The Troed Y Rhiw Tank Logs

[Ricrhys]

Kind of wish I'd started one of these back when I joined in November but I never did so more fool me.

Brief history: Kept fish as a teenager on and off for years till maybe 25, stopped, then started again at the end of last year, found this place, happy days.

3 tanks on the go at the moment.

Tank one: The Kitchen 60
A Juwel Rekord 60 donated to me by someone who had it in a cupboard and wanted space.
How it looked when I set it up (on the kitchen table bench)
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How it looks 9 months later.




Stock: 9 White Cloud Mountain Minnow, 1 Amano

Equipment

Light: NICREW ClassicLED Plus HO Planted
Pump: Oase FiltoSmart 300 (ceramic media upgraded to alfagrog, plus one bag of purigen)
CO2: Full injection kit with in tank ceramic defuser 1/2 BPS
Ferts: 1mm Tropica Premium via a jecod auto dosing pump once per day
Skimmer: Eheim 350 turned to minimum flow on for the first 15 min of every hour between 10:00 and 21:00
Heater: Yes, can't remember what now. For just in case.
WC routine: 25-50% 2 times a week, usually a Sunday and a Wednesday.

Plants(ignore spelling please)

Rotala Rotundifolia
Microsorum
Limnofelia sessiflora
Hygrophila 'Siamensis 53B'
Anubias Barteri
Lobelia Cardinalis
Micranthemum Monte carlo
staurogyne repens

Tank Two: The Betta Nano 30l

Again gifted to me by someone. Aqua one something or other.

Featured in the hot debate https://www.aquariumforums.co.uk/viewto ... =13&t=3995




Stock: One Betta "Inky" who's becoming less inky and more ghosty by the day.

Light: Aquael leddy
Heater and filter: nothing to write home about.

Tank Three: The Project

A fluval Roma 125 I got with a cracked bottom, replaced the bottom panel, converted it to rimless this evening, currently empty, watch this space.

[Mito]

From the first photo I thought you were going to keep catfish

[Martinspuddle]

How it looks 9 months later.

Hey, that's not fair, now the cats have no where to sleep!

....nice looking setup though.

[Suse]

I thought the first picture was pretty nice and was about to compliment you, then saw the second Blimey what a transformation! Looks like the spirit of Takashi Amano has paid a visit! Will have a proper read of your set up to get some tips.

Also, those cats are scrumptious.

[Andys temperate tank]

That's quite a change richy. Nice one. Your another one making me want to add co2 to my big tank.

[Ricrhys]

Wow cheers @Suse long way to go but I'm enjoying the journey, cheers all!
Edited to add WC routine.

P.s the cats aren't quite as scrumptious now, we live in the country and they have basically turned into cute fluffy little murder machines awwwww!!

[Stephen]

troed y rhiw roughly translated means foot of the hill

Your tanks look great

[Ricrhys]

It certainly does. Cheers Stephen.

[codheadjohn]

Your first setup was nice, the second is lovely!

If you could find a way to hide the pipework and filter etc, it would look like a pro scape

[Ricrhys]

Your first setup was nice, the second is lovely!

If you could find a way to hide the pipework and filter etc, it would look like a pro scape

Thank's John it's all new this last month that pipework, the shopping list is long and endless and I try to limit myself to one bit of kit a month, last month was 3, oops.
To make that all blend in I need a glass lilly pipe and intake with skimmer, 5m of clear 16/22mm, and two flow control/isolator valves (Eheim double taps) that way I can lose all the dark pipework and the massively unsightly Eheim skimmer at the front, to be fair I could have just removed that for the photo if I was going to be ocd, for that lot I'm potentially looking at £100+.

The fish were made up as I turned the pump off for the pic which to them only means one thing, can you guess where I feed them.