Ravenswing
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Dear UKAPS friend,
...here we go.
We have five tanks at home, 600, 300, 250, 65 and 45-l. 600l has been running fot three months after selling our 450l away. In that I used to have metalhalides (and T5s for some time) and pressurized C02 with EI, 300l used to have T5s and pressurized as 65l well too. Then I got tired with all that messing with technic and fertz. We had some serious technical problems with (cheap...) T5-lights and (not so cheap) Co2-technic. After that we went down to T8s and daily Excel/Easy Carbo and Iv been sooooooo happy since that though it was a huge job to get 300l back on track after being a BBA farm because of unstable Co2.
Let me introduce every tank. At the beginning I must tell that earlier (till last spring) we used to have mainly southamerican species but after buing an EC-meter and finding we have extremely hard water (620uS from tap), I gave some species away and nowadays we prefer hardwater species. Those softwater species that seems to do OK in our hard water, we have kept. Prams from tap: GH 3-7, KH 3-5, pH 7,4-8, NO2/NO3 0, EC 620uS.
600l:
As said, three months old, moved at the end of August from 450l to this. Nowadays led-lighting for 6 weeks, daily 15ml EC, filtration Eheim 2048, Hamburger maten filter with 1000l/h AquaBee pump , Fluval U4. Fishes: orange unknown rainbow hybrid x 5, Chilatherina bleheri x 7, Pseudomomugil signifer x >20, Bedotia geayi x 9, Stiphodon elegans x 2 (trying to get more), Stiphodon atropurpureus x 4, L-333, flashpleco and 40+cories (C concolor, C similis and C aeneus). GH 5, KH 3, pH 7,5, PO4 1-2mg/l, NO3 5mg/l, Fe 0,2mg/l, EC 700uS.
This picture is taken last week. I sold some bows and had to take drifwoods up so I did some rescape at the same time since the tank was a bit overgrown. Substrate JBL Manado.
http://aijaa.com/Pf93Y5
Today:
http://aijaa.com/3RxvAv
Right now it looks a bit messy after hard trimming. Theres C balansae var crispatula growing on the left corner, oh it grows so slowly! I took it from 300l hoping it would start growing faster with stronger light now. I hate that empty corner! I used to grow there Heteranthera dubia but it was one dam weed so I took it away.
Iv been very happy with this set up, need to fertilize (KNO3, PO4, K, Plantex and DIY-Equilibrium) just twice a week, WC 50% weekly, no algae anywhere. Fishes have been soooo fine.
...here we go.
We have five tanks at home, 600, 300, 250, 65 and 45-l. 600l has been running fot three months after selling our 450l away. In that I used to have metalhalides (and T5s for some time) and pressurized C02 with EI, 300l used to have T5s and pressurized as 65l well too. Then I got tired with all that messing with technic and fertz. We had some serious technical problems with (cheap...) T5-lights and (not so cheap) Co2-technic. After that we went down to T8s and daily Excel/Easy Carbo and Iv been sooooooo happy since that though it was a huge job to get 300l back on track after being a BBA farm because of unstable Co2.
Let me introduce every tank. At the beginning I must tell that earlier (till last spring) we used to have mainly southamerican species but after buing an EC-meter and finding we have extremely hard water (620uS from tap), I gave some species away and nowadays we prefer hardwater species. Those softwater species that seems to do OK in our hard water, we have kept. Prams from tap: GH 3-7, KH 3-5, pH 7,4-8, NO2/NO3 0, EC 620uS.
600l:
As said, three months old, moved at the end of August from 450l to this. Nowadays led-lighting for 6 weeks, daily 15ml EC, filtration Eheim 2048, Hamburger maten filter with 1000l/h AquaBee pump , Fluval U4. Fishes: orange unknown rainbow hybrid x 5, Chilatherina bleheri x 7, Pseudomomugil signifer x >20, Bedotia geayi x 9, Stiphodon elegans x 2 (trying to get more), Stiphodon atropurpureus x 4, L-333, flashpleco and 40+cories (C concolor, C similis and C aeneus). GH 5, KH 3, pH 7,5, PO4 1-2mg/l, NO3 5mg/l, Fe 0,2mg/l, EC 700uS.
This picture is taken last week. I sold some bows and had to take drifwoods up so I did some rescape at the same time since the tank was a bit overgrown. Substrate JBL Manado.
http://aijaa.com/Pf93Y5
Today:
http://aijaa.com/3RxvAv
Right now it looks a bit messy after hard trimming. Theres C balansae var crispatula growing on the left corner, oh it grows so slowly! I took it from 300l hoping it would start growing faster with stronger light now. I hate that empty corner! I used to grow there Heteranthera dubia but it was one dam weed so I took it away.
Iv been very happy with this set up, need to fertilize (KNO3, PO4, K, Plantex and DIY-Equilibrium) just twice a week, WC 50% weekly, no algae anywhere. Fishes have been soooo fine.