I have a few minor updates today. It was a beautiful and
sunny day in County Wicklow and I took to the beach twice. Got this nice piece
of driftwood with me home:
The 160 litre tank is finally repaired too, to my distress my
first attempt failed. As I had removed the silicone around the leak I resealed the tank, however it seems that the old silicone
was no good and the tank sprung a leak in a different location as soon as I
filled it. I decided to remove all of the silicone and redo the whole job, this
worked and I’m so relieved that it did.
The tank is now run by an Eheim Ecco pro 200 external filter, an
Eheim 2x 100L/h airpump(one sponge filter), it has one 200w and one 100w
heater.
The setup is far from complete but I’m glad it’s up and
running. At the moment there is one large piece of driftwood and one Java fern
along with guppies and bristlenoses in it but I’m planning for other
inhabitants soon. This is how it looks now:
Previously I used a wooden cover for the tank, it looked
good but was not really practical and I decided to line the top of the tank
with wood and sawed out a lid out of Perspex:
The 144 litre is pretty much the same; I have however
started to treat this piece of driftwood which will replace some of the wood in
the tank:
That’s it at the moment, cheers for watching!
Melander
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