This tank has been set up for a few weeks now so thought I would post some photo's of the progress so far. I'm pretty happy with it and can't wait for it to fill in.

Tank: 250L, std. 4'

Light: 150W metal halide (of course), 6700K bulb

Filter: Aqua One cf1200

CO2: Pressurised 5kg bottle with inline diffuser.

I got this stand made by R32GOTMLK and it's beasty, very well built

Lots of photo's cos photo's are fun.

Lovely West Coast driftwood to choose from

Beginning of initial scape

Then I scored a massive piece of needle leaf java fern and a bunch of neons and anubias

And tonight (Hemianthus micranthemoides, woot)

This girl's about ready to pop, I can see all the individual eyes of her fry inside her

Last but certainly not least

That is not fair, on two separate accounts.

Firstly, that's some damn nice planting.

Secondly, are those a festivum Gourami?

That looks great Antwan.

I love the look of the wood and the festivum are cool.

Great layout, i like the driftwood too.

:thup:

That is not fair, on two separate accounts.

Firstly, that's some damn nice planting.

Secondly, are those a festivum Gourami?

Thank you. You are very close, they are festivum cichlids. Cool little fish, I think I'll get a couple more

:nfs: !drool:

:thup: !drool:

Awesome setup!

:nfs: festivum

:thup: Looking good Ant.

Looks awesome - almost makes me want to try setting up a nice tank again!

Beautiful tank !drool:

Sweet scape Nice festivums

Looks awesome - almost makes me want to try setting up a nice tank again!

Comon.. You Know you want too...

Thanks everyone.

I bought two little male endler's guppies yesterday with the coolest colours. I saw a festivum chasing one yesterday and now they've disappeared overnight. Bit of a shame, but hopefully they did their job on the females and they can live on in a month or so.

I agree with Liam, go for it Neon. When you do make sure to chuck some photo's up here, your tanks were awesome when we were up!

Awesome tank i need to get me some driftwood like that :thup:

Awesome tank i need to get me some driftwood like that :thup:

Any ideas on where to start looking?

I got mine at a rivermouth just north of Greymouth. There's tonnes of it along the west coast, it's awesome. I used to live in tga and didn't really have much success finding driftwood around there, but you could try the rivers up the kaimais? If no driftwood there's glosso galore (or at least used to be) growing up there.

Nice looking tank and really cool layout with that driftwood.... nice work cuzzie.

Has the big girl released the young ones yet?

Good work. You're a brave man to have that much water indoors

Nice looking tank and really cool layout with that driftwood.... nice work cuzzie.

Has the big girl released the young ones yet?

Thanks Mike! I got about 2L of xmas moss in the mail today so I'm gonna tie that to a solid piece of wood and have it on the left, should look good.

And nah she still hasn't! A bit slack really.

Good work. You're a brave man to have that much water indoors

It doesn't seem like much after having the 650L spill it's guts so many times over the carpet.

In other news I got another 4 footer yesterday, should make a nice home to a leaf fish and some catfish :thup:

Looks really good!

Thanks!

Disaster struck this afternoon. I set up the new tank and chucked the canister on it and everything (used already cycled media) and chucked all the livebearers in, but I forgot the strainer on the intake :facepalm: Had two little guys in the canister that survived but I lost my second biggest platy female. she was only stuck for about 15 minutes but she didn't survive. So I thought I'd cut her open as she was pretty fat.

Don't look if you don't like looking at things cut open

It's amazing how much fits into this little package

At least the neons had a good feed.

Yowzer! :dead%fish

What on earth's a yowzer? :dunno:

What on earth's a yowzer? :dunno:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yowzer&l=1