Wallace
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So this is to be my first journal, please go easy on me.
This is a pic of my tank as it stands now:
Inside of the cabinet :
In situ :
Below is the spec of what it will become:
Tank : Juwel Rekord 600 sat on a DIY ADA rip off stand
Lighting : Standard fitment with 15w day light T8 (Hopefully to be replaced with a luminaire in the not to distant future)
Filtration : Tetratec EX700
Co2 : DD 500g pressurised with UP bubble counter/double check valve and UP inline super atomiser @ 1BPS currently
Ferts : Ei and aqua carbon 5ml daily
Substrate :Columbo Florabase
Hardscape : Mini landscape rock from AE
Flora : TBC
Fauna : 6 x Zebra Danios, 14 x Red Cherry Shrimp, 1 x Female Guppy (stray when transferring Danios from another tank) although I will more than likely move the Danios and Guppy into one of my other tanks and move my Harlequins from another tank into this one.
Now the plan is to do some sort of Iwagumi, this will be my first attempt and I'm not sure if I will include any wood at the moment. I'm gonna have a play around with the rocks and substrate later on today so will post some pics later of possible proposed layouts. I won't be playing around in the tank just yet so the layouts will be done in a box lol until I am happy with what I've got.
I'm not sure about flora yet either, the Java fern that's currently in the tank will probably be moved to one of my other tanks, although I would like to include the crypts I have somehow. I would like a carpet plant of some kind, either HC or Stauro but I don't know how they will fare under the fairly low 15w T8. There is only 50l of water in the tank currently, so I think I have about 1.36wpg. When I do this rescape there will probably be less water in the tank due to using more substrate than at present so the wpg will go up I think.
I think that's about it for now, any advise you guys can give will be much appreciated and gladly received.
Thanks
Adam
This is a pic of my tank as it stands now:
Inside of the cabinet :
In situ :
Below is the spec of what it will become:
Tank : Juwel Rekord 600 sat on a DIY ADA rip off stand
Lighting : Standard fitment with 15w day light T8 (Hopefully to be replaced with a luminaire in the not to distant future)
Filtration : Tetratec EX700
Co2 : DD 500g pressurised with UP bubble counter/double check valve and UP inline super atomiser @ 1BPS currently
Ferts : Ei and aqua carbon 5ml daily
Substrate :Columbo Florabase
Hardscape : Mini landscape rock from AE
Flora : TBC
Fauna : 6 x Zebra Danios, 14 x Red Cherry Shrimp, 1 x Female Guppy (stray when transferring Danios from another tank) although I will more than likely move the Danios and Guppy into one of my other tanks and move my Harlequins from another tank into this one.
Now the plan is to do some sort of Iwagumi, this will be my first attempt and I'm not sure if I will include any wood at the moment. I'm gonna have a play around with the rocks and substrate later on today so will post some pics later of possible proposed layouts. I won't be playing around in the tank just yet so the layouts will be done in a box lol until I am happy with what I've got.
I'm not sure about flora yet either, the Java fern that's currently in the tank will probably be moved to one of my other tanks, although I would like to include the crypts I have somehow. I would like a carpet plant of some kind, either HC or Stauro but I don't know how they will fare under the fairly low 15w T8. There is only 50l of water in the tank currently, so I think I have about 1.36wpg. When I do this rescape there will probably be less water in the tank due to using more substrate than at present so the wpg will go up I think.
I think that's about it for now, any advise you guys can give will be much appreciated and gladly received.
Thanks
Adam