My 200l Tank

Hi just signed up to this forum and hope to be fairly involved as i progress further into this wonderful hobby.
I've had a 50l tank for about a year and manged to keep plants and fish alive so bought the pictured tank upgrade recently (200l) and have planted it and added wood and now just waiting for the cycle to get on with it.
Anyway here's a blurry picture to enjoy( i'll try for some better ones in a few days)

hey, welcome to the forum. hope we kan help you in the future m8

Welcome to the forum !

tanks looking good. I like natural looking setups way more than tacky decorations.

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Welcome to the forum mate

Nice tank what are you going to stock it with im thinking something big lol ?

Welcome to the forum, Nice tank. Looks like your fish-in cycling though! Or am I just seeing thing

Welcome to the forum, Nice tank. Looks like your fish-in cycling though! Or am I just seeing thing

Yeah i have had the tank running for 2 and a half weeks wtihout fish and the cycle just will not start so i added some fish to kick start it and the plan was to get them out before it spikes. Being new to fish keeping i'm not sure if this will work or not but my tank has gone milky now as in a poss bacterial bloom and still the readings are non existant. If anyone can shed some light on this i'd be grateful.

As for stock i plan to keep all the small fish already in there plus the others from my small tank which is as follows
6 neon tetras
5 Head and Tail light
5 Rummy Nose Tetra
2 Scissor Tail
1 Silver Shark
1 Neon Blue Dwarf Gourami
1 Cobra Guppy
2 Golden Loach cleaners
2 Common Plecs ( i'm not sure if both will make it to big tank)
and 1 cleaner River shrimp.
Ontop of this i was thinking of adding
3 Torpedo or red nose barbs
1 or 2 large gourami's
2 Angel fish
and a Marlboro Discus ( these are all subject to how well the tank does and if they can all live together etc)

what test kit are you using?

the silver shark or bala will out grow your tank as will the common plecos

the discus i am not sure on although i know they like there own kind

lilfishie said:

what test kit are you using?

the silver shark or bala will out grow your tank as will the common plecos

the discus i am not sure on although i know they like there own kind

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i have a Nutrafin NH3/NH4 kit and a JBL 5 in 1 which i'll replace for individual test kits once it has run out. I know the JBL kit works as it picked up the cycle in my other tank

I've seen a shark at the london aquarium that was 2 foot long so i know they can get big. I'd like them to grow and hopefully if they do by the time it happens i can afford a bigger tank for them but i think they'll be ok in tank for a while. One of the plecs i've put in is lost amongst the plants as it is

Welcome to Fish forums.

Here's a better pic of my tank