Thanks everyone, and she is a mini eskie. Her name is Cotton. We just got her last week. She's just under 4 months old. The pet store was keeping her in a huge hex tank with wood shavings like a hamster and we just couldn't leave her there.
As for the tank, my shipment from Drs Foster and Smith arrived today, so I have the flourite black sand in and the HOT Magnum canister filters on now and I'm toying with layouts for the lace rock which I'll be using as weights to tie down the wood once I get that, which will be a few weeks most likely since it will prolly be local drift wood and I'll have to soak it for some time. My design plans preclude buying Mopani at the pet store for the main log. There are a lot of places around here I am going to scout for a 3-4 foot log with a nice branch or two sticking out from it, and I've laid the rocks out in a way that I think will permit me to place the plants I have in mind for best effect, as well as give me workable anchor points for tying down the log. The rock will also provide a large number of caves for shelter, territory, and breeding. The log will also be decorated with moss and various anubias and so forth. Foreground will be hair grass on either side of a large patch of HC. Hard to explain, but it's going to be some time before I have what's in my head growing in my tank to shoot pics of, so I feel compelled to share the ideas in text because I'm so excited about them, LOL! I'm just really looking forward to getting it put together and showing it off!
2nd pic is the condition the goodies arrived in! The eco-complete apparently froze solid in transport (as did the flourish) and the bag was punctured by the rezulting frozen mass of pointy substrate particles. The green packing peanuts melted when they got wet as the stuff thawed and just made an awful green slimy sticky mess!
As for the tank, my shipment from Drs Foster and Smith arrived today, so I have the flourite black sand in and the HOT Magnum canister filters on now and I'm toying with layouts for the lace rock which I'll be using as weights to tie down the wood once I get that, which will be a few weeks most likely since it will prolly be local drift wood and I'll have to soak it for some time. My design plans preclude buying Mopani at the pet store for the main log. There are a lot of places around here I am going to scout for a 3-4 foot log with a nice branch or two sticking out from it, and I've laid the rocks out in a way that I think will permit me to place the plants I have in mind for best effect, as well as give me workable anchor points for tying down the log. The rock will also provide a large number of caves for shelter, territory, and breeding. The log will also be decorated with moss and various anubias and so forth. Foreground will be hair grass on either side of a large patch of HC. Hard to explain, but it's going to be some time before I have what's in my head growing in my tank to shoot pics of, so I feel compelled to share the ideas in text because I'm so excited about them, LOL! I'm just really looking forward to getting it put together and showing it off!
2nd pic is the condition the goodies arrived in! The eco-complete apparently froze solid in transport (as did the flourish) and the bag was punctured by the rezulting frozen mass of pointy substrate particles. The green packing peanuts melted when they got wet as the stuff thawed and just made an awful green slimy sticky mess!
