Your current Fish tank Setups!

robfosters said:
Not even a Betta?

Although I will admit, I originally read it as 25g, hence my reply. I can't imagine keeping a goldfish in a 25 litre.
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sure there an exception for eveyting ;) 1 betta would fine but cant think of any popular tropical fish that would go in most small fish will need large numbers to feel safe

yeah hoping im corrected and its a 25g
 
BigBruiserAl said:
TBH in your shoes I would get the fish on your next days off (so you can watch for stress) a single fish will produce minimal ammonia the bacteria will be ready to take on his poop by now ;)
Your biggest enemy will be you feeding, thinking his hungry and the wasted food producing the excess ammonia/waste. it will have a tiny stomach and will do just fine with 3-4 feeds per 7 days.
Regarding water changes leaving the water to stand for 24 before water changes applies to big water changes 50% or very expensive/fragile fish.

Little and often from the tap drop of prime boom done. maybe 20% water change per 7 days (call 3 litres), problems start when you lazy and think sod ill miss a week and try 40 % the week after, your chemistry goes all over HTH ;):p
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Thanks. Can you recommend anything other than aquasafe for making the tap water good or is that what prime is?
 
MassiveJim said:
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Very nice tank indeed, you're much more creative with your layout than I am, I've never been that good at the actual aquascaping aspect myself.
 
MassiveJim said:
Thanks :)
Most of it is plastic plants though.
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They look very realistic in the photos. :)

Real plants, when in good condition, are much nicer though in my opinion. But in a lot of respects they can be harder to maintain successfully than the fish. I think this puts a lot of people off having them.

I certainly didn't have real plants for a good few years after I started keeping fish, because I couldn't keep them alive back then.
 
my oh-so-easy water changes. Water siphoned out the nearby door to outside, water pumped in from the storage tank on the other side. storage tank refilled by mains water supply (tapped off it). Takes about 10 mins of actually doing things, and elapsed time of however long it takes to drain and fill, and can generally leave it alone and do other things while it is draining/filling although when filling I obviously have to not forget about it :P



 
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Munchy2007 said:
They look very realistic in the photos. :)

Real plants, when in good condition, are much nicer though in my opinion. But in a lot of respects they can be harder to maintain successfully than the fish. I think this puts a lot of people off having them.

I certainly didn't have real plants for a good few years after I started keeping fish, because I couldn't keep them alive back then.
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They did stick out like a sore thumb when they were brand new, now they have a bit of grubbiness to them they do blend well.

I did spend a little bit more on these than when I first bought fake plants and they do seem better, although with my first plants I didn't have quite so much space to fill.


Has anyone here played with a constant drip water change system ?
I set mine up a month ago, where my tank is positioned is right in front of a flu the builder put in should I ever want to instal a gas fire, so I ran pipe down from the loft to the tank and then drilled a hole in the front wall for the siphon pipe to drain the water back out and it exits the wall right next to a drain pipe.
So nice not to have to do massive water changes every week now :D
 
arc@css said:
^^ Is that a 350 litre tank? Looks like a nice one. :)
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400l - aquience 1500r

my first one was a fluval roma 200l which is upstairs but i've got tubing and holes set up so it can use the same water change system, going to resurrect it very soon and try a cichlid tank

I did have a plan to get the 600l 1800r later to go on the other side of the room and have it as a reef tank, but I'm not actually sure I'd be able to get it in the room :O

and it was hard enough getting this one onto the cabinet I dread to think what a bigger one is like
 
MassiveJim said:
Has anyone here played with a constant drip water change system ?
I set mine up a month ago, where my tank is positioned is right in front of a flu the builder put in should I ever want to instal a gas fire, so I ran pipe down from the loft to the tank and then drilled a hole in the front wall for the siphon pipe to drain the water back out and it exits the wall right next to a drain pipe.
So nice not to have to do massive water changes every week now :D
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no but if you look at my current setup on the previous page, I think I could very easily convert it to one...am thinking of trying it especially as my tank is getting pretty heavily stocked and I still want a few more. it'd be fantastic for being able to go away as well
 
Delvis said:
Thanks. Can you recommend anything other than aquasafe for making the tap water good or is that what prime is?
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yup prime is the king imo, expensive but it does multiple things in the tank and has saved my expensive fish a few time over the years when something went wrong or had a spike etc...:cool:
 
So use that instead of aqua safe?

If I was to use this, would it be worth using it then testing water co editions prior to getting the betta?
 
BigBruiserAl said:
yup prime is the king imo, expensive but it does multiple things in the tank and has saved my expensive fish a few time over the years when something went wrong or had a spike etc...:cool:
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Vote for prime here as well. Best of them all imo.

One thing to note about prime though, is that if you use an API liquid test kit for ammonia, it can give a false positive if you test within 48 hours of adding it.

Test your water just before adding prime and leave at least 24 hours until testing again.

I dont really think it's worth it if you have a nicely cycled filter, but some people also put a capful in when adding fish to protect them if the filter needs to catch up with the increased bioload. Probably more beneficial with large fish, like Malawi Cichlids than small tetras and the like. Whatever, It won't do any harm.
 
Delvis said:
So use that instead of aqua safe?

If I was to use this, would it be worth using it then testing water co editions prior to getting the betta?
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Copy and paste:p
Prime® is the complete and concentrated conditioner for both fresh and salt water. Prime® removes chlorine, chloramine and ammonia. Prime® converts ammonia into a safe, non-toxic form that is readily removed by the tank’s biofilter. Prime® may be used during tank cycling to alleviate ammonia/nitrite toxicity. Prime® detoxifies nitrite and nitrate, allowing the biofilter to more efficiently remove them. It will also detoxify any heavy metals found in the tap water at typical concentration levels. Prime® also promotes the production and regeneration of the natural slime coat.

Following your progress I would do a 100% W/C Just for the very 1st fill up, use a bucket of tap water 12L ofc use prime in it mix for 5 min, get that to temp, full 100% W/C arrange tank go get fish.
The only reason for the bucket method is the bacteria will immature and we don't wanna **** em off. W/c after I would still use tap to tank and long as there 1-30% changes
 
robfosters said:
Vote for prime here as well. Best of them all imo.

One thing to note about prime though, is that if you use an API liquid test kit for ammonia, it can give a false positive if you test within 48 hours of adding it.

Test your water just before adding prime and leave at least 24 hours until testing again.

I dont really think it's worth it if you have a nicely cycled filter, but some people also put a capful in when adding fish to protect them if the filter needs to catch up with the increased bioload. Probably more beneficial with large fish, like Malawi Cichlids than small tetras and the like. Whatever, It won't do any harm.
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yup prime will convert ammonia into free ammonia thus giving false ammonia test kit readings, oh always read the label a cap full of prime in 12l tank is prob x50 overdose and might kill him lol, prob need 1ml in a 12 l :D:p
 
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