Extreme Makeover - Fishtank Edition

[corylyle1]

Hi guys. I haven't posted any pics of my tank in ages so I think it is about time that I do. My tank is a Jebo corner unit, about 200l

Firstly, here is what the tank looked like at the end of 2009
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It has changed a lot since then. I have added an external canister filter, new lights, new heaters, new plants and new fish. Two weeks ago I decided to rescape my tank because it was overgrown and a bit messy. The following pics are of the process.

Here is the 50l bucket in which I kept my fish for a few hours
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These are all the plants that I kept
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And all the plants I chucked (two bags :p!!)
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[corylyle1]

Then came the emptying of the tank
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And how it looked after the rescape
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This was the tank 2 hours after being filled up
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And the day after
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And finally, how it looks like now
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[corylyle1]

Tank Specs:
Jebo r470
186 litres
ViaAqua external canister filter 400 l/h
internal filter (450 l/h)
2x 25W t8 white lights
1x 20W 20000K coral blue light

Substrate: Pool filter sand

Fish:
6x Black widow tetras
6x Silver tip tetras
6x Black neon tetras
5x Guppies (4 male 1 female)
4x Red eye tetras
3x Emperor tetras
3x Zebra danio
2x Rummynose
2x White clouds
2x Neon tetras
2x Bronze cories
2x Pepper cories
1x Panda cory
1x Golden gourami
1x 25cm pleco (named Barry :) )

Will post some more pics of my plants soon.

[Deem]

The tank looks really good!

[Go-Big]

Very nice, i really like the tank shape and what you did with it. I would just like to see taller plants right in the back corner and then you can put you heater behind them.

[speedz]

tank looks good, what substrate are you using?

the center piece really picks it up

[dangerousd]

Looking AWESOME - nice and healthy plants! Maybe some red plants ?

[corylyle1]

Thanks for the comments guys!!

Today I bought myself 4 rams (two golden and two german blue) and 5 peguin tetras. They all seem to have settled in well.

I have a question: does anyone know where I could get a red tiger lotus in CT? or what are some good red plants to have?

Thanks

Will post pics of my lovestock and plants soon. :)

[dougbb]

ahem, I think you should leave pictures of your "lovestock" on an adults only forum ;) What a great looking tank!

[TankMaster]

Nice stuff :)

[Reaper]

corylyle1 tell them we got "houtstok here in capetown hehehe

http://www.radiohoutstok.co.za/

[Firefly]

Can't believe you threw out all those plants. Tank looks awesome aye.

[corylyle1]

Haha my bad!!:bigsmile: I meant livestock!! Anyway here are some pics of a few of the plants: I don't know any of the names so help would be much appriciated!! I would especially like to know the name of the plant in the second pic!

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[corylyle1]

And some pics of the "lovestock"...i mean livestock!!:bigsmile::p Sorry about the pic quality, I need to invest in a better camera!!

Three of the balck widow tetras
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Pepper cory in the pot
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Panda's turn in the pot
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The rams
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And Barry the pleco
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[shihr]

like the way u centralized everything. its a much nicer hard scape. be careful of the pleco though.. when i had them, they munched on my amazons :(