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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Thurgo@lemm.ee to c/aquariums@lemmy.world

This is the first tank that got me back into fishkeeping as an adult. It has been running for two and a half years with various plants coming and going. There must be like 8 swords in here that I've grown from one mother plant. The thing has produced at least 20 decently sized swords that you'd see at the store.

I really like this tank and I look at it all day since it's next to my wfh desk. Super fun to trim and play with the plants. I like to propagate and juice plants in here to move to my other tanks. Right now I am farming pearlweed.

Equipment

  • 2x Hygger 36 inch programmable lights
  • CO2Art CO2 regulator (I wanted this to be a Dutch style tank but that never worked and the tank has been running fine with the CO2 so I haven't turned it off.)
  • Penn Plax Cascade 1000 canister
  • Fluval M200 heater

Stocking

  • 12 cherry barbs
  • 12 Dwarf praecox rainbows
  • Apistogramma macmasteri pair
  • A few pygmy corydoras (I had ich earlier this year and unfortunately I don't think many made it. I had 9.)
  • L129 Colombian zebra pleco
  • Two Amano shrimp
  • Two Japanese trapdoor snails
  • One pagoda snail
  • One rabbit snail
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[-] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tank looks nice. Cherry barbs are great and in my opinion underrated.

[-] Thurgo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am a big cherry barb proponent. Super peaceful. Awesome interactions and differences between the males and females. I want to try gold barbs next since they look like little goldfish.

[-] Riceburner@rammy.site 1 points 1 year ago

The more I see rainbowfish the more I'm going to want them. They look so damn good!

[-] Thurgo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I really like them. One of those fish that are really ugly in stores but are poppin' at home. These praecox are usually tightly schooling but some will break away to do their own thing. If I walk up to the tank or move my hand across the front of it they will all school up and zoom. If I ever get a bigger tank I would really like to get some bosemani rainbows to be the showcase fish.

this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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