3ft Cory Tank

Started this setup on saturday where i upgraded the 2ft to 3ft. This tank is mainly for cories and maybe other cats at a later stage. Currently the tank houses 7 cories(bronze and pepper) and juvenile angels. I used the playsand which i had to wash cleanush: but the end result is worth it.

The filter is a HOB at 200lph, there is no heater because durban hardly has a winter. The java fern takes up majority of the landscape with a few vallis and an amazon sword. By the way , the light is a daylight tube

 

Nice - speedz ... Play sand is ok but I found it very fine - and my plants did not stay put after planting them. I am sure your Cories will love it - now send some of the "no heater required" weather to JHB please

 

And to Cape Town please - I'll cover the shipping costs

The cory's are gonna LOVE that.

 

send the weather to jhb too - it's frizzing!

ps. that's an awesome little setup

 

Looks like a great setup!
I've got 7kg of Seachem Flourite under my playsand in my 3ft tank and the plants have all rooted down into that. You could also use crushed jasper, the red gravel, because it's also very high in iron, which the plants love. But it has to be UNDER the playsand because the corys will cut their barbels on the bigger chips of jasper.

 

eish that might be a bit hard especially since the tank is setup now. I have noticed that the amazon has just started sprouting new leaves though

@whipme how about some pics of your tank

 

I've just moved over from another local aquaria forum, so I'll put pics up in the next few weeks

 

im having a problem with brown hair algae, its growing everywhere including on top of the java fern. Im thinking of adding some snails to solve the problem or a pleco or 2, anyone have the same problem?

 

The only thing that solved or helped with my algae problems is my Siamese Algae Eater. The algae is still there, but he eats most of it.

 

tank looks great will order my cories soon

 

will make a trip to the LFS, the cories have a fieldtime in the playsand

 

nice setup.
You guys in durban are too lucky.

 

Nice looking tank Speedz

 

thanks guys, im actually planning to get some hoplos problem is that they are a bit scarce here. Also will add a siamese algae eater

 

so i dropped a pleco in and the little guy got rid of that nasty brown hair algae, his having a field time eating all that algae.

I lost another cory again to a swim bladder problem. I've narrowed the cause down to the food i was feeding them. Was feeding them pellets but i changed it to flakes now. Next im saving up for some purigen

sorry for the poor quality pic, took it with my phone

 

Very nice! I Also love cories, we had a few hoplo catfish on sale here in jeffreys bay. The lfs is trying hard to get good stock.

 

Tank is looking good.

 

it seems as if hoplos are a bit scarce here in durbs so i've settled for plecos. Im planning on setting a 3ft tank beneath the one i have and getting some "Raphaels catfish" aka African talking catfish but the bank is saying no lol

i forgot to mention how agro the resident pleco got once i added 2 more to the tank, it was sort off "headbutting" the new guys, weird!

i've never seen a pleco that aggressive

 

How thick is your substrate in the above tank ?

 

between 1 and 3cm. Under the HOB filter the level is about 1cm because of the water flow. Theres about 10kg playsand in there from the 20kg packet that i bought