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Cousin It - 55 Gallons
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Tank size:
55 Gallons
Lighting:
2x Dennerle trocal special plant tubes and 2X arcadia freshwater tubes on a 11hr photo period
Equipment:
Eheim 2213 with flowthrough cannister one filled with floss and the other filled with siporax, bioplast thermal float heating system fitted to supply gentle substrate water movement.
CO2:
Co2 is supplied by a bioplast pressurised system with the reactor powered by an eheim powerhead
Substrate:
Quartz gravel, pea gravel, laterite and black sand
Parameters:
kh5 ph 6.5-6.7 temp 78f co2 aprox 30-35mg/l, water is buffered using calcium plus in the filter chamber as local kh is way too low for a stable ph
Fertilization:
Kent pro plant range of fertilizers and aquarium pharmacuticles root tabs for the crypts and swords
Plants:
background:
eusterallis stellata
Mayaca fluviatilis
Hygrophila Salicifolia
Limnophila Sessiliflora
Hygrophila stricta
Myriophyllum Hippuroides
eusterallis stellata
midground:
Didiplis diandra
Ludwigia
Echinodorus Osiris
Didiplis diandra
Micranthemum Umbrosum
Barclaya Longifolia
Ricca attached to a large piece of Cornish bog oak
and more eusterallis stellata (this stuff grows like a weed but looks wonderful)
foreground:
Micranthemum Umbrosum
Echinodorus Tenellus
cryptocoryne wendtii
Glossostigma Elatinoides
Inhabitants:
18 dwarf pencilfish, 11 corydoras sterbai, 3 common rams(or called german in some places), 3 Rineloricaria Lima whiptails, 1 sturisoma aureum, 30 sword tails (teach me to put 1 female in there ), 10 otocinclus vestius, 5 marble hatchets, 3 bronze corys
Additional Comments:
Water changes done every second week @ 30%.
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