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This tank, the Danios and Plecos have been my relaxing companion through five years of studying. Now got my own house and will at some point treat myself to a full on Discus or marine set up, but for now I can't bear to part with this one 
And apologies for the dreadful pic, but you can just about spot one of my cracking little Clown Plecos
And apologies for the dreadful pic, but you can just about spot one of my cracking little Clown Plecos
otolith said:
We're going to add some rams to the planted tank - would have had them the other week, but our LFS had only had them off the white spot treatment a week and didn't want to sell them yet.
As long as your happy keeping on top of the water quality (30% a week water changes I was doing) you'll love them.I popped to Wildwoods yesterday and they had some Ram's in, and I couldn't resist. Will post some pic's of the new ones once they're settled in - would welcome an opinion on whether or not I've got a male/female pair (as I've been wrong before.)
That marine tank is stunning Tiggysy, it looks like you must have put a lot of work in to get it the way it is. Beautiful.
tenohfive said:
As long as your happy keeping on top of the water quality (30% a week water changes I was doing) you'll love them.
Water quality in there is usually pretty good - it's very heavily planted with CO2 injection and reasonable lighting and an external cannister filter to supplement the standard internal Juwel one. Soft-ish, slightly acid. Should be right up their street?
otolith said:
tenohfive said:
As long as your happy keeping on top of the water quality (30% a week water changes I was doing) you'll love them.
Water quality in there is usually pretty good - it's very heavily planted with CO2 injection and reasonable lighting and an external cannister filter to supplement the standard internal Juwel one. Soft-ish, slightly acid. Should be right up their street?tenohfive said:
Yep, should be fine. I live in a hard water area (pH of 8+ in my old flat) which isn't ideal, but found that good water quality is a decent substitute for ideal conditions.
Annoyingly, he's taken them off sale due to a parasite problem - hoping to have some more in this week, but will then be a couple of weeks of quarantine before they're up for sale. I'll just have to be patient.Did have a chat about this tank, though; it's a 40cm all glass cube which I originally bought as a hospital tank.
I've been thinking of converting it into another permanent display tank. I'm thinking South East Asian - kuhli loach, glass catfish, gourami, etc - silica sand, big piece of bogwood, a few smooth pebbles, that kind of setup. Probably a bit of fluorite under the sand for the plants. I'm dithering about planting. I already run one planted tank with pressurised CO2, and I am considering setting this up the same way and adding some decent over tank lighting. Shouldn't be too expensive for such a small tank, but could be a hassle. The alternative is less light, no CO2 and more shade tolerant plants. Hmm...
otolith said:
The alternative is less light, no CO2 and more shade tolerant plants. Hmm...
If you can live without plants that tank would look good with some shell dwellers in there. Not quite so visually impressive but full of character and some are gorgeous imo. I kept some lamprologus ocellatus for awhile and they were stunning little fish.I love a decent community setup but I'm always going to be a cichlid fan - they're generally much more confident and interesting.
Used to have 3 tanks, but down to one Rena 300L tank now since we moved, need to do a bit of gardening as the Java fern is going insane, but it's one of the few plants my silver dollars won't ravage within 10 mins and it's rampant.
It's quite a mature tank now as it's been running for 6 years, and the silver dollars are 5 years now.
End view looking down the tank:
Side on:
List of fish (not exhaustive)
Silver dollars
Silver sharks
Pimms Pictus catfish (hiding)
plecs (a couple)
Swordtails for colour
Flying foxes (for hair algae)
Golden sucking loaches
Clown fish x 3
Tiger barbs (last 2 of a shoal)
Boseman Rainbows (Red)
Would love to do a marine tank one day, but the added expense of skimmers etc and the much lower margin of error allowed has kept me away.
It's quite a mature tank now as it's been running for 6 years, and the silver dollars are 5 years now.
End view looking down the tank:
Side on:
List of fish (not exhaustive)
Silver dollars
Silver sharks
Pimms Pictus catfish (hiding)
plecs (a couple)
Swordtails for colour
Flying foxes (for hair algae)
Golden sucking loaches
Clown fish x 3
Tiger barbs (last 2 of a shoal)
Boseman Rainbows (Red)
Would love to do a marine tank one day, but the added expense of skimmers etc and the much lower margin of error allowed has kept me away.
Edited by toxgobbler on Monday 2nd August 22:14
Some very nice setups here.
I've just purchased my first tank, a Juwel Vision 180:
At the minute, it has imitation plants but the intention is to get some real plants.
A picture of one of the six new inhabitants, a Silver-tipped Tetra. I'll be getting some catfish & angelfish at some point as well once the tank has matured a bit more.
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I've just purchased my first tank, a Juwel Vision 180:
At the minute, it has imitation plants but the intention is to get some real plants.
A picture of one of the six new inhabitants, a Silver-tipped Tetra. I'll be getting some catfish & angelfish at some point as well once the tank has matured a bit more.
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Nimby said:
I'd be interested in any tips on how best to photograph a tank - maybe better here than the photography thread. All too often all I get is a reflection of the flash, or motion blur/ noise without flash and long / short exposure.
I'm not an expert by any means, but have spent a while playing around with getting ok shots of my fish- it doesn't help that the tank lighting is quite dim on my tank (no plants and prefer the dramatic shadowy look). It's much easier to take pics of marine tanks as they tend to have ridiculous amount of light for the corals.First thing is make sure the tank glass is spotlessly clean! Inside and out.
Turn off all the lights in the room and take pictures at night to stop any reflections off the tank glass.
I've had good results using flash either bounced off the ceiling (with the tank lid open) or using a DIY diffuser made from a bent sheet of stiff white card to bounce the light into the tank, getting the flash away from being aimed directly at the tank cuts down glare from the glass.
I set the autofocus to tracking mode so it will follow the fish around as it swims towards and away from you, need a decent lens for this to work fast enough though. Otherwise manual focus works well.
Play with the aperture and ISO settings until you get the effect you want.
Take LOADS of photos and pic the best ones. Last time I had a fish-photo session I took about 80 pics and had about 4 good ones- it's not easy to get fast swimming fish framed correctly AND in focus!
Cichlids with mouths full of hatched fry:
Check out the teeth! Oh and this guy bites too if you get too close to his house (a big snail shell). Thankfully he is only 3 inches long. Not strong enough to brake my skin but you can definitely feel it!
Edited by lufbramatt on Wednesday 15th January 10:00
Edited by lufbramatt on Wednesday 15th January 10:04
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