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I'm picking up my new 60g UK aquarium sith pine stand and hood on the 18th of Dec, so early xmas present.

tank - 40"x18x24
filter - TetraTec Ex 1200
heater - 2x visitherm 150W
lighting - 55W twin T5 giving 1.8wpg
substrate - flourite mixed with river gravel

fish - so far from 40g
1 angel
1 clown pleco
1 RTS
1 Otto
4 Corys
4 Neon dwarf Rainbows (female)
7 H. Rasbora

fish might add -
1 male red dwarf gourami (from 10g)
5 Har. Rasbora (if can get large ones so angel doesn't have feast)
or 6 glowlight tetras (form 10g)
3 cory sterbi
3 ottos
2 male dwarf neon rainbows

plants (all low light, most from 40g have now)
Java fern (Microsorium pteropus) on bogwood
Vallisneria americana (gigantea)
Anubias barteri var. nana
Ceratophyllum demersum
Crinum calamistratum
Echinodurus x barthii
Cryptocoryne wendtii ''brown''
Cryptocoryne walkeri (lutea)
Cryptocoryne undulata ''broad leaves''
Cabomba caroliniana
Bacopa Caroliniona
Hygrophila corymbosa "angustifolia

I can't wait now:%) i'll post updates and photos of how the setup is going, want be done till the new year.

Merry Xmas to all and happy new Year.

Shekoi

www.blooming-brilliant.co.uk

Well, that's a real Christmas present.
Cycle the tank well & add the fish slowly, with weekly periods.


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So you'll have a 10G, 40G & 60G??

Lucky

thats reminded me, what order should i move the fish over, i'll have to move most of plants and bogwood roots etc straight away to aquascape the new tank, i was also going to use the old gravel as it will be covered in bacteria.

how would you go about swapping over the tanks?

i'll have 10g 20g, 40g and 60g but thinking of dismantling the 10g and putting the fish into the 60g, the 10g is where the 60g will be going.

cheers for replies, i'll keep all up dated

www.blooming-brilliant.co.uk

looking forward to seeing you tank being put together.

could you set up the new tank, as if you had just moved the old one?
i mean put your new filter onto your 40g to get it up and running, then setup your new tank, with gravel etc from old tank and then use as much of the water you can into the new tank.
the old gravel, bogwood plants will then have bacteria already on and the filtler will be ready becasue you put it on your old tank for month etc.

just idea?

NFB

cycling the filter in my 40g was an idea i already had, cheers. but don't know if i can just move everything in one go?

any sugestions?
how can i aquascape my new tank with the contents of my old tank and still leave the fish in their home?

or would it be ok to do as newfishboy thinks? cycle filter and then move the lot in one? do more water changes and keep eye on all levels?

cheers shekoi

www.blooming-brilliant.co.uk