Here it is:

 

And the first two fishies in it, the big one is a female and the baby is a male, his tail should get much bigger as he grows

 

very nice MB it is coming along well, I love fish tanks.

Looks great Good job!

looking great MB , cant wait to see it teeming with life ! are you able to get peppermint bristlenose down your way ? they are jet black and have lots of white spots , would look really nice in such a well planted tank too !

Yeah we can get them but they are out of my price range, last time I looked they were about $30 each I'm going to get some regulare bristlenose and maybe a couple of albino bristlenose.

fair enough mb , they are only about $10 up here and 12 months ago i had about 60 . they breed as prolifically for me as standard bristlenose . best thing about bristlenose they keep the glass clean so you see the tank much better :hi:

I wish!! We pay more than that for a regular bristlenose :hi:

Your tank is looking great. The guppies look nice and healthy

I have a found a bloke who'll sell me five albino bristlenose for $25, a good price and they should look pretty cool swimming around in the tank

I pick up my new fish tomorrow night

 

I'm getting 10 albino bristlenose and 20 Endler's livebearers(a close relative of guppies and VERY pretty )

 

Here's another picture of the larger log with it's new moss. It is held down with stainless steel mesh and after a few weeks you shouldn't be able to see the mesh at all anymore as the moss will grow all over it aswell as attaching itself to the log.

 

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies

looks wonderful

thats a neat trick with the log MB , i cant wait for the pics with it full of fish its going to lok amazing

I actually bought the mesh to use on the bird aviaries but it's proved useful for all sorts of stuff. I have 70metres of it

hey MB will the bristlenose and livebearers eat that moss ? i might try some in my communal tank too now you have shown me how to get it to stay in place

What a beautiful looking tank, I'm envious as I once had a tropical fish tank with all sorts of beautiful fish and I just couldn't seem to keep on top of it and the fish kept dying, so out with the fish and I now have a gorgous tortoise called "Thomas the turtle engine" in it. they seem to be quite a bit hardier, and he is a lovely social tortoise who doesn't hide away everytime you bring him out. and actually seems to enjoy being with you.

That is quite a neat trick there MB. Will the mesh be okay in the water though? Couldn't it potentially leach chemicals like zinc into the water? (Man I'm sounding like a broken record with poison stuff lately :rofl: )

Being stainless steel it should be fine, it's the equivilent of what you use to eat off so it's not coated with zinc :rofl:

I'm just thinking... Wouldn't that be extremely hard to clean??? Good luck with that :rofl:

What the tank? Not at all :rofl: How do you clean your tank Jimmy?

Edited November 29, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies

Well when I had one it was with a good filter but I still needed to manually clean it at times... My mother STOLE my fish tank and gave it to my brother when I told her I was going to sell the fish and get Lizards...

That one won't be hard to manually clean, one of the main things with a planted tank is disturbing the substrate as little as possible to allow the plants to spread of their own accord and turn it into a real garden, this is the sort of tank you would never have to take apart fully to clean, keep the glass clean and do a regular water change with a siphon at the same time and she's good as gold

Lookin forward to pics of the new fishes, (70 mtrs of SS mesh couldnt have been cheap:( )

Whenever l look in this post, your tank keeps getting more beautiful

Looks great:) I have 5 aquariums and a garden pond myself:)

 

But from what I can tell, the tank hasn't been up and running for very long.. Are you familiar with cycling filters? Cycling a filter means to give it time to build up the benficial bacteria it needs to process the toxin the fish produce when they breathe and poop - ammonia. A lack of these bacteria in the filter will make the toxins build up in the water and make the fish sick or kill them.

 

The tank needs to be set up with plants and everything and the filter running for 4-5 weeks with no water changes to build up these bacteria. After 4-5 weeks do a 50% water change and then introduce fish slowly, max 5 at a time every two weeks, to give the filter time to adjust to the new bioload.

 

If you introduce fish before the filter is cycled you could possibly get away with it, but then you'll need to change some water every day for at least 6 weeks (lower concentration of toxins makes the cycle take longer)

 

Don't mean to ruin your joy, I just thought it would suck if you get all these fish and they all end up dying on ya:( And if you knew all this, just ignore me

Edited December 2, 200816 yr by lil_fuzzy

I'm cool I have a uni degree with a major in freshwater ecology and also worked in the aquarium industry for many years

 

It has had water in it for nearly two months and the plants were added about three weeks ago, the fish are at a low density at the moment and are also only juvenile so as they grow the tank will work up to it's full capacity gradually

 

Here are some update pics now that the final addition of fish has been done(two of them were added about a week ago).

 

Sorry they aren't great pics but these little guys are so fast it's hard to get a decent photo of them.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 2, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies