Aquaoak 360L - Fresh Build From The Ground Up - EvolutionStu.

Wow, wow, wow - just been reading through this thread and thoroughly impressed throughout with the planning, forward-thinking, lengths gone to, technical aspects, equipment, and what an absolutely stunning tank and fish! Amazing.

Superb photos.... and I love the water change idea.

Wow, wow, wow - just been reading through this thread and thoroughly impressed throughout with the planning, forward-thinking, lengths gone to, technical aspects, equipment, and what an absolutely stunning tank and fish! Amazing.

Thank you. I really am trying to do it right first time, but its presented some challenges trying to do it just how I want. We are getting there though.

I'll echo those wows.   
I have an aqua oak AQ120D still sitting in the packaging in the hallway. As soon as my axolotls are in their other tanks and I can move the 200l tank & cabinet out of the corner of the room, the AQ120D will be heading in to the empty corner.
I appreciate and enjoyed your thread so far. It will help with what I am planning for the river tank, many thanks.
Awesome tank and brilliant photos. Well done. 

Enjoy the Aquaoak when you get it unpacked, its a lovely piece of kit. However - watch the lid closes properly, mine doesnt, although Johannah at MA is on the case for me. Another challenge to overcome but it's only a minor issue on an amazing cabinet. I love it.

Superb photos.... and I love the water change idea.

Thanks, I must admit I am VERY pleased that worked first time. Thats going to save a lot of weekly pain and time.

what fish do you have and how many of each?

amazing tank   


apache6467

Hello,
Thank you, its looking great, very pleased with it.

I have:
2x Geophagus Tapajos Redheads
2x Geophagus Altifrons

Currently living in harmony with a school of 11x Rummy Nose Tetras.

Quote from: Extreme_One on June 16, 2016, 10:03:13 PM

I followed the URL to that last image to see it at higher resolution:
Wow!
There are some stunning shots hosted here. I'm in awe of your skills.

WOAH!! Beautiful photos, you're a man of many talents Stu!

Thank you.


Bit of an update, popped into my local Maidenhead Aquatics and had a long chat with the uber helpful Johannah there who is a real pleco fan, and I've come away with two rather beautiful and quite rare Plecos.


Once their 2hr acclimatisation drip is up I will try and grab some pics. Watch this space.

Ohh what type of plecos.

I reccomend the whiptail catfish if you are after some cats (rineloricaria.sp)

I will look up the whiptails as thats the kind of thing im likely to find tomorrow at Pier Aquatics.

Today i got:
1x Queen Arabesque Pleco (L260)
1x Green Phantom Pleco (L200)

They havent been in the tank long, took me 2.5 hours to drip acclimatise them to my water.

Essentially I put them in a large plastic container and then syringe in 20ml of water every 15 mins until the TDS matches that of my tank.

As soon as they were set free, as Plecos do... They dissapeared. Ive seen the Queen out in the open, but the green phantom has taken up residence upside down in some bogwood away from the cameras. Will pop a pic or two on soon.

I've only been to Pier Aquatics once when we were visiting my mother in St Helens, and as she now lives near us in the north east it is a bit far to go just to visit a shop  . If we still lived in the Wigan area you'd never get me out of there.

Very cool Stu,

I'd love to see what a proper DSLR could do for pics of my own fish... I'm off to make a post in the photography thread, I'd love to see you over there once I've posted, watch this space 

Your images are stunning. I don't know where you get AVERAGE from...? 

Stunning Plec and fantastic photos again. 

Try dropping algea wafers at both sides so the plecos are fed