eggo
Fish Crazy
egg crate arrived saturday was overjoyed has i was bored, so could not wait to start work on the tank,
cut egg crate with my grinder with a diamond tip blade made short work of it just had to remove the plastic burr left behind,
placing ocean base rocks on top off egg crate tried to think of what the fish wanted so put a large piece across 2 smaller pieces to make cave's for fish
added the coral sand substrate was over the moon with it i bought it second hand and only looked at it in detail when i started to cover base of tank, the sand is white with specs of red/black,
then started to add water from a bucket and syphon method learned my teenage daughter how to syphon so she took control over filling tank and i could then sit back and watch,
i have used fresh start to remove chlroine and heavy metals and the tank has been running a couple of days now, been to lfs for some used filter media to give my filters a boost but he recommened me not to do it has my filters could crash after a couple of weeks, so he has recommended Seachem Stability has that is what they use has it is cheap with a high bacteria content, i have told him the size of my tank and he told me to use 3 cap fulls a day for 7 days and after the first 2 days to start adding fish slowly,
with the power head in the internal filter and the 4000l/h powerhead at the other end of the tank i have a pretty good circulation in the tank sort of anti-clockwise has i have seen small particles move along the sand substrate also with the spray bar some good surface movement,
i am going to stock with mbuna will start of slow but looking to ultimately have 30 or so.
cut egg crate with my grinder with a diamond tip blade made short work of it just had to remove the plastic burr left behind,
placing ocean base rocks on top off egg crate tried to think of what the fish wanted so put a large piece across 2 smaller pieces to make cave's for fish
added the coral sand substrate was over the moon with it i bought it second hand and only looked at it in detail when i started to cover base of tank, the sand is white with specs of red/black,
then started to add water from a bucket and syphon method learned my teenage daughter how to syphon so she took control over filling tank and i could then sit back and watch,
i have used fresh start to remove chlroine and heavy metals and the tank has been running a couple of days now, been to lfs for some used filter media to give my filters a boost but he recommened me not to do it has my filters could crash after a couple of weeks, so he has recommended Seachem Stability has that is what they use has it is cheap with a high bacteria content, i have told him the size of my tank and he told me to use 3 cap fulls a day for 7 days and after the first 2 days to start adding fish slowly,
with the power head in the internal filter and the 4000l/h powerhead at the other end of the tank i have a pretty good circulation in the tank sort of anti-clockwise has i have seen small particles move along the sand substrate also with the spray bar some good surface movement,
i am going to stock with mbuna will start of slow but looking to ultimately have 30 or so.