layered.
Planted with a few crypts (species unknown), dwarf hairgrass and a couple of anubias, and the wood and one of the rock dressed with some weeping moss attached with superglue.
As you can see i'm using the supplied internal filter and heater - cost management and also because using an external is prohibited by the cover glass supplied. I want to keep the cover glass on as this tank houses a lovely little fighter, so it's best to maintain a layer of nice humid air above the water.
I plan to run CO2 in this tank, probably through the venturi attachment of the filter, but this is to be set up yet.
Tank 2 - White Cloud
I'm a bit proud of this one!
Sadly the photo doesn't really do it justice, and the MAHOOSIVE 300w heater on the left of the pic desperately needs replacing with something smaller once i get paid!!! Tank dimensions are 40x20x20cm, and it's running on an Eheim pro external filter, with a total of 36w lighting and CO2 injection running 24/7 keeping the dropchecker on the yellow side of green. It presently accommodates 10 White Cloud Mountain Minnows, though i'm shortly going to be putting a few low grade Red Cherry shrimp in there to see how they get on with the fish, with a view to evetually putting my shrimp with stronger colours in there to breed some super reds.
Plants are dwarf hairgrass, anubias, java fern, some vallis and a couple of unknown echinodorus, with weeping moss on the manzi wood
I'm dosing EI dry powders on all of these at the mo, but i'm not really getting great colours in the plants so may have to chager my dosing regime a little. Another indicator of poor plant nutrition is that i'm getting that nasty petrpchemical sheen on the water, which is a bit irritating!
I'm also going to swap the shepherds crook on the filter outlet for a spraybar to hopefully even out the flow and help things along
Tank 3 - Plat(y)onic, or possibly The End(ler)
This one isn't exactly what i wanted, but i'll need to dash now to sort the kids out so i'll get back to you!
All comments gladly recei
ved!
Matt
With the birth of daughter no.2, and after some hard thinking i decided to get rid of my big (215l) tank. I'd never really got it like i wanted and because of the dimensions of the tank i would have had to spend an unrealistic amount of cash to get it anything like. So, in it's place i now have three nanos! Big Whoop!
(sorry for the dubious quality of the pics - had to do them on my phone as having camera issues)
Two of these were sat in the garage doing nothing, and i miraculously (
) acquired the Aqua El Shrimp tank after falling for a pretty little Betta in my LFSTank 1 - A Betta Place to Live
This is the hardscape in the Aqua El 20 litre tank. All three tanks had to be done on a budget so i used some Manzi wood that i got from Planted Box a while ago and never used, plus some river rocks that were sat in our garden. Substrate is a mix of Tropica Complete and dark river gravel, mixed together rather than layered.
Planted with a few crypts (species unknown), dwarf hairgrass and a couple of anubias, and the wood and one of the rock dressed with some weeping moss attached with superglue.
As you can see i'm using the supplied internal filter and heater - cost management and also because using an external is prohibited by the cover glass supplied. I want to keep the cover glass on as this tank houses a lovely little fighter, so it's best to maintain a layer of nice humid air above the water.
I plan to run CO2 in this tank, probably through the venturi attachment of the filter, but this is to be set up yet.
Tank 2 - White Cloud
I'm a bit proud of this one!
Sadly the photo doesn't really do it justice, and the MAHOOSIVE 300w heater on the left of the pic desperately needs replacing with something smaller once i get paid!!! Tank dimensions are 40x20x20cm, and it's running on an Eheim pro external filter, with a total of 36w lighting and CO2 injection running 24/7 keeping the dropchecker on the yellow side of green. It presently accommodates 10 White Cloud Mountain Minnows, though i'm shortly going to be putting a few low grade Red Cherry shrimp in there to see how they get on with the fish, with a view to evetually putting my shrimp with stronger colours in there to breed some super reds.
Plants are dwarf hairgrass, anubias, java fern, some vallis and a couple of unknown echinodorus, with weeping moss on the manzi wood
I'm dosing EI dry powders on all of these at the mo, but i'm not really getting great colours in the plants so may have to chager my dosing regime a little. Another indicator of poor plant nutrition is that i'm getting that nasty petrpchemical sheen on the water, which is a bit irritating!
I'm also going to swap the shepherds crook on the filter outlet for a spraybar to hopefully even out the flow and help things along
Tank 3 - Plat(y)onic, or possibly The End(ler)
This one isn't exactly what i wanted, but i'll need to dash now to sort the kids out so i'll get back to you!
All comments gladly recei
ved!Matt
