New 250L Planted Tank Build!

[Blondielovesfish]

Looks great, will look even better once those grass plants grow more. Good job

 

[TaurineLittle]

Thanks they have actually grown a little but not enough to tell from photos, when the shrimp and fish are in I'll definitely post some more!

 

[Blondielovesfish]

I look forward to it

 

[Litheon]

Well done, like the DIY skills there. Light stand looks superb. And to think you got that tank for $50.. now look at it all! Looks great!

 

[TaurineLittle]

Haha thanks Litheon, I have a few years carpentry experience so I know a little bit about what I'm doing

Yeah, I'm really happy with how it has turned out and very excited to see how it will look once everything is established

 

[TaurineLittle]

Tank has finally cycled! pretty psyched! Got the neons acclimating now will be getting the rasboras in a few days as well! will have a couple photos up tomorrow

 

[Blondielovesfish]

Great news! Aren't you glad your patience payed off? 
Looking forward to pics! 

 

[ncguppy830]

awesome love to see rasboras

 

[TaurineLittle]

I wont be getting the rasboras for a couple days, so for now its just my neons

getting shrimp on wednesday though.
 
And I know I have a fair bit of algae in my tank spread over the substrate and glass, all of it grew while I was cycling the tank but it has stopped growing and actually started to fade away now that the tank is running at full speed

I want to try and get this tank balanced naturally with a strict fert regime.

 
Sorry about the quality, I'll try to get a better one over the next few days

 

Oh also as you can see the hairgrass has taken off quite nicely, but I had some sort of grub or catepillar infestation (I'm assuming they were larvae from a mosquito or insect) and they absolutely made a mess of my rotala nanjenshen so I had to remove all of it also my rotala waliichii was planted too close together (silly me didnt think of the light not getting down there) and so the undersides werent getting enough light and so the bottoms of them started to die off, so I thinned it out and trimmed the bottoms off and they have started growing quite nicely since
 

My limnophilia aromatica was ravaged by the grubs as well but I've trimmed it all and its starting to make quite a nice come back with quite a few new shoots. There are more stems like this one haha, just wanted to show the progress of this one.
 
One more thing, when the chat was up and running I had a talk with eagles and TTA and various other people about different plants that would look good in here and where I should put them. So since the rotala nanjenshen has gone I will be putting a nice Red tiger lotus in the back right corner and I will be putting 3 or 4 Crypt Petchii in and planting them where the driftwood touches the substrate Hopefully it will look awesome haha.

 

[Blondielovesfish]

Looks good! Will look even better once those plants carpet the bottom.

 

[TallTree01]

Nice crops carpeting plants! 
I like the wood bit.

 

[TaurineLittle]

Haha thanks BLF and TT I thought it would be better to plant them like that rather than randomly, cause I needed to plan out how many pots of the stuff I needed to buy.

 

[ncguppy830]

wow great i love the hairgrass..

 

[TaurineLittle]

WOOT!! got my red cherries!

pretty happy lol. Thanks ncguppy

 

Adult and a largish baby

 

Managed to get about 3 berried shrimp!

pretty happy with the mix I got.
Will hopefully get some better pics tomorrow

 

[Blondielovesfish]

Yay!
More pics!