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So it has been about 20 years since I had an aquarium. My home office seemed like it needed a touch of life, and an aquarium seemed to fit the bill. Initially I had thought a 20 gallon would be about right, but ended up buying a 55 gallon. Also, I had initially thought about doing a riverscape with lots of smooth stones and botias. Funny how plans change!
I do wish I had found this website before making some of the purchases that I did -- the wealth of knowledge and information that the users here share is amazing.
Specs:
55 gallon Aqueon (bought as a complete kit, upgraded everything)
Filter: Eheim 2213
Powerhead: MJ 600
Substrate: Ecocomplete topped with another gravel
Lighting: 2 - 48" Elive LEDs (wish I had come here - LFS suggested these and I spent a fortune buying enough pods to get to the medium light level)
Ferts: DIY CO2 (citric acid and baking soda fed into the powerhead).
Seachem
API root tabs
Plants: Spiky moss
Anubias nana
Ludwegia repens
Bacopa caroliana
Cardamime lyrata
alternanthera reineckii
Hygrophila corymbosa
Hydrocotyle
Vallisneria
Crypts - wendtii green, red, undulatus
Java fern
bacopa caroliniana
Water sprite
Ambulia
Critters:
Growing colony of cherry shrimp
10 harlequin rasboras in QT, will go into this tank in April
4 otocinclus (originally had 7, have lost a few)
I do wish I had found this website before making some of the purchases that I did -- the wealth of knowledge and information that the users here share is amazing.
Specs:
55 gallon Aqueon (bought as a complete kit, upgraded everything)
Filter: Eheim 2213
Powerhead: MJ 600
Substrate: Ecocomplete topped with another gravel
Lighting: 2 - 48" Elive LEDs (wish I had come here - LFS suggested these and I spent a fortune buying enough pods to get to the medium light level)
Ferts: DIY CO2 (citric acid and baking soda fed into the powerhead).
Seachem
API root tabs
Plants: Spiky moss
Anubias nana
Ludwegia repens
Bacopa caroliana
Cardamime lyrata
alternanthera reineckii
Hygrophila corymbosa
Hydrocotyle
Vallisneria
Crypts - wendtii green, red, undulatus
Java fern
bacopa caroliniana
Water sprite
Ambulia
Critters:
Growing colony of cherry shrimp
10 harlequin rasboras in QT, will go into this tank in April
4 otocinclus (originally had 7, have lost a few)
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