Juwel Vision 450 Ltr Setup (inc Photos)

[kamber]

i cant wait to see the finished project, including pictures of your entire room, you seem to be living in the lap of luxury and ide like to live that way viceriously through the pictures of your AMAZING room with tanks.

And im glad you went with black

thanks, yeah black is the way! All my tanks have black backgrounds now.


Here is the latest edition to the family... Murray the Moray



Heres the tank at the moment (i have to take pics when its dark as the light from the patio doors coming in makes it a nightmare with the reflections on the curved front.) appologies for the quality! ISO 1600 at 1/60.

I've planted up the left hand section, the big sailfin loves to sit in there now. The middle has a load of java fern on a peice of bogwood, which i absolutely love.

Murray lives in the cave on the far left. Oh and before anyone worries... the water has a small amount of red sea salt in it and when murray is fully grown he will be moved.

 

[rick5988]

That tank is awesome, Id love something like this if I have room, well when I eventually get my own place I hope I have something as half as cool as yours.

 

[Sanj]

hey fella,

I know some others have said, but when i first started reading this journal the thing that came to mind was..."Change that background"!!! Black backgrounds really are the best colour save for those expensive internal rock and route effect ones.

i know its a matter of personal taste, but I cant help but cringe at those photo backgrounds (pet hate), worse being marine ones in freshewater aqauriums.

Anyhooo, looks good. I would recommend the FX5 (not sure if you got one in the end or not). I have one one my Rio 400 and with those big fish you have, the bigger filter the better.

 

[kamber]

hey fella,

I know some others have said, but when i first started reading this journal the thing that came to mind was..."Change that background"!!! Black backgrounds really are the best colour save for those expensive internal rock and route effect ones.

i know its a matter of personal taste, but I cant help but cringe at those photo backgrounds (pet hate), worse being marine ones in freshewater aqauriums.

Anyhooo, looks good. I would recommend the FX5 (not sure if you got one in the end or not). I have one one my Rio 400 and with those big fish you have, the bigger filter the better.

Yeah mate, the missus's first choice was that background lol, looks hideous when u see it in the first photos! Rest assured that the background was prompty changed to Black shortly after, as the newer pics show

Thanks, Yeah i have an FX5 and a tetratec EX1200 on the tank i also have UV connected to the EX. (everything is listed on my signature pic (i think))

Little update for everyone... i have just upgraded the lighting by adding another juwel light unit and 2 x 54watt day tubes, added lots of amazon sword plants.
I also swapped the Moray Eel for a fire Eel, much better suited to the tank and i don't have to worry about moving it when its a bigger either.

Will post some pics up later.

 

[kamber]

Time for an update....

Latest additions to the tank, Fire Eel and just to the left of him is the Black Knife Ghost, they are currently living together in the hollow log ornament

Fire eel is roughly 9" and the black knife ghost about 8".

Heres the tank with the extra amazon sword added to the right and the extra lighting on. (Its a nightmare trying to take a picture of this tank because its bow fronted and mine is now in the dining room so its getting reflections from the French doors at the back.)

Picture doesn't really do it justice

Lots more plants as you can see Something had a gourmet dinner the other night of 2 half beaks! They were 3" long!, i suspect the cigar shark thought they were bits of lance fish floating near the top and GULP they're gone. Strange as nothing else has been eaten, the golden barbs and small sharks are fine oh and the dwarf puffer.

The shovel nose hangs out on the right hand side of the tank near the intakes. And the big old sailfin is head on staring me down on the right as i was taking the picture lol

2 300w heaters, one you can see if vertically mounted near the intakes and one horizontally mounted behind the bog wood in the middle above where the bubbles vent. (works quite well, i have a thermo's at each end and its pretty even within .2 of a degree) 26.5 degrees usual tank temp.

I'm going to start another thread of the other tank i have, we've just had baby bristlenose plecs in that to add to the baby apple snails and baby guppies. Its definitely the "breeding tank".

 

[adamgreen240]

tank looks gr8 mate, well done