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#1 LexAgate

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Posted 26 November 2015 - 09:02 PM

This tank has been designed by you guys on the PCS with all your help tips tricks and basic input, you made my goal achievable!
Special thanks to StormFyre, Mattia and Humbug.
Also Morley Aquarium, Aquotix and Aquarium Gallery Australia!

There have been plenty of bumps along the way, there always is!

Most of you know me the little annoying kid posting too many questions, yeah that's me! I like asking questions if you haven't already guessed!

So here I'm talking about my 4 foot Cyprichromis tank I have just recently set up and here it is!

Just earlier this year I saw some Cyprichromis videos online and though they were awesome! Well they are!

I set out on a mission to set up a 4x18x20 tank and tempt my dad to buy it, tbh when we finally got it the cabinet was in a horrible condition (falling apart) the tank pretty disgusting as well, but it could still keep fish so I was happy!

We got a brand new cabinet built, got glass lids and a black kid on top of that, it was looking neat!

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Next up some filters after spamming the forum with questions I ended up with 2 astro canisters with an overall flow rate of 2660 L/Ph.

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Then we needed to make the tank look as good as possible of course. 30kg of play sand and 40kg of Rock and $200+ dollars later it was looking the same as things from my dreams.

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Then the fish I wanted some cyps of course and breeding was the goal, humbug kindly sent some over here to Morley for a trade of some sort, I got some Cyprichromis Leptosoma Livua 'Jumbo' they were beautiful! Paul also received some Neon Streak Boops from a German breed, so why not I got some of those as well, a bit more dull compared to the cyps but they were juvies.

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This is where I am now 2 weeks into tank and chill everything sorted, fish are happy tank looks great, only problem is the tank can't be filled past the top because the lid silicone is very dodgy, but hey the fish are there, they will hopefully breed and some of you guys can probably have them!



Thanks for all the help I really couldn't have done this without every one of you! Think of it as a community built tank!

Edited by LexAgate, 26 November 2015 - 10:06 PM.


#2 LexAgate

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 07:00 PM

Looks like the babies like their home! only juvies and still all the colours... Amazing!

#3 sandgroper

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Posted 29 November 2015 - 12:12 AM

Yep the colours are amazing.



#4 malawiman85

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Posted 12 December 2015 - 03:44 PM

This was posted in the wrong place.

#5 LexAgate

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Posted 24 December 2015 - 09:06 AM

Sorry?




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