Picked it up about a month ago, have it up and running now. Couldn't pass up the deal, $550 for the tank, stand/canopy, glass tops, 3' and 4' strip lights (tank is 7'x2'x2') and an FX5 less than a year old. Cost me another $150 for gas and help moving the beast, 25 square feet of 3/4" glass is heavy.
Substrate is 50 lbs of find-grade gravel similar to pool filter sand and 100 lbs of Black Diamond sandblasting grit. Actually coal slag but looks and acts like sand, except no silica content so no there's diatoms in the new setup.
Currently running 3 aquaclear 110's and an air-driven hydrosponge to establish the tank. I'll take off 2 of the hob's after the FX5 is running/established. Currently there are only a dozen 2" O. ventralis orange caps in there, and a few BN fry that hitchiked inside a resin tree stuump ornament. Scape is pretty bare, though I did collect some new rocks today, will have them cleaned and in the tank tomorrow.
I will be moving a group of juvie Synodontis lucipinnis over shortly, and looking to pick up a group of Neolamp buescheri Zaire gold fry next month. Will be getting a pair of plagiostoma spiney eels early next week, and waiting to hear back from someone about M. parva rainbows. If those won't work out in the high pH I'll look into some Cyp's, but I love the color of the M. parva. Also have 6 Phyllonemus typus and a pair of Lophiobagrus cyclurus catfish hanging out in other tanks, might move some of those over too. The P. typus are fry control for 2 constantly spawning pairs of cutteri, and they do an excellent job there.
Filling the tank to male sure nothing happened while moving it:
Left-to-right photo sequence:
Resin ornaments that the BN fry came along in:
Few cichlid stones in the tank, more on hand and coming next week:
Few Val's starting out, will add more later:
The dozen featherfins mainly hang out around the available cover, school pretty tightly too:
Substrate is 50 lbs of find-grade gravel similar to pool filter sand and 100 lbs of Black Diamond sandblasting grit. Actually coal slag but looks and acts like sand, except no silica content so no there's diatoms in the new setup.
Currently running 3 aquaclear 110's and an air-driven hydrosponge to establish the tank. I'll take off 2 of the hob's after the FX5 is running/established. Currently there are only a dozen 2" O. ventralis orange caps in there, and a few BN fry that hitchiked inside a resin tree stuump ornament. Scape is pretty bare, though I did collect some new rocks today, will have them cleaned and in the tank tomorrow.
I will be moving a group of juvie Synodontis lucipinnis over shortly, and looking to pick up a group of Neolamp buescheri Zaire gold fry next month. Will be getting a pair of plagiostoma spiney eels early next week, and waiting to hear back from someone about M. parva rainbows. If those won't work out in the high pH I'll look into some Cyp's, but I love the color of the M. parva. Also have 6 Phyllonemus typus and a pair of Lophiobagrus cyclurus catfish hanging out in other tanks, might move some of those over too. The P. typus are fry control for 2 constantly spawning pairs of cutteri, and they do an excellent job there.
Filling the tank to male sure nothing happened while moving it:
Left-to-right photo sequence:
Resin ornaments that the BN fry came along in:
Few cichlid stones in the tank, more on hand and coming next week:
Few Val's starting out, will add more later:
The dozen featherfins mainly hang out around the available cover, school pretty tightly too: