journal Fluval Flora Revamp

[ShrimpDesigns]

Just recently I arrived back from a trip to Melbourne with a few supplies to revamp some of my old out-dated tanks. This Fluval Flora includes the following.

Equipment:

Fluval C2 HOB

Fluval Tronic 50W Heater

ADA African Powder Type 9L

Grey Lava Rock

Aquazonic LED

Fertiliser Plan:

Aquagreens Dino Range

Flora:

Undecided

Fauna:

Mischlings then hopefully TB's

Here was the tank this morning after being ripped up and cleaned out.

After playing around for hours.

Unfortunately while I was picking up rocks at subscape my mum insisted that I had far too many and it turns out I have too few. So, tommorow I will be heading out to a couple of aquarium shops around Adelaide to look for some more grey lava rock.

Also, wondering on what you opinions are on having a sand path or not. Substrate seems to fall through gaps in the rock when its moved around which would make it hard to develop a sand path. Although I believe it could be done by filling the tank with water and then siphoning out the substrate and then replacing with sand. Any suggestions on this would be appreciated.

[Squiggle]

Looks pretty sweet dude, can't wait to see up & running!

[Disciple]

Very nice!

[ineke]

Looking good. Apparently Seaview has a lot of different rocks , I haven't looked there myself but have been told they stock a good range.

[OzShrimp]

Look forward to seeing more pics, does the lava rock adjust water perimeters?

[buck]

I like the hard scape already, looks like it will be a shrimp paradise.

[ShrimpDesigns]

Thanks everyone for your input. I did end up getting more rocks from seaview but they are a slightly different colour. Thoughts on the new scape?

[ShrimpDesigns]

Look forward to seeing more pics, does the lava rock adjust water perimeters?

Nah I made sure they didn't as I have made this mistake before.

[NoGi]

Lava rock is generally inert I thought?

[ShrimpDesigns]

Lava rock is generally inert I thought?

That's right. I meant in a previous tank i used seiryu and that went horribly wrong with my crs

[ShrimpDesigns]

Changed it again! Thoughts?

Edited January 21, 2015 by ShrimpDesigns

[OzShrimp]

kinda prefer the first layout, gave you an open area at the front for feeding/viewing in open

[fishmosy]

I'm with Ozshrimp, but I'm guessing you are thinking 'aquascape' and I'm thinking 'shrimp tank'.

[inverted]

Looks good either way mate

You can use clear plastic cut tosize in the substrate to stop it moving too much. A dab of silicon in the a few places should keep it in place. That way you could create a sand path if you so choose!

[ShrimpDesigns]

Thanks for all your feedback everyone. I filled it up today and ended up choosing the final scape as although it was meant to be a shrimp dedicated tank I ended up leaning towards the more 'aquascaped' version. The substrate hasnt collapsed at all yet except for where the tunnel was supposed to be. I will try and fix that up during a WC.

Louis

[ShrimpDesigns]

Planted and filled.

Still need the following items, anyone know where I can source them?

TDS Pen

Sera pH test (API doesn't go low enough and I don't want to deal calibration of a pen)

Salty Shrimp GH+

Cheers,

Louis

[GotCrabs]

Salty Shrimp GH+ I think you can get through Boss Aquaria.

[ShrimpDesigns]

Salty Shrimp GH+ I think you can get through Boss Aquaria.

Looks like their out of stock for the size I want :\

[GotCrabs]

Looks like their out of stock for the size I want :\

 

Oh OK, sorry mate, I'll have a quick look around and get back to you then.

[ShrimpDesigns]

Oh OK, sorry mate, I'll have a quick look around and get back to you then.

Don't worry about it man. Aquaristic have both the pH kit and the GH+

[GotCrabs]

Have you tried The Tech Den? They have some different sizes.

[GotCrabs]

Don't worry about it man. Aquaristic have both the pH kit and the GH+

 

No dramas.

[Squiggle]

Looks fantastic dude, well done!

[ShrimpDesigns]

Looks fantastic dude, well done!

Thanks squiggle!

[ShrimpDesigns]

Quick Update, the tank has finished cycling and I have moved some critters into the tank out of my 60l as I am re-doing that soon as well. CPD's settled in within 10mins with full colour! Also found 14 babies this morning out of my 60l. Also changed to a sand path.

Tank fauna at the moment consists of:

5 Sunkist cherries

3 CPD's 2 female 1 male

1 DAS

Louis