75 Gallon planted

[jiayaw]

So recently acquired a 75 gal tank... and with that... I got a coralife 48in 4 bulb T5HO fixture with 2 x 6700k and 2 x 10000k (4x54watt) lighting, a pressurized CO2 system, 105 lbs of flourite and a Rena XP3 Canister filter. Once everything is set up and running, I will be moving the current inhabitants from the tank I've posted about My Bolivian rams a while back. As my angelfish paired up and started laying eggs.. I will then use the 33 gal as a breeding tank ... while the 75 gal will be my main display planted tank.

Today was day one, and I went through the pain of washing the 7 bags of flourite dark I had for 5 hrs and then putting them into the tank... now the water is murky and I will wait till the stuff settles, do a gravel vac tomorrow before I run my filter. Hopefully everything will be up and running by Thursday and I can start moving my fish and plants on Thursday.

Here's a pic of the tank from after today's setting up... so this is picture for day 1

[monkE]

FYI for next time... you can place a plate (or any flat surface) on top of the substrate before you pour water in so that the water doesn't impact directly with the flourite and you will avoid all of the cloudiness

Sounds like it's going to be a pretty sweet set up! Keep the pics coming as you progress through!

[jiayaw]

So moved driftwood and 3 plants over.. (2 new swords that I got plus one of my current swords) from 33 gal tank... and I think now the tank is just having a bacteria bloom after I moved stuff over but other than that... things are starting to look good.

[jiayaw]

Happy with the scaping of the tank... now just need to add some midground plants on the left, and some carpeting plants in the front of the tank

[jiayaw]

posted wrong photo, so edited this post out... see next post

[jiayaw]

moved in rest of my fish along with old filter media. Then also bought quite a few of the Staurogyne repens from jason and planted them in foreground. This is what my tank looks like as of now...

[BelieveInBlue]

very nice! How big are the angels? And can't wait till it's done =]

[jiayaw]

the angels are somewhere between 3-5 inches including tail length (most of them around 4 in) =) had them for about 6 months (for the the blacks and 5 months for the silver angels).

[CRS Fan]

Tank's looking good. You may want to replace the disk CO2 diffuser with a 16/22mm CO2 atomizer from Canadian Aquatics. That is the correct size for all XP tubing and it will significantly increase your CO2 diffusion at the same bubble count. JMHO !

Best Regards,

Stuart

[jiayaw]

thanks! Ill look into getting an atomizer. would also be able to save some space in the tank too without needing to have space for the diffuser