The Outdoor Tank

[Liam]

This is the outside tank which some of you might remember, as of today. I am going to keep it going, with insulation and cover. It needs some new lights now, its been going on sunlight since late April but has slowed with the fading light. Its 250l, diy Co2, soil, sand and gravel, I give it some trace fert every 2 weeks and a few root tabs sometimes. Some algae but nothing that the algae crew cant cope with. I give it a big trim when I cant see the fish. Its been pretty heavily planted from the start with hornwort and egeria densa, but I have replaced them over the months, Its more of a plant collection than a design, but I think it looks nice.

 

[George Farmer]

It does like very nice. Wonderful healthy looking growth and a great jungle style aquascape. Your fish must be very happy in there.

Interesting to see such success with sunlight, just shows that if there's enough bio-mass then the type of light is almost irrelevant.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[PaulasPets]

There's no light like sunlight! Your tank looks really good and healthy. Great job

 

[Themuleous]

Lovely tank, you clearly have some skill with planted tanks

Sam

 

[mantis147]

That looks amazing well done!!

 

[Liam]

View attachment 38646View attachment 38646Thanks for all the positive feedback. Yeah the reds are good FKNM, some of them were almost purple a month ago, recent growth is not so intensely coloured.
Yeah George I was expecting algae heaven, there was some but less than in indoor tanks I have had, as you say it must be the amount of plants and fast growth that has left little room for the algae.
I learned the lesson of heavy planting here and the diy Co2. I am going to get a pressurised system soon. Even in June and July when the photoperiod was about 16 hours the algae wasn’t a problem and I guess like the garden tropical plants the water plants adjust and grew more in the long days. I have never really had to clean the front glass a regular job in the low-tech tanks I had before.

The 41 fish and 6 shrimp are happy and healthy, most are small like rasbora brigitte and dario dario and c. tetras, the SAEs, cories and the betta are the biggest. Touch wood no losses so far except one shrimp.

Anyone know the names of these two plants, got them nameless in LFS thanks!

 

[VidVid]

I dont know the one on the right but i suspect the left being some sort of bacopa (similar to my plant)...im not 100% sure though.