Posts Tagged ‘Freshwater’

Nameless: Redux (9 months later)

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

After 9 months of maturation, here’s the current status of this layout:

Front View

Side View

Green River (wip)

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

While this is my shrimp tank, I tried to compose it a little bit more with some wood, plants, and about 13 Rasboras swimming around. Here’s a photo taken with my Nokia N80:

From Green River

More details will follow soon.

10th Place in ADA Contest goes to Portugal

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Congratulations to Filipe Oliveira, for his 10th place at the 2007 edition of ADA Aquatic Plants Layout International Contest with this incredible setup:

Ainulindale: 10 months later

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Flora

Fauna

  • 2 Corydoras Aenus
  • 1 Crossocheilus Siamensis, SAE
  • 1 Chromobotia macracanthus, Clown Loach
  • 18 Paracheirodon Inessi, Tetra Neon
  • Dozens of Neocaridina Denticulata Sinensis, Red-Cherry Shrimp

Nameless: Redux (day 118)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

I’ve switched the background from dark blue to white. Here’s the effect:

Nameless: Redux

Nameless: Redux (macros)

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Corydora Pygmeus

Neocaridina Denticulata Sinensis (aka Red-Cherry)

Corydora Pygmeus next to Corydora Albina

Male Red-Cherry

Otocinclus Affinis

Nameless: Redux (day 116)

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Nameless: Redux

Nameless: Redux (day 18)

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Some new plants (Blyxa Japonica and Hemianthus Callitrichoides):

Nameless: Redux

Nameless: Redux (day 3)

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I decided to reconstruct my 210l tank. Here’s how it looks at day 3 (still heavily clouded):

Nameless: Redux

Ainulindale: Update

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

My girlfriend’s aquarium received a recent change in the hardscape and some plants position:

Ainulindale

Green Refugee, The Beginning

Monday, October 9th, 2006

So me and my girlfriend got tired of her old Aquarium, and started to build a new one, based on the equipment we already had. Here’s the result…

24 September 2006:

30 September 2006:

8 October 2006:

Flora

Fauna

  • 2 Corydoras Aenus
  • 1 Crossocheilus Siamensis, SAE
  • 20+ Neocaridina Denticulata Sinensis, Red-Cherry Shrimp
  • 13 Paracheirodon Inessi, Tetra Neon

Setup and Equipment

  • Aquarium 50×25x25 (31l)
  • Eheim Powerball Filter
  • 36W Philips Dulux-L 6500K w/ Electronic Ballast
  • 50W Heater
  • CO2 Bio-Injection

Nameless, the not so final update

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

It seems that with only one day of voting at ratemyfishtank.com this tank has been temporarily ranked #3 in the Planted Tank category:

ratemyfishtank.png

Thanks for all those 14 people who voted on it. I know that with only those votes, the #3 place doesn’t mean a lot, but.. hey, it’s an accomplishment ;)

Nameless - 18 Setembro 2006

Nameless, another update

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Here’s another update of Nameless after an 11W Ultraviolet-C filter instalation because of a green-algae surge (as usual right click -> view image for full-size):

uAqua

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Experimenting with a 8l nano fresh aquarium:

Here’s the setup:

  • 20×20x20 (8 liters) cubic aquarium DIY
  • Fluval 1 Plus Internal Filter
  • 20w Halogen Lamp

Nameless, update

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Here’s an update of my tank (right click -> view image for full-size)…

Some macro shot of Glossostigma pearling…

And another of Cabomba…

Nameless

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Here is my aquarium as of today, 3 June 2006:

Nameless - 2006/06/03 - Small

Setup

  • Aquarium 105×40x52 (200l capacity, 170l of water) DIY
  • Lighting 4×39W T5 6500K DIY
  • Eheim External Filter 2224 w/ Installation Set A + B, 700l/h and 3l of filter medium
  • Eheim-Jager 100W Heater
  • 19l ADA AquaSoil Amazonica
  • CO2 bio injection DIY w/ JBL Permanent Test

Fauna

  • Poecilia Reticulata, Guppy
  • Xiphophorus Maculatus, Platy
  • Paracheirodon Inessi, Tetra Neon
  • Hasemania Nana, Tetra Silver Tip.
  • Ancistrus sp.
  • Otocinclus affinis
  • Corydoras Paleatus, Aenus and Panda
  • Crossocheilus Siamensis, SAE
  • Neocaridina Denticulata Sinensis, Red-Cherry Shrimp

Flora

  • Egeria Densa
  • Glossostigma Elatinoides
  • Valisneria Spiralis
  • Cabomba Caroliniana
  • Hygrophila Polysperma
  • Vesicularia Dubyana
  • Echinodorus (unknown)

Close up

Here’s a detail on an Egeria Densa pearling:

Egeria Densa pearling