My Humble Low Tech Setup

Tank Capacity: 80 litres

Filtration: Aquaclear 70 HOB filter (Planted)

Heating: Single Sera 300 watt

Lighting:

* 24 Watt Clip on light with 6500K globe
* 24 LED Beamworks

Fauna:

* Cherry Barbs
* Neon Tetras
* Cardinal Tetras
* Black Phantom Tetras
* Kribinesis
* Panda Corys
* Skunk Corys
* Khuli Loaches
* Ottos
*Rummy Noses
* Kerri Tetras
* Galaxy Rasbora

Flora:

* Spiky Moss
* Java Moss
* Java Moss
* Java Fern
* Anubias barteri
* Anubias caladifolia
* Dwarf Java Fern
* Red & Green Cryptocorynes


Some pictures of my setup:

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Pictures of my planted HOB:

Plant's that are growing in my HOB filter is Wandering Jew, Lucky Chinese Bamboo and spiky moss that I placed on the sponge. I also built a ram on the slipway that runs into my tank which I covered in moss.

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Favourite fish in my setup has to be the Galaxy Rasbora amazing little fish:

Picture taken from Practical Fishkeeping.​

 

Very nive looking tank. Love the hiding Cooli Loach

 

Yeah, they hide all over the place and come out to play and feed, rest of the time they hide.

 

Those galaxies look amaaaazing and your tanks looks the part over and over wish I had green thumbs>

 

@Shrimp lover: Thanks I got the galaxies from another setup I bought there is about 12 of them in the tank amazing little fish they look like miniature trout to me. And anyone can have a green thumb, I started out with plaint gravel and plastic plants lol!

 

Here is a small Youtube video of my tank in action, click on the gear icon right hand bottom corner and select video quality (720p) the video was taken in HD quality so normal Youtube quality does not do it justice:

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LOL they do look a bit like miniature rainbow trout. Wish our lfs around here would get decent stuff I bought a dozen small black neons for my wife the other day and only one survived they were sick and in the hurry I was in I did not see it she has a tank full of little neons and danio's I think those galaxies would look fantastic in her tank.As for the green thumbs I am slowly but surely working up to a co2 system I love green planty thingys in a tank. I am planning on getting plants locally. Stuff like barbell grass hair grass and fresh water lilies.

 

@Shrimp lover: How big is your tank? Why not try DIY CO2?

 

Very nice!!!!

 

Tank looks really cool.

 

@Jay: Thanks it is a learning curve for me, but getting there.

 

@iamdieter: Yeah not bad whatever I cannot afford I build or DIY. So everything you see is basical either DIY or bought second hand.

 

This is how I made the moss slipway: So I remade the plastic spillway out of a ice-cream tub and after my third attempt I got it right. I re-enforced the 45 degree angle with a bit of plastic so it could carry the weight of the moss. I then glued the two meshes onto the plastic I think it came out pretty well:

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Feeding time:

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@Swagasaurus: Very nicely done. May I ask how you set up your substrate and what you're using?

 

I would also like to know as well.

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Oh and awesome tank veryy welll done

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@JJFury and @Ziyaadb:You guys are going to laugh at me but for substrate I am using pool filter sand that I bought at Builders Warehouse. It is totally inert meaning there is no feeding value for the plants in it, so I use Flourish Excel and Tropica on a daily basis and then Sechem root tabs. And my own DIY root tabs I made out of something called Osmocote, a plant fertiliser they use in the nursery industry. Buy a bag full of it and buy some gelatine caps and fill them up. One such tab lasts about 4-6 months.

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Nice I want to do something similar. Osmocote seems sold out last I checked on apsa the 3 month release. Whats the dimensions of the tank?

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@Ziyaadb: 60L(cm) X 30W(cm) X 45H(cm) Basically a 80 litre. If I had enough I would have shared but I already gave away most of what I had.