My Outdoor Bathtub 100 gallon

[Canoe2Can]

Originally Posted by sNApple

a huge school of Cariba would be fun to watch

P. cariba grow to what, like 14 inches? A huge school of foot-long plus fish in a 100 gallon tank??? Stick with rainbows.

That being said, I have seen Oliver Knott's huge pirahna tank, and it is visually stunning. I know there's something to be said for nano tanks, and they often look good in photos, but for visual impact, nothing compares to the big stuff. But Knott's tank is 1400 gallons, and he only has 35 P. natteri in it.

[workshopper]

Wow, nice project.
You are lucky because you live in country where always sun is shining and you can always try to do some sick outdoor projects.
No snowstorms and cold weather.

Regards,

from Estonia.

[mistergreen]

oh yeah, I forgot I had bookmarked this too.
http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Contents.htm
Everything you want to know about rainbows... Natural habitats are toward the bottom.

[ikuzo]

dekstr
i know my sump isn't big (limited room). that's why i said to keep my fauna low. should i replace the lack of room with a lot of media to sustain more bacteria?

BigB
i think i'm going to avoid valls as their leaves reach the surface it will block a lot of light. i have to be ready for cloudy days too

Canoe2Can
i'm gonna pass on piranhas

workshopper
yes being in a tropical area benefits much. well except during a really hot day where even 29°C is hard to reach withoult a chiller.

mistergreen
again thanks for the link


well i put some anti-leak coating and painted a few days ago. i fill in the base ferts, substrate, and water yesterday. the tank's filter is running right now with lots of sponge and activated carbon, hopefully it will be clear by the time i got home from work today. no plants yet, just some floating leftover anubias from other tank. the question is, what kind of plant i can use for carpet / foreground?

thanks for looking.

[SOLOMON]

you may also want to try http://www.rainbowfish.info/ for any additional information, cant wait to see it up and running and planted!!

[ikuzo]

wow i feel lucky you guys give me useful links (i'm lazy to google). thanks.

this morning tha tank is still cloudy, i don't know why. maybe i should change the water. i'm buying driftwood today and some plants tomorrow.

[tropicalfish]

Noo
Not CAE....
Had them before, they were TERRIBLE.
Eat algae when young, eat fish food and attack other fish when older...
Get several ottos and some SAE.

Looks like a interesting project.

[ikuzo]

i have one young CAE in my 40 gallon tank. he ate all the algae untul he got fat, i mean really fat. the amazing fat CAE is the only algae eater i have in that tank.

not sure when he got older though but as attacking other fish and eating fish food, that tank's fauna is tiger barb. the amazing tiger barb eat the fish food i throw in the tank in like 2 seconds. nothing left.

i was thinking about ottos but they die often. it's hard to get the healthy ones and since they're very popular buy here, 100 ottos in the shop won't last a week long. SAE tend to jump, and when it gets bigger it also eat fish food and attack other fish.

about the build. i forgot to mention that i found a spot that leaks in the area where the glass meet the cement. it's strange since i already bury the glass about 3 cm under, glued with silicon, and put another anti-leak coating there. it seems that water found it's way out there. i dryed the spot and put a small coat there, i hope nothing goes wrong today.

[ikuzo]

i got a driftwood


this is a great position but the problem is my flow current is againts where the driftwood is pointing.

i'll have a problem with that since i was planning to plant some vallisneria behind this thing.

the vallisneria leaves at the water surface will be pointing at the wrong direction. turning the driftwood around looks ugly. what to do?

[tazcrash69]

That is a great looking piece of driftwood, but you are right about it flowing against the vals in the current.
Is it really that bad the other way?

[shwerm601]

Originally Posted by ikuzo

i have one young CAE in my 40 gallon tank. he ate all the algae untul he got fat, i mean really fat. the amazing fat CAE is the only algae eater i have in that tank.

not sure when he got older though but as attacking other fish and eating fish food, that tank's fauna is tiger barb. the amazing tiger barb eat the fish food i throw in the tank in like 2 seconds. nothing left.

i was thinking about ottos but they die often. it's hard to get the healthy ones and since they're very popular buy here, 100 ottos in the shop won't last a week long. SAE tend to jump, and when it gets bigger it also eat fish food and attack other fish.

about the build. i forgot to mention that i found a spot that leaks in the area where the glass meet the cement. it's strange since i already bury the glass about 3 cm under, glued with silicon, and put another anti-leak coating there. it seems that water found it's way out there. i dryed the spot and put a small coat there, i hope nothing goes wrong today.

good luck, hope it works out...

also, about your vals and driftwood it might look nice flowing opposite direction? Not sure but I know what you mean, seems like you have taken everything into account and then you find a minor detail.

[ikuzo]

the small branches will be at the bottom and will be unusable. it's not that bad but pretty annoying for me since i planned to tie something on every branch that available. let me take a look again later.

lots of sagittaria subulata and sagittaria platyphylla coming tonight.

[ikuzo]

left side is almost done. what do you think?

[Vonzorfox]

That's looking great!

[ikuzo]

thanks!

current plant list :
anubias barteri var nana
anubias barteri var caladifolia 1705
anubias barteri var angustifolia
sagittaria subulata
echinodorus amazonicus
hydrocotyle verticillata

right side (not shown in pic) :
echinodorus rubin narrow
baby echinodorus okie frenzy
baby echinodorus ozelot
baby echinodorus oriental

coming :
more anubias nana
vallisneria rubra
sagittaria platyphylla
tall cryptocoryne species (please suggest me with the easy ones)