Hey yall just posting about how I set up my 90 gallon freshwater community tank after selling my Africans. Spent a few hours tanking down the tank, 5 hours sifting the sand to remove the crushed coral I had and another 2 hours washing flourite. Don't worry, not all in the same day haha, it was a process. Then started my hardscape with my driftwood, sand and flourite.
The next step was to fill the tank part way and add some plants!
Then fill it up of course
I used two mature filters that were running on this aquarium: eheim2217 and aquaclear 110. I have one heater and a 48" marine LED and a double t5 fixture for lighting. I plan to dose ferts slightly but not often and not running C02.
For fish I started with 6 platies and 2 electric blue rams a week later and had to add more plants
I let the fish settle in and watched the plants do very well. Took only two days before they started to grow.
Here you see a new leaf sprouting
Added two more rams but this time german blue, they were larger than the electric. I found it very hard to sex but I did my best at the LFS. I was hoping to end up with two pairs to share the tank.
Today I added 14 harlequin rasboras that I picked up. They are small but active and seem healthy. I can also report that I am very lucky and turns out my two electric blue rams where female and the two Germans were male....and they've both paried up HA, go figure. Its the exact pairing I was hoping for too and only took a few days for it to happen. I thought they were too small to breed at this size but both females have laid eggs, the latest batch 2 hours ago. The first eggs didnt survive and I don't expect any different this time. I hear it can take a couple tries for them to get the hang of parenting. The first pair spawned on a piece of slate in the foresty area and the other pair just spawned on one of the leaves of the sword plant near the right side of the driftwood. Kinda close to each other lol. I think thats all for now, I can update with more pics if people are interested
Here is the Latest photo I took of mommy n daddy #2 protecting their leaf!
Enjoy, cheers
The next step was to fill the tank part way and add some plants!
Then fill it up of course
I used two mature filters that were running on this aquarium: eheim2217 and aquaclear 110. I have one heater and a 48" marine LED and a double t5 fixture for lighting. I plan to dose ferts slightly but not often and not running C02.
For fish I started with 6 platies and 2 electric blue rams a week later and had to add more plants
I let the fish settle in and watched the plants do very well. Took only two days before they started to grow.
Here you see a new leaf sprouting
Added two more rams but this time german blue, they were larger than the electric. I found it very hard to sex but I did my best at the LFS. I was hoping to end up with two pairs to share the tank.
Today I added 14 harlequin rasboras that I picked up. They are small but active and seem healthy. I can also report that I am very lucky and turns out my two electric blue rams where female and the two Germans were male....and they've both paried up HA, go figure. Its the exact pairing I was hoping for too and only took a few days for it to happen. I thought they were too small to breed at this size but both females have laid eggs, the latest batch 2 hours ago. The first eggs didnt survive and I don't expect any different this time. I hear it can take a couple tries for them to get the hang of parenting. The first pair spawned on a piece of slate in the foresty area and the other pair just spawned on one of the leaves of the sword plant near the right side of the driftwood. Kinda close to each other lol. I think thats all for now, I can update with more pics if people are interested
Here is the Latest photo I took of mommy n daddy #2 protecting their leaf!
Enjoy, cheers