Jess Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 I thought I would share photos of 3 of my 7 tanks, past and present. I am in the process of overhauling my fishies and tanks over the next week! V. exciting!! I will update my photos after I have moved tanks around and all fish are settled! Little 30L tank @ time of photo it housed: 5 sparkling gouramis, 1 female imbellis, 1 kuhli loach. (in the small floating tank was 1 week old sparkling gourami fry) 80L Octagonal tank @ time of photo it housed: 20 Neon tetras, Guppies, snails. 200L feature tank @ time of photo (Dec 04/early 05) it house, a pair of Kribensis, school of Neon tetras, Guppies, 1 apistogramma cacatuoides, 2 BN's, snails and 3 hybrid wild bettas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciara Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 :love: Your tanks are always so nice looking, I head straight for the fish room to have a nosey whenever I visit! What about a pic of your blue guy in the big tank, faewyn? :cheer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Thanks Ciara I have some pics, but they are horrid! I will post them soom. I have my wild pairs in the tanks with eachother, conditioning them up. I should take some more recent photos, but I take horrid close ups :oops: Here is a 2ft I didn't post up! It has a pair of kribs in it now, and a betta enisae (my female krib wants my enisae ) The kribs are going to be re-homed soon.. I have plans for more tanks shhh.. Mr fae has no idea of my hidden agenda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Your tanks look so green Jess, I love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Thought I would update some my pics This is my 4ft tank, currently holding a pair of kribs and a female BN The fish room I am still rearranging and working on things, hopefully soon we will have a 6>8ft wooden stand across the whole wall so it is more appealing (that is what Marks says) and I can fit more 2ft tanks in the room, about 3-4 more tanks The stand, holds the smallish tanks and spawn tubs and the 2ft. Most are still going through an overhaul, but it takes time will post more later ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mango4Jade Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 ;) Wow! Very very nice! The water is crystal clear! and the plants are healthy! Great work! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure_8 Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 I love the look of your 4ft tank Jess!! Its looking so great! Especially the log ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canfeleq Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Would you like to come a set mine up for me Jess? I would love a tank that looks as good as yours, I have a four foot with crystal clear water, very stunted plants and lots of algae ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najoha Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Do you feed your plants, use co2? Basically what is your trick to the lovely green growth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted July 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Thanks guys for the great comments !!!! I don't use plant fertilisers, I want to though, and I want a CO2 unit aswell!! Plants just grow for me, plus I avoid the plants that are a PITA and touchy. My tanks always get a good amount of sunlight aswell as from the hood. I have peat in the filters and I also poke some peat granules around the plants, it seems to be of some benefit. I add black water extract to the tanks aswell, that is nutrients and goodies too. The BN stops any algae forming in the tank I think peat and BW extract helps alot I am going to make a CO2 system up using a coke bottle soon, I started it back in feb, but it was abandon whem my patience died ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure_8 Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 I wish I had a soggy green thumb like that! I've managed to wipe out every plant I've bought bar 1.. and that particular plant seems to thrive on my bumbing effort :thumbs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canfeleq Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 I know that problem - I can even kill duckweed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 definitely try the DIY Co2, the plants will virtually grow as you watch them. I used to have to cut off and throw/give away 1' of stem plants every week when i was using it. Just give it a try to see what happens, it is so cool when they grow well! As long as you have enough light and limit it to 10 - 12 hours a day, I bet they go ballistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure_8 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I would love to try the DIY CO2 if there was a setup that I could hide from view. GB would go ballistic having a row of coke bottles and tubing sat on top of the tank :thumbs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I printed out an article on CO2 this morning, turned out to be 25 pages long!! Here is the link, I am off to buy a bottle of fizzy in the morning, so I can use this as the bottles. I am having nightmares of spillages and so forth. I have come to the conclusion of trying a wooden airtsone for dispersing the CO2 in the tank though. Those bubbles are so tiny. I just hope I don't have a major pH crash also!! Might start a CO2 thread, might provide to be very useful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I would personally advise against an airstone, as they can clog up, then you get exploding-bottle-stinky-beer-wall-patterns etc. I find it is good to just use airline tubing, but put the end somewhere that the bubbles get chopped up, eg if they can get sucked into a canister filter and then pumped out the other end as tiny bubbles. definitely use a backflow check valve, and keep the bottles warm enough. I used to keep tem in a bucket of water with a heater in it in winter. Go the DIY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Thanks for the tip Lilli. Our house is heated 18 hours a day so no probs with the heat part. I can poke it near the intake valve of the cannister filter, swoosha! Back flow valve? thats one of those little valves I have on all my tubes to stop water going inside the airpumps? Their is not much resistence on there, providing you face it the right way :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 hmm, yeah I have found that. wonder if any of them actually work? I use them on a siphon if I have to waterchange v little fry, to get a drippy water flow rate. they all do it, all the ones I have tried! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure_8 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I would really appreciate a step by step -photos as you go thread about this if you wouldn't mind Jess. It will also give a good idea of the results by comparing the before and after photos. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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