Johnson18
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Picked up this Landen tank the beginning of November from a local hobbyist who purchased it in August, set it up and quickly realized it was too large for the space they had available. It is now the replacement for my old ADA 90p that had a corner seam split in June. The ADA was an old logo tank and was a store display for many years before I got it in 2018. I had rescaped the tank only a couple months prior to the failure.
The new tank is sold as a 55gal Landen 90p but is also listed as 59.4 gallons. It is 90cm x 50cm x 50cm, rather than the usual 45cm 90p. The tank came with a new Fluval 407. This probably won't be a super quick build. I'm limited in what I can do physically due to a bad back. I set up a new 20gal low tech Caridina tank a few months that still has like half the plants floating. So the set up of this tank won't happen until I finish planting the 20 and get my high tech 60p under control(the Monte Carlo carpet is like 4in thick rn.) I had hoped to have these taken care of by the end of the year but had RSV in November followed by covid in December. The aquariums have definitely been a bit neglected.
The overall goal is a fairly easy to maintain planted aquarium. Id like to have a fairly traditional nature aquarium. A triangle aquascape, mostly slow growing plants, not a lot of stems, medium light, CO2, one of the leaner dosing schedules, and hopefully not 50% weekly water changes. I can't physically handle the trimming and replanting of stems in a tank this size anymore. And I want fish again! I've got 3 shrimp tanks at the moment. While I did pick up some pygmy corydoras a few months back, they 100% live in a shrimp tank. lol. Probably some sort of pencilfish. In the past, I've often ended up with a pair of wild type Apistos and Pencils. We'll see though... Other options might be Pseudomugil luminatus, some of the small gouramis such as a Trichopsis species or other SA dwarf cichlids. If I don't go with a dwarf cichlid, I will probably add a high quality Neocaridina variety and give them a 6+ month head start.
Here is the current details for this build. Much of this is still to be decided. I’ll update as things begin to progress, along with some pictures.
Tank: Landen 90p, 59.4 gallons, 90cm x 50cm x 50cm or approx 36" x 20" x 20"
Filter: Eheim 2217 & Fluval 407 - The 2217 currently has a cerges reactor inline
Heater: Hydor 300w inline, probably
CO2: Probably use a custom built SS regulator that will run two separate tanks, 15lb tank, cerges reactor running inline on the 2217
**This is currently running my 60p. I may try to run a line to this tank but there’s a doorway in between the two stands. Otherwise I will probably use a different setup. I currently have everything but a second co2 tank, though not as stainless and shiny.
Lighting: 36" BuildMyLED XB custom spectrum w/dimmer x 2. Light levels will be set by par meter.
Substrate: Probably Pool Filter Sand, and/or UNS controsoil. I haven't decided quite yet.
Hardscape: The manzanita from the last 90p scape has mostly been used elsewhere. I do still have manzanita but would probably require some more. I’ve got a bunch of Malaysian driftwood and mopani that I need to dig through. Leaning more toward the Malaysian driftwood. I have a wide variety of smaller pieces along with a few larger ones.
Plan on using dragon stone. The last aquascape in the 90p used seiryu but was set up as Caridina tank. Even in the short time it was running I struggled to keep the water soft enough. I decided I'd rather not use it on a large scale again.
One of my saltwater LFS set up a freshwater section last year that may have lasted 3 months. They still had a box of dragon stone shoved on a back shelf. I was hoping to pick up a enough to use more as accents than anything else. I don't really have a much of a budget for this build, but rock was going to be a large portion of it. My sister went by the LFS before xmas planning to buy a gift certificate for me. When she mentioned I planned to use it for the dragon stone, they offered to sell the entire box for $20. Which is how I ended up with a 70lb box of dragon stone for this build...
Plants:
I am all over the place on how to plant this tank. Right now I've got more plants than I know what to do with. Okay, maybe I know what to do with them, but more of a lack of space. Although, I've probably sold off half of the plants I had this time last year.
Livestock: Not sure how I want to stock this tank I do want fish, not another shrimp only tank.
The new tank is sold as a 55gal Landen 90p but is also listed as 59.4 gallons. It is 90cm x 50cm x 50cm, rather than the usual 45cm 90p. The tank came with a new Fluval 407. This probably won't be a super quick build. I'm limited in what I can do physically due to a bad back. I set up a new 20gal low tech Caridina tank a few months that still has like half the plants floating. So the set up of this tank won't happen until I finish planting the 20 and get my high tech 60p under control(the Monte Carlo carpet is like 4in thick rn.) I had hoped to have these taken care of by the end of the year but had RSV in November followed by covid in December. The aquariums have definitely been a bit neglected.
The overall goal is a fairly easy to maintain planted aquarium. Id like to have a fairly traditional nature aquarium. A triangle aquascape, mostly slow growing plants, not a lot of stems, medium light, CO2, one of the leaner dosing schedules, and hopefully not 50% weekly water changes. I can't physically handle the trimming and replanting of stems in a tank this size anymore. And I want fish again! I've got 3 shrimp tanks at the moment. While I did pick up some pygmy corydoras a few months back, they 100% live in a shrimp tank. lol. Probably some sort of pencilfish. In the past, I've often ended up with a pair of wild type Apistos and Pencils. We'll see though... Other options might be Pseudomugil luminatus, some of the small gouramis such as a Trichopsis species or other SA dwarf cichlids. If I don't go with a dwarf cichlid, I will probably add a high quality Neocaridina variety and give them a 6+ month head start.
Here is the current details for this build. Much of this is still to be decided. I’ll update as things begin to progress, along with some pictures.
Tank: Landen 90p, 59.4 gallons, 90cm x 50cm x 50cm or approx 36" x 20" x 20"
Filter: Eheim 2217 & Fluval 407 - The 2217 currently has a cerges reactor inline
Heater: Hydor 300w inline, probably
CO2: Probably use a custom built SS regulator that will run two separate tanks, 15lb tank, cerges reactor running inline on the 2217
**This is currently running my 60p. I may try to run a line to this tank but there’s a doorway in between the two stands. Otherwise I will probably use a different setup. I currently have everything but a second co2 tank, though not as stainless and shiny.
Lighting: 36" BuildMyLED XB custom spectrum w/dimmer x 2. Light levels will be set by par meter.
Substrate: Probably Pool Filter Sand, and/or UNS controsoil. I haven't decided quite yet.
Hardscape: The manzanita from the last 90p scape has mostly been used elsewhere. I do still have manzanita but would probably require some more. I’ve got a bunch of Malaysian driftwood and mopani that I need to dig through. Leaning more toward the Malaysian driftwood. I have a wide variety of smaller pieces along with a few larger ones.
Plan on using dragon stone. The last aquascape in the 90p used seiryu but was set up as Caridina tank. Even in the short time it was running I struggled to keep the water soft enough. I decided I'd rather not use it on a large scale again.
One of my saltwater LFS set up a freshwater section last year that may have lasted 3 months. They still had a box of dragon stone shoved on a back shelf. I was hoping to pick up a enough to use more as accents than anything else. I don't really have a much of a budget for this build, but rock was going to be a large portion of it. My sister went by the LFS before xmas planning to buy a gift certificate for me. When she mentioned I planned to use it for the dragon stone, they offered to sell the entire box for $20. Which is how I ended up with a 70lb box of dragon stone for this build...
Plants:
I am all over the place on how to plant this tank. Right now I've got more plants than I know what to do with. Okay, maybe I know what to do with them, but more of a lack of space. Although, I've probably sold off half of the plants I had this time last year.
Livestock: Not sure how I want to stock this tank I do want fish, not another shrimp only tank.
