Your current Fish tank Setups!

DEL 707 · 18 Jun 2024 at 21:59

Not made much headway this week.
Been looking at decor, what some rocks to make a little cave, but it's hard to know how much to order since it's all done by weight.
Might go out for a drive on the weekend and look at a few more shops.

Thinking of upgrading the lights, since these are what I'm working with.

Looking at 45cm version of this. Since I should be able to screw it into my hood.

Aquatropic Twin LED Aquarium Lighting System

Don't let your aquarium sit in the dark, bring it to life with the Aquatropic twin blue & white LED lights. These LED lights give your aquarium the correct balance of light with an inline switch to blue LED only for nighttime viewing.

www.fishkeeper.co.uk

CaptainRAVE · 20 Jun 2024 at 13:28

More fish and plants for our planted aquarium:

And a few fish for our turtle tank:

sharpygsxr · 20 Jun 2024 at 19:47

i like the colour hue from that corner tank light really makes the plants/fish pop

sharpygsxr · 21 Jun 2024 at 19:01

Diatom issue solved with a nice hungry pleco

DEL 707 · 22 Jun 2024 at 15:49

Went around a few more shops today, just looking for rocks and decor.
Very few bettas around but I did see these beauties.

If I could have, I would have taken that koi varient straight home.

arc@css · 22 Jun 2024 at 15:52

I like the look of the last one. :cool:

sharpygsxr · Sunday at 11:52

never had a beta myself, it always put me off seeing them in the shop in those tiny tanks. Do they mix with anything else in a community setup or are they basically ones to keep alone?

DEL 707 · Sunday at 12:19

From what I've been reading bettas and tank mates are a contested subject.
Some people say you can keep them with a small selection of fish, others say you can't. I think ultimately, it comes down to the personality of the fish.

I won't be taking any chances, when I finally do get a betta, it'll be kept in a tank alone.

LizardKing · Sunday at 13:26

Used to have some female dumbo bettas in a dedicated tank, quite cool fish! And a half moon in his own little 25l tank.

Got some of these in our 250l community tank, quite placid for Betta's but not as fancy

b0rn2sk8 · Sunday at 14:49

They keep them in those small thanks because they will go after their own kind - you can usually only have one.

I had a Betta in a mixed community tank. You do just need to be careful to avoid tank makes which are nippy as they’ll go after the Betta’s fins or anything with long flowing fins which a betta may consider to be a another male betta.

haaammit · Tuesday at 15:53

Recently got a second 80 litre tank, so now looking for some kind of electric pump to do water changes, as using the manual pump is getting a bit tedious now lol! What sort of thing do I need? Not looking to spend a fortune, it's just for pumping water out, or more specifically, back into the tank (gravity does the other bit lol!)
Any suggestions? Ta

b0rn2sk8 · Tuesday at 16:03

I use a Python syphon hose into the nearest toilet and refill using the our thermostatic shower.

I’ve got the standard python kit plus an extension.

You can use the valve to ‘suck’ the water out of the tank but I don’t bother, the toilet is lower than the tank so syphon plus gravity does the job.

UTmaniac · Tuesday at 16:17

haaammit said:
Recently got a second 80 litre tank, so now looking for some kind of electric pump to do water changes, as using the manual pump is getting a bit tedious now lol! What sort of thing do I need? Not looking to spend a fortune, it's just for pumping water out, or more specifically, back into the tank (gravity does the other bit lol!)
Any suggestions? Ta

Refill manually, but do so over the week, providing the filter can run ok?

CaptainRAVE · Tuesday at 18:13

Have had to take the lid off our reef aquarium for the first time this year. Hit 28C and off it came. Hopefully won’t heat up too much more.

DEL 707 · Tuesday at 19:42

During the hot days, I had a clip on fan that I had blowing across the water surface. Seemed to help.

sharpygsxr · Tuesday at 19:47

haaammit said:
Recently got a second 80 litre tank, so now looking for some kind of electric pump to do water changes, as using the manual pump is getting a bit tedious now lol! What sort of thing do I need? Not looking to spend a fortune, it's just for pumping water out, or more specifically, back into the tank (gravity does the other bit lol!)
Any suggestions? Ta

i just use a small pond pump and some vinyl tubing for doing water changes. Pump the water out into the water butt on the garden and then fill it from a bucket in the sink adding some dechlorinator.

On my bigger tanks i use a 3000lph pump

small one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Submersibl...09QGN9XBQ&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_csi_prsubs_14_i

larger one https://www.amazon.co.uk/NO-17-Subm...9YNNF4QV&ref_=pd_bap_d_csi_prsubs_3_cp_t&th=1

DEL 707 · Thursday at 20:23

Still slowly buying stuff for the tank and looking at plants, but I'm wondering how to tackle my water.

I know my water is very hard, when I had my shrimp tank, I bought RO water and used a shrimp product to remineralize it.
I'm not sure whether to use a similar product for the new tank, or cut it 50/50 with tap water.

I tested my water the other night an API kit and both the GH and KH were off the scale.
They only go up to 12 drops, which means 12ºdKH, or 214 ppm. Where as my water took 18 drops to change the GH test colour, I think the KH test, took 16/17.

I know that plants like hard water, but I'm concerned about my future betta.

By the way, how does this look? Does it look too busy?

funguST · Thursday at 20:24

I haven't managed to convince the wife we need a nice tank in the house... One day...

CaptainRAVE · Thursday at 20:46

DEL 707 said:
Still slowly buying stuff for the tank and looking at plants, but I'm wondering how to tackle my water.

I know my water is very hard, when I had my shrimp tank, I bought RO water and used a shrimp product to remineralize it.
I'm not sure whether to use a similar product for the new tank, or cut it 50/50 with tap water.

I tested my water the other night an API kit and both the GH and KH were off the scale.
They only go up to 12 drops, which means 12ºdKH, or 214 ppm. Where as my water took 18 drops to change the GH test colour, I think the KH test, took 16/17.

I know that plants like hard water, but I'm concerned about my future betta.

By the way, how does this look? Does it look too busy?

No substrate on the bottom or is that being added next?

Our water lettuce is growing like crazy, so we've already been able to add some to the turtle tank. Turtles arriving next week

UTmaniac · Thursday at 20:48

DEL 707 said:
Still slowly buying stuff for the tank and looking at plants, but I'm wondering how to tackle my water.

By the way, how does this look? Does it look too busy?

To me, the focal piece (bogwood) is too central, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder! They used to say place focal point around 2/3rds to one side.

I'd try the bogwood rear-right on the diagonal, tall single rock in middle on diagonal, flowing into the three smaller rock pieces front-left.