oatfish
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Hi Everyone, I once posted this tank on TTF but I have found UKAPS to be friendlier and more useful
(fewer “I bought a tank filled it with tap water and chucked hundreds of fish in it immediately and they all died, why?†threads for a start!)
Here was my tank about 1.5 years ago:
It’s a fluval roma 200 with 4 x 39 watt t5 ‘s pressurised CO2 and 1x tetratec ex700 and 1x internal
Not enough flow but everything seemed to do well! I don’t like the huge plant mix up though, I did a typical “I’ll have one of everythingâ€!
I have since been given a fair few plants from a friend who left the hobby, which have grown huge and subsequently been sold on here, so my tank looks like a bomb has hit it. I have not had any algae problems so I reckon I can grow stuff (easy stuff anyhow...), so now I have upgraded my filter and am planning a total rescape. My ideas so far are something similar to this great Barr creation:
But without the grass floor (I have cories and it could tickle them, but I expect they will actually dig the whole thing up!) so with large pebbles which I have collected from the beach design a substrate/decor interface similar to this:
But since I like Fissidens fontanus so much I want to cover all the rocks in it, similar to this:
I have red moor wood from my 1st layout to use, will also cover the branches in fissidens, hopefully to give the tank a slightly spooky feel, enhanced by putting these fish in the tank when it is done:
Plant list:
Fissidens
H. lacustris
Rotala green and nanjenshan
Narrow java fern
HM cuba (want to get a “drapey" effect over the rocks, good luck me!)
And some C. Bal in the back ground
So that’s my weekend planned (in between writing up my PhD – I think I have a serious case of attention diversion!) Will post more as I go! Thanks for reading, any ideas, criticism greatly welcomed
(fewer “I bought a tank filled it with tap water and chucked hundreds of fish in it immediately and they all died, why?†threads for a start!)
Here was my tank about 1.5 years ago:
It’s a fluval roma 200 with 4 x 39 watt t5 ‘s pressurised CO2 and 1x tetratec ex700 and 1x internal
Not enough flow but everything seemed to do well! I don’t like the huge plant mix up though, I did a typical “I’ll have one of everythingâ€!
I have since been given a fair few plants from a friend who left the hobby, which have grown huge and subsequently been sold on here, so my tank looks like a bomb has hit it. I have not had any algae problems so I reckon I can grow stuff (easy stuff anyhow...), so now I have upgraded my filter and am planning a total rescape. My ideas so far are something similar to this great Barr creation:
But without the grass floor (I have cories and it could tickle them, but I expect they will actually dig the whole thing up!) so with large pebbles which I have collected from the beach design a substrate/decor interface similar to this:
But since I like Fissidens fontanus so much I want to cover all the rocks in it, similar to this:
I have red moor wood from my 1st layout to use, will also cover the branches in fissidens, hopefully to give the tank a slightly spooky feel, enhanced by putting these fish in the tank when it is done:
Plant list:
Fissidens
H. lacustris
Rotala green and nanjenshan
Narrow java fern
HM cuba (want to get a “drapey" effect over the rocks, good luck me!)
And some C. Bal in the back ground
So that’s my weekend planned (in between writing up my PhD – I think I have a serious case of attention diversion!) Will post more as I go! Thanks for reading, any ideas, criticism greatly welcomed