The Land Of Hidden Fish By Barakainus
Jul 14th, 2010 by Blueaquarium






Equipment:
Tank – Do!Aqua 90p 94×45x45 cm (36×18x18″) That’s about 48 gallons
Stand – half-DYI 36×18x33″
Light – GLO light T5HO 2×39W, both 6700K, one Lifeglo, one Coralife
Filtration – Eheim Ecco 2232 (35gal) and 2236 (80gal) with Do!Aqua and Aquamagic glass lily pipes
Heater – Hydor In-line 200W (on 2236)
CO2 – pressurized 5lb, 24/7 at about 0.5 bps. Diffuser under small powerhead (for now)



Scape:
Bottom layer – mix of natural Fluorite, Laterite, Turface and sand
Upper layer – mix of black Fluorite, Laterite and black Onyx sand.
Front – Sand from Lake Tahoe
Manzanita collected in East Sierras and Lake Tahoe area (soaked and hand scrapped)
Rocks bought from fellow aquarist



Plants:
Java fern ‘narrow leaf’, ‘windellow’ and ‘trident’
Anubias nana and nana ‘petitte’
Bolbitis heudelotti
Crypt. wendtii ‘mi oya’, ‘Florida sunset’, ‘green gecko’, (?)
C. lutea
C. parva
Eleocharis acicularis
Glossostigma elatinoides
Hydrocotyle
Hygrophila corymbosa ‘compact’
Lobelia cardinalis
Myriophyllum mattogrossense
Mayaca fluviatilis
Rotala macrandra
R. indica
R. colorata
Potamogeton gayii
Polygonum sp. kawagoeanum
Blyxa aubertii
Echinodorus ‘vesuvius’
Fissidens fontanus



Animals:
Cardinal tetras (Paracheirodon axelrodi) – 10
Rummynose tetras (Hemigrammus bleheri) – 30(?)
Columbian tetras (Hyphessobrycon colombianus) – 2
Panda cory (Corydoras panda) – 5
Mystery cory (Corydoras ????) – 2
Otto (Otocinclus affinis?) – 2
Pitbull Pleco (LDA-25) (Parotocinclus jumbo) – 1
Amano shrimp (Caridina japonica ) – 1
MTS (Elanoides tuberculata) – many
other snails (Helisoma sp. (?), Physa acuta, Lymnea (?), Planorbis sp.)


Source : aquaticplantcentral.com
Tags: Amano shrimp, Aquascape, Cardinal tetras, CO2, Columbian tetras, do aqua tank, heater, Mystery cory, Otto, Panda cory, Pitbull Pleco, Rummynose tetras
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wow superb tank! can i do a journal like you did?
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