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#1 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.66 |
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10 footer, now with Co2 and plants growing at last. |
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Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow.(Only joking, of course) |
| About Yourself: |
Work for a worldwide excavator production company (NOT Caterpillar) but we do hold the land speed record for the fastest desel engine as from 2006.) as an Industrial Engineer.
Have kept a tropical tank for around 27 years and it's that long ago I can't remember what got me into it, probably the beauty of the fish in particular the Siamese Fighting Fish which I managed to breed a few years back. Sat up until around 2.30 am watching them fertilize the eggs and put them into the bubble nest. In general I just love keeping fish and find it rewarding once the tank is all set up and planted out well, the latter being the hardest to do for me.
Pete. |
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Never be too eager to put new fish into a tank, Always quarantine them first. I have learned from my mistakes. Don't forget to change around 10 to 15% of the water once or twice a week.Although some people disagree with this but because I live in a hard water area I filter natural rain water for topping up the tank and since doing this the fish look a lot healthier and the catfish have started laying eggs on the glass.
Just by watching your fish on a daily basis you get to know when they are happy or are in anyway stressed and can act accordingly.
Addition 24/11/2006 > Have set up another small breeding tank for my Corydoras and currently have about 20 baby Catfish and believe it or not some are Bronze Cory's and some are Peppered, so they are all breeding at the same time. Fantasic. Will add photo of babies when they are large enough. |
| Fish Kept: |
Bronze catfish - 18
Peppered catfish - 13
Neon Tetra - 11
Glowlight Tetra - 9
Silver Dollar - 2
Clown loach - 1
Zebra Danio - 6
Black Neon - 4
Black Widows-3
Harlequins - 10
Rummy nose Tetra - 6
Humbug catfish- 1
Angels - 2
Guppy's -15 |
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There are around 8 different species of plants, along with rocks and bogwood. Plenty of hiding places for the shy Bronze Cory's and Clown loach, which shares it's habitat with the humbug.
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| Description: |
Diy project done September 2007, it is now fully set up and (touch wood) in six months I have only lost one of 70 odd fish, but gained three baby catfish and one Zebra danio. Which all somehow managed to survive in the tank without being eaten by the larger fish.
The tank is 10ft long x 16" high x 15" depth. The stand is made of 2" X 2" steel box section and will hold the weight of over 2 tonnes,On top of that is a timber flat base and polystyrene. All the doors are pine and painted. The hood is pine and primed and painted. The glass is 8mm thick but the bottom has an extra section (which is 16mm smaller than the base) thus forming and corner to bond the sides to. Used six tubes of top quality silicone. But was still petrified when I GRADUALLY filled it. (No leaks. phew!!)There are 2 x 42" T8 Auaqglow lights and the condensation tray is made from poly carbon and cut into 6 sections with handles fitted for ease of access to any section of the tank.
The are 2 external fluval 405 filters and 2 300 watt heaters. |
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#2 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.55 |
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300 gallon South American
Tank is 8'L x 2'H x 30"W
Lighting = 3 150watt 10,000k MH & 4 96watt 6700k CF
Filtering = 2 Eheim Pro 3 2080 & 1 Eheim Pro 2 2128
Tank has 2 Pressurized CO2 systems |
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Research before you do! |
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South American & Tanganyiken |
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many |
| Tank Size: |
300 |
| Description: |
300 gallon tank, was South American Heavily planted, converted to Tanganyiken tank
Two 125g South American tanks
75g Tanganiken Tank
180g Community |
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#3 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.47 |
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130 gallons |
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Do not lose patience! Never... |
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130 |
| Description: |
CO2 addition, liquid ferts Ultra oganic |
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#4 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.37 |
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541 |
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Grove |
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If you can count, count on yourself. |
| Advice: |
Learn much and be patient. |
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Acanticus adonis
Crossocheilus siamensis
Otocinclus huaorani
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Rasbora hengeli |
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Anubias bartheri v.nana
Anubias heterophylla
Bacopa caroliniana
Bolbitis heudelotii
Barclaya longifolia
Ceratophyllum demersum, Chladophora aegagropila
Crynium calanistratum
Crynium natans
Crynium calamistratum
Cryptocoryne Jachnelii, Cryptocoryne wendtii
Egeria najas
Eleocharis acicuralis
Eustralis stellata
Glossostigma elatinoides
Heterantera zosterifolia
Hydrocotyle leucocephala
Hydrokotyle verticillata
Limnophila aquatica
Ludwigia glandulosa, Ludwigia repens
Micranthemum micranthemoides
Microsorium pteropus
Microsorium pteropus "Windelov"
Myriophyllum pinnatum
Nesaea pedicellata
Nymphaea lotus
Pellia epiphylla
Rotala macrandra
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala rotundifolia. "Green"
Rotala walichii
Ophiopogon minimus
Vesicularia dubyana - Java Moss
Vesicularia dubyana - Christmas Moss |
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| Description: |
Grove. |
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#5 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.28 |
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140 |
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Shrimp paradise:) |
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Can't have too much light. |
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Red bee and red cherry shrimp. |
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Too many to list. |
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72 |
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This is my shrimp tank. Several red cherry and red bee shrimp. |
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#6 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.24 |
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much care and attention has gone in to this tank i hope you like it................it is a 40ltr tank running co2 under gravel fertz undergravel heater. it is dosed with fertz daily and it recives a half water change weekly |
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read lots and do things at your own pace |
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#7 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.22 |
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60 Gal. Planted tank with pressurized CO2 |
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You don't know what you don't know. |
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I got to planted tank hobby two years ago. I started out with planted tank without pressurized CO2 and I had too much trouble to keep the plants alive. Algae out break was a nightmare. After I installed the CO2 system, thing has improved significantly. The CO2 system also keeps the algae problem under control. |
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Keep trying and pressurized CO2 makes all the different. |
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1 angel, 3 SAE, black neon, 1 Ghost catfish, 1 golden ram. |
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variety |
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60 |
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60 Gal. Planted tank with pressurized C02.
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#8 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.18 |
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this is the last layout in this tank (Juwel rio180) i am waiting for the current glosso carpet to fill out before posting the current pic. but for the time being here it is with a riccia carpet. |
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if it aint broke dont fix it! |
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i'm a 25 year old headhunter. got into the hobby by looging onto www.fishforums.net when i had a problem with my basic fish tank and never looked back. i dont own any fish/plant related books and have learnt everything from members of that planted tank forum. i actually have 3 planted tanks the 180, a juwel rekord 60 with a sandy layout and a 50G cube. |
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for a planted tank setup i cant emphasise enough the use of laterite and CO2. one of the main reasons for failing with swords etc (heavy root feeders)is a lack of nutrients at the roots. laterite is reasonably affordable and will last years. on the co2 front, adding a basic yeast type co2 kit will improve any planted tank in one simple step. i will always use some kind of co2 in any planted tank regardless of lighting levels.
and more importantly than anything weekly ewater changes (if adding dry ferts 50% to dilute the last weeks fertaliser leftovers) |
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28 cardinal tetras
2 sailfin gibbiceps (10cm and 6cm)
1 adult angel
1 platy (rehomed for a friend)
1 flying fox
3 sterbai corys
5/6 amano shrimp (not that i ever see them) |
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Amazon swords (bhleri), java fern, tiger lotus lillys, echinodorus "red flame", glosso, Echinodorus "rubin" var "Narrow", java moss, anubias nana and anubias nana petite.
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Juwel Rio 180 (180L)
2.5WPG (4x 30W t8's) 3000K, 4000K & 2x 7500K
juwel standard filter (as supplied) plus fluval 104 with spray bar
dennerle pressurised CO2 with glass diffuser
Substrate: 3mm gravel mixed with laterite
Ferts: Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Phosphate & CSM=+B plus hagen root tabs under swords and tiger lotus lillys |
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#10 out of 986 planted tanks worldwide |
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7.16 |
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Tropical Rain Forest |
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enoughs enough |
| About Yourself: |
sign me up |
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start slowly ,and don't over feed fish don't have breakfast lunch and dinner served to them in the wild often they have to go days or weeks with no food. |
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30 flame tetras, sevrum rainbows, 5 peacock digeons, 4 agoo boos, simeese agea eater, 4 ottocats, raindeer shrimp ammano shrimp and cherry shrimp. and a couple of turbo snails |
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will fill this in when i have propper names listed |
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92 gallon Co2 injection 10 bubbles persecond due to the loss of Co2 from the water fall, florite substrate, ,substrate heater cable , ehime professional canisters 2 i belive in over filtration. lighting 300 watts and belive it or not i use Quartz hallogen they say there to yellow i say a picture is worth a thousand words. due to the tree stump and it giving off alot of organics into the water i do half water changes once a week, i keep a resevior in the basement manual fill but for daily evaporation i just hit a light switch that turns on the pump and tank is toped off. coments welcomed happy scaping |
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