Jump to content

Recommended Posts

So, After my filter on my ebi went sideways I decided to start again!

My husband bought a Mr.Aqua 12 gallon long in San Diego It lasted in our house about 3 minutes before I jacked it for my new project.

I aquascaped this tank using only bits and pieces lying around the house. I multipurposed it by moving all of my husbands (blink) cherry shrimp out of his 30 gallon when he changed into the Solana. I decided to go with a soft semi blackwater biotope to make my little fishies happy.

Equipment:

3 bags of black sand substrate

8 peices of random driftwood

1 piece of mopani

aquaclear 30

12 gallon long

random heater.

2 large blue LED strips I had left over from a previous project

Desk lamp.

My goal with lighting is to drill 3 spotlights underneath the counter where it's housed. My goal for filtration is to drill a hole in the counter and run all the electrical and my canister filter down into under the counter. This isn't a journal because I have already finished my project except for those 2 things.

Stock list:

15 red microraspbora boraras maculatus

6 microrasbora kubotai (neon green/yellow rasboras)

3 Garra flavatra (Panda Garra)

70 Neocaridina heteropoda (Cherry shrimp)

2 Caridina multidentata (Amano shrimps)

1.1 Betta Splendens crowntail

random crypt and sword plants and some subwassertang that mysteriously appeared one day.

The Bettas do not eat the shrimp.

Here is a link to the flickr to keep me from adding 2 gazillion photos

Thoughts,Suggestions, extra microrasboras welcome.

Edited by Aysha
Link to comment
Share on other sites

it's pretty quiet but the way I have the filter set up it does move the water around enough for my small fish. I may add a powerhead in the future or hide a sponge filter. With the fish and plants I've got in it the AC30 seems to do the job. AC can import the mr.aqua for you. It's marked up accordingly (If I tell you what they cost in San Diego you'll be mad) but they can do it for less then the cost of a Fluval edge.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

it's pretty quiet but the way I have the filter set up it does move the water around enough for my small fish. I may add a powerhead in the future or hide a sponge filter. With the fish and plants I've got in it the AC30 seems to do the job. AC can import the mr.aqua for you. It's marked up accordingly (If I tell you what they cost in San Diego you'll be mad) but they can do it for less then the cost of a Fluval edge.

Thanks a bunch for the info :) I'll surely look into it in the future.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...