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[Patrolling Paddy]

Thought I would put up some progress pics for anyone who's interested.

Pic 1 is 2 Jan, limited fish as tank was quite new and the setup cost me a small fortune.
Running a 5000lph pond cannister filter and 7500lph pump.
Tank is 3m x 700mm x 750mm 1500L. It was in the house when I bought it.

The second is Jan 24, with the addition of a couple of terraccota pots really the only change.

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Edited by Patrolling Paddy, 22 March 2011 - 05:10 AM.

[Patrolling Paddy]

1st Feb I moved all the rock trying to find a suitable spot, with 100kg of rock it still looks empty. I also added the bubble curtain. I got sick of looking at all the crap behing the tank so tried the blue background, it turned out ok. Fish stock are slowly growing too.

24th of Feb saw the addition of about another 30kg of limestone, some more plants and some more fish.

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Edited by Patrolling Paddy, 22 March 2011 - 05:14 AM.

[Patrolling Paddy]

As the last shot shows I am still making changes, more plants and re-arranged all the rock again, this was partly a fish finding mission as a few were MIA.
Here is a list of the current stock.
Labidochromis caeruleus x4
Metriaclima callainos x4
Metriaclima estherae x4
Pseudotropheus sp. Acei Msuli x4
Cyrtocara moorii x4
Nimbochromis venustus x4
Placidochromis phenochilus Mdoka x4
Protomelas taeniolatus x4
Placidochromis sp. Blue Otter x4
Protomelas sp. Taiwan Reef x4
Aulonocara jacobfreibergi x5
Bristlenose catfish x2
Cuckoo catfish x1
Silver sharks x2.

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Edited by Patrolling Paddy, 22 March 2011 - 07:03 AM.

[lawdog]

Great Tank 1500L and fee when you buy a house what a deal...

[fourdapostle]

Beaut tank, could do with some big round flat fish I reckon, what you think???

[smellsfishy]

lol fourdapostle,
keep the chubby oval shaped fish patrol.

[Sarah Jayne]

Dave can mail them too you nice tank mate

[fourdapostle]

A nice flat waterproof envelope should so it, around the 25cm oh no should be bigger to allow for a little water LOL

[Patrolling Paddy]

Round flat fish are too sensitive for me sorry, I need hardy self sufficient fish that look after themselves while I'm away at work. The missus just feeds em while I'm away and so far they're all good.

Looking to add plenty more to get me up the around the 100 mark but it's slow going still. Now that I have started this thread I will keep the updates more regular and detailed.
The tank seems to have settled down now too, I had a bit of a spike a little while ago but now the levels are staying pretty steady. All the fish seem happy and they actually swim like one big school sometimes, is this normal for different species to swim together like that?

Anyway thanks for the comments.

Cheers

PP

[scotty81]

Looking good mate, startin to get some good colour in there, ill have to drop in for a look some time.

[Patrolling Paddy]

Yeah no worries.
Just dropped in a large wood feature, when it decides to stay sunk I will get some pics, the water is changing colour already after 24hrs so it might be a while before it statrs to clear up again.
Also just picked up another 5 Blue Dolphins so up to 9 of those now, will pick up in the next couple of days another 5 Taiwan Reef's and 5 Mdoka white lip.
Stocks are starting to make a dent in the tank and it doesn't look so empty.

Cheers

PP

[scotty81]

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