antwan Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 That is not fair, on two separate accounts. Firstly, that's some damn nice planting. Secondly, are those a festivum Gourami? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 That looks great Antwan. I love the look of the wood and the festivum are cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Great layout, i like the driftwood too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 :nfs: !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 :thup: !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaM Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Awesome setup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 :nfs: festivum :thup: Looking good Ant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Looks awesome - almost makes me want to try setting up a nice tank again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Beautiful tank !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Sweet scape Nice festivums Looks awesome - almost makes me want to try setting up a nice tank again! Comon.. You Know you want too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted February 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlu279 Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 Awesome tank i need to get me some driftwood like that :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 Awesome tank i need to get me some driftwood like that :thup: Any ideas on where to start looking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted February 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Nice looking tank and really cool layout with that driftwood.... nice work cuzzie. Has the big girl released the young ones yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodKing Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Good work. You're a brave man to have that much water indoors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Looks really good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodKing Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Yowzer! :dead%fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 What on earth's a yowzer? :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 What on earth's a yowzer? :dunno: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yowzer&l=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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