Matt's 220 Litre Aquaoak

Congratulations 

Congratulations. 

Managed to get this awesome photo of my false julii cory the other day 

Wonderful - my favourite cory! (It's one that I know SF has made a typo in re minimum tank size - if I were so inclined, I'd probably convince myself that I could have it in my little 54L, but I'm not that way inclined and know perfectly well that it wouldn't be large enough for them.)

You've really shown off its beauty very well.
 

So I’m going to get angelfish... been fancying getting a bigger fish for a while now and think that toddler Matt will enjoy them too. Probably get 5 and will get natural colouration. Been in to the shop a few times to get them actually but they looked a bit stressed first time I went, second time sure enough they had whitespot.  But it’s definitely happening at some point.

Finally got those angelfish… went with a pair a realised I don’t have a lot of stuff to break line of sight in my tank but here’s a photo shortly after introduction today…

I need to do some research to confirm but I strongly suspect I have a male female pair in the making based on their behaviour tonight though one is definately less dominant and has a little fin damage from the shop. No fin rot thiugh or anything. Not as brightly coloured just yet and that one didn’t eat. Probably be fine in the morning!

Sorry to hear about the whitespot outbreak and loss of the elderly fish.

Looking forward to seeing some photos/footage of your tank when you get a chance. 

Fcmf got me thinking about this thread and having just seen my signature needs an update I thought I’d do a quick update post again…

So before my update my signature read as below:
220ltr: 2 Angelfish, 6 Cardinal Tetra, 6 Rummy Nose Tetra, 12 Ember Tetra, 4 Julii Cory, 2 Otocinclus, Cherry & Amano Shrimp, MT & Nerite Snails
Pond (550ltr): 4 Comet Goldfish
(+ 60l reef tank)

Basically the elderly nature of my tanks inhabitants continues to take effect… I’m down to:
3 Cardinal Tetra - 1 elderly and 2 slightly younger but I don’t plan to replace as they have been troublesome from the start with what (and others on here) suspect may be poor genetics
4 Rummy Nose Tetra - soon to be 3 I suspect as one is looking a bit iffy
6 Ember Tetra
(and Everything else remains the same)

So basically it’s starting to look a bit sparser in the tank than it did before, and at some point I need to decide what I restock with. That said I won’t be doing any restocking for 6 months by which point thing will likely be very sparse indeed!

Im off to do a bit of fish Googling but I’m in no rush to decide anything… I did have a vague thought about espei rasbora and would like dwarf cichlids again - possibly German rams but that’s about it for now!

Also for completeness I now only have 3 Comet Goldfish after one passed over winter (without much else to explain its loss other than it was cold)

Oh yes we get lots of frogs and lots of frogspawn, tadpoles and baby frogs much to the delight of my 3 year old. Normally 2 mating pairs of frog each year. We are fairly rural here so it not totally surprising but still very nice indeed to have these visitors. I believe a couple of frogs have overwintered in the pond this year which I don’t recall seeing previously. We’ve had hedgehogs in the garden before now and try we have used the pond to drink and cool down in. Never seen a heron (which are definitely about locally) but the pond is not out in the open which I think helps significantly. We also get wasps visiting for a drink (never any harm done) - only mentioning because it took us a while to figure out what was going on with the wasps visiting!

We are very lucky here to also have a sparrow hawk which visits us every now and then and a family of mice living in the stone wall thing we have at the back of the garden holding back the bank behind - I’m sure they must make use of it too. Would the bats too I wonder…

Thanks, Tonight had me looking at glow light danio and ruby barbs… don’t know where all this Googling is going to take me lol