Onewolf
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My wife insisted on having a full canopy because she's concerned that having four adventurous cats could be a problem with just a glass canopy. Therefore we ordered an Aquarium Woods Grande Crown stand/canopy in Espresso () from a LFS and it took 5 weeks before it was delivered to the store.
While we waited for the stand to be delivered I cycled two Penn Plax Cascade 1200 filters with the tank in the garage. We picked up and setup the stand/tank in the family room. I like the canopy setup with the front doors for easy/quick access and the whole front of the canopy can be flipped up/back for more complete access. I still have the two canister filters cycling using 5 gallon buckets in the garage with Dr Tim's Ammonium Chloride and Seachem Stability.
Due to Hurricane Irma we lost electricity for 4.5 days and we had only intermittent generator power so the canister filters that were cycling in the garage were 'lost'. After storm clean-up and getting power back late last week we got the 90 gal tank setup in the family room on Sunday.
The driftwood pieces are mounted to marble bases that I made from door/window sills. I used a compound to cut the driftwood at the desired angles and I used stainless steel screws to attach the driftwood to the marble bases. Finally, I attached rubber 'feet' to the bottom of the marble.
The sand is HTH pool filter sand as recommended by various people here and other aquarium forums.
The plants are: 2 Anubias Nanas mounted on the driftwood branches, Large Anubias BarterI in the center, large Amazon Sword, a 2 Aponogeton Bolivianus bulbs in the back corners. We plan to add at least one more Anubias Nana.
My wife filtered the sand (1 2/3 bags) in 5 gal buckets before we added it to the tank. There is (obviously) some cloudiness that will hopefully subside over a couple days.
I did a thorough flushing of the Penn Plax canister filters because they were without power for 4.5 days before setting them up in the tank. I have the two intakes in the back corners and the outlets are spray bars from the corners towards the center. Hopefully it won't take too long for the filters to cycle. I added Prime, Stability, and API Leaf Zone to the initial water.
The tank has Current USA Freshwater Satellity Plus 48" LED, a Beamswork DA 6500K 48" LED, and a Aqueon Pro 250W heater.
Once the filters cycle, the plan is to use this tank as a community tank with Cardinal Tetras, ?? Tetras, SterbaI Corys, and several Angelfish while we 'grow' juvI Discus in the 40 breeder tank.
While we waited for the stand to be delivered I cycled two Penn Plax Cascade 1200 filters with the tank in the garage. We picked up and setup the stand/tank in the family room. I like the canopy setup with the front doors for easy/quick access and the whole front of the canopy can be flipped up/back for more complete access. I still have the two canister filters cycling using 5 gallon buckets in the garage with Dr Tim's Ammonium Chloride and Seachem Stability.
Due to Hurricane Irma we lost electricity for 4.5 days and we had only intermittent generator power so the canister filters that were cycling in the garage were 'lost'. After storm clean-up and getting power back late last week we got the 90 gal tank setup in the family room on Sunday.
The driftwood pieces are mounted to marble bases that I made from door/window sills. I used a compound to cut the driftwood at the desired angles and I used stainless steel screws to attach the driftwood to the marble bases. Finally, I attached rubber 'feet' to the bottom of the marble.
The sand is HTH pool filter sand as recommended by various people here and other aquarium forums.
The plants are: 2 Anubias Nanas mounted on the driftwood branches, Large Anubias BarterI in the center, large Amazon Sword, a 2 Aponogeton Bolivianus bulbs in the back corners. We plan to add at least one more Anubias Nana.
My wife filtered the sand (1 2/3 bags) in 5 gal buckets before we added it to the tank. There is (obviously) some cloudiness that will hopefully subside over a couple days.
I did a thorough flushing of the Penn Plax canister filters because they were without power for 4.5 days before setting them up in the tank. I have the two intakes in the back corners and the outlets are spray bars from the corners towards the center. Hopefully it won't take too long for the filters to cycle. I added Prime, Stability, and API Leaf Zone to the initial water.
The tank has Current USA Freshwater Satellity Plus 48" LED, a Beamswork DA 6500K 48" LED, and a Aqueon Pro 250W heater.
Once the filters cycle, the plan is to use this tank as a community tank with Cardinal Tetras, ?? Tetras, SterbaI Corys, and several Angelfish while we 'grow' juvI Discus in the 40 breeder tank.
