Hey everyone.
As some of you may have seen, I recently convinced my boyfriend to buy me a 36X18X15 35 gallon tank for £30 from a tankmakers, obviously someone ordered it to be made there and decided they didnt want it, so theyve put it for sale for v. cheap!
So I brought it home, and then found out the only place it could fit was on my windowsill.
Problem? It was at first, then I've just been speaking with micko, who said his plants are growing like wildfire under natural light, so I though, why not?
So at the moment, it will just be tank with no lid or lights, with external heater and filter, planted quite heavily with bogwood (sumatran roots i think) and possibly an emergent plant as seen in BigTom's thread (with caution as apparently if the stem snaps it can cause a fair amount of damage.
This tank will be low tech, no additives other than fish waste, which is why i will be building everything up slowly, and no lights other than sunlight.
I will be on the lookout for algae, and i may purchase a small group of oto's, should i not be able to control it. (I love oto's!)
Filtration will be an eheim 2213, with a hydor inline heater.
I've called it window to the world because it completely covers my windowsill from where i lie in bed, so all i can see is through the fishtank. I mmay also buy a blind to slightly shade the tank to avoid overheating.
I'm going for a jungle look, with moss everywhere, and the roots creating mazes so that the fish disappear for a while. I imagine it in my head as like the gumtree forests in the Silver Brumby books, the books i grew up on, and where my love for horses comes from.
ATM it will be black sand and possibly large pea gravel to break things up, but again, not sure on this, might change to dark beige sand and pea gravel.
Just a few questions.
1) Are dwarf neon rainbowfish jumpy fish?
2) Are there any obviosu problems at the moment in your eyes?
3) Do you think this will work!?
Will post pics in a few hours, as im going to go and change everything over now
As some of you may have seen, I recently convinced my boyfriend to buy me a 36X18X15 35 gallon tank for £30 from a tankmakers, obviously someone ordered it to be made there and decided they didnt want it, so theyve put it for sale for v. cheap!
So I brought it home, and then found out the only place it could fit was on my windowsill.
Problem? It was at first, then I've just been speaking with micko, who said his plants are growing like wildfire under natural light, so I though, why not?
So at the moment, it will just be tank with no lid or lights, with external heater and filter, planted quite heavily with bogwood (sumatran roots i think) and possibly an emergent plant as seen in BigTom's thread (with caution as apparently if the stem snaps it can cause a fair amount of damage.
This tank will be low tech, no additives other than fish waste, which is why i will be building everything up slowly, and no lights other than sunlight.
I will be on the lookout for algae, and i may purchase a small group of oto's, should i not be able to control it. (I love oto's!)
Filtration will be an eheim 2213, with a hydor inline heater.
I've called it window to the world because it completely covers my windowsill from where i lie in bed, so all i can see is through the fishtank. I mmay also buy a blind to slightly shade the tank to avoid overheating.
I'm going for a jungle look, with moss everywhere, and the roots creating mazes so that the fish disappear for a while. I imagine it in my head as like the gumtree forests in the Silver Brumby books, the books i grew up on, and where my love for horses comes from.
ATM it will be black sand and possibly large pea gravel to break things up, but again, not sure on this, might change to dark beige sand and pea gravel.
Just a few questions.
1) Are dwarf neon rainbowfish jumpy fish?
2) Are there any obviosu problems at the moment in your eyes?
3) Do you think this will work!?
Will post pics in a few hours, as im going to go and change everything over now
really looking forward to seeing this!
