Jammer89
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello all been browsing around for awhile and seen nothing but helpful folks and good attitudes. Great community you all have here .
My name is Jamie and I've had a couple aquariums in the past but still consider myself a novice and my last serious tank was about 10 years ago. So here's what I got now.
60 gallon (I'll get actual dimensions later)
1 ea. 35gph and 50gph powerheads set up for UG and a penguin 280. Cycles the tank 6x per hour.
Some slate and driftwood.
Assorted live plants: A couple amazon swords, giant hairgrass, micro sword and a couple anubias nana.
Stocking list:
14 neon tetras
14 black neon tetras
9 rummy nose tetra
2 corys
3 balloon rams
6 barbs. 3 tiger and 3 albino tiger
2 ghost cats
4 otocinclus
water parameters:
ammonia 0 ppm
nitrites 0ppm
nitrates 40ppm
pH 7.8
The set up is approximately one month old and cycled rather fast at around 3 weeks. I cycled it with goldfish and the barbs. The gold fish were donated back to my lfs because they have an adoption tank .
Sorry about the low quality pic. It looks crystal clear in person, I promise. lol
I would love to hear any comments or advice at this point so please, if there are any concerns among you, by all means, voice them.
Glad to be here
Jamie
I'm having a great time with this as is the family and we are all learning together.
My name is Jamie and I've had a couple aquariums in the past but still consider myself a novice and my last serious tank was about 10 years ago. So here's what I got now.
60 gallon (I'll get actual dimensions later)
1 ea. 35gph and 50gph powerheads set up for UG and a penguin 280. Cycles the tank 6x per hour.
Some slate and driftwood.
Assorted live plants: A couple amazon swords, giant hairgrass, micro sword and a couple anubias nana.
Stocking list:
14 neon tetras
14 black neon tetras
9 rummy nose tetra
2 corys
3 balloon rams
6 barbs. 3 tiger and 3 albino tiger
2 ghost cats
4 otocinclus
water parameters:
ammonia 0 ppm
nitrites 0ppm
nitrates 40ppm
pH 7.8
The set up is approximately one month old and cycled rather fast at around 3 weeks. I cycled it with goldfish and the barbs. The gold fish were donated back to my lfs because they have an adoption tank .
Sorry about the low quality pic. It looks crystal clear in person, I promise. lol
I would love to hear any comments or advice at this point so please, if there are any concerns among you, by all means, voice them.
Glad to be here
Jamie
I'm having a great time with this as is the family and we are all learning together.