36 GL Bowflew Allglass Community Tank

This is the first tank I've had in 25 years.

I am trying to go for a balanced tank, requiring minimal water changes, minimal filter cleaning, and no gravel cleaning. (To accomplish this, I am going for a high ratio of plant life to fish life. Massive overprovisioning of filtering capacity (I have two fluvals: 205 and 305).

Fish:
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1 Bala shark
10 black neon tetras
2 Bollivian Rams
2 Green corries
2 Gorgeous cories that I don't know the species.
2 Pearl Gorami

Plants:
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Wisteria
Water Sprite
Banana plants
Java fern
Grass??
Amazon swords


Equipment:
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36 GL Allglass bowfront tank. w/ black wooden stand
20 Watt hood
1 underwater heater
205 Fluval
305 fluval
Yeast based CO2 generator

Future plans:
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Add more species of plants.
Replace 20 Watt hood with a compact florescent (tincture and white light)
Slowly add more fish
add a small apple snail

Any and all comments are welcome!

Cheers,
-brian

P.S. - Sorry for the picture quality, I used my camera phone.

flowerpower said:

Nice setup. noticed you have a yeast based CO2. did yyou buy the setup or build it?

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I bought it. (Turbo CO2 Bio System). I also bought a stack of refills. I am on the last refill now. When this runs out, I am going to try making my own refill.

I am upgrading my lighting system later this week. If it doesn't really make a marked difference in plant growth rate, I will probably upgrade to a CO2 tank.

-Brian

rbishop said:

Looks very nice. As a note, in case you aren't aware, that bala might get cramped in there.

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Thanks! I was somewhat aware of this, but I don't rally have a notion as to when that will be. (I think he already may be)

Because they are gorgeous fish I was thinking about picking up a few babies. I'm not so sure I will do that now.