Five Foot Tank

Amos + potato

My current 'best' or 'show' tank is a 60"x24"x26" deep tank containing four largeish oscars and a gibbiceps plec. I don't have any photos of it.

However, in the past, it has been a well planted tank with angels, rasboros, zebra danios, platties, ottos, cardinal tetras and siamese flying foxes. The rasboros angels and danios are all odd groups of two or three fish who have out-lived life in other tanks. This is the last tank that Amos lived in. This page (and the subsequent ones) describe how it was then.

Hardware

There is a moderate amount of plumbing associated with the tank. Filtration is by a sump with bio-balls, there's CO2 injection, layered substrate, substrate heating and so on. Most of the information about plumbing can be gleaned from the pictorial account of setting up the tank.

There's also a general page about plants in fishtanks which describes the bits specific to plants.

History

The tank was set up in August 2001. It was my third tank, and was set up to provide a bigger home for Amos. The previous tank he'd inhabited was a well-planted three-foot tank and I wanted the new tank to be similarly densely planted. The jump in size, however, required some significant changes in teh equipment - it wasn't all a case of simply scaling up.

Photos

Some photographs of the tank.


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