My Aquarium Today was weekly water change day for my aquarium, full disclosure by the way, it’s usually weekly but I never managed to do a water change last week due to a persistent bad back so this one was fortnightly instead 🙄 But anyway, as I did my water change today, which is also my weekly maintenance session, I decided now would be a good time to do a post about my aquarium.
My tank is a 90 litre (60cm x 40cm x 40cm) “All Pond Solutions” Ultra Clear Glass Aquarium, I have two LED lights on it, one to the back (IREENUO LED Aquarium Light) and one to the front (NO.17 LED Aquarium Light) to give a good overall spread of light, I’m also running two filters on it, an All Pond Solutions EF-150 canister filter at one end and an All Pond Solutions HOB-500 hang on filter on the other end, the two outlets are positioned to give a flow going fully around the surface of the water, these two filters together are providing more than enough filtration.
I have just recently started using the Tropica Plant Growth 60 CO2 System to add CO2 for plant growth, this system is only meant for tanks up 60 litres so as Mine is a 90 litre tank I supplement that with additions of liquid CO2 substitute. I feed my plants with liquid fertilizer daily and a couple of times a week I add a liquid humic acid supplement to promote blackwater conditions, of course the weekly water change stops it becoming to dark in colour.
I have aqua soil at the bottom of my substrata covered in a decent layer of sand capping it off, my hard scape as can be seen on the photo is black lava rock and wood, the tank is then planted with a variety of plants. I have added a good amount of botanicals to the tank, leaves, cones, pods etc plus I have added some micro fauna, Paramecium, Seed Shrimp and Zooplankton as I am trying to create as natural an ecosystem as I can (within reason). There are Nerite snails and Ramshorn snails in the tank as well as a variety of shrimp, Tangerine Tiger Shrimp, Blue Rili Shrimp and Amano Shrimp.
As for fish, there are Cherry Barbs, Sparkling Gouramis, Clown Killifish, Emperor Tetras, Cardinal Tetras, Scarlet Badis, Otocinclus Catfish, Duplicate Corydoras catfish and a Dwarf Gourami in the aquarium.
The tank has been set up for around five weeks now and all seems to be going well.
As I said at the start of this post, once a week I do maintenance including a water change. I change around 50% of the aquarium water, added to the new replacement water is API Stress Coat+ which conditions the tap water making it safe for the fish and Shrimp Mineral GH/KH+ for healthy shrimp, then when the water change is done I add some beneficial bacteria in the form of API Quick Start. While I am doing all this I check to see how things are going in my little watery world and if needed I do maintenance, today for instance my stem plants needed a little trimming and the floating surface plants needed thinning out, and you’ll be glad to know that all seems well.
My fish get fed a mixture of dry food, flakes, granules, pellets etc and live food and I have a few types of shrimp food as well.
So that’s a rundown of my present aquarium which from now on shall now be known as my “Nature Blackwater Bedroom Tank” so when I eventually set up another tank of my own we both know which I’m talking about.
Addendum :- I stated that I have Scarlet Badis in my aquarium, Jonathan has the same fish bought at the same time and place along with me, but we have become a little doubtful about them being Scarlet’s and after some research online and talking to another knowledgeable fish keeper we now believe our fish to be Tiger Badis.
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