my 2,4M tank!

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  1. Bazil

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    I think Ryno will have all these exotic little fishies in that massive tank. Just to make the scale more insane..... :tongue:
     
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    Ryno

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    yep nothing that grows bigger than 4cm.
     
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    Your'e gonna need hundreds.... LOL. But looking forward to the setup day. Gonna be lekke.
     
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    hopefully about 250!
     
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    What about all your plecos?
     
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    Ryno

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    selling all of them and my fire eel. all my angels ect. just going to be small fish. at the moment is it rosy fin tetras, (celebis or forktail rainbows) pygmea corries, rosy loaches (some year when we get them in again) yep and if i see something i really like maybe one more species but dont think so
     
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    hahaha, only one. An old fish keepers lie :laugh:.
     
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    yeah true true. but i have an idea in my head want to stick with it too many different fish is going to spoil it
     
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    so stand is being prepped this week. glass is here tomorrow so hopefully next weekend i have some glass siliconed together in a shape that can hold water. cant remember what its called or how it looks haha. ps if anybody wanys filtersand ckme and get i have 200kg just laying around not going to use it
     
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    so i habe a huge needle leaf java fern im not going to use. any takers? can swop me for some other plants?
     
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    almost done!

    so that is the cabinet

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    the base

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    Looking cool man. What are you going to keep in there?
     
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    this

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    south american dwarf cichlids a few different pairs. 100 cherry barbs, 100neons, 50 ottos. and wil see from there

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    bad pic. but all my fish thats in there and also the plants that wood is also alot bigger than it looks. its 1,2m long

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    This tank is going to look awesome!:bigsmile:
     
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    Yes it is. What about filtration?
     
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    filtration would be 2x eheim 2228 canister filters and a sicce cannister filter also
     
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    @Ryno what about an fx5? You could cut out some of your other filters then.
     
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