Your current Fish tank Setups!

Bar · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:26

wordy said:
Apologies for quoting my own post.

This morning we woke up to find the adults in the Display tank have given birth to another 46 babies.

You are going to have to start watching the seahorse porn in another room...

Any chance of selling them to your LFS?

_Gizka_ · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:29

My Oto's have come out for the first time in days

Brookert said:
Nice looking tank, do you add any CO2? and what are those green cube things

No I don't add any CO2 as its low-tech and my very limited research has led me to believe that the lighting isnt at a sufficient enough level to explicitly need CO2 (1.5w per gallon at the moment).

Of course I may be wrong, but all the plants I've put in there have done well, apart from one bunch I got when I first started. Everything else has done well, although the Vallis to the left does struggle more than it should

I dose 5-10ml of Tetra Plantamin every week, when I do a water change, and that seems to do the job.

The cubes are just the large glass nuggets!

arc@css said:
^^ Looks very good, clear and nicely arranged.

Thanks

arc@css · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:32

I used to have Oto's, smashing little creatures. Iirc they love highly oxygenated water and quite frequent water changes.

andy_mk3 · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:35

Hey Gizka, I have 3 of those Oto's

They're always out though!

Ever since I introduced 8 new fish shortly followed by a 50% water change about 2 weeks ago, I've had a lot of green (algae?) on the glass and plastic plant, prior to this it stayed beautifully clean. I've noticed the plants are looking a tad brown, could the plants be the cause of this?

Brookert · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:49

andy_mk3 said:
Hey Gizka, I have 3 of those Oto's They're always out though!

Ever since I introduced 8 new fish shortly followed by a 50% water change about 2 weeks ago, I've had a lot of green (algae?) on the glass and plastic plant, prior to this it stayed beautifully clean. I've noticed the plants are looking a tad brown, could the plants be the cause of this?

How big is your tank?

If you added 8 new fish at the same time, your tank probably went through a mini cycle.

Probably caused a spike in ammonie etc which allowed the algae to get a foot in. If you leave it and do small water changes weekly it should go away.

andy_mk3 · 2 Dec 2011 at 23:14

Brookert said:
How big is your tank?

If you added 8 new fish at the same time, your tank probably went through a mini cycle.

Probably caused a spike in ammonie etc which allowed the algae to get a foot in. If you leave it and do small water changes weekly it should go away.

It's approx 110L, I'll do a test on the water tomorrow and go from there. Thanks for the info

andy_mk3 · 4 Dec 2011 at 20:37

Tested the water and all ok. Cleaned out the filter, changed about 20L of the water and cleaned the insides of the glass, all looking much nicer now, fish look much livelier

wordy · 5 Dec 2011 at 09:03

Brookert said:
Are you going to try to keep them? Its nice to know that your Seahorses are very comfortable

Bar said:
You are going to have to start watching the seahorse porn in another room...

Any chance of selling them to your LFS?

I hope I'll be able to sell them on, I certainly haven't got room for 50+ seahorses.

I'm pretty much certain they will have more batches so I'm going to have to get someone to buy them quite regularly.

Shilz · 5 Dec 2011 at 13:56

Moved in with the Mrs not so long ago now and i've always wanted some fish so went out a few weeks ago an bought a BiOrb 30l kit with everything ready to go for £85.00 so snapped that offer although not the best tank, its a nice size to start of with until we upgrade later on when I buy a house so this will do for now.

Fishless cycled for 4 weeks and water levels seemed fine so we went out and bought a few hardy's.... 4 awesome Zebra Danio

i'll keep these for atleast a month and then test water.

I've owned fish before and done a great job but those were coldwater, however im new to all this tropical goodness and learning about these fantastic creatures everyday.

We will be adding some Neon Tetra a few colourful guppies and maybe some others. I'll also be colour coding the bottom and top to match the table as BiOrb dont make an oak swap top.

I've also already upgraded the standard pump to an Eheim 3701. Just becuase this pump is super silent and was needed as the tanks in the living room.

Pic of our tank.

Brookert · 6 Dec 2011 at 14:50

Shilz said:
Moved in with the Mrs not so long ago now and i've always wanted some fish so went out a few weeks ago an bought a BiOrb 30l kit with everything ready to go for £85.00 so snapped that offer although not the best tank, its a nice size to start of with until we upgrade later on when I buy a house so this will do for now.

Fishless cycled for 4 weeks and water levels seemed fine so we went out and bought a few hardy's.... 4 awesome Zebra Danio i'll keep these for atleast a month and then test water.

I've owned fish before and done a great job but those were coldwater, however im new to all this tropical goodness and learning about these fantastic creatures everyday.

We will be adding some Neon Tetra a few colourful guppies and maybe some others. I'll also be colour coding the bottom and top to match the table as BiOrb dont make an oak swap top.

I've also already upgraded the standard pump to an Eheim 3701. Just becuase this pump is super silent and was needed as the tanks in the living room.

Pic of our tank.

Looks great

Well I've decided that the growth of my plants suck! with liquid ferts and good lighting they are still struggling, and algae outbreaks are doing my head in.

I've decided I'm going to get all the fish into buckets, get the gravel out, and give it a good clean. Im going to put in a layer of miracle-gro organic potting soil and put the gravel back ontop. Hoping I will see better growth afterwards.

Anyone else use soil? I've heard you get good all round growth out of it and doesn't polute the water if its capped off with gravel.

_Gizka_ · 8 Dec 2011 at 20:00

Just spent the last hour washing the scrubbing this little gem down! 3 foot x 1 foot x 1.5 foot

Getting the stand, filter and heater at the weekend ready for my Christmas present. Cannot wait till its all up and running, just what fish to go for

In other news the stem plant in my tank has grown 4 inches since last Friday :eek:

Gonna have to get myself a whole load of them for this new tank!

silversurfer · 8 Dec 2011 at 20:19

I like the glass cubes case and the Hippocampus

Has anyone here ever done a heat exchanger type setup with a WC circuit on a PC or is that basically a very silly idea

Brookert · 8 Dec 2011 at 20:27

silversurfer said:
I like the glass cubes case and the Hippocampus

Has anyone here ever done a heat exchanger type setup with a WC circuit on a PC or is that basically a very silly idea

sounds cool

would be hard to regulate it I imagine though

Malt_Vinegar · 8 Dec 2011 at 22:14

you would need a temperature activated thermostat opening a loop in the water cooling before the radiator so when the tank dropped below a certain temp it opened and closed once a max was reached You would also need a backup heater for when the pc was not on though. So it might be a bit of a faff...

shimy182 · 8 Dec 2011 at 22:19

wordy said:
Apologies for quoting my own post.

This morning we woke up to find the adults in the Display tank have given birth to another 46 babies.

aww congrats to them! not so congratulations to you ??

are you giving any away per chance ?

wordy · 9 Dec 2011 at 10:55

shimy182 said:
aww congrats to them! not so congratulations to you ??

are you giving any away per chance ?

I'm gonna see if the LFS will take them, put an ad up on couple of aquaria sales website and maybe contact The Deep or other aquariums. I certainly can't keep them if he's churning them out at this rate.

Brookert · 9 Dec 2011 at 10:58

wordy said:
I'm gonna see if the LFS will take them, put an ad up on couple of aquaria sales website and maybe contact The Deep or other aquariums. I certainly can't keep them if he's churning them out at this rate.

BABY MACHINE!

I imagine when the poor male gets dumped with the eggs, the misses is already working on the next batch for him

I lost an oto last night

The poor thing never really ate much when I got him (2 weeks ago). Yet the smaller too of the two seems fine and goes about his business all day, but the slightly bigger one was doomed from the start.

How much visible algae do people have in their tanks with oto's? mines got loads of visible algae so I don't understand why it didn't eat.

wordy · 9 Dec 2011 at 11:27

Brookert said:
BABY MACHINE!

I imagine when the poor male gets dumped with the eggs, the misses is already working on the next batch for him

I lost an oto last night The poor thing never really ate much when I got him (2 weeks ago). Yet the smaller too of the two seems fine and goes about his business all day, but the slightly bigger one was doomed from the start.

How much visible algae do people have in their tanks with oto's? mines got loads of visible algae so I don't understand why it didn't eat.

Pretty much, he's given birth on a previous batch then the same day they'd mated and he was preggers again.

Sorry to hear about the Oto

arc@css · 9 Dec 2011 at 12:25

Oto's are best kept in reasonable numbers iirc.

Brookert · 9 Dec 2011 at 12:33

arc@css said:
Oto's are best kept in reasonable numbers iirc.

I bought a pair just to see if they would get on with the tank conditions and the other fish, not sure about getting more just yet.

I might try giving the tank a once over and getting some bigger plants in there. More surface area for the oto's to browse on.