Hi everyone

[Adam78]

Hi all, new to the forum and fairly new to the hobby, thought I'd say hi.

I only have 1 tank, been up & running for about a year, it's very basic & inexpensive but I'm enjoying it.

Tank : L36" x W12" x H15" (100L)
Filter : Fluval U3
Light : Single 36" (30W) T8 (Arcadia Freshwater) on for 7 hours a day
Interpet LED Blue Moonlight Strip on in the evenings for a couple of hours.
Substrate : Tetra Plant complete capped with Unipac "Samoa" fine sand.

I dose 1.5ml of Profito a day for the plants, amazon sword, cryptocoryne wendtii, java fern narrow I also have some limnophila sessiliflora & pogostemon helferi which I was told would probably die, but they're doing ok I think.

At the moment I have 6 sterbai corydoras & 10 cardinal tetra in the tank.

Few pics of the tank.










Night time with the interpet blue moon LED



Anyway, this forum seems like a great source of knowledge so looking forward to having a good read.

Thanks.

 

[Ryan Thang To]

welcome to ukaps. nice tank by the way.

cheers
ryan

 

[Crossocheilus]

Welcome,

That is a really nice tank and a great example of how successful a simple low tech tank can be. Sterba's cories are by far my favourite corydoras and one of my favourite fish overall. The cardinals look amazing under the moon lighting.

 

[Adam78]

Thanks guys, yeah I love those little cory's too

I got them from Pets at home, didn't know much about them but I felt sorry for them. They were just sitting on the bottom of a bare tank looking pretty miserable.

Within a week they were zooming around my tank, playing in the output from the filter and chasing each other.

They have real character & seem very aware when I'm about to feed them, they all come up to the glass and start doing this excited "wiggle dance"

 

[Alexander W.]

Welcome, really nice tank🙂

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Adam, Welcome to UKAPS Nice planted tank Healthy plants to🙂

 

[Adam78]

Thanks Alex & Roy