JJWooble Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hi allI have been told by my mother that she wants me to set up a tank for her kitchen. She was attempting to convince me to give up the tank in the photograph for this purpose, but as it is my favourite tank I have promised to make her one that is similar, riparium plants and all. That tank has a compartment sectioned off for the filtration completely along the back of the tank so the plan would be either to buy a 50-60 L glass tank and then get some plastic cut, drilled and siliconed in for the back section, have a tank custom made with this back compartment, or go with the 'next best' option of a HOB with baskets along the back for the riparium plants. Suggestions on who to go for to get the tank custom made is appreciated. It would need to have holes at one end for the intake of the water, then room for a heater, sponges, media and a pump, then a hole for the pump outlet to go through. Thoughts on stock list:2x Steel Blue Apistos 15x Cardinal tetra (mum loves them) and then a bunch of cories-- either my group of 9 pygmy cories or a group of ~10 panda corys or both (would this work ok?) Plants/scape:I would try to replicate the 'feel' of my favourite tank but with different plants. Using a similar type of rock and driftwood, but perhaps substituting the twisted val for ambulia and adding in a ground cover plant such as chain swords, dwarf sag or dwarf hairgrass depending on what I could find. Riparium plants would most likely be parlour palm and syngonium as they seem to be the ones that do well in my other tanks. I would also create cave structures for the apistos. The lighting would most likely be a LED unit of some description. Any input, particularly regarding whether the two groups of cory would go ok together (my pygmys currently reside alongside a large group of kuhli loaches and seem to compete well) and what kind of ground cover plant to go for is much appreciated. kiwiraka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gligor Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Wow! That tank looks really nice! Good luck with your new project and post some pics JJWooble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJWooble Posted December 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Thanks will do!Atm I'm growing out apisto fry (photo attached was them a few days ago) for someone so if he's happy for me to have two then I'll get the feature for the tank from there also growing some anubias, xmas moss and rotala which I may use for the tank too, just still not 100% sure if I want to go rotala or ambulia yet.Its looking like I'll be away a bit in the next few weeks but hopefully this tank will be cycled, scaped and ready for fish by mid Febuary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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