Beautiful day at the beach, driftwood and 160 litre aquarium

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

Growing aquatic plants & Anubias in a shed

Basically I have been thinking about propagating plants for a long time, especially Anubias which I find great and I could do with more of. As of now I have only really propagated them in submersed form. They just grow so slow and I want to find out the best way to grow them faster without too much fancy equipment.

Yesterday I bought the Practical Fishkeeping Magazine and there was an article about Anubias which I suppose gave me a kick in the bum to get started.

I have started to clear out this shed which was needed anyway but I have not decided exactly how to go ahead.



















Recently I also found a few of these seed boxes which I think will be great for growing smaller Anubias on bogwood.

This is just an idea starting to form and It might take awhile until it's up an running. I have not even decided if I'm going to do this in the shed or indoors.

I will post again when i get started.

Melander