New Tank!!! Ebi, Planted! (NEW PICS: May 22/11)

[punchbuggy]

Hi All! I finally sold most of my old tanks and a bought a new Ebi to go on my new shelf.

So here it is! It is stock Ebi. All I added was an extra bag of substrate, changed half the sponge to other filter material, and added a 50 micron filter sieve to get rid of the substrate debris. Also am using a Jager 50W heater.

I'm going to be dosing mildly on Excel.

So here it is! Photos taken with Iphone4.

The plants:

Windelov Fern
Java Fern
Echinodorus '???'
Anubias
Crypt (in the foreground, thats what it says on the package from aquaflora, but they look dwarfish!, hope they stay that way)


and an unidentified fern/moss (does anyone know?)



So Day 1:

The stuff


Before the water



Now with water!




I'm going to get rid of those two rocks in the front after the wood is heavy enough and stops floating. Ergh. I had to put lead weights as well as top them off with those clay plant rings so they don't move.

Mystery Fern

Dwarfish Crypts





Stocking: Haven't decided yet but thinking of
Yellow shrimp
Crystals
AND an otto or two.
AND/or maybe 2/3 rasboras.

What do you guys thing?



ID of mystery fern would be appreciated!

[effox]

I think its "Subwassertang" but I could be corrected.

[Morainy]

Hey, that's a gorgeous Ebi setup! Very impressive! Nice plants. I like the idea of shrimp and otos. I've got killifish and a few female endlers in my Ebi, no shrimp.

I didn't know that you could switch the filter media out. There's not much space in there -- what kind of media did you put in? And, where does the filter sleeve go?

Your iPhone takes great pics, by the way! Better than my camera.

[punchbuggy]

@Effox subwassertang.. ok i guess i have a german plant :P. I saw it at King Ed's and asked for a bunch! I hope it attaches to the wood.!

@Morainy. Thanks! I was deciding If I was going to put fish, but I have other fish tanks so I'm going to put shrimp back in to this one.

the stock black blocks, one was rectangular one was square. I cut the rectangular one in half. Used half of that, and replaced the other half with a sponge from another tank for cycling. The original square one I kept as a spare. In its place, I just bought an aquaclear baggie type thing, filled it up with biological media (ie seachem matrix) and squished it in. For the 50 micron felt, I just cut it and slipped it into the compartment right before the long black sponge that comes originally. Essentially every nook and cranny I stuffed media in.

[Atom]

Nice setup. I'm sure the shrimp will love it in there. I have shrimp and chili rasboras in mine. The heater is a little distracting, but that's just my own preference for discrete heaters. Nice camera pics. Did yours come with silcone or did you get it for the background yourself?

I use Aquaclear Zeo Carb in my filter. If you get the size for 5 gallons it fits perfectly in there.

[punchbuggy]

yeah... i punched myself after for the heater. but I have it now... err.. i could hide it better but the cord is a pain to exit at the top and have the glass lid sit in place relatively flat.

The Ebi kits come with that background.

[Atom]

Oh I meant did the kit include the silicone. I'm just wondering if they are shipping the kits with silicone now because of the issues with the backgrounds.

[punchbuggy]

Oh I meant did the kit include the silicone. I'm just wondering if they are shipping the kits with silicone now because of the issues with the backgrounds.

OHH nope. I got that myself. However I was dumb and I added too much so the clips for the lid and the light didn't fit and I had to take a razor and gouge some out

[beijing2008]

you have bolbitis "African Fern" on wood

the mystery livewort is Pellia or Subwassertang, which a variant of pellia.

Agree with above, nice setup

[Atom]

OHH nope. I got that myself. However I was dumb and I added too much so the clips for the lid and the light didn't fit and I had to take a razor and gouge some out

I did that too. I couldn't get it off so now I have to position the light off to the side.