Very nice setup. Thank you for the detailed description.
hey guyz
my 8 foot tank was setup about 8 months ago
Today's mobile pics
Tank
8' L x 3' W x 3.5' H
19mm toughened glass
about 300 kgs of sand ( construction+ river sand)
95 kgs of rocks
18 kg driftwood
2 wavemakers- 5000 lit/hr each
Stand- 335 kg iron stand over which wood work was done
Lights- Aquazonic T5HO 4foot- 54W x 4 and 3foot- 40W x 4
No CO2.
DYI macro and micro fert dosing at 1/4th EI. Not regularly though
Filtration- modified overflow type with sump.its not the traditional overflow with only surface skimming. i added a baffle around the overflow( the height of the inner and outer one at the surface is the same) so that most of the water(80%) gets sucked in from the bottom of the tank and only about 20% overflows from the surface of the tank.i wasnt sure about this when i planned it at the start, but works wonderfully no more fish poo and left over food at the bottom. all of the waste gets pushed to the corner (wavemakers help too) and gets sucked into the filtration.i planned this coz my tank is 3.5 foot high and i wanted low maintenance
Sump
6' x 2' x 15"
4 chambers- 2 filled with filter media and one planted refugium(reworking it) and one for the return pump 7500 lit/hr
Tank filled and water changes-50% once a month only with RO water
had only anubias and ferns on the driftwood for first 2 months.
Planted all the other plants in the substrate 6 months ago
Flora:
Anubias nana
Java fern- narrow leaf, needle leaf, windelow
Cryptocoryne wendtii green, spiralis green, spiralis red, blassii
Echinodorus amazonicus, ozelot, rubin
Lagenandra meeboldi green
Some Java moss and Christmas moss
Vallisneria gigantea
Fauna:
Using Tapatalk
Very nice setup. Thank you for the detailed description.
DiscusLoverJeff
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Great setup!!!
Soooooooooo sexy! Exactly what I am currently trying to do. How do you get away with only once water change per month!? Sounds like perfection to me
Beautiful!!
Your tank is absolutely gorgeous!
Excelent setup
That's very nicely setup tank!!! Love all the little details!!! How long have the blue diamonds been in there?
Beautiful tank! I like the open look.
Had problems posting this topic and links of pics and videos since I'm new to the forum.
My current stock list
250 cardinal tetra
21 Blue diamond Discus
10 Elephant Nose
16 Clown Loach
6 Yoyo loach ( to be removed soon)
8 Pearl Gourami
4 Rainbows ( to be removed)
8 Rummy nose Tetra
8 Denisonii barb
10 Albino Corydora
15 Garra rufa
2 Red Whiptail Catfish
2 Panda Whiptail Catfish
2 Black Veiltail spotted pleco
2 Albino spotted Veiltail pleco
3 Hill stream loach
2 Red lizard loach
1 black Angel (a gift from my wife)
15 Parambassis lala ( wild caught native glass fish)
and a few more i guess
Will upload pics and video links soon
Last edited by Siddhartha Saive; 05-10-2014 at 03:02 PM.
Using Tapatalk
I love my elephant nose fish. I've added them 4 months ago.
They were around 4"-5" big. they were very shy for the first one month. i fed them with frozen brine shrimp, dried blood worms and tubifex worms at the start. had to feed them during midnight every single day for the first month. used to keep the food in a net and place the net at the bottom (during the night with lights off) so they had enough time to eat before the hungry loaches finish the food. the other fish in the tank arent active at night, so no competition in the dark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLkTavtm94M
Now, all the 10 elephant noses are very active and arent shy anymore. they always come to me when im near the tank and i hand feed them too
got them to eat tetra bits since 6 weeks ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPq_Qepc0Zc
now they move and eat just like any other fish in the tank
The discus were added about 6 weeks ago. 21 of them. They were around 2.5"-3" then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_nrt_g1_Vk
All of the discus are healthy and active right now and growing really fast. they eat like pigs
video of them from 2 weeks ago-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPfuAsE9SI
Its amazing to see all of them school across the length of the tank.
i might reduce the number of discus in the future once they grow and keep the ones i like.
Last edited by Siddhartha Saive; 05-11-2014 at 12:19 AM.
Using Tapatalk
Very nice.
God is the artist, he merely allows me to see and capture his work . http://davesphotography7055.zenfolio.com/ coupon code: angelfish
some of my work accepted by Pentax (the camera bodies I use): http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/davidgray
Looks amazing! Only concern is WC frequency. Of course I'm sure that's a LOT of water to change at 50% but do you limit yourself to once a month because of replacing with all RO? How's your water source out of the tap? Regardless, loooove the pics of your tank.
-Elliot
Amazing looking setup you have! Nicely balanced between open sand and plants, very clean, and good current. Not exactly the usual low-tech approach however, as you went without a soil substrate and as you are dosing to some degree. I thought that might have led to a bit of algae, but presumably not so long as your plants are doing well enough to inhibit it.
I'm quite interested in the baffle system you used to remove detritus by removing water mainly from the bottom. Do you have any photos of how you built that, or could you diagram it? I was pondering how best to achieve the same thing myself. How have you arranged the flow and wavemakers in order to get the waste moving towards the intake? I haven't heard of a wavemaker being used to achieve that, but if it happens to work successfully as such then very ingeniously done!