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So now that the fishless cycle has completed we're getting ready for the fish.Hard landscaping today and tomorrow morning, planting Tuesday and first fish (16 Tigers) on Wednesday. This is how the tank is looking at the moment:

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Any suggestions for planting etc gratefully received, thought I can't promise to act on them all as I'm sure there will be a range of ideas and the ultimate authority will be my wife as it is her tank and she's the green fingered artistic one :)

Miles
Edited to add picture as today it is letting me!
 
Tank looks really good, what Filter you using? i'm in the process of buying one at the moment not sure what to buy.
 
OBIE1 said:
Tank looks really good, what Filter you using? i'm in the process of buying one at the moment not sure what to buy.
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wow, that looks really good! I'd plant soe around the base of the wood, because i like the branches coming out of green...not sure why!

looks like an eheim external?
 
i likes! get some fish!*^$^^!!! Going for Tigers as your main school of fish? Get MOARRR :D
 
Obie - it is an eheim 2075 (600)
Whitey - what is soe ? We were going to put some moss on some of the branches but not all
Tizer - fish (16 tigers - 8 normal and 8 green) being collected tomorrow.:)
 
Miles_hot said:
Obie - it is an eheim 2075 (600)
Whitey - what is soe ? We were going to put some moss on some of the branches but not all
Tizer - fish (16 tigers - 8 normal and 8 green) being collected tomorrow.:)
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sorry i meant 'some' plants...


 
Taffy - we have already ordered the fish (16 Tigers, 6 Dwarf Chain Loahes and 2 Kribs) however I suspect we will have another tank at some point which will include some Rasbora :)
 
Local fish shop (coxwell) allowed me to buy a load (6 bits) to try out and then gave me a credit note for the bitsbwe didn't want. We then spent the credit note on the plants :)
 
one word of advice, if the kribs are a breeding pair, which i think you said they are, they will dig under those rocks and wood to create a place to lay their eggs. So sink the rocks in to the base of the tank, or get some egg crate under them. Also, kribs, mostly juvies, will eat your plants unless they are quite hardy. I've got 5 juvies in my tank and they nom nom all day long on some of my plants. The other thing you can do is provide a hollowed out coconut with a hole in it for them to use. No guarantee they will though.
 
When we say that the light should be off for the day after introduction are we worried about sunlight (i.e. should the table cloth be over the tank) or does it.not.matter?
 
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