top left: FTS top right: Inline Bazooka
So finally here is an update of my EHEIM OPAL as promised with a full tank plant and fish list.
I got my Lily Pipes today thanks to Adam @ Aquascape design. Looks great in the tank and has replaced the green bland looking EHEIM spray bar.
Also thanks to Doron @ ALife for giving me advice on increasing my CO2 output. I have now attached the CO2 cylinder to an inline bazooka diffuser. (see above pic).
The results are astonishing. The bubbles are now so fine it looks very hazy. If you look carefully in the above picture, there is a fine mist of CO2 coming out of the lily pipe to the right. It is not a cloudy tank but in fact a tank with microbubbles full of CO2.
If you look to the left of the tank you will see the Vortech fan in action. It has leaves attached to the foam around it hence it looks camouflaged.
From left to right
- Staurogyne tropica (left carpet plant)
- Ludwigia sp Cuba (far left back of tank)
- Proserpinaca Palustris (furthest back centre with long leaves)
- Tonina fluviatilis (back centre)
- Rotala macrandra (back left red orange plant)
- Syngonathus 'manaus' (bushy plant centre with spiky upward facing leaves)
- Syngonathus 'belem' (bushy plant centre with downward facing spiky leaves)
- Eriocaulon sp. shiga (left, centre small bush like spiky plant next to rock behind tiger lotus)
- Tiger lotus pups (centre front and left front of tank)
- Hygrophila pinnatifida (right of driftwood centre and growing right back of tank)
- Peacock moss (on driftwood - almost dead as has been nuked)
- Ludwigia senegalensis (far right corner - trimmed)
- Windelov Java Fern (on driftwood)
- Bolbitis (on driftwood)
- Needle leaf Java Fern (on driftwood - back piece)
- Mini Pellia (top right of tank on propagating SS mesh)
- Amazon frogbit (floating top of tank)
- Crinum Calamistratum (Centre of tank)
Fish list
- Lionheads (i want them gone)
- Clown killi remaining survivor (short lifespan i hear) x 1
- Corydoras sterbai x 1
- Albino Plecs (Ugly has boy friends now x 3)
- Cardinals x 3
- Corydoras x 2
- Yoyo Loaches x 2
- SAE (yes they are still with me and cheeky as ever x 3)
- Longtail Plecs x2
wow that looks nice dan, i think once the HC at the front fills in it will look sweet.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lachie! I hope it fills out as well.
ReplyDeleteWhen you set up your CO2 one day ill donate you some
oh cool thanks lol i wont setup co2 on my cube as i dont want to touch it and disturb the shrimpys haha
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