My latest aquarium project

[oworm]

Ok no fish yet as im doing a fishless cycle (accelerated maturing process)
But what do my fellow aquarists think of my new tank?

 

[lucypevensie]

That's very nice! Real plants? Is that a salt water tank?

(I'm not very ambitious about aquariums, so yours looks really impressive)

 

[oworm]

That's very nice! Real plants? Is that a salt water tank?

Its a freshwater tropical setup (Salt would kill those plants!)

 

[pmarquette]

I've got a huge plecostomus that would love to be in
that tank....

have 6 tanks , 3-30's , 2 - 15's , 2-10's
raise albino cordorys cats and large apple snails ...

good job , looks nice ...

 

[countrymousenc]

Beautiful landscape! I've never tried fishless cycling; how are you going about it? Also, how much light and how many gallons?

 

[oworm]

Beautiful landscape! I've never tried fishless cycling; how are you going about it? Also, how much light and how many gallons?

Basically you use pure ammonia to cycle the tank. The beauty of the method is that the tank cycles much faster ,there are two very good articles on the method posted below this post. read them in the order they appear.
Im using 2 watts per glns of light which is 80watts for my 40gln (uk)

http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/cycling.html

http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/cycle2.html

 

[Grommit]

Very nice! What kind of fish are you going to put in there? Post more pics when you add the fish!

 

[oworm]

Yep i will. Cant agitate the surface for aereation because i need to keep co2 in the water for the plants sake. So ill probly just put 10 tetras and maybe 4 cory cats in. I hate overstocking a tank anyway! Its not fair on the fish.

 

[Abigail's folly]

Very lovely. A school of neons would look nice swimming about in there!

I've given up thinking about growing a planted tank. I didn't want to get into the CO2 set-up and my goldies would just thrash it all anyway, greedy little pigs.

 

[countrymousenc]

The CO2 is expensive at the outset, but it's been very much worth the initial expense to me. I have a lush growth of tropic sunset hygro with, for the first time ever, color! I know what you mean about goldies, but that seems to be maybe an individual thing. Mine (in my second tank) aren't gobbling their plants. By the way, none of them will/can eat Java fern, which isn't light demanding and is very happy with being dosed with the Seachem liquid CO2 product.

 

[oworm]

Very lovely. A school of neons would look nice swimming about in there!

I've given up thinking about growing a planted tank. I didn't want to get into the CO2 set-up and my goldies would just thrash it all anyway, greedy little pigs.

Yep i had GF b4. Great friendly fish but their REALLY messy and always took great delight in re arranging the tank decor to suit them. Im not using CO2 injection unless i really need to. As long as i can keep surface agitation to a minimum to minimise gas exchange i may get away with it.

 

[RTM]

Wow, that looks great! I like the way you landscaped. I need to give my 2 tanks (29 & 55 gal) a good cleaning soon and I think I'll redecorate when I do. I haven't had much luck with real plants so I tend to stick to plastic ones.

 

[Dawn Marie]

 

[Key Of David]

Those are two beautiful setups. I admire planted tanks though I probably don't have the patience or time for one myself....that's why mine is a true cichlid tank....rocks, sand, and lots of colorful fishies....hehe.

 

[Jim McK]

Very nice. I am a salt water aquarist myself but your set up looks great.

 

[Michaela]

COOL

 

[Thankful75]

Your aquarium looks really cool! I am just learing about fish and aquariums. We have 2 right now a cat fish named Spot and a goldfish named Bob the Builder. <<< My son named that one. Thanks for sharing your pictures.

 

[Musician]

Nice.

I recently had to change my 4ft tank for a corner one as I needed the space.

I do like your wood and curved gravel effects - I might try that with my new one.