The Beginning...

Hallo!

I've set up my new 100 liter (yet to be confirmed), just waiting for the last plants to arrive and then I'm ready to fill her up.

 

Looking good! What substrate did you use? And what fish do you intend to keep?

 

just.keep those plants moist. dont want them to dry up

 

Wow @Dinky nice hey really like your scape, you just need to plant some background plants in the right rear side behind the driftwood it will look nice.

What other plants are you waiting for?

 

Looks like flourite substrate, yeah keep them moist spray them 2 -3 times daily.

Have you decided on fish for this baby?

 

@Joubert

Seachem Fluorite - courtesy of a very good Aquarist!

I was thinking about:

3 Scarlet Badis (@Ryno - Is that the correct one?)
4 Cory Sterbai
2 Blue / Bolivian Rams
6 Galaxy Rasbora (expensive litte fishy!)
6 Black Phantom Tetra
6 Glowlight Tetra

Love the Apistogramma range of fish but can't find any aside from Rams.

 

@Ryno

Thank you! (and thank you!)

If there's anything I need to change you better speak up now or forever hold your peace! Lol! :blink1:

Ps: Any suggestions for getting all this glue off my fingers?

 

That is a nice variety of fish I would rather leave the 6 Black phantom tetras.

Rather go for 6 x Rosy barbs they are much nicer. Increase the corries to 6 they do better in bigger groups.

 

@hviviers75

I planted some of that Hygrophilia difformis behind the driftwood. Will it work there?

Waiting for Hygrophila coryombrosa 'angustifolia' - thought it would make a nice backdrop (middle of the tank at the back) but I'm not familiar with the plant and will have to see what it looks like.

 

Yes it will work their, hugro corymbosa"angustifolia" is a awesome plant. it will look nice in your tank.

 

not rosy barbs. get big. cherry barbs would do better.

 

LOL sorry my bad got confused lol yes Cherry barbs

 

looking goooooooood

 

@Ryno

How about Lemon Tetra?

 

nice fish also. another nice fish is x-ray tetra

 

Yeah they are also very nice fishes.

 

lyk spogerig :nuts:

 

Looking nice - So much fun still to be had.

 

Morning Everyone!

Effectively after decor etc. I manged to squeeze 78 liters into my tank.

My stocking calculations were made on 100 liters. (refer to stock list previously mentioned in thread) Should I now recalculate based on the actual number of liters my tank holds?

 

Okay cool well most of us dont really stick to any stocking rules. At the end of the day if you got more filtration then you need then you can overstock a little bit. I would also get a internal filter, sunsun has got a 600 liter per hour filter that is really nice it comes with a spray bar which helps lessen the flow of the filter. You just need to make sure you got enough bio media so you can grow a HUGE bacterial colony.