Plumbing my river tank

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:26 pm

Looks excellent. Nice use of components.

Martin.

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:33 pm

Martin, Thanks for the basic plan of the river manifold.

LO, it's an All-Glass 30g I got it for free and resealed it -30 Gallon 36x12x16

Rubix · Post by **Rubix** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:18 pm

tglassburner wrote:Martin, Thanks for the basic plan of the river manifold.

LO, it's an All-Glass 30g I got it for free and resealed it -30 Gallon 36x12x16

exactly my main tank at the moment. when i move again in july/august im thinking of redoing the tank with this exact setup (provided ill have the money). i wish id found martin's writeup before i got it cycled, but oh well the future holds great things, especially since i spend hours everday reading and gaining knowledge for said future.
anyway, looks great! im hoping youll of course keep us updated with this tank, especially since i may be copying your design

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:29 pm

I can give you an exact part list of what I used if you'd like.

Right now, it is filled with water to do a temp check, I'll see what the temp is in the morning. The flow is great, got some nice flat rocks with some fossil imprints in them to put in the tank all prepped. Soon as the stand is finished, I'll be moving the vannies and the crossostoma and the lonely goby over.

Also my reseal job is holding.

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:35 pm

How are you cycling this tank?

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:44 pm

I have all of the rocks that are in the QT plus the H.O.T. magnum has been running on an established tank for 2 months with the biowheel and biomedia in it, the prefilters are also soaking in an established tank to start with some bio. Does this sound ok? Should I set it up and cycle it with some Danios or something? What would be a good dither besides Zebra Danios?

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:23 pm

The fact that the Magnum is fully cycled is great. That, plus the other stuff should get things going. I would try to add some Biospira bacteria if you can find it. If not TLC is another good bacteria, but is not as good as Biospira.
As far as dithers, danios such as kyathit, roseus, choprae and white clouds would be my choice.
I'm sure others would have additional suggestions.

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:38 pm

Thanks for the words of encouragement Jim

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:31 pm

Here you go all set and 75% cycled. Now for the dithers.........

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:51 pm

Nice!
Have you settled on any dithers yet?

tglassburner · Post by **tglassburner** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:54 pm

Still trying to figure out what I want, I hope to find some on friday.

Rubix · Post by **Rubix** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:39 pm

tglassburner wrote:I can give you an exact part list of what I used if you'd like.

Right now, it is filled with water to do a temp check, I'll see what the temp is in the morning. The flow is great, got some nice flat rocks with some fossil imprints in them to put in the tank all prepped. Soon as the stand is finished, I'll be moving the vannies and the crossostoma and the lonely goby over.

Also my reseal job is holding.

sure id love a parts list, thanks! looks great!

LoachOrgy · Post by **LoachOrgy** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:19 pm

great. i looked for about a week online for those cylinder shaped filters. thanks for the info!

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