Reply With QuoteVery nice setup! Is that a red shrimp I spotted at the middle?
Hello everyone,
Would like to share with you my latest tank layout.
Apologies for the quality of pictures. Photoshop is messing me about so these are straight from the camera.
Tank specs:
Lighting: 2 x 24watt t5 8 hours daily
Filter: Fluval 405
Added flow with Hydor Koralia 4
Heater: Hydor 300w external
Substrate: Oliver Knott Nature Soil Brown
Sand: Unipac Zambezi sand, Graded gravels collected.
Co2: Pressurized 3 bps
Ferts: Dry powders
Fish list: numbers of green neon, black neon, red eye, gold and columbian tetras (Hence the title) the Rhomboocellatus barbs, 3 SAE's, Laetecara Dorsigera and otto's.
Thank you and comments more than welcome.
Very nice setup! Is that a red shrimp I spotted at the middle?
Yes it is!
I have a load of cherry shrimps in the tank breeding.
This layout has been going for less than 2 weeks now, hopefully the shrimp haven't minded the move around and continue breeding.
It's a good thing that your setup has many hiding spots for your shrimplets. if not they might justOriginally Posted by cicjay
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Wow very nice layout!
Where are you from by the way?
I can't wait to see those crypts growing into more dense and compact form.
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Pretty pretty!
very nice layout and woods! wow, your cherries managed to breed amongst a swarm of carnivorous?
Thank you. I'm from London, England.
Yes once the crypts have settled back in and started growing new leaves, they should look great.
Cryptocoryne Parva at the front is such a slow grower
Yep. Actually seen a couple with more eggs so should get a fresh supply soon.
Here is a pic of my two favourite tetras. 10 Green neons and 4 columbians, always seem to shoal together. Hopefully they still do when the columbian tetras start to grow a lot bigger.
wow... this is a very nice layout...
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Your foreground looks natural, not uniform, which enhance your plants. Really look like a biotope. Very nice.
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Well its been a while since an update... basically there's not been much going on. Slow growth an all.
Couple of new plants thrown in.
Little bit of melt on the crypts i took from my nano.
Some of the hygo coming along. You can see some blyxa japonica just behind that i planted. Not doing too well now, so I'm going to change it for more dependable crypts.
Full tank shot from saturday..
Cleared the foreground more. Felt there was too many stones and it took away any perception of depth.
Wanting to get rid of near all the microsorum and replace with a few more bolbitis and mosses.
Also, changed the vallis nana for eleocharis vivpara.
Thanks.
I like this layout very much - so much so that I rescaped my 3 feet tank to something like yours very recently. I've transferred most of my crypts from my smaller tank and many leaves are melting away. Still pondering what fish to put in though your columbian tetras look beautiful in your tank layout.
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Well I'm glad I've inspired someone! You're spot on with those Columbians, I absolutely love them. Whenever i look at them i want to set up my 4ft tank again and get a great shoal of them. Very underrated fish because they can sometimes look a little pale in the shops.
Good luck with your tank. And get some pictures up!
what plant are u using
Very nice looking tank.
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Very nice setup. Inspiring!
This looks great ! very natural feeling! Does the internal water fan helps to cool down the temp and help plant survive better?
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