Tank Rebuild

never heard of bee shrimp so looked them up and i must say im very impressed with the selection of fish if you ever get board of your tank gives a buzz lol

Blooming heck Donal nice little order there, have some media matured for you let me know when you want it, tank is looking great, the hc must have really tried your patience... did the glass fit for the brace???

Karlo Ill keep you posted

@ Seamus some live media now would be good you have been a great help
So next i need to sort my filters and c02, that HC wrecked my head but hey the show must go on

you about tomorrow evening,probably after 6-ish, gotta help the old folks out during the day (what a good son am i)

sheag35 wrote:

did the glass fit for the brace???

Seamus I got the glass cut to size on Thursday in Duggan glass for free
So I plan to put it in tonight. Might catch up with you tomorrow for the filter media
Must take herself for dinner tonight

More Pics for ye

I have my c02 running and my drop checker is a nice shade of green



I got about 160 plants in the post this morning
most of them I haven’t got a clue what they are so I just stuck them in and will have to sort them out as I do some study on them























Tomorrow fish

You tank i looking great and cant wait to see your fish.

wow, it's looking great, i can't imagine the time and patience this is taking . The bee shrimp look really great too.
Andrew

looking very nice
very nice collection of plants and who cares what they are,
that fact is they look well lol
all the best and looking forword to the fish
karlo

Wow, that's a superb tooking tank, best of luck with it.

The plant second from bottom. It will just grow and grow. I have some of it and it doesnt need to attach to anything,it just grows crazy.I just took some out of my tank while ago. Its great though as it twists and turns and goes all different shapes as it grows on.
Great looking tank by the way.
Gavin

Brilliant looking tank limerickbandit, its one of the coolest ive seen. Look forward to seeing the fish.
Are the BEE shrimp hard to look after??

Jonnyj

Thanks for all the comments and encouragement

Water parameters are fairly important with bee shrimp they will not cope with dirty water but as long as weekly water changes are done and the tank is kept clean they should be fine the crystal red shrimp is actually a breed of bee shrimp

LB

sh*t man ... now i feel my tank looks like a bath tub ..... think i need to buy some more plants and call in a landscaper ......

now wheres my yellow pages

looking great man, fish tomorrow whoo hoo

Presume you are only adding some of the fish tomorrow ? Wouldnt it be rather risky to throw the whole lot in at this stage. The tank looks great,love the various plant selections,Id imagine they will establish a pecking order in the tank also!
Any tips for people on what problems you encountered to date? Id imagine you did alot of homework on what you were doing before you did it,it looks great to date. The 20 rummys will look amazing in the tank. I had about 20 of them when I set up my tank initially but alot of them started dying off when my neon tetras encountered problems and it seemed to spread to the rummys.Ive 7 of both left now and they look fab.
Glad you are keeping shrimp also,Im a fan of them myself and always have a few in the tanks, however havent been able to get hold of any bee shrimp from any lfs. By the way the bee shrimp will cross with crystals if you have any. Cant wait for some of the pics from it today. This has been a great thread to date.

Gavin

i'll race ya to breeding the farlowella ? lol

where's the pics of the fish????

Well it’s been a busy 3 weeks but the job is nearly done
I have replaced my 160L tank with a 300L tank and managed to repaint the sitting room, put in new carpet and replace the furniture all in 3 weeks not bad

Got my fish in yesterday all 32 of them (note to anyone just starting keeping fish this is not a good thing to do if your new to the hobby) thanks to sheag35 I got some live media for my 2 external filters as well as feeding them for the past 2 weeks with filter start and flake food .

All the fish are small so im not too worried about possible cycle problems but I will test daily and if necessary do water changes

Unfortunately my Bee Shrimp did not come in but that might not be bad news as it gives me a chance to think about getting more interesting shrimp

@ Fishowner I cant say I encountered any problems I did find that the last owner had cut a support brace from the top of the tank:huh: , so that had to be replaced and due to this brace having been removed there is a 1 to 2mm bow on the front of the tank but im not too concerned about this tanks have bowed worse and held together but I will still monitor it

A big thank you to Seamus (sheag35) and Martin (Duzzy1) for their help
Seamus helped me out with lots of gear and fish selection and martin looked after my 2 beautiful clown loaches that I hope to pick up off you next weekend and bring them to their new home

I hope to update this tread every so often with new pics to show plant growth and new fish .

Did I hear someone say where the pics are? Here you go































































LB

all i can say is well done it looks fab and fish look happy in the tank
well done again
karlo

lookin really cool there buddy .... keep up the good work .

your 2 clowns will be ready and waitin for ya whenever you're ready

looking super Donal, well done

Hi well done, both the fish and the setup are fantastic!!

You did a Fantastic job with the tank and your fish look great.
Well done again.

a great peice of work there Donal, it makes me think of getting up off my rear and getting the species tank I want progressing quicker !!

Andrew

Thanks for the comments lads
Unfortunately I came home from work today to find white spot in my tank
Did a water test and every thing is fine so I turned the temperature up to 29 and added a treatment hopefully I will be able to wipe it out quick

A lot happens in 2 weeks!
I got white spot in my tank, this was bad enough but I also got tetra disease I think.
I lost a lot of fish mainly the tetra, I treated the tank and it’s gone I hope.

I heard a lot of good things about UV sterilizers and decided it’s worth a try

Here is the UV unit itself




These are the fittings




The UV goes on the output of your external filter & they are a large piece of kit
I realized this when I went to fit my UV & realized it was 2 inches longer than the space I had, so I had to drain the tank and move it out 2 inches, that took a full day.

Here it is fitted, i still have a lot to do to tidy this setup





But sure hey, what else would you be doing?

Another addition to the tank was a brine shrimp Hatcher
These guys went from powder to live food within 20 hrs







LB

Impressive LB,great stuff. I had Ich and tetra disease a few months back in my tank and it killed alot of neons and rummy nose tetras. Thankfully it hasnt returned since but certainly the neon tetra disease is a disease that spreads like wildfire and no known cure.
Gavin

Thanks Gavin

It’s a pity to loose fish like that but I think my tank is back in order again


LB