Hello all,
I was directed here by a former member, LordoftheFish, and I am hoping to learn a lot about my aquariums. I am a 30 year old woman from Chilliwack, BC, and I used to have tanks when I was young but really didn't understand anything about fish keeping at the time. I recently decided to pursue this again, after setting up an old 10 gallon tank that was laying around. It started to leak unfortunately, so I had to get a new one. I asked around on Facebook and a few of my friends offered some old ones they had hanging around. I put together two setups with all the things that were given to me. I have added more stuff as I have gone along, but they really are budget builds!
I have two setups, one is a 45 gallon long running 2 Tetra Power filters, one 30 and one 20, and two heaters. I have the National Geographic LED track light with light pods, I have two plant pods (red/blue), one HD pod (full spectrum), two lunar blue (moon lighting), and four white. I made a custom top with a fluorescent light cover, cut out to fit the filters, lights, heaters, and airlines. I am running one air pump with a small air stone currently, although I plan to add more in the future. I have one opaline gourami female, six glowlight tetras, three red zebra danios, one male swordtail, three julii corydoras, and two albino corydoras. I also have planted this tank with cabomba, grasses, and an amazon sword plant. I recently added a CO2 system with a canister that you fill with sugar, activator, and stabilizer and a bubble ladder, however I may switch this for a custom system as I realized after purchasing that I bought only a 15 gallon sized system. I don't think it's really doing anything in my tank. This tank is the one I really put most of my effort into, as it contains the plant system, and it's been quite a challenge to get everything going!
My second is a 20 gallon high, with no live plants, one powder blue dwarf gourami, one half moon betta, one male swordtail, and eight neon tetras. I am running an AquaClear 20 filter with a pair of 50w heaters in this one. This tank sits in my bedroom, and it is a pretty easy keeper.
I don't have any very good current photos, but I will try to find some and post them up ASAP.
Cheers!
Sarah
I was directed here by a former member, LordoftheFish, and I am hoping to learn a lot about my aquariums. I am a 30 year old woman from Chilliwack, BC, and I used to have tanks when I was young but really didn't understand anything about fish keeping at the time. I recently decided to pursue this again, after setting up an old 10 gallon tank that was laying around. It started to leak unfortunately, so I had to get a new one. I asked around on Facebook and a few of my friends offered some old ones they had hanging around. I put together two setups with all the things that were given to me. I have added more stuff as I have gone along, but they really are budget builds!
I have two setups, one is a 45 gallon long running 2 Tetra Power filters, one 30 and one 20, and two heaters. I have the National Geographic LED track light with light pods, I have two plant pods (red/blue), one HD pod (full spectrum), two lunar blue (moon lighting), and four white. I made a custom top with a fluorescent light cover, cut out to fit the filters, lights, heaters, and airlines. I am running one air pump with a small air stone currently, although I plan to add more in the future. I have one opaline gourami female, six glowlight tetras, three red zebra danios, one male swordtail, three julii corydoras, and two albino corydoras. I also have planted this tank with cabomba, grasses, and an amazon sword plant. I recently added a CO2 system with a canister that you fill with sugar, activator, and stabilizer and a bubble ladder, however I may switch this for a custom system as I realized after purchasing that I bought only a 15 gallon sized system. I don't think it's really doing anything in my tank. This tank is the one I really put most of my effort into, as it contains the plant system, and it's been quite a challenge to get everything going!
My second is a 20 gallon high, with no live plants, one powder blue dwarf gourami, one half moon betta, one male swordtail, and eight neon tetras. I am running an AquaClear 20 filter with a pair of 50w heaters in this one. This tank sits in my bedroom, and it is a pretty easy keeper.
I don't have any very good current photos, but I will try to find some and post them up ASAP.
Cheers!
Sarah
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