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Rate my tank

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:57 am
by Francois van Brederode
Hi, I just thougt i'd post some pictures of my tanks, just to see if I could get some tips and pointers on them.
(and because i'm proud of them and like to show them of)

Here goes:
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Old pic, the angelfish are in a bigger tank somewhere else now.
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The tank is 100*40*45cm
Filter: 1xeheim2224 1xeheim2222
Co2 system
Led-night lighting
UV-lamp on the outflow
Zand for sustrate
30% water change weekly
temp 25-26 degrees

I keep Striata's, P.oblonga, P.myersi, L066, ancistrus, Gourami's, Rhinogobius wui, Garra Flavatra, redheadsalmon, and some horsehead's

Its been going for 8 months now with great water paremeters.
I've had trouble with alqae for a long time, wich is not strange with such a large stock, its all sorted now.

My other tank:

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Recent pic, the javamoss does looks a lot greener now...
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This tank is: 80*30*30cm (after decor, total 60 ltrs)
Filter: Superfish aqua-flow 2 (500ltr/h)
900ltr/h powerhead
Led-nightlighting
2 cooling fans
rounded dark gravel for sustrate
50% water change weekly

In this I keep: Japonica shrimp, crystal black shrimp, pearl danio's, african fanshrimp, and some pseudogastro cheni

I'll be adding another 900ltr/h powerhead this weekend to pleasure the hillies :D

So what do you think?

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:55 am
by Keith Wolcott
Both tanks look really beautiful. Your plants have filled in so nicely and your arrangement of rock and wood is excellent. I like your stocking choices. How many striata do you have?

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:32 am
by Beta
Nice tanks.
Is that really java moss in your tank? Looks more like Cladophora algae..

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:34 am
by starsplitter7
Your shrimp are amazing. Beautiful. I love shrimp. The tanks are amazing.

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:14 am
by Donna
Where are the pictures of your kuhlis?
Not that I'm biased -- OK, I am. They're my favorite.

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:15 am
by Marcos Mataratzis
Question is... how could you convince your Loaches not to eat your plants? :lol:

Nice tanks! Congrats!

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:04 am
by palaeodave
Great looking tanks! I'm particularly envious of your L066.

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:01 pm
by Francois van Brederode
Ah, thanks for the nice comments.

Keith, I have 6 striata's fooling around in there.
The wood on the left is 2 pieces, the bottom one covered is anubias is completly hollow, it makes a brilliant cave for the loricarids.

Beta, yes its really javamoss, it just looks like crap at the moment.
I feed my fanshrimp dust food, this sticks to the moss and smothers it to death.
I think i'm going to take out the moss and replace it with something like a big anubias.

Starsplitter, thanks :D I love em to :)

Donna, haha, the new Myersi's are still pretty shy, i'll post some pics of the Oblonga if you like.

Marcos, I just ask nicely :D nah, I just let them eat them, they'll grow back fast enough, or they don't like them.

Dave, thanks, I quiet like them to, the female is F1, the male isn't.

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:26 pm
by irab
Great tanks and nice pics

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:55 pm
by FishyLady
WOW!! Really beautiful tanks, love the plants and wood, excellent.

Val

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:31 pm
by Holdstrong
A lot nicer looking than my tanks. How is that for a rating? :D

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:39 am
by Francois van Brederode
Everybody, thanks alot for all the positive comments.

And especially for Donna:

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Can you spot the shocked gobie?
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These ar all my pangio pics ;)

Something else:
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:14 am
by chefkeith
Lovely tanks and fish.

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:57 am
by starsplitter7
WHat a pretty horsehead! :)

Great Kuhlies. :)

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:31 pm
by Francois van Brederode
Thanks!

The horsehead has a friend, and is a lot fatter and darker coloured now.

The kuhlies are absolutly great!
Especially after the fast-day, dropping a feedingtablet in it after that resembles a big ball of squirmy worms, so funny!