Hi. The name is Graeme, and I am just getting into tropicals thanks to my 6 year old boys school project. he set up the tank in the photo (with a lot of help) but we have a slight disagreement about which fish to stock as I like the colourful- neons, fancy guppies etc, and he likes the more weird and wonderful- kuhlis, Otos, peppered Corys etc
It is a slightly overstocked 97L tank right now- 8 Harlequin rasboras, 8 leopard Danios, 5 reed Tetras, 4 glass bloodfins, a few guppies, 2 otos, 4 peppered Corys, 1 loach 9the other has vanished) and as we are having real trouble with ammonia in a small holding tank it now has some guppies, with the one surviving fry.
I aim to set up an AR850 or similar in the lounge when budget permits, and I can run it from somewhere without an RCD that can occasionally cut out if our outdoor goldfish pond pump cuts out, but until then I might try some plant propogation as they are so expensive in the shops. As the tank came with a very old light unit that is almost useless they will have to be low light tolerant as I can't afford to replace the wiring set up:(
if I can manage it I'll get my retired mum to join too, as she has always been the fishkeeper, but having had to give up her fish on moving out here from the UK, as she has 11 tanks, but only 2 with fish.The school project has given her the fish bug again but it will take a long time to restock if we use Animates, or even Hollywood fishfarm or the Bird barn- our local options
I'll be interested to hear any tricks to getting an AR380 38L tank under control as nothing so far is stopping the ammonia spiking. I was hoping not to have to run for 2 months before being able to use
Other than the fish, my other hobby is older Volvos
