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Wolfsberg · 14-01-2013 10:02pm

Thanks I figured it out!

The lights are the standard 100x 7w white LEDs along with a 450mm TMC Aqua Blue Flexi LED strip.

7ofBrian · 15-01-2013 12:31am

Love the music in the vid. Who is that?

Wolfsberg · 16-01-2013 12:24am

7ofBrian wrote: »

Love the music in the vid. Who is that?

No idea. It's from YouTube. Try Shazam?

7ofBrian · 16-01-2013 12:32am

Doesnt find it. Tried that already. Must be an original.

7ofBrian · 16-01-2013 2:12pm

My 700L (500+200 Sump) African (tanganyikan) Cichlid Tank containing:
Neolamprologus multifasciatus, Tropheus Brichardi Kipili, Tropheus sp. "Black" (Mboko) and Synodontis Multipunctatus.

fred funk }{ · 20-01-2013 12:12pm

Looks great Brian.

summer_ina_bowl · 29-01-2013 5:14pm

Here's some snaps from my 200l mixed cichlid tank

I'm sure the lake purists will be shaking with disgust about my motley malawi/tanganyika crew but rest assured, they'll be in two separate set-ups before the summer

... This frontosas are just 'resting' in my malawis' tank lol

Lenny · 03-02-2013 1:32am

First fish tank.
still have to add a few rocks and a cave or two to add, but i'm liking it so far

baron von something · 03-02-2013 5:06pm

absolutely love 'the mask' feature

Bebo stunnah · 03-02-2013 9:44pm

baron von something wrote: »

absolutely love 'the mask' feature

Absolutely agree! Looks great!

buzz · 05-02-2013 10:24pm

My 450L SA cichlid tank

The Marine nano

Havent any of the Malawi that are any use but will take a few

Riamfada · 06-02-2013 10:52am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWT9OZBcLGA

Latest addition to the marine tank. Wanted one of these for a while.

Soups123 · 17-02-2013 10:31pm

Just started from scratch, replaced stones, plants and ornaments. Not sure whether to go Cichlid or Community

Soups123 · 20-02-2013 9:46pm

A few more tweaks including an air block

Lenny · 24-02-2013 9:45pm

Soups123 wrote: »

A few more tweaks including an air block

Hi, I would of liked to go community myself, but from buzz's advice on here with my ph that was high he had suggested to go afcrain cichlid, because I'd have to alter my ph to have a community, but if you're going cichlid you're going to need to put nice rock & make some caves/holes in the thank
but I am happy that I went with cichlid as when their colours develop they're gonna br rocking fish!

Lenny · 26-02-2013 9:46pm

change my tank around a bit with the help of buzz to suit the fish.
new layout

buzz · 28-02-2013 11:13pm

Looks well Lenny!!

kylith · 22-04-2013 2:50pm

My new betta is turning from black to blue. I think he's some kind of double tail/ Half Moon cross, if that's the right word.

Sorry about the quality, I recorded it on my phone. Good shot of the fins and colour at about 25 seconds

eg6 vtec · 11-05-2013 5:28pm

Just a quick pic of my tank when I 1st set it up

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kylith · 01-06-2013 4:59pm

First pic of my new tank

eg6 vtec · 05-06-2013 9:24am

My old tank as it sits now after i robbed the rock out of it i added a few small bits to keep them busy until the new tank is ready, also i added a little something for my son

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eg6 vtec · 19-06-2013 3:09pm

my new tank

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kylith · 17-07-2013 11:07am

Got some eggs in my new tank! You can see the eggs on the roof of the cave

And the male warning me to back off from his nest

kylith · 27-09-2013 11:47am

FTS of my big tank

Urgh, BBA

Male apisto in fine form

Juvenile (male?) apisto

kylith · 30-09-2013 1:14pm

kylith wrote: »

I got me a pretty new betta

Aaaaand, now he's dead. Getting real tired of this 'lives a year, if you're lucky' thing bettas have going. One day he was swimming around like normal, the next he was lying on the bottom hardly breathing.

I'm very close to just pitching the 'Ube into the bin, but I'll probably put some cacti in there or something. Currently it contains a nerite snail and a cardinal tetra who was put there after all his fellows died and I decided not to get more.

I kind of want to keep it though. Maybe I'll stick some shrimp in there.

JanneG · 30-09-2013 2:16pm

kylith wrote: »

Aaaaand, now he's dead. Getting real tired of this 'lives a year, if you're lucky' thing bettas have going. One day he was swimming around like normal, the next he was lying on the bottom hardly breathing.

I'm very close to just pitching the 'Ube into the bin, but I'll probably put some cacti in there or something. Currently it contains a nerite snail and a cardinal tetra who was put there after all his fellows died and I decided not to get more.

I kind of want to keep it though. Maybe I'll stick some shrimp in there.

Sorry to hear that. My betta spends a lot of time wrapped around plants or stuck to the inlet of the filter. Had a bit of a scare the first time I saw him sucked up against the filter...

kylith · 30-09-2013 2:47pm

JanneG wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. My betta spends a lot of time wrapped around plants or stuck to the inlet of the filter. Had a bit of a scare the first time I saw him sucked up against the filter...

They are so beautiful, aren't they, but they do tend to fall asleep in weird places.

I've decided what I'll do with it for now; it can be a grow-out tank for my juvenile Apisto until I can move him on. After that, who knows...

eg6 vtec · 01-10-2013 2:03pm

Gundy · 01-12-2013 7:21pm

Hello to all, I am a new around
so I would like to show my love with shrimps! :-)

TheVoodoo · 10-12-2013 8:56pm

600L Planted tank, day 1.

Substrate supports still visible, as are some of the root stopper pots; but they'll all be covered within the first 40-50 days.

fred funk }{ · 10-12-2013 9:35pm

TheVoodoo wrote: »

600L Planted tank, day 1.

Substrate supports still visible, as are some of the root stopper pots; but they'll all be covered within the first 40-50 days.

Looks great. What are your plans for the background? I think a simple black background would look great.

TheVoodoo · 10-12-2013 9:49pm

Thanks, probably just black or dark navy background, externally. Still not 100% sure though..

ZiabR · 11-12-2013 10:19am

Tank looks great, love the aquascaping.

Mar Mar Marmalade · 17-12-2013 7:31pm

Rounded up a few photos posted on a Forum I was on. All taken 2 months ago, nothing new.

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Ignore the writing, only photo I had of that angle had writing on it.

James.feenan · 11-01-2014 2:56am

Been working on this project a few weeks i not great at diy but i did all of this by myself pity i didnt have some more carpenter tools

MarkR · 14-01-2014 8:51am

Just finishing setting it up. 160L tank. Just 5 tiger barbs and a ancistrus in it now. And a bad ass assassin snail who hitched a ride from the old tank to the new one on a decoration.

I'm planning on some more tiger barbs initially.

ZiabR · 14-01-2014 10:50am

Very nice tank, looks great.

baron von something · 16-01-2014 3:44pm

my new nano tank.not the best pics and still a wee bit of work to go into it

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baron von something · 16-01-2014 3:47pm

and re-scaped my old tank from this

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to this

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fungun · 17-01-2014 5:08pm

nice....but how long before the fishies mix all that red stone in with the rest!!??!

baron von something · 17-01-2014 10:22pm

well so far so good anyway,i think they've learned already to leave it alone that its not food.i'll be moving them to another tank soon and getting shrimp for that one so the shrimp will probably trapse it round the tank.its much finer than i thought it was.i originally wanted a coarser blue stone to give a little lake effect but everywhere i checked always seemed to be out of stock.maybe i'll stick a little volcano decoration in and have it as my lava pit

daz801 · 24-03-2014 7:29pm

ZiabR · 24-03-2014 7:55pm

Lovely looking tank! How long it is setup?

daz801 · 24-03-2014 9:02pm

Started the tank mid January and finally finished stocking it last week. It's a 30g juwel rio with an eheim classic 250 filter. Got a pleco, 16 cardinal tetra and 2 pearl gourami in it at the moment. The pleco graduated from my 10g tank that he had outgrown (I bought him with the plans of setting up this tank a lot sooner than i did) and I plan on moving him up to a 75g tank I'm planning.

joe90 · 25-03-2014 1:59pm

Hi TheVooDoo,

What substrate did you use ?

TheVoodoo · 25-03-2014 4:13pm

joe90 wrote: »

Hi TheVooDoo,

What substrate did you use ?

Hi, I used a 'Limpopo black' aqua sand. Its a very fine gravel. Under this is ADA, and environment planted substrates.

joe90 · 25-03-2014 11:48pm

Looks great, where did you get the sand from ?

eg6 vtec · 30-06-2014 1:39pm

Sleepy · 30-06-2014 3:23pm

That's come on really nicely eg6 vtec.

Next step: replace the plastic with real plants! (or do cichlids just destroy them?)

eg6 vtec · 30-06-2014 3:52pm

they wouldn't last at all, some people have great success but its very rare, much easier to go plastic for now any way, my over all plan is to replace everything with slate rock in the next few months, aqua scaping is a never ending thing and i really enjoy doing it

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