29 Gallon Journal

[unwritten law]

Room mate is is upgrading his 16 gallon into a 29 gallon. It will contain a large school of rasboras (9ish), 4 or so emerald cories, a male betta, and most likely a pair of Bolivian rams.

It will be planted with a mixed substrate of black gravel and eco-complete. It'll be full of driftwood, river looking rock, and possibly a type of slate.

Here it is before we noticed it needed a few more coats of paint on the Background.

We are using a 10 gallon as quarantine and to cycle the new filter, an aquaclear 50. It will has a stealth heater and the light I currently have on my 46 gallon (65 watt compact flourecent.)

Should be a nice little project. I think the filter will be cycled within the next week and then the tank will be set up.

 

[misterking]

Sounds great, look forward to seeing the progress you guys make. Good luck!

 

[bmoraski]

keep them pictures coming
good luck.
oh and how many coats of paint did it take ?

 

[unwritten law]

About 4 but that's just because my roomie missed that spot on the bottom... otherwise it should have been 3.

 

[unwritten law]

Filter is cycled but his girlfriend is coming in from out of town this weekend so it wont be till Monday or Sunday night when this thing gets going. I'm getting him a bag of eco-complete to mix with his current gravel... Hopefully i wont look too bad... Also I ordered a new light for my 46gallon tank so he's getting my old one, a 30" 65watt CPF with a 50/50 of 6700K and 10000K... We also picked up some flagstone earlier to go in the tank cause he wasn't to build up a corner to make a terrace effect to give more height to the tank... should be cool-ish.

 

[bmoraski]

Sounds like its gonna be a sweet setup
cant wait to see

 

[unwritten law]

10 gallon quarantine with 6 or 7 more rasboras to add to the original 4. After 3 or 4 days in the tank they actual were breeding. The eggs feel down to the big rocks at the bottom and most likely never to be seen again but it was cool anyways.

 

[bmoraski]

Looks SWEET !
and thats just a quarantine tank ? lol
my 50g is gonna have some rocks
and do you happen to know how much weight you have in there ?

 

[unwritten law]

80 for the water... maybe another 15 in rocks... but im not sure... wood prob weighs another 2 pounds dry.


Yeah that was just what ever we had laying around got thrown in there.

 

[bmoraski]

look like bigger rocks from picture , i figured more for rocks.
1 gal water = 8.34 lbs
LOL
i use the lbs formula all the time at work

 

[unwritten law]

set up day was yesterday... still no light yet tho.. should be here tomorrow...hopefully

substrate

filling up

scaping

kinda done scaping

acclimating

kind of what it looks like now

 

[bmoraski]

Looks great bro !
i love the flat stones
what did you use for substrate ?

 

[unwritten law]

about 50% black gravel from the old 16 gallon tank and 50% eco-complete

 

[Lotus]

Looks good!

 

[unwritten law]

Still needs a little moving around but besides letting it grow out and finish stocking it over the next month or so that's that.

 

[unwritten law]

Threw the light on the tank with the adjustable brackets today... really nice and professional looking.

How the brackets work... they lift up so the light can get out of teh way. Very cool and helpful.

 

[kenny1tothe6]

Looks GREAT!!

Do you think the Bolivian Rams will pick on the bettas or are you planning them after the betta...ummm...*cough*dies*cough* [I hate saying that...]

 

[unwritten law]

It's a concern but I don't really think so. If they do the betta has his own tank waiting.

 

[bmoraski]

Looks great bro
I LOVE THE LIGHT !!!

 

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