I'm Tanked Up!

I've had an interest in Tropical fish since teenage years and have owned at least one tank ever since, I reached my piscatorial peak when a spare bedroom was turned into a fish room and 6 large tanks occupied one complete wallspace. A leak whilst away finally saw the room return to it's original use.

Since then I've dabbled with Discus - a difficult but beautiful Amazonian species, run a marine reef tank for a year or two before my conscience regarding the plundering of scarce natural resources lead me to convert the reef tank into a 40 gallon freshwater job.That one tank is still here after about 15 years - but now I have another:

A Fluval Edge!!

A very modern and controversial design - being a small glass cube filled entirely with 5 gallons of water except for a small opening in the top to allow filtered water to be circulated.

The size of this tank - Nano in fishkeeping jargon - only allows a few small fish to be kept as the golden rule is 1cm of fish per litre of water.

I have six White Cloud Mountain Minnows (Tanichthys albonubes) flashing around in it at present.

The very good filter system (an Aquaclear 100) was cycled for 17 days using ammonia before the introduction of the fish. This builds up the bacteria colonies necessary to deal with the natural waste products produced by the fish and plants.

So far everything is running well and the fish are lively and eating everything.

Thanks to my dear wife for a very nice Christmas Gift!