cturner

So 4 years ago I had to get rid of all my tanks and downsize. These were my tanks before I had to sell them...

20 Gallon community


90 Gallon with Discus, dither fish and clean up crew


I've finally been able to jump back in the saddle. I set up a 20 tall in the beginning of May.

DonaldmBoyer

Any pics of the 20T??? . Pics, or it didn't happen, Correna!....even though I've seen the progress.....

cturner

Ok specs...Bare with me here.
20 gallon tall
CO2 with aquatek regulator on a 24 oz. paint ball CO2 tank, bubble counter and ceramic disk diffuser for 3-4 bubbles per second.
Filtration: Rena XP3 with spray bar mounted vertically.

Fauna: 6 cardinal tetras, 10 red eye tetras, 6 rosy tetras, 4 albina cories, 1 panda cory (only survivor thanks to some green tetras), 4 otos and 8 treaded nerite snails.

Flora: Limnophila aromatica, Persicaria "Kawagoeanum", hydrocotyle "Japan", Rotala sp. 'Sunset', Hygrophila pinnatifida, Rotala 'H'ra', Bolbitis heudelotii 'small form', Eichornia diversifolia and 3 others I can't remember from a package I bought at my LFS.

Lighting: Lamp #1 – Current lamp with 2 T5HO bulbs, 1-24w pink bulb and 1-24w 10000K bulb on for mid day burst 4 hours over lapping with Lamp #2 and 2 hours by itself at night time.
Lamp #2 – Odyssea lamp with 2 T5HO bulbs, 2 x 48w 6500K on for 12 hours, 4 hours overlapping with Lamp #1. From 5 am to 3 pm 96w of 6500K, from 3 pm to 7 pm 144w (2-6500k, 1-1000k and 1 pink) and from 7 pm to 9 pm 48w of Lamp #1.

Ferts: dry EI dosing and root tabs. I think I've finally dialed in my schedule.

Substrate: Nothing special, eco-complete only.

First set up....


6/3/12 after I received 2 nice plant packages. 1 from Chicken and 1 from Don. Thank you both!


6/12/12 moved some plants and started my fight with some soft brown slime. Easily removed with my handy dandy syringe.


Soft brown slime....

DonaldmBoyer

Just diatoms....harmless and they'll go away on their own....or, get some ottos and they'll eat it! Looks good!!!

cturner

6/16/12 After dosing 2x Excel to get rid of the soft brown slime. Also added the treaded nerite snails on 6/13/12.


I don't know if the leaves curling is a good thing or a bad thing.


Albino Cories playing








These were labeled Rosy tetras but the pictures online don't look anything like these.




I'm waiting on some Riccia to come in the mail as well as some awesome driftwood then I'll have an awesome new scape!

cturner

Wow just realized my pictures really suck! They were all with my phone, I apologize. I will charge my good camera and shoot some good pictures again.