My new project / breeding setup

Ok so I built this bookshelf a long time ago (solid meranti) and, since I don't have many books or do much reading ..I decided I needed to get some glass and water in there....obviously.
I DIY'ed the aquariums 440mm x 440mm x 450mm deep 6mm glass about 80 litres (cost about R 480 incl silicon each)
Drilled and fitted with 25mm bulkhead, I will be doing an auto waterchange system on the 6 tanks.

The back of the cabinet, black pipe for water supply and the blue PVC for waste water:

I use borehole water for all my tanks so the auto topup water will drip in constantly, I just have to figure out how much water I want to do daily and the waste flows to a sump that I'm going to use to breed snails to feed the puffers ( what better place to breed snails ), then out to the garden.

The idea is to do some breeding, starting with some ancistrous, got these babies yesterday +_ 30mm, standard BNP

And some Red jewels

Then I am thinking of breeding some apistogramma, and my dark knights, I have 7 of these beauties in my Amazon tank, just have to let them pair up:

Maybe some standard GBR, or golden rams... or I would like to try pea puffers maybe

At the moment I am using sponge filters but I am going to change over to matten filter as soon as I can find some of the right foam...

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That looks awesome!

I take it you don’t have to treat your ground water, but do you dose with anything? Would be a cool next step to see a DIY autodoser...


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Sounds like a very fun project!!

 

No I don't need to dose anything, but I do enjoy DIY, my water is a little on the hard side so I add some peat to my tanks / filters, thinking of making some sort of in line peat resivoir for the water to filter through before entering the fishroom? my water has a PH of around 7.4

Loads of fun, but heavy on the tight budget....just have to eat less

 

He he thanks

On a side note...I wonder if these scrubbing pads would work for a matten filter? It Is about 20mm thick and i can get it in black also


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no not at all, anyway just look at the awesome scape you've created in a matter of days your tanks are awesome

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I reckon it would, might just need to be cleaned a little more regularly at that thickness though? Not sure..

 

Been wondering about appropriate matten densities for a while - that may be a bit too dense?
Great breeding setup, look forward to seeing some fry.

Nice Dark Knight ram - you'll get plenty golden ram fry from them btw. Check out Marco's FB account: https://www.facebook.com/The-Ram-Tank-304342836278714/posts/

 

Thanks @Cale24 ,My rams come from Marco, I wonder if he has any blue rams

 

Update time...
I got me some endler guppies and blue dream shrimp for one of these tanks and for the other 3 pea puffers, teeny tiny little things when I got them they were like 5mm long so I only took 3, so small i didn't see them for the first week, and was not sure if they were feeding but luckily the tank was well matured with loads of pond snails of various sizes because I had to chop the bloodworms for them to be able to eat them. I am sorry now that I didn't get more, I think I will try my hand at breeding them now

 

That's awesome! They're really such cuties aren't they?
If you get the hang of breeding them please share! I want to give it a try too

 

So I tried to get some pics of the puffers...they are so small...

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And the Japan blue endlers, what a bugger to get that guy to sit for a pic


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I have managed to get some nice blue velvet shrimps, in there with the Japanese blue endlers

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Loads of endler fry, those males are really cool looking, just don't want to pose for a picture

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The puffers are good and fat, need to get more..
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