Sfgiants415
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Jun 9, 2013
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Hey guys. I've never really posted any of my tanks before so this will be my first. It's a 20 gallon long that houses only blue velvet neos. The tank was started a couple weeks ago.
I cycled the tank in a couple days thanks to a seeded sponge filter I purchased from angels plus. They give you a seeded sponge filter and all you have to do is stick it into your tank.
This time around, I stuffed the sponge filter into my canister filter and made sure the water passed straight through the sponge filter. It worked like a charm. They day I got it, I raised the ammonia to 2 ppm and a couple days later, ammonia and nitrites were at 0 and my nitrates were at 20 ppm. Couldn't have gone any better. I highly recommend them.
Equipment
I have an odyssea t5 light fixture being held by some arms I bought from Lowes. The canister filter is an eheim 2213 rated for 55 gallon tanks but I might upgrade to a 2215 and put this filter in my spare 10 gallon. You can never go to big!
I also have a black background to bring out the colors of the plants and shrimp.
Flora - In each of my tanks, I always have at least one crinum calamistratum. Easily my favorite plant for years. It always seems to be the centerpiece plant in all my tanks.
I kept the rest simple with various crypts, Christmas moss, lace java fern and some anubias. All of these plants were just trimmings from my other tanks. The brown java moss was in a tank I cleaned out 2 MONTHS AGO. I couldn't believe it was still alive! I'm sure it'll green up soon. That stuff is impossible to kill.
For the hardscape, I have some rocks that I personally collected years ago that I brought over from my 20 high. I have cholla wood for the shrimp and some manzanita branches I ripped from a dried manzanita tree in Santa Cruz lol
Well I guess that's it, time for some pics!
I cycled the tank in a couple days thanks to a seeded sponge filter I purchased from angels plus. They give you a seeded sponge filter and all you have to do is stick it into your tank.
This time around, I stuffed the sponge filter into my canister filter and made sure the water passed straight through the sponge filter. It worked like a charm. They day I got it, I raised the ammonia to 2 ppm and a couple days later, ammonia and nitrites were at 0 and my nitrates were at 20 ppm. Couldn't have gone any better. I highly recommend them.
Equipment
I have an odyssea t5 light fixture being held by some arms I bought from Lowes. The canister filter is an eheim 2213 rated for 55 gallon tanks but I might upgrade to a 2215 and put this filter in my spare 10 gallon. You can never go to big!
I also have a black background to bring out the colors of the plants and shrimp.
Flora - In each of my tanks, I always have at least one crinum calamistratum. Easily my favorite plant for years. It always seems to be the centerpiece plant in all my tanks.
I kept the rest simple with various crypts, Christmas moss, lace java fern and some anubias. All of these plants were just trimmings from my other tanks. The brown java moss was in a tank I cleaned out 2 MONTHS AGO. I couldn't believe it was still alive! I'm sure it'll green up soon. That stuff is impossible to kill.
For the hardscape, I have some rocks that I personally collected years ago that I brought over from my 20 high. I have cholla wood for the shrimp and some manzanita branches I ripped from a dried manzanita tree in Santa Cruz lol
Well I guess that's it, time for some pics!