Wellydave

wow i really like the rasboras are cool! im not really too fussed on colours in perticular just want a nice big community tank with plenty fish and plants and lots of movement haha so far the fish short list consists of 10 or so neon tetras 10 or so glow light tetras 10 or so black neon tetras 10 or so harlequin rasbora's 10 or so cherry barbs a few khuli loaches (not shure on spelling and also was told they like to burrow so mabie not?? any ideas on what they would be like with ripping up pants and such?) 2 Ramirezi Blue's mabie 4 if they will be ok with all the other fish a few shrimp's to cruse around too they creep me out but look cool haha i was at a pet store the other day and they had 2 little tiny fish in one of the fresh water tanks that looked like clown fish same colouring and such but they were tiny i cant remeber what they were called but the guy there said they will not grow much bigger than that would of been like 1 - 2cm max any ideas on what they would have been? would like some of those too haha but like i said any sugestions on cool looking school fish are much appreciated thanks Sam for the info on co2 will have a look around for a bigger tank

Ok so as for the co2 how would i go about sourcing a larger tank? For the lights my tank is going to be 700mm high so will 2 x 250w's do the trick? For the fish i was more just looking for sugestions of smaller cool looking schooling fish thanks for the quick reply like i said im fairly new at this so have lots of questions haha :facepalm:

One last question filter media i was thinking of mabie dojng a mixture on the 3 different densitys of poret foam and mabie some noodles or something along those lines but yet again all sugestions are welcome thanks for any comments/ help with my questions just want to do it right the first time haha

Hey guys im new here and fairly new to the whole fish keeping thing, basicly a couple months back i brought a 140ltr tank and set it up with a few live plants and tetras guppies and algae eaters but have since decided it is far to small so have been out to see peter at port nicholson glass and he is building me a new tank 160cm x 60cm x 70cm with a sump set up for filtration whitch will be 100x50x50. Now i want to do this tank properly and have it heavily planted and have lots of smaller schooling fish with maby a couple blue rams. So the questions i have for you all are 1. Best sugestions for substrait im currtently leaning towards a mixture of seachem flourite, seachem black sand flourite and silica sand but am open to sugestions 2. Co2 systems. I have seen a couple of the sodastream co2 systems as of late and was thinking about duin the same sort of thing but using a co2 canister from my paintball gun that i have spare. Have any of you done this and if so o you know where i can source a regulator from to fit? 3. Lighting. Leaning towards 2 x 250w metal halide's do you think this will be sufficent? If not what do you all sugest? 4. Where is going to be the best place to source plants as i am going to need quite alot of plants and want them to be good quailty to start with so there isnt so much mucking around with replacing dead plants and such And finaly stocking i really want lots and lots of smaller schooling fish eg neons and that sothe scale of the tank looks huge with a couple bigger fish say maby 2 blue rams as i love the colour and shape of them Thanks for any help on the matter will be starting a detailed build thread once my tank arrives and construction starts on the stand