New Planted Tank

Oscar07 · Mar 25, 2007

Here is my attempt.

Ive got a Rio 180 using the standard Filter for the meantime.

1 * Arcadia T8 tropical light + reflector
1* Arcadia T8 Freshwater light + reflector
Air stone + pump.
5L Tropica Plant Substrate
24KG Pea Gravel

slate,huge piece of bogwood and once up and running quite a few Java plant's will be added

Stock : 1* Queen Arabasque, 1* Bronze cory's, 4 tetra's, 5 shrimp, 1 king tiger + 10 cardinals next week

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mlawson · Mar 25, 2007

Looking good. Are you going to use CO2? or any fertilisers? I would suggest adding atleast 5 more corys to your setup in the future as they must be in groups for they are very active sociable fish. Did you order a plant selection from Java? because sometimes they add plants which aren't suitable for your setup. Do you know any of the names of the plants?

EDIT: Should this be in the new Planted aquarium journal section?

Themuleous · Mar 25, 2007

Good start

Oscar07 · Mar 25, 2007

Sorry could move it to other forum then? i dont mind.

I plan on upping to 5 corries within the month.

Im just bought seachem plant food + excel to see how thats goes.

I bought the 70 collection but i was alittle disappointed actually 5 plants didnt have roots either. so going to ring up when i get chance to see what they will do about it.

I would like CO2 eventually, but ill see how it goes

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Oscar07 · Jun 13, 2007

heres first lot new ones

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john starkey · Jun 14, 2007

Hi Oscar personally i think you have too much hardscape in your tank for its size, with less rocks and more space for plants i think it would look better good effort just needs redoing imo. regards john

nry · Jun 14, 2007

Unless you have a well cycled/mature filter I would be really careful of ammonia and nitrIte spikes with the amount of fish you have added so quickly. You don't have enough plants in there to control ammonia/nitrIte in my opinion so it could be a problem.

I personally quite like the hardscape, but maybe I'm wierd

pinkdolphin_113 · Jun 14, 2007

personnally i think the tank looks perfect already. the only thing i would have had different would be sand intead of gravel because it's brighter and better for the corys.
what filter do you have? exceeding the recommended flow rate i hope considering the amount of plecos you have lol
i'm guessing plecos are your kinda fish ey? niiccccccee :good:

also, i thought this tank would look better as a cichlid tank. i kno it's not the right kinda landscape but hey lol

Biulu · Jun 14, 2007

I like the scape too, but agree that you have put a lot of fish in in a short period without having it cycled properly. This might give you some problems. Please test your water regularly, and do frequent water changes to compensate for any ammonia/nitrite spikes.

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