Tank lighting

Tank’s looking a little clearer in this pic, i think it was a little cloudy before due to the many little air bubbles from adding the fresh water.

Lights are made up of 4 compact flourescent tubes: 2 white and 2 blue to mimic daylight.

It also has 2 little LEDs mounted under the hood for night time viewing. It’s supposed to resemble moonlight. It’s not bright enough to bother the fish, just bright enough so that you can see them.

You can’t fully appreciate the ‘moonlight’ but with water moving at the surface it does look very cool when the room lights are turned off.

My new aquarium

Hi. So I’ve decided to start a blog. Exactly why, i’m not sure. I guess i just want someplace to think out aloud and share my ideas, opinions and interesting finds with everyone.

It was quite a cold morning the day before yesterday, the roads were quite busy with everyone gearing up for xmas and I felt like driving. I ended up near Shirley Aquatics ( http://www.shirleyaquatics.co.uk) on the Stratford Road and couldn’t resist popping into my favourite aquatics shop. I had a freshwater tropical aquarium uptil a couple of years ago and had recently been toying with the idea of setting up another in my head. Anyway the chance was too good to pass up and i thought i’d pop in just for some inspiration.

After some time looking at all the fish and reptiles i ended up buying a Nano Cube 24 gallon fish tank. I completely forgot a cabinet to put it on and so had to pop back yesterday to pick it up and also get some plants. Had it all set up, after cleaning the tank and washing the gravel and spending far too long assembling the cabinet (the single page of picture only instructions were not great).

Plants aren’t yet planted. i just threw them in after conditioning the water to get rid of the chlorine, and adding a little plant fertilizer to keep them going until the fish is/are added, which should be in a week.