Well where do I start? This is a work in progress. I purchased a 6x2x2 tank, cabinet, and hood from someone off the forum. After a fair bit of discussion with a couple of people on the forum, and countless visits to a few LFS, I'm leaning towards doing a single species tanganyika tank. I kept the cabinet and hood that I bought, and sold the tank as I wanted new glass without any imperfections. My new 6x2x2 tank is being made now locally. I'm hoping that this tank will satisfy my "I want a bigger tank" desire..... well for a while anyway. I plan to get a background similar to the one Scottyhooton has on his tank (blue seaview one). I'm using crushed coral as the substrate, and have limestone pieces as decorations in the tank. I'm guessing that I will need to get more limestone though once I start setting up the tank. Filtration for the time being will be 2 x SunSun canister filters with media being Filter Wool pads, as well as coarse sponge, and Seachem Matrix. Might also put activated carbon or purigen in from time to time to polish the water up. I'm gonna need to get more Matrix when setting up the tank. Heating is a Eheim Jager 300W. I was going to go inline heating on the canisters, but taking the easy option for the time being.
Well this is what the tank looks like so far:
You can see my cherry shrimp tank in the background of this shot
So yeah just the cabinet in place so far while I wait for the tank to be built. Lighting is the Bunnings DIY lights (2 x 4 foot T8 tubes?) The tubes in there are just the lights that come with the fittings from Bunnings. Not sure whether to change the tubes to something more fish friendly, keep the existing lighting unchanged, or to replace the lighting with something else. Would prefer something that can fit against the hood, and be water proof. Something specifically designed for aquariums. I really like the LED's in fish tanks, but dont think it would be suitable (or cheap) in such a shallow hood. Below are a couple of photos of the hood.
View from the top
View from behind
Hood is 120mm
Sits 30mm flush to the tank, so only 90mm room between the hood and top glass
So that's the tank so far. I will update the journal as things happen. Does anyone have suggestions on the fish (prefer to try tangs, maybe tropheus) and suggestions on the lighting?
Thanks for reading,
Jason
Edited by Jason82, 13 February 2012 - 05:41 PM.