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So I took the plunge finally and got my hands on my dream tank.
A Biocube 29, ahh I bet you're all thinking, holy that is an expensive tank for fresh water. I got lucky with mine. I got the tank, like new, and the stand for 150$.
Now the hood has been modified, so its pretty much just a hunk of plastic, the hood is cut, so that you can set lights on this bit of plastic that is screwed into the top. No lights not fan, but that is fine by me. We have the same tank at my moms, and oohh boy are the fans loud, its the same with my coworkers tank too.
Either way it gives me the option to go out and get what lighting I want. I plan on making it a high lighting tank with plants of course, right now I have a normal coil fluorescent light house blub on it just to light it up.
I started the cycle today, trying something new. I am trying a product from France, that claims that you can add your hardest fish in 4 hours. Granted I am NOT going to do that. I tested the water before adding the product in. Nitrates, Nitrites, Ammonia all read 0.
30 min after adding it in, this is what it read
Ammonia already gone up quite a bit.
Said product I am using.
Now it all comes down to what do I want to put in it. I figure I would bounce some ideas off you all.
I could do....
Dwarf cichlids,
or
neon or cardinal tetras. (Already have neons in my ten gallong)
or some type of colorful nano fish (Chili raspoboras, ruby tetras)
Or pea/dwarf puffers
I think I do want to do some type of smaller cory cat, not sure witch one.
I am so torn between what to do. I was thinking perhaps one center fish, then 1 group of schooling fish.
A Biocube 29, ahh I bet you're all thinking, holy that is an expensive tank for fresh water. I got lucky with mine. I got the tank, like new, and the stand for 150$.
Now the hood has been modified, so its pretty much just a hunk of plastic, the hood is cut, so that you can set lights on this bit of plastic that is screwed into the top. No lights not fan, but that is fine by me. We have the same tank at my moms, and oohh boy are the fans loud, its the same with my coworkers tank too.
Either way it gives me the option to go out and get what lighting I want. I plan on making it a high lighting tank with plants of course, right now I have a normal coil fluorescent light house blub on it just to light it up.
I started the cycle today, trying something new. I am trying a product from France, that claims that you can add your hardest fish in 4 hours. Granted I am NOT going to do that. I tested the water before adding the product in. Nitrates, Nitrites, Ammonia all read 0.
30 min after adding it in, this is what it read

Ammonia already gone up quite a bit.


Said product I am using.
Now it all comes down to what do I want to put in it. I figure I would bounce some ideas off you all.
I could do....
Dwarf cichlids,
or
neon or cardinal tetras. (Already have neons in my ten gallong)
or some type of colorful nano fish (Chili raspoboras, ruby tetras)
Or pea/dwarf puffers
I think I do want to do some type of smaller cory cat, not sure witch one.
I am so torn between what to do. I was thinking perhaps one center fish, then 1 group of schooling fish.