My 100L Setup

Hi all,

Been a while since I posted here, I had my 50L little cube up and grew tired of it, so I upgraded quite some time ago, but I wasn't happy with my aquascape, so been playing around with a few ideas, I really like the natural riverbed look, it's still far from exactly what I want, but it's getting there... Plants need to settle and I will try get some more wood and smaller plants, etc.

I'm also planning on upgrading the lighting system/cover and building a cabinet around the stand with nice dark stained wood to hide all the ugly stuff underneath as well as my QT.

My list of inhabitants and plants:

Some Java Fern, Amazon swords (I think) and some small Vallisneria at the back that needs to grow

5 x Peppered Corys
3 x Platys (2x male and 1x female - still looking for more females, but can't seem to find as the one male is very agro and harassed his fellow males to death)
10x Harlequin Rasboras
1x Dwarf Gourami (still contemplating getting him a female companion as he's quite dosile and friendly)

Still looking for some German Blue rams (will check compatibility first) or possibly some serpae tetra or lemon tetra, etc, etc. but for now happy with what I have.

So hope you like it thus far... like I said, still WIP.

FTS:


Star of the tank, Mr. Gourami.

Also added a white LED strip to the rear of the stand for "night light" that I sometimes leave on for a hour or so after my daylight cycle, looks quite nifty in real life and the effect is nice and subtle.

Cheers.

 

I really dig your layout!

 

Very very nice! I'll keep an eye on your tank!

 

Looks great bud. The java ferns should be tied to wood and not planted as they are rhizome plants.

 

Noob mistake.

Will replant/attach it to the wood tomorrow after work, a bit late now.

 

Hi all...

Been a while... did some MAJOR maintenance on the tank yesterday, removed all rocks, wood and most of the plants for a semi rescape and proper cleaning...

The Vallisneria was spreading all over the place, so I planted the nice long ones in the back in a row, etc... they all just need to grow in nicely now to for a sort of wavey backdrop.

Anyhow, some pics, please excuse the quality, snapped them with the phone quickly:











Some little plattys..

 

looking good :top:

 

Very nice

 

nice rocks

 

Hi all,

So finally got round to making a cover for the stand that functions as a cabinet.

Came out quite nice - I still need to make a canopy as well.

Apologies for the poor picture quality:

 

Weird that your images did not show. Hope the above does.

I like the stand wrap, next you will probably want to hide a canister and a CO2 bottle in it. I assume you have had to isolate your fish buckets form the rest of the household goods - man I am so glad I can run a pipe directly out the house into the garden and do not need to do the bucket brigade.

Later Ferdie

 

Hi all, small update.

Ran into stroke of bad luck, my gourami got sick and died, had a fungal infection and also lost some other fish, but tank is doing well again, got 12 red eye tetra and some nice new plants.

I also made a very basic canopy for the tank and stained it the same colour as the stand, and added some blue LED strips to the canopy for night time to create some ambiance.

I'll try and snap some better pics once I get time, but for now this is what I have:

Better pic of the cover:



Pic of the Blue Lighting - it's much less bright in real life, they have a much more subtle effect:

 

looking good buddy,loooove the canopy
the blue lights look cool as well
sorry 4 the losses,very sad every time it happened 2 me

 

Thanks for the kind words... it does indeed suck when losing fish.