5G Tank

[neven]

Last Updated: April 3rd w/ Pics

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My wife and i decided we needed another tank, she's the one who first suggested it actually. On the way home wednesday night i picked up a tank and a piece of driftwood from Petcetera. I used an old stingray i used to use for circulation, threw in some media from my ac30 filter thats up and running and transfered over a few fish from my wifes guppy tank. The goal is to get the females in there, then give them away in the future.

On remembrance day, we went to Walmart for a lamp, and IPU for a bag of substrate. i was hoping for something inert, but all they had was black flourite/red flourite, and their bulk gravel. Decided i wanted another black substrate so went with the black flourite. After a quick rinse i used almost a full bag in the tank and started emptying all the vases of clippings i tend to have laying around to get some plant stock in there to start it out. Im not sure how much i'll be keeping in there, but i do know i want some Dwarf hair grass to carpet the substrate. Then once most of the females are gone i'll turn this into a shrimp habitat.



Tank: 5 gallon
Substrate: Black flourite
Lighting: 1 bulb Twister CFLs, 21 W 6500K
Filtration: Hush 10 (fluval prefilter, carbon mesh bag to help with excess tanins, pot scrubber for bio)
Decor: Drift wood x2

Plants:
java fern
Ammania gracilis
Alternanthera reineckii 'roseafolia'
Ludwigia 'ovalis'
Heteranthera zosterifolia (stargrass)
Azolla filiculoides
eleocharis parvula (Dwarf Hairgrass)
asian water grass
staurogyne repens
Ranunculus Inundatus
Fissidens fontanus

Livestock:
RCS

Macros:
The usual...

Micros:
CSM+B - 1.6 ml
Changes: 50% on Sunday

Carbon Suppliment: 1.0 mL metricide / day

[GreenGreenGrass]

Nice. I like the scape with the one piece of wood breaching the surface. Always loved open top planted tanks.

[Mferko]

2 guppy tanks now? thats alotta babies

[kmc5]

Impressive!

[neven]

noooo not two guppy tanks..... they are to help ensure the bio filter remained established then i will get shrimp and give away the guppies in that tank (or flush them if no one takes em)

Plus it lets me remove the females from my wifes tank, preventing more babies. if i see fry im putting an unprotected power head in the damn tank.

[Diztrbd1]

Nice tank, look forward to seeing it as it progresses

[TCR]

Well i'm gonna start to breed live bearers. Was going to use swordtails bit I've been a lil intrested in selective breeding in guppies and wouldn't mind giving that a whirl. I can be ur last resort

[CRS Fan]

Looking good, Rob. Can't wait to see it grow in some more .

Best Regards,

Stuart

[neven]

After a visit to CRS Fan, like most of us, it resulted into a lot of time spent planting
I removed the Salvinia from this tank and replaced it with Azolla filiculoides. I figure i'll start working towards my tanks having unique species in each. The foreground was filled in with eleocharis parvula (Dwarf Hairgrass) and a few plantlets of an unknown grass variety. Plus i filled in the right corner with Heteranthera zosterifolia (stargrass) to help hide the filter from view. Also a spec of some sort of moss that came with the plants so i wedged it into a piece of driftwood to see how it grows

After everything was planted i put the wife to work to remove the remaining guppy fry who haven't coloured from her tank to grow out in this tank, then we'll transfer the males to her tank and deal with the females. Then it will be shrimpy time!

now for a couple pictures

[slipstream]

Gonna be awesome once its all grown in.