3ft North Riding Gauteng

Hi guys,

I’ve already got some good advice in the other threads I’ve started, but I’d like to start this thread as a place to better group the questions I have about the tank I plan to start in January.

First some details on what I’m planning:
A peaceful community tank.
Tank size is 3ft, roughly 100 liters.
Pool filter sand substrate, with rocks and plenty of vallisneria.
Aquaclear 30 power filter.


I will start posting some question soon .

Marcel

 

Hi.

Just a tip. Vall do not do well with Seachem Excel. It melts away when over dosing.
Glad to see you got a 3footer as suggested.

LaterMan

 

Thanks Derik, the change to 3ft was on your suggestion, it required buying some new furniture.

 

Stocking ideas

Some thoughts on stocking;

I’m running my filter in a neighbor’s tank for 3 to 4 weeks over December, which will hopefully give me a good start on cycling my tank. After getting the tank set up, I will wait about five days before adding the first fish. Does this sound ok?

These are some of the fish that have caught my eye;

I would like to have a school of 10 or 11 of one of the following:
Penguin Tetra / Rummy Nose Tetra / Pristella Tetra / Lemon Tetra / Beckford’s Pencilfish / Harlequin Rasbora / Odessa Barb / Cherry Barb

I’m thinking of starting off with 2/3 fish and adding 3 per week until the school is complete. Does that make sense? Are any of these not good starter fish / aggressive / plant destroyers / hard to find? Any other suggestions?


Later I would like to add a school of 5 or six of one of the following:
Bronze Cory / Sterbai Cory / Melini (False Bandit) Cory.

Thanks for reading!

 

Some progress made:

 

Looking very nice

 

Thanks!

 

That's looks awesome dude, very simplistic yet stylish.

 

Thanks Marius.

 

I'm very happy that my cycling short cut seems to have worked. I've had six tiny Harlequin Rasboras in my tank for almost a week and my ammonia is measuring zero with a liquid test kit. I ran my filter in an established tank for three weeks and also put some pebbles from that tank into my HOB filter.

This weekend I will add two more Harlequins and then let things settle for a month or so. In the end I am thinking of adding a school of six Bandit or Panda corys and a school of eight Rummynose tetras which should be the maximum stocking rate.

The Vallis that I put in died back a bit but seems to be recovering well, with some new growth. They were quite badly infested with snail eggs, and the seller's advice of dipping in a salt solution was pretty useless. I should have done some better research. I am quite worried about what other parasites might have hitched a ride...