Equipment

Equipment to Run Tank

 

For those that are interested in all the ins and outs of what I have used to set up and run the tank here is a comprehensive list:

 

• bubble wall air curtain with air pump
• 800Lph internal UV filter
• Kambrook power outboard 5 way individual shutter KD5A
• Kambrook electronic timer 8 switches a day LCD KET99
• Seachem Matrix BioMedia
• Eheim Quick Vac Pro
• Tree roots aquarium background poster
• Jager Eheim 250 Watt aquarium heater
Aqua One Nautilus 2700 canister filter
Black Earth Aqualab substrate
Up Aqua shrimp sand
6FT double T5 4 x 39W high output aquarium light


 
Plants and Driftwood :
• Hygrophilia Sunset
• Ludwigia Glandulosa
• Crypt Balansae
• Hairgrass
• Echinodorus Ozelot Red
• Echinodorus Red Flame
• Lace Fern
• Scarlet Ludwigia
• Rotala Rotundifolia
• Bacopa Floribunda
• Anubius Emerald Heart
• Aponogeton Crispus
• Red Tiger Lotus
• Crypt Wendtii Mi Oya
• Corkscrew Vallisneria
• Marble Queen Echinodorus
• Microsorium Java Fern
• Narrow Amazon Sword
• A couple Malaysian driftwood pieces with Anubias Nana attached
• Several large gold vine driftwood pieces

I keep the tank at 28-29 degrees Celsius, pH is approximately 6.6-6.8, I change approximately 100 litres of water every 3-4 days.  I currently have the following stocking in the tank :

• 8 discus - red turquoise, blue turquoise, red spotted turquoise, white swan, marlboro red, cobalt, red melon and snow leopard
• 8 corydoras sterbai (+ 4 fry)
• 2 peppermint bristlenoses
• L168 clown pleco
• 2 siamese algae eaters
• several cherry shrimps
• 2 pearl gouramis
• 10 pristella tetras
• 6 rummynose tetras
• 4 clown loaches