Planted Rainbowfish Aquarium

[David2751]

The plants look amazing!! and your fish are all cool... I wish mine looks just like this Congrats!

[Jconde82]

Precioso acuario,un saludo desde españa

[kumarsa108]

@Jconde82

Muchas gracias. :)

[4Thoseabout2ROCKtv]

Nice, love red tail sharks but they are always a pain, they either bully or get bullied it seems like they're is no middle ground with em

[Mrmomtanks]

Awesome roseline sharks. Still have the tank up

[discus1584]

Hi

you change 40% - 50% of water a week is that a bit of a shock to the system. i thought 25% - 30% would be better. great looking tank fantastic. cheers m8

[Johnzith1212]

what kind of powerhead is that?

[kumarsa108]

@Johnzith1212 It is an ecotech MP40.

[911kratos]

imagine all of them jumped out  0_o

[destructokitty]

red tailed black sharks are always pissed off IME

[flyinggimpproduction]

How do you keep your floating plants alive? I've tried to keep floating hyacinths before and they always shrivel up after a month or two.

[pinkhairedmice]

This is awesome! I just upgraded from a 29g to a 55g today, and I thought that was big! Sorry if it's already been asked, but how big is this tank? Very well done.

[kumarsa108]

@pinkhairedmice Hi, thank you for your comment. The tank is approx 400 US gallons.

[teeceetommy1]

do you have to clean this or does it naturally stay clean because of your fish and plants?

[kumarsa108]

@teeceetommy1 Hi, I change about 40-50% of the water weekly with a siphon and clean the tank sides every other week. Occasionally do some pruning of the plants. I would say an hour or two every week.

[saltycreefer]

nice barbs

[HolySasquatchTurd]

Sorry another post lol. I just wanna say if you are hesitant about removing the SAEs because they control algae you can just switch to Oto Cats. They clean up leaves like crazy I use them in my planted tank. Amazing tank by the way. What fertilizers are you using?

[kumarsa108]

@HolySasquatchTurd hi, i find that the SAE - RTBS is fine in this tank. 99% of the time there is no chasing, they just do their own thing. It is only when RTBS claims a wafer for his own that he gets more feisty. However there is never anything approaching serious. They have been together approx 3 years now. I have not really seriously kept otos before, I was thinking of using them in a smaller tank, but it is the SAE (C.langei) that is particularly good with BBA.

[kumarsa108]

@HolySasquatchTurd I dose co2 and use dry ferts straight into the flow of the water column, NPK and trace on alternate days, nothing at wknd.

[HolySasquatchTurd]

@kumarsa108 I use Excel every morning and for here and there I use 2 trace element liquids, iron, equilibrium, NPK. That's all Seachem Flourish by the way. I also use root tabs for plants that really need it like cryptocrines.

[HolySasquatchTurd]

Nice tank though but yeah, RTS will be fine with the Rainbows, Congos, Denison Barbs, from my experience. He will chase them a little bit here and there but nothing compared to that grey fish and SAE.

[HolySasquatchTurd]

Dude, seriously you shouldn't put fish that don't go well with the Red Tail and I mean that grey fish he is chasing (forget the name) and the SAEs. He's clearly stressing them out.

[maxcruiser]

Absolutely amazing. Best on YouTube!!

[kumarsa108]

@maxcruiser Thank you :)

[spudster87]

How many litres is this tank...its very impressive and those rainbowswill be stunning when they have matured!

[kumarsa108]

@spudster87 Hi, the gross volume is 1,588 litres. I will post an update when the fish have grown. Thanks for commenting. :)

[Hotaru845]

Very nice tank. Is that water sprite floating on top? And what is the foreground left plant? Thanks

[kumarsa108]

@Hotaru845 Hi, thank you for the comment. The floating plant is Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), the foreground left plant is Stauragine repens.

[Hotaru845]

@kumarsa108. Thanks for the info. The water hyacinth looked like a floating Water Sprite. The Echinodorus tennelus is really hard to get here in SA. Again, a lovely tank.

[kumarsa108]

@Hotaru845 oh also on the left foreground (longer thin leaves) is Echinodorus tennellus - Dwarf chain sword.

[davidloveco]

one of the nicest tanks on you tube IMO, I particularly like your aqua scape and design. Wow, I am jealous now...Its immaculate!!! Gorgeous Rainbows too; Interesting to see the Red Tailed Shark cohabiting with minimal chasing...This is the tank I want!! WOW! BEAUTIFUL!!!

[kumarsa108]

@davidloveco Thank you for the comments. Alot of the rainbows are quite young at the moment, but in a year or so they should be looking much more impressive. The RTBS is not too aggressive, he normaly ignores all others. Only in this situation when he wants a sunken pellet all to himself. :) He never pursues a fish for more than a few seconds.

[TheBravo101]

This is a great aquarium. Is this the aquarium you always wanted? I wish I had a larger tank myself.

[pdandy88]

What size tank is that?

[linelogic]

Lovely Tank. Very impressive

[JUNAID187]

woah awesome