The 700 gal indoor sunken garden project

[Aquamanx]

Are you going to put any kind of bottom feeder/catfish in there? Maybe a couple of Pictus Cats or something? They make a great addition to an aquarium, they move around alot!

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

with the rummy noses being in there i think adding a pictus would be asking for trouble. I know it only gets to 5", however I've found that rummy noses are very slender and are therefore suceptable to being eaten quite easily. and i'd imagine that 150 tetras wasnt that cheap.

what about apistogramma, mikrogeophagus and similar dwarf cichlid sp.

as for the catfish, what about a large school of otos (50-100 or so...)

[zackish]

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[crazy loaches]

Originally Posted by PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn

with the rummy noses being in there i think adding a pictus would be asking for trouble.

Maybe some loaches to get the leftovers on the bottom?

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

50 coolies or so....

some loaches would be cool, though what sp i dont know, clowns i think would get a bit big (not sure what their like with little fish at the bigger sizes, read a think about them eating fish when they get ready to breed)

maybe something like the polka dot loach. or small 1s like that.

have to admit my preference would be for a large school of cories

[dufus]

I'd go with a big school of Corydoras leopardus or similar, maybe 30-40, and 6 or less yoyo or whatever loaches, then about 100 otos, and some rare plecs.
Maybe a synodontis or two if you want a bigger cat/wetpet.

[joe the pleco]

I would suggest The Golden Wonder Panchax.
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Mine stay at the top of the tank and look quite good from above

Saw (and bought) some today are really pretty fish.

[dufus]

Yea, but they are EXCELLENT jumpers, and will eat the rummies.

[medicineman]

@PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn,
It is good that personally know where to get rummy nose directly from the farm. 11 cent each is sure to be damn cheap, but still I prefer not to see them get eaten as they are not intended to be feeder fish.
Ottos would be nice, but they are expensive and highly sensitive import while not readily available right now.

I already have some bottom feeders to keep leftovers clean. 6 adult sterbai cory and 5 small one, looking for at least a dozen more everytime I'm out to LFS.
4 tiny clown loach (they will never get big enough I witnessed) to help keep the pond snails in check.

@zackish,
That is certainly a huge tank. Still for now I prefer this pond, no space for a monster tank.

@dufus,
Synodontis is one possible option for a lone big one though most would stay away from view when it is bright.

[dufus]

Medman- I have a synodontis hybrid who stays out especially at feeding, and my Synodontis eupterous stays out all the time, 24/7

[BigB]

my syno eupo is always zoooming around during lights on. Then retreats to relax in his cave now and then

[medicineman]

Well.. it is good to know that some synodontis does actually posh itself in the tank when the light is on. Must look for these varieties then.
Mine (upsidedown synodontis) in a small tank will only appear when it is feeding time

Another quickie pocket camera pic showing from viewing glass. You can see some of the fish.


There is still that huge pipe inside which I have not hack, still waiting for the time when water is drained to quarter for I sure do not want to bathe in with a saw at hand

Temperature is stable at 27,5 C with a variation of 0,5 C.
I dose my liquid fert from Wonder-Gro (yes... my own production) by the glassfull.
Still tinkering on how long the lights must be on. So far with 3 hours of MH lighting the plants are growing just fine, but with more green growth to reddish plants, I see that increased photoperiod via the lamp could be beneficial.

[medicineman]

Update on the details...

Echinodorus rubin "narrow". They do no longer sell this beauty at tropica anymore...

Growing quite fast (25+ leaves) as I got this specimen earlier as a plantlet (12 or less leaves) from a collector in Singapore. Must have been the short burst of direct sunlight from the canopy as the growth and colour is equally stunning. A good sized lace plant (Crinum calamistratum) I got from tropica mass import earlier, fortunate enough it does not do anything bad since it is not cheap and easy to get.

Assorted plants (Limnophila aquatica, Hygrophila, vallisneria, Saggitaria, etc) covering a huge Echinodorus marble queen. Some direct burst of sunlight proved to be highly beneficial as the plant retains some of the marbling, unlike in average aquarium where it would turn single colour. The plant is notorious for growing big, so we will see forward what will happen.


Note the 3 plantlets swaying in the current. It seems happy enough and I will be planting those little fellows in the future.

[Fish on Fire]

Wow, just wow . . . I would have made a different selection of fish though . . . but wow . . . lol.

[cookiedeng]

260gal =?L