My tank

So here a pic of my tank after trimming and a big water change. It's dimensions are: 104L X 35W X40H.

I will be renovating sometime in the next month.
I think I'm am going to take some of the black gravel out. Move the amazons back and reposition the wood and Indian fern. I will spread the vallis out more to cover the back and take some extra's out.

A little question: I have the intake on the left of the tank to my filter and the output to the right. Should I change this?

Regards
Firefly

 

Wow, awsome tank.

 

A little update

Tank Specs are:
104L X 35B X 40H or something like that.
Fluval 204 filter with all baskets filled with bio-media.
Lights are 2X30W. 1 is a flora glo and the other is a cheapie Osram.
DIY CO2.
PFP and Chemicult capped with PFS and some Black gravel.
Tank is 25'C on normal days.
200W heater.
800L/h power head for circulation.

Flora: Vallisneria
3 species of amazons.
Java Moss.
Crypts
Anubia

Fauna:
Neons
Cardinals
Harliquins
2 black Neons
Peppered corys
Bronze Corys
Albino Corys
1 BN
3 Ottos
Some khuli loaches.
LS


RS


Full tank shot.


Hope you like :bigsmile:

 

looks great! keep up the great work. i wish my tank was as green as yours...

 

Wow! nice, your lucky you've still got your Crypts, my BN's got hungry!

 

Very cool firefly ... good job!

 

Look good firefly! keep it up!

 

Beautiful!

 

Absolutely stunning!!

 

Flower!

Hi all.
Saw this pop up a while ago and thought is was another leaf forming, but it turned out to be a spike.
This is the first time one of me Echinodorus sp. has sent out a spike. Unfortunately the light burned off more than half of the buds, but I saved the rest. So after a little read, here the pics!




Hope you enjoy!

 

Superb!! Really stunning!!

 

Update Time

So it's update time again. Yay!

I took out the 7 harlequins out and put in four black neons from another 3ft that I closed down. Harlequins went into my 250L with some Columbia tets.
The corys have laid eggs about 4-5 times with about 5 clutches more or less. Putting the current clutch into my comp tank. Hopefully they will hatch and survive...
I think I lost 1 neon the other day to some sort of stomach problem. I say this because I noticed it stomach just getting bigger and redder and now I can't seem to find it.
Other than that the fish have been fine.

Crypts have gone wild, amazons too. The amazons started sending out shoot, I now have 5 in total and 3 have got little plants with roots starting to form (when can I remove them?)
The amazons have been a bit or a curse too, because I want to close my canopy but I would have to clear the emmersed leaves.
But my favorite news is my anubia put out a flower. So glad about this!

Here are some pics...
Cory eggs:


Top of the tank:


Size of most amazon leaves:


The anubia flower:


A few days later:



Thanks for looking.
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@Firefly, what a stunning tank you have, the growth is really awesome. It looks like just now the Amazon is going to need it's own pot in your living room.:bigsmile: I love your Cory eggs, I just wish I knew that I could move them, I would have had plenty by now... Good luck in getting them to hatch in your comp tank, it will be so awesome. Keep us posted!

 

Thanks for the reply @Skye01
I too hope the eggs are successful but many of the batches haven't, due to me being to lazy to look after them.
I really need to sort out a quarantine tank now that the 3ft is empty.
Also need to give the plants a rather major trim, as in separate some of the crypts that are getting big.

 

and this is why I have only 3 tanks with hoods - few things beat the growth above the waterline while the rest of the plant is below - it ties the thing together for me.

Congrats on the flowering... this is so cool.

Later Ferdie