This is a second hand Juwel Rekord 60 tank. It's my first all in one tank.

It's 600mm long by about 350mm high, 300mm front to back.

Internal box type filter with 2 non juwel filter sponges and bionoodles inside, a 100watt heater.

There's a Juwel Daylight 15w T8 bulb inside the lid.

Bits and pieces

Filter innards

A little tank waits for a new stand to be built….

New stand takes shape

Quirky detail courtesy of my husband

Finished stand

Went rock hunting today… scored these from Avondale Central Landscape supplies. They are large river pebbles.

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Fish plans?

if I had decided on that, I would have said so by now :sml2:

Is there a short list?

:cofn: :spop:

Is there a short list?

A long short list probably :lol:

Very keen to see how this one turns out! Info on plans Sophia? High/low tech? Layout ideas? :spop:

looks good, I like the way the heater sits in that box out of the way. very good design

What I know so far:

It's going to be low tech in that it won't have c02, lights on probably 4-6 hours a day as there is a lot of natural light in the room already.

The filter washes the water anticlockwise along the back and there is a sort of dead spot in front of the filter. I'm trying to arrange the layout so that it takes this into account rather than make something that fills up with plants and then gets gunky or cyano in the corners as my other 2 tanks have done. I'm thinking something like a raised island in the middle with stones and plants, gravel built up at the back so there is a bit of height and depth, and some pockets of sand either between the stones or along the front somewhere, or maybe a little path down the middle. It will either be a blob of island or a longish island. I want to stick plants to some rocks, and have some rocks bare to show their interesting markings or eventually get algae on. There is a bucket of dark grey gravel too.

Either a tall plant like crypt balansae somewhere, or a piece of driftwood with java fern that sticks up. I have bought 2 small barthii sword plants so far to go somewhere.

Filter inlets are 2-3mm wide so I'm a bit worried about fish getting stuck in there so I'm thinking of covering them with mesh. The inlets on the front of the box are blocked by the filter noodle bag so it would be hard to get something in there.

Going to try this one with no background since the wall behind is plain cream. Sand will be light beige/grey beach sand or silica in contrast to the rocks.

What I want to do is put the loaches in here with the 3 corydora and maybe get a new dither fish that I don't have. Either that or some other loaches that don't get too big. Or a bigger school of loaches. Or I leave the corydora in their current tank and get a bigger school of different corydora or something else (that is my long short list). There are too many fish choices yet. Since I started fishkeeping I've wanted to create a tank with current where the fish swim around and play, especially with corydora and loaches so as much as I can I am aiming for this.

I think that's about all so far. :nilly:

carefully positioned flat rocks can redirect current quite effectively, plus they look natural if the plants are bending towards the current flow

The inlets on the front of the box are blocked by the filter noodle bag so it would be hard to get something in there.

Shouldn't it be blocked by mechanical media?

I like the idea of an island style layout, I've seen some with sandy foregrounds that trail to the back on each side with heavy planting in the centre. Then the difference between the two is broken up with various grades of pebbles in the same style as the main rocks or substrate. Can't wait to see this one!

Island style would be Cool, with some moss covered driftwood sticking out :thup: :spop:

Shouldn't it be blocked by mechanical media?

if you see the picture of the top of the filter box, the inlets are under the outlet pipe. So the front inlets are blocked with filter media, the back right corner is taken up with the heater (there aren't any inlets anyone could get to on that side unless they jumped over the top... possible) but the side inlets are largely unblocked on the inside as that is where it sucks in the main water to go through the pump. Anyone in there would get sucked into the pump and become a FishJuice

Looking great Sophia! :thup:

Looking good . Heard you were at HFF earlier today (eyeing up potential fish to stock I suppose?) guess Sunday is fish day for both of us now .

haha we are addicts!

haha we are addicts!

Haha I'm still more of a puppy addict though, only went to fish store cause it's kinda close to the park that Sherlock and I go to. This tank is getting pretty fully. Once I get some cories, it's no more new fish for me since the tank I've been stocking would be fully stocked by then.

i thorght it was going to be a real tank not a toy tank..what about a shrimp tank..one or two should max it out.. :slfg: :rotf: :rotf:

what's a shimp?

I think Anthony is afraid of little tanks, it takes a fine touch to keep them balanced afterall :roll:

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nar im not afraid of little tanks,,ive got better things to do.than trying to keep things in balance in a puddle.. :digH: :rotf: :rotf:

must amite a nice setup in a puddle can look nice ..but the same in a larger tank looks more better,,and get a truer naturel habiat 8)

Great job on the stand! Does he do that for a living?

Great job on the stand! Does he do that for a living?

he did make and sell his furniture for a short time but now he only does it under sufferance as it's not a task he enjoys anymore. Luckily I managed to get him to make almost a whole house worth of furniture before he said no more :roey:

Very elegant stand i like it!

Just goes to show that you shouldn't do what you love for a day job. You quickly find things that ruin it for you.

what are you trying to say ???