and decided to make a small tank(540w x 430l x 240 h) from some glass I got given from work, origianaly it was ment to be a fry tank but as the time went by it go no use.
so the other day when I was ment to be studying but insteed I started looking through youtube for ideas for a future cichlid tank, I sore a tank with a real rock background and thought strait away that the little tank that I made months ago would look rad with something like that.
So the thoughts became a brain storm session and within a week my little fry tank had a background on it.
hmmm now what to do with it I think??? Plants, I have wanted to have a play with plants for some time so planting this bugger out was the new plan. :thup:
I had a spare light, am happy with a DIY co2 unit for now and had a bag of peat floating about, so I went to Mitre10 looking for some of this daltons stuff everyone talks about, but couldnt find any. so I ended up geting a bag of aquatic plant soil, in a white bag for $11. has anyone used this before? Will it help or hinder my plants and fish? The lady said it should be fine so I trusted her.So far this tank has cost me only about $20 which I think is pretty cool :happy1:
So I worked out that I had a very small peice of javefern floating somewhere and I can steal some dwarf sag off my flatmate, 2 plants sorted.
Because of the size of the tank I want only to have 3 or maybe 4 types of plants, 1 being the sag, one being the javafern on the back ground and was thinking about some type of crypt and/or Polysperma. any issues thus far with my plan?
Fish wise I was looking at geting a group of corydoras and some type of guppie/ some corydoras and a pair of Apisto's (dont know what sort yet) or last option some croydoras and some type of ram (again unsure of type) Does anybody see any issues with any of these combinations?
Any help any experience any thoughts please let me know !