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corsa120
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here is my two tanks at the mo, will be getting a third soon 125ltr which will be housing a marine setup, i have personally not kept a marine tank before however my parents have one so they are well in the know about them well my dad anyway's

this is my 65ltr housing

x2 male guppies
x2 german blue ram cichlids
x1 paradise fish
x5 cardinal tetra's
x2 conalt blue dwarf gaurami's









my second tank is a Baby Bi-orb setup only 15ltrs setup around the same time so is about a year old..

houses,

x1 siemese fighting fish
x1 bumble bee goby
x2 Tetra's cant remember the name lol
x1 cory





and finally my pond just housing around 25-30 goldfish
chloe16v
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my old one
Cosmo
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Rio400, something like 120 US Gal. Sprayed the trim white and on its own custom stand (only part done there, it has shelves in now and glass sliding door. Its currently sat there empty as I decide what to do with it.



My 275 US Gal tank, made all the stand (again not finished in this pic). In the process of setting this one up. Have fitted a full Back to Nature 3D Amazon background. Will be filtered by 2 Fluval FX5's.
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love your blue rams, i tried breeding the ones i had in my old trops tank but it didnt work
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Quite like that tank on the funky stand in the first post
corsa120
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wow cosmo thats awesome, do you cycle your tank with fish as i tried a fishless cycle with ammonia bought from homebase.... worked a treat my water parameters have stayed 0 for 9-10 months now.

thanks nath needed something for undernieth my stairs lol

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quote:
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wow cosmo thats awesome, do you cycle your tank with fish as i tried a fishless cycle with ammonia bought from homebase....


I tend to put some prawns or similar in an old net or a pair of my old tights - after a week or so in there they have spiked the ammonia right up and the tank starts its cycle.
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was about to post a thread on this
as ive just got my first tropical tank 64litre



just need some fish next week
corsa120
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ohh kool not heard of that, was recommended tetra safe start bacteria but i chose to just let to come naturally took about 5 weeks to finish its cycle but seems to have done all the good...
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have you cycled ur tank saxo???? also you need an airpump in it to help oxygenate the water, and live plants to consume the nitrates

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drunkenfools one was mint.
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iv had loads of tanks with different set ups over the last year or 2..

Turtle tank..





fish tanks..












crab tank..





also had a big tank filled with 2 huge oscars and a load of big cichlids but i cant find pics of that.. also had a tank with a blue lobster in it
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quote:
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have you cycled ur tank saxo???? also you need an airpump in it to help oxygenate the water, and live plants to consume the nitrates

[Edited on 02-01-2010 by corsa120]


no i dont no what ya on about lol
ive just got the tank an am leaving it for the 5-7day before i add fish
i will get an air pump i hopes the filter did both but no lol
i have looked at live plants but i dont have anything for them to root in to ?
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the plants will root into the sand/gravel or some can be left in pots if they come in pots, but you really dont need plants tbh the fish tank will cope very well with out them, one thing you HAVE to get though is a bulldog plec
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i didnt think they took to gravel like myn well so i could leave in the pot
and yes have been advised to get a plec
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basically if you put fish in now they will all die as the filter has not built up any beneficial bacteria and the ammonia from the fish i.e fish poo,wee,uneaten food etc is called ammonia, it is poisonous to fish and will kill them.

you need to get beneficial bacteria into the filter so it consumes the ammonia (fish poo,wee,uneaten food etc)

you can do it 2 ways with fish in which is very bad as they will have a hard life or without if you would like me explain exactly what to do i can help you.
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dude i see you live in daventry so do i
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yes i would like you to explain
in my cold water tank i just stuck um in so would of done the same now
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i did it with live fish i.e mollies/guppies
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dude i see you live in daventry so do i


ok what corsa do u drive as theres a fair few about u2u me
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you was very lucky chloe as they are not hardy fish need things like platy's or some kind of barb if you do fish in cycle
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mollies and guppies are the "starter fish" of course they are hardy, i never lost any, ended up with over 100 guppies though, they bred and bred
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hmm ive read different lol mollies prefer brackish water which has a small blend of salt in it, brackish water is where sea meets the rivers in their natural habitat and i thought guppies were reasonably hardy but not like platy's and cherry barbs etc etc
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plus ur guppies and mollies would have lived a very hard life even though they probably looked ok from the outside lol..

to be honest saxo-tom i would go get x2 platy's and some beneficial bacteria in a bottle from pet shop as explaining the fishless cycle is very very time consuming..

also go to pets at home and by a API master test kit this will help you through ur cycle.

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