My 4ft. 300l Community Tank

This is my 4ft 300l community tank with the following:

Tank:

1200x500x500 (braced) 5mm sides/10mm bottom with custom canopy holding primary lighting in the back and sliding glass under hoods in front.

Lighting:

1x Boyu 25W White Aquarium Lamp
1x Boyu 25W Pink Aquarium Lamp
2x Hopar 25W T5 Hoods

Heating:

1x ViaAqua 300W Submersible heater

Filtration:

Corner overflow into a 25l Sump with filter wool and lava rock, returned at 2000l/h with a ViaAqua PowerHead through a custom 400mm spraybar.

Substrate & Contents:

Silica based rocks from a South African mountain range and hollow driftwood on a fine sand substrate.

 

I really love this tank!! Really nice @SHiBBY

 

looks good man!

 

I want that piece of wood lol jk. Looks good!

 

Thanks guys!

@speedz LOL! That is my eel's hideout... I've been hunting for a non-retarded piece of driftwood for a long time, and landed this baby at Pet Stop (moment of silence) a while back! It's not hard wood so I guess I'll have to part with it some day, but for now it looks goooooood!

 

looks good man, thats some nice lighting units, pitty the severums like to chomp on plants, maybe try some java fern on that wood, it will look awesome, with some anubia at the base

 

I want to get Java moss from @Slojo and let it graze on the log, but firstly those Severums need to get going so that I can tame my fire eel...

PS: Those hoods were on special for R 150 each Can you say bargain..?

 

Wow - Great scape, well done !

 

Thank you kindly

It does need some green. I'm also hunting for those dual-spectrum T5 replacement globes that incorporate both the white and blue, which will break the brown and give a nice clean white underwater glow. They are a little expensive though... But then again, so are famous paintings, yet we pay the price without hesitation because we like the way they look in our homes. Aquariums are one and the same thing.

 

try www.thelamphouse.co.za thats where i got my t5's from..

thanks again @neilh

 

Thanks! I'll give them a shout... ;-)

 

You are more than welcome.I'm back Today.

 

Yaaay! Thanks Slojo! Rookie1 is coming to relieve my severums from active duty this weekend, so I'll give you a ring and swing by.

Thanks!

 

Looks really good. Do you plan on adding a background? Black will be nice.

 

Nice thanks there. Bit off the topic don't mean to hijack your thread but can a T5 Flourescent work on a normal Ballast??

 

Yes I definately want to make a background. Have a look in the DIY section I've got a thread on the background I want to make ;-)

 

Yup, far as I know. I bought those Hopar hoods with the T5s in so I really can't comment on the ballast they have installed...

 

UPDATE: Complete Clarity

Hey guys,



It's been a while since my last tank update, and a few things has changed, the biggest of which is my new 3ft sump which has been optimized to contain everything that is good and right.

This is what my water looks like with the new sump...

 

PS these pictures were taken with my cellphone so excuse the noise...

 

that looks way cool!

so what happened to the wood?

and i see you've changed substrate as well?