Niz

The bottom has been done correctly then, the sides should have been beaded as well. It all points to the side seal leaking to me (IMO fixable)

I know it was done correctly as I built the thing 

 

If it is fixable I will do it. My wife is already making redecorating plans

Hi guys, its been a while since I've browsed the board.

 

Tank is going sweet. A few chips here and there from the large clown fish!

 

Will post a pic in a minute. bad phone pic. will try to get a better one this weekend.

 

 

Had a little success with a few plants. The clown loaches love to dig new ones up. And one LED flood light has faulted on me again.

My loach tank has never quite lived up to my expectations. Its pretty nice, but it is supposed to be my dream tank.

I recently had to pull down the solar tubes due to mould growth, so needed a new source of light. I bought these from a LED store in Victoria through Ebay, and mounted them level with the ceiling to shine down through the existing solartubes. They are 50w LED floodlights.


The result


Pretty happy with the quantity of light output. The plants have been growing very nicely as well, but as luck would have it, all 4 of the LED floodlights have been faulty and today I have just removed them ready to post back for replacement. With no lights I need to remove my plants to another tank as it may be a few weeks till I get the replacements. This leaves me in a unique situation of being able to, and having permission to, Renovate!

What I want to do:

* Install a DIY background simillar to made from polystyrene and cement. Picture from http://www.fmueller....ons/background/
* Redo the water return pipe to be hidden behind the background and to output water evenly across the tank. The current solution is frankly butt ugly.
* Fix the overflow box and pipes. Its too noisy.
* Redo the substrate with peat moss/marble chips/blood and bone/laterite for better plant growth.
* Reduce the amount of driftwood and rocks in the mid to foreground.
* and finally finish the damn cabinet!

I have an empty 4x2x2 in the fish room that will house the fish, I need to clean it as its full of old salt/sand/gunk and get a pump to utilise the same sump as the big tank. This way I can move the fish without acclimatising and the less stress on the clown loaches the better.

Will post photo's of it all as it happens. Planning for about a six week turnover.