700 litre Rainbowfish home
 

I orginally posted this on the UK Aquatic Plant Society forum...so apologies if you have already seen it.

This is the smaller of my two display tanks. I just set this up last weekend:

45"x32"x30" approx

Lighting: LED lighting (Pacific Sun Metis).
Filtration: Eheim 2180
Circulation: Vortech MP10 ( maybe add another when I can afford it)
substrate: ADA Amazonia, dennerle and unipac black sand/gravel, tropica.
CO2: injection via TMC1500 diffuser
UV: Vectron 600
Hardscape: Manzanita wood and boulders/pebbles.


The empty tank in situ:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/1.jpg

Starting the scaping:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/5.jpg

The "looking a bit iffy" stage:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/6.jpg
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/7.jpg

Positioning the branches:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/8.jpg

The tanks planted and filled:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...%20litre/9.jpg
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...20litre/10.jpg
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...20litre/11.jpg

Now just waiting to settle in and grow.

PAR readings are good, the LEDs are reduced to 80% of power and producing ~40-50 micromols at substrate.

Fauna:

M.praecox "Pagai" F2s
M.sexlieata "Kiunga/Blaurucken"
M.muccullochi "Skull Creek"
M.pygmae
G. kabia "Paro Village"
C. alleni "Sirwio"

Prolly a few SAEs and thinking about corys... maybe.

Hope you like. :smile:

Oof, I'm jealous of your big tanks, they're always the bees knees!

Looks pretty good! I like the hardscape, but I'm not sure how those java ferns(?) on the manzanita will look. They seem a bit distracting.

Any updates? Love it so far!

This was recently featured in a magazine video. I have posted it in the other thread for the ~1600(1500?) litre thread.

Update is probably due. :icon_smil

http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps195ef869.jpg

http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps9314c491.jpg

I know this tank from UKAPS and it's awesome. I love those naturalistic rounded stones that you used in combination with the driftwood. Do you have more pictures of the fish as well?

That looks very nice, well done sir

I was thinking of the same thing. Pictures of the fish too.

Awesome tank Sanj. Right up there with your large tank! (which is one of my favorite tanks!)

Awesome Set up.

Awesome setup and location! A mangrove tree would look amazing right there

Nice! <3

What kind of ferts and maintenance ?

Awesome looking tank! I love what you did with the needle leaf and always love big rainbowfish tanks!

Bloody brilliant

I totally agree!!!! Love it !!