tanksalot
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...starts here!
I previously kept a 64 litre planted tank (in sig) for about 6 months with reasonable success before deciding that my fish and plants needed a new, bigger home - so enter the Juwel Rekord 800, and a whole new set of challenges, no doubt. The substrate and the lighting will both be quite different to what I was dealing with before, certainly, though I won't be venturing into pressurised CO2 (too scary!).
So, the stats:
Tank - 110 litre Juwel Rekord 800
Filtration - 2 Eheim Aquaball 130's
Lighting - as supplied, 2 x 18W T8. Also 2 x 24 blue LED strips for night viewing
Heating - Deltatherm 150W set to 24.5 C
Substrate - JBL Aquabasis+ with Unipac Senegal sand on top
Decor - bogwood, driftwood and a home made slate cave
Plants - Anubias barterii, Ceratophyllum demersum "Foxtail", Bacopa australis, Echinodorus amazonicus, Echinodorus "Aquartica", Cryptocoryne becketii, Vallisneria "Tiger"
Livestock - Neon tetra, Ember tetra, Harlequin and Espei rasbora, 2 platys, cories (3 Pandas, 2 Peppered and a Sterbai), 1 oto, a few cherry shrimp and 3 Zebra nerite snails.
No ferts or liquid carbon (yet! I was using both of these in my 64L).
I live in a hard water area, pH 8.
I set this up about a month and a half ago and it currently looks like this:
Not really "scaped" yet - more "bunged in" because I needed to swap the contents of the tanks over fairly swiftly
- but it's a start. I've yet to really discover what the growing conditions are like in this tank and what adjustments I'll have to make, so the aesthetics may have to wait for a while. Nothing has died on me so far, and I haven't encountered much algae (a bit of BBA, but nothing worrying), but I want to monitor it for a while to see what thrives/suffers. I have TPN+ and Flourish Excel at the ready if I need them. At the moment, the only thing I'm not particularly excited about is the Bacopa: it grows okay, but it's a bit spindly. Not enough light for a plant like this? I have struggled with stem plants in my previous tank, and that was better lit!
I will no doubt have questions, and comments and suggestions are always welcome!
I previously kept a 64 litre planted tank (in sig) for about 6 months with reasonable success before deciding that my fish and plants needed a new, bigger home - so enter the Juwel Rekord 800, and a whole new set of challenges, no doubt. The substrate and the lighting will both be quite different to what I was dealing with before, certainly, though I won't be venturing into pressurised CO2 (too scary!).
So, the stats:
Tank - 110 litre Juwel Rekord 800
Filtration - 2 Eheim Aquaball 130's
Lighting - as supplied, 2 x 18W T8. Also 2 x 24 blue LED strips for night viewing
Heating - Deltatherm 150W set to 24.5 C
Substrate - JBL Aquabasis+ with Unipac Senegal sand on top
Decor - bogwood, driftwood and a home made slate cave
Plants - Anubias barterii, Ceratophyllum demersum "Foxtail", Bacopa australis, Echinodorus amazonicus, Echinodorus "Aquartica", Cryptocoryne becketii, Vallisneria "Tiger"
Livestock - Neon tetra, Ember tetra, Harlequin and Espei rasbora, 2 platys, cories (3 Pandas, 2 Peppered and a Sterbai), 1 oto, a few cherry shrimp and 3 Zebra nerite snails.
No ferts or liquid carbon (yet! I was using both of these in my 64L).
I live in a hard water area, pH 8.
I set this up about a month and a half ago and it currently looks like this:
Not really "scaped" yet - more "bunged in" because I needed to swap the contents of the tanks over fairly swiftly
- but it's a start. I've yet to really discover what the growing conditions are like in this tank and what adjustments I'll have to make, so the aesthetics may have to wait for a while. Nothing has died on me so far, and I haven't encountered much algae (a bit of BBA, but nothing worrying), but I want to monitor it for a while to see what thrives/suffers. I have TPN+ and Flourish Excel at the ready if I need them. At the moment, the only thing I'm not particularly excited about is the Bacopa: it grows okay, but it's a bit spindly. Not enough light for a plant like this? I have struggled with stem plants in my previous tank, and that was better lit!I will no doubt have questions, and comments and suggestions are always welcome!
