gab Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Hey guys, I'm Gabriele, from italy but living now in Bruxelles for some months after 10 years in amsterdam. I had my first aquarium when i was about 14, was pretty much a disaster, in that period i kept a community tank, and piranhas for a while, didn't know much that time, then about 5 years ago when i was living in amsterdam i fell back into the rabbit hole getting more knowledge from the coop channel about planted tanks, i kept 5 tanks(3 nano) with pea puffers, angels, apistogramma, various small cats(otos, twig catfishes, cory), betta, dwarf gourami, tetras, various shrimps and superclassicneverold guppys, I'm surely forgetting something, but that's how it goes. after i moved away from amsterdam in a much smaller home i had to give away my 2 bigger tanks and i'm currently still keeping my nano 3 gal that used to house my long lived and recently passed betta and now just a colony of red cherry shrimps, and my 10 gal with a weird home made aquaponic overhead that give me quite some wiggle room to play with the stock inside(mostly guppy, 4 otos, and 2 hillstream loaches) they are both heavily planted and the last one with high light and co2, and a quite big pothos plant growing from the diy overhead filter that i was mentioning before. Ask me anything, and if you guys are interested i'll post some photos. See you all 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Welcome to the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Welcome to the forum! We'd love to see some photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Welcome to the forum. I love me some nano tanks. Feel free to show yours off anytime. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisMineandOurs Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Hello! When you have co2 can you stop it once your plants are at the stage you want them so you don't have to continually prune and cut them back? I would love a lush jungle but I don't want the work that it seems co2 produces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Ohhhh...planted tanks are my favorite!!! I third the motion - I'd love to see pics, too! Bring on the plantsssss!!! Welcome to the forum! 😁👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gab Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Thanks for the replies so this is the tanks that im now left with, ill just leave a peek on the tiny one, if all go as it should ill give u an update on it soon. Hope u like it. Sorry about the quality of the photos im not really good at it😂 and i have just my phone not a real camera. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Wow I love the setup you have with the pothos plant over the top of the aquarium. Can you show more of that setup? Does it get in the way at all of servicing the aquarium? Fish and plants both look splendid. Congratulations on getting the Anubias to flower. How much carbon have you found you've needed to balance the tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Welcome come to the forum nice tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gab Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Danny O said: Wow I love the setup you have with the pothos plant over the top of the aquarium. Can you show more of that setup? Does it get in the way at all of servicing the aquarium? Fish and plants both look splendid. Congratulations on getting the Anubias to flower. How much carbon have you found you've needed to balance the tank? Hey thank you , I'll share some photos of how it is but I haked the top of the tank to house into the former electronics bay (that was for the neon fluorescent tube) a modified flower pot with clay balls as filter media, water gets pumped in on a side from a small pump with intake sponge, and then overflow on the other side to the aquarium, so the plant grow in this vase and roots don't get into the tank itself, no much problem for service since I can get the top off and dump the content of the vase in a bucket if I need to rinse the media (which I do once a year ..I guess 😆) Anubis went bananas with flowers, sincerely no idea why, but I guess the co2 helps, that said the tank is not superbalanced. I have occasional bloom of BBA that actually used to be all over the tank, and I'm battling to not let the mini staghorns that I see around become a real problem. intake Inflowoverflowoutflow Edited January 31, 2021 by gab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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