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My new project is starting 65 L tank

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#1 ·
Hello all, again, and sorry for the noise.

Ok i bought last weekend a 65L curved acrylic tank. During this week i am aconditioning my tank and the support, doing all the electricity ptoection, etc.

Habitants will be, if its possible, one male betta, one couple of ramirezi, 4 otocinclus and ~6 galaxy.

Plants i am not decided, yet. But i was reading the forum and see that many people started the tanks using DSM for carpeting with hemianthus micranthemoides and doing some scaping.

At this point i have two doubts.
1) Its posible while doing the DSM, using CO2 in a walstad tank? (once filled, i not plan to use CO2)
2) About putting some rock here and there, i know that is not desirable that the stone be ON the cap. I was thinking, to put the rocks first and after put the dirt and the cap of sand/mini gravel.

Lamp is pll biax l 24w 840.

Any guidance will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Leonardo
 
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#2 ·
Well well well, tank is setted up.

1" of soil
1" of inert prodac sand.

Two rocks and the following plants:
Ludwigia SP Red
Marsilea Crenata
Equinodorus Amazonicus
Sagitaria Subulata
Valisneria Nana
Rotala Rotundifolia
Lotus Red
Cabomba
Ambulia
Hygrophila Polyesperma

This pic shows cloudy water but i dont mind, is the first pic after filling up. So, beeing patient is a good choice to "clarify" the water.

I put, also a filter (with very tiny filtration sponge, just for removing particles) and later with nothing just for "moving" water.

Thank you all for reading this post.
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#3 ·
Tank looks promising. You have a nice variety of plants and have included some good growers

If the water stays this cloudy, I would do a 50% water change. Another trick is to not fill the tank to the top with water. That is, keep the water level shallow temporarily. That way there's less cloudy water for the light to go through before it reaches the plants. Once the plants start growing a few inches, you can raise the water level.
 
#6 ·
Hello all, hello Diana. well, after a week of going, tank is doing very well.

So far, im very satisfied, VERY !!!

I do not know how is the translate for filtering material. But i have added to the pump, wadding filter - if its wadding - and coffe filter paper between wadding and the pump for extra fine particles.

You can see the tank in a file attached how clear is in comparison whith the older pic.

Ill keep you updated about how tank is going. I bought my betta fish, its so pretty !!! In the meanwhile he is at the pet shop waiting for this fantastic home. I did not give him a name, yet.

Kind regards, yours,

Leonardo

PS: Sorry for my bad English but is not my mothers tongue.
 

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#7 ·
Well well well, plants are growing fine. Except for sagitaria but Is only one. So i suspect is for damage in root, by planting it.

I elected Ares for my betta's name.

This is my nine days update.

Kind regards,

Leonardo


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#12 ·
Hello Hoppy ! Thank for your words. I do have a filter in that tank. But im using it without any filtration purpouse, just for water circulation.

When i started it, i put some some filtration material for clarification purpouse.

Again, thank for your kind words,
Leonardo!
 
#18 ·
Hello all, happy New year to everyone!

It's been a long half and a month since my last update. Some weird things happened.

Just a month ago, my Betta, got acidic or alkaline illness. I put him into a fresh water jar with Aloe vera, so he is healthy again.

The smallest ones died. But rams and otos, didn't show any signal of doing some process of illness. Since then, they're all doing fine. I put three guppies from the other aquarium. By now all doing perfect.

But, news came again few days ago. I saw my rams, doing holes. I thought, damn, water will touch dirt directly. So I started looking very close at rams behavior.

For my surprise today I saw very very tiny ram fry.

So, I'm a new grandfather. And this is a report for breeding rams inside a Walstad tank it's possible.

Have everyone and exciting and wondering new 2019.

Yours, Leonardo

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#25 ·
Hello Diana ! 100% unexpected. Yesterday i started to give him Tropical MIKROVIT HI-PROTEIN. It was amazing. They are amazing and the tank is going on whitout problems.

I will give you some updates from when to when. Love this NPT tank !!!

Thank you all and thank you Diana :heart: :heart: :heart: for making this forum the way it is.
 
#27 ·
Almost 3 months update.

Ram fry, all eaten or died. Its really a mistery. But those wonderfull fishes are doing holes again 😃

So im expecting to see new fries (if its well written (englis is not my mother tongue)).

Here goes a pic attached of the tank.

thanks all for commenting 😃

Yours, Leonardo
Beautiful plants bro
 
#31 ·
Congratulations again!

A few fry should find enough miscellaneous live food (e.g., protozoa) in an NPT to survive. It could be the parents are eating the fry one-by-one.

If you want to learn what's going on, buy a livebearer breeding trap and put some fry in it and feed them.

The main thing, though, is you have a nice planted tank and it seems the Rams are content with the setup. You may get several chances to raise fry.

Good work!
 
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