Sapherion

Latest Project: 6ft x 2ft x 2.5ft - 800Litres

This is a customer's display tank for an apartment residence. Set in the living area. Whole job took 10 hours from start to finish including the time taken to tear down the existing scape.

Glass: 10mm Starfire Premium Custom made Tank
Stand: Custom made painted matt black
Lighting: DIY Metal Halide 2x 150w & Downlight fixture (To be replaced with Dupla Electra Kombi 2)
Filtration: 2x Eheim Pro's
Co2: Dupla Alpha Set & Aquamedic Reactor 5bps
Heating: 300W Dupla heating cables & 2x 200W Hydor inline heaters
Substrate: Plain 3mm black gravel & thin layer of Dupla laterite
PH: 6.0 Controlled by Dupla
Temp: 29'C

Flora:
Echinodorus Tennellus
Anubias Nana
Anubias Barteri
Various Swords
Crypt Walkeri
Java Fern
Java Moss
Blyxa Japonica
Pogostemon Stellata
Thin Vallissnera
Aponogeton Crispus

Fauna:
Blue Turquoise Discus
Sterbei Corydoras
Clown Loach
Bristlenose Catfish
Ottocinclus

Day starts by draining water and taking everything down


Make sure you have plenty of towels, there will be major spillage!


Setting out equipment and supplies


8x 80L bins to house existing water and all the fish. Notice they are being filtered to keep water oxygenated


Plenty of space for work


Plants laid out. Make sure water is constantly sprayed to avoid plants drying out. Its 37'C today!


River rocks. They're not from the local creek I swear!


Existing plants. Needing to be trimmed of dying leaves/algae ridden leaves


Draining the rest of the tank. Almost there..


Clearing the old gravel and taking heating cables out


This tank is big.. and I mean big.. it could fit 3 of me!


For a job this size, get as much help as you can


Almost empty.. Man this is tiring so far


Laying out hardscape. For this scape, I decided to use the golden ratio and mount two mounds using river stones to hold the mounds in place.


Climbing back in, this tank is too deep to work from outside


Laying out black gravel slowly


Checking depth


Basic layout almost done


And done..


Adding driftwood with moss tied on using cotton thread




Hardscape done


Starting from the front moving back




Planting finished. Whole planting process took 4 hours. Started to fill again slowly


Finished filling. Checked all hardware. Good to go


These lights are pretty bright already


Still cloudy, should clear by tomorrow
















Please excuse the dark pics, not good at taking pics

Overall although this was a big job, it turned out pretty much how I wanted. We used all the plants and there was still room for a bit more. Fish were added an hour after filling.

Hope you enjoyed this journal and please feel free to comment.

Cheers,

Brandon.

JACK SOBRAL

Hello Sapherion
Large tank, the Discus will feel at home! But are you using many plants of Asian origin, for a Biótipo South America's Amazon forest ... One that criticizes the hehehe ...
Beautiful tank, is legal see the assembly of an aquarium step by step, we learn a lot from it.
Good luck ...!


That hug
JACK

Blue_Dolphinvn

Very hard job to be done!
It's okie to add discus just only an hour after finish your job? I think you shoud pay more attention to them...
Thank,

Genin

I think it looks fantastic. Great job.

ed seeley

Fantastic, I wish I had a tank that big! I like the twisting pieces of wood, they really make a feature in the tank.

DonaldmBoyer

Impressive tank! I would agree that this isn't exactly an "Amazon" tank, but I think that I can still be impressed anyways ! Show us what it looks like after the water clears!!

happybob59

Man!! That's one large tank! When I move out I'm getting a large one

geministudios54

Good use of space. Like the break in the middle. I agree with an earlier comment of asian plants vs south american, but really>>>who notices anything but a good looking tank!!!..That you have..
How about some pics as the tank matures. Great work!!...Jeff

zQ.

Well done ! Your tank look fantastic.
BTW cô bé trong hình nhìn dễ thương ghê

redstrat

Definately an impressive start, i'm really looking forward to seeing more pics as this one matures!!!