David R's 2000L tank build
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Thanks David - i'm very fond of my little girl.
Sitting back and watching with a beverage sounds just about right for now after all that hard work.
Sitting back and watching with a beverage sounds just about right for now after all that hard work.
Thanks David - i'm very fond of my little girl.
Sitting back and watching with a beverage sounds just about right for now after all that hard work.
Sitting back and watching with a beverage sounds just about right for now after all that hard work.
Any update David? How are they settling in? Any issues?
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Thanks all, I'm incredibly happy with the tank and have been spending a fair bit of time in front of it.
No issues so far, everything ticking over well. I was running an Eheim canister off the old tank on the settling chamer of the sump just to help with the bio load during the transition, I removed that yesterday and now it is accumulating much more muck. I also added a Tunze 6025 to help move the waste from the plecs towards the overflow, that was a bit of a wake-up call as to just how big the tank is, I couldn't get it anywhere near the middle of the back panel without actually getting into the tank! I've painted the spraybay with krylon fusion to try make it a bit less obvious and will be putting that back in tomorrow and might take some more pics then. And the temp controller a friends father i building me is finished so I should receive that in the next day or two.
The plecs are feeding well, I watched last night with the night light on and they all came out and forraged around looking for wafers. The four royals [surprisingly] seemed to be hanging around together in a group, though I did see two of them having a bit of a scrap today. Aro is eating like a pig too, might start trying to feed him some shrimp soon, he's never eaten anything but pellets so it may take some training!
No issues so far, everything ticking over well. I was running an Eheim canister off the old tank on the settling chamer of the sump just to help with the bio load during the transition, I removed that yesterday and now it is accumulating much more muck. I also added a Tunze 6025 to help move the waste from the plecs towards the overflow, that was a bit of a wake-up call as to just how big the tank is, I couldn't get it anywhere near the middle of the back panel without actually getting into the tank! I've painted the spraybay with krylon fusion to try make it a bit less obvious and will be putting that back in tomorrow and might take some more pics then. And the temp controller a friends father i building me is finished so I should receive that in the next day or two.
The plecs are feeding well, I watched last night with the night light on and they all came out and forraged around looking for wafers. The four royals [surprisingly] seemed to be hanging around together in a group, though I did see two of them having a bit of a scrap today. Aro is eating like a pig too, might start trying to feed him some shrimp soon, he's never eaten anything but pellets so it may take some training!
Sorry I haven't got around to taking the pics, tank has been a little cloudy and there has been a small amount of detectable ammonia after I fed the plecs a bunch of zucchini the other night. Been regularly water changing to try bring it down, I'm loving the sump drain, makes water changes so simple! The barrel warms up to ~20C from <10C tap water temp in under 24 hours just from the ambient temp in the room (heat pump set to 22c). 10% change is as simple as hooking the hose on and switching on the pump. I really need to plumb a line in to refill the barrel though...
Not sure if I posted this up before, just found it on my phone, this is what it looked like after one night with the plecs munching on the new wood before I installed the powerhead...
Not sure if I posted this up before, just found it on my phone, this is what it looked like after one night with the plecs munching on the new wood before I installed the powerhead...
Hi,
Sorry to ask, but it is a big thread, how do you do your water change? Is it using the red barrel on the last page? also what filter are you using?
thanks
Sorry to ask, but it is a big thread, how do you do your water change? Is it using the red barrel on the last page? also what filter are you using?
thanks
