Little Big Tank

I finally set up my tank after a month or 2 of waiting for it to be ready. No fish yet but they will be coming soonwater must still clear as well

 

Hi @Dale Honeyman

Welcome to the forum
Tank looks very nice, stunning piece of wood

What are your plans for fish?

 

@A new day this is my fiance's tank

 

Yes I got the spiderwood from RBM aquatics which allowed me to unpack all of their wood pieces in order to find the perfect pieces for my tank!
Tank size is 300L and the sump that is attached to the side is around about 50ish litres or so...i am yet to actually measure it.

I will start my fish off with getting a range of Tetras and then some sterbai Cory's. I also really want some glass cats but they will come a bit later and eventually I will try and get some discus in there!!

 

Yes I have and I had a lot of fun!

 

I was super clumsy with them at first but now that I'm used to them they work like a bomb! Barely disturbs my capping layer and I can get the roots down nicely

 

Really great pieces of wood and layout. Nice project!

 

A bit of glare on the tank but the water is a bit murky from new filter media, I did rinse it and everything but it still had some murk to give off but I got 3 cardinal tetras in the tank now and I impulse bought 2 beautiful angel fish! Coz who doesn't like a pretty angel fish

 

So my one cardinal died yesterday because it got sucked into my sump and squished by my metala mat and now another got sucked in...basically sump needs safety precautions taken. I was gonna ask what should I do with my tetra when it's stunned because it keeps swimming back into the sump but no my angel fish hit it and it died

 

Eish man. Try and get some mesh (rubber carpet mesh comes to mind) and cover those overflows

 

If a fish is injured and needs to recover place it in a net or breeding box. Most other fish especially cichlids will peck at them while they are trying to recover usually killing them.

 

I do need more plant cover though for my tetras though. I am wanting to put some more amazon swords in at the back so that my angel fish and, hopefully one day, discus can't go and pick on the small fish in the tank. Especially if they do get a bit stunned they'll have a place to hide and recover

 

Yeah, I'm just worried about the lose leaves every now and then getting stuck and slowing the sump but I will try something like that

 

I don't particularly like vallis, I'm just not a fan of it...i very much like the swords even though they are a slow grower (learnt that now thanks)... I will look up that aponogeton crispus now. Also they will need to survive 30°