Photo: New HUGE tank & build, stay tuned!

[Minniechild]

Awesome *boogies!*

 

[Frankie73]

Mere your doing a fantastic job! im soo jealous of your tank layout i think everyones just a "little" bit envious but still great job! Your've inspired me to want to do a little bit of aquascaping now i can't wait to get some spare cash! I cant wait to see the end result, oh and i do love the little hut!!! x

 

[iChris]

any more pics mere? huh? huh?

I've started to convince mother into letting me have a new, even bigger tank after going to AQWA today and I think I'm slowly starting to convince her, after-all she does love looking at my little monsters.

I'm still trying to find the time to go and get some rocks to do some axiescaping myself.

 

[MereB]

I am glad this little project is inspiring some of you to redecorate a little

Good luck convincing your mum Chris :happy:

Of course I have some more pics. Finally got around to adding more of the mosses to the remainder of the tank last night so here you go.
The middle section of the tank

Left side of the above section

Right side of the above

Right had end

Full length tank

The bubble river and the bridge that I'm not really happy with. It was supposed to be right up against the glass but it's too long so I will have to find an alternative that fit's the gap. The river's not quite sitting flat either so I'll fix all that when I find a new ornament.

I still need to add some more sword plants, hairgrass, liliopsis, water sprite and some other stem plants maybe some ambulia and of course I need to find some driftwood. Had a look at one store over the weekend and didn't find what I wanted but I will keep looking.

So that's where it is now.
I'm expecting the new filter late next week which should have given the bacteria a good chance to get into the hill's gravel and all over the tank so in theory I'll be able to just swap them over and wait a week or so to add the axies :happy:
REALLY excited to add them back but don't want to risk them getting squashed if a rock falls while I'm playing around with plants.

I'm thinking maybe I'll add the 5 babies into this tank and give them another 6 months to grow before I add Dillon Chrysta and Fish in (who will have moved into the babies current tank which was their original tank for those 6 months), so the Lucistic that I'm hoping will be moving in can go into the then empty axie safe tank in the back room for her 30 days quarantine YAY. I'd leave D,C and F in the tank they are picture in above but it's hubbys tank and he's trying to sell it so he needs it back asap.

 

[Minniechild]

Don't you just HATE it when you can't keep using something? (I shudder to think of how mum's going to take me bringing home a 3 ft tank to replace the 45cm one.... :S) Btw, do you happen to know the name of the Spotlight fabric?

 

[MereB]

Don't you just HATE it when you can't keep using something? (I shudder to think of how mum's going to take me bringing home a 3 ft tank to replace the 45cm one.... :S) Btw, do you happen to know the name of the Spotlight fabric?

Yep. I bouthg that one yesterday to go in the space. Guess that gap looks bigger through the front of the tank than it really is :rofl:

It was a spandex mesh. You should find it in the section with all the bright and sparkly dance costume fabrics. There are the tules (ballarina skirt stuff) but it tends to rip fairly easily but they have a range of stretchy ones as well that was on the shelf next to them and the spandex one was in there. It only comes in that flesh colour though but it was stretchier and more sturdy than the others they had.

 

[iChris]

that looks fantastic mere.

it's not so much that mum doesn't want me to have more tanks, it's finding room for them. my axie tank is perfect for me and my monsters. I'm thinking of starting a cichlid tank though. I have a 3ft spot in my room next to my axie tank that just screams to be filled by another tank!

 

[Gilly]

Hi i was recommended to check this thread out by your husband on AL and i must say i am impressed, just wondering how you go about having lights on your tank to grow the plants?

I am guessing that they are just low light plants, and i see that you have heaps of hiddy holes for them to hide away in, is this how you get away with lights, that is if you have lights?

cheers

 

[MereB]

Hi Gilly. Thank you.

Most of them will be fairly low light plants but there are a couple on the list that require a bit more. The liliopsis for example likes more light than most of the others and the hairgrass requires even more so I'll have to wait and see how it goes in the tank. I may be replacing it with something else in the future.

This one has 4 4ft tubes. 2 Aquaroun triphos', 1 growlite and 1 Philips household triphosphor
will be swapping out the last one when I have a few more $'s to throw at it. They are set up so I can turn on 2 or all four.

They will be on for 6-8 hours a day and the hides are why I feel they will be fine. The axies will have plenty of nice dark places to hide out of the light so they will be fine. Mine tend to come out when the light is on anyway.

 

[Mr Poseidon]

ga im waiting to see the finial product with your axis in it!!!! i want to know how the feel about their new home!

 

[Boo Penguin]

Sooooo jelly of you right now... that looks AMAZING

 

[Aimzs Lotties]

VERY, VERY Amazing!

 

[MereB]

OK here we go. The first 5 residents go in.
In their bucket acclimatizing

Hiding away scared in their big new tank
Leopard and you can just see Vi behind in the cave in the middle of the tank

Spaghetti - O who I don’t think you have all met before. S/He has some defect and, well, this expression is permanent.... OH It's jaw is actually that shape it can't close it's mouth. Doesn't seem to be holding it back at all and I found it too late to just kill it

Hoo-Dee-Nee of course. Rukmini is hiding in the pipe on the other side of the pipe Hoo-Dee is clinging too where I can't get a picture.

Getting a little more settled and exploring a little

Out comes Vi.... hmm maybe it’s the food :lol:

Rukmini smelling food joins the dynamic duo at the front cave

OK enough Photos! We’re going to our room!

I think I may have found the secret of Loch Ness :rofl:

They are out wondering around a bit now with the lights off we’ll see how they are in the morning.

 

[Shizeric]

Violet and Leopard have amazing colors. As does Rukmini...very impressive.

 

[Frankie73]

Your axolotls are beautiful! The marking are just stunning Mere! xx <- gob smacked at how pretty they are! xx

 

[Boo Penguin]

Omg such cute axi's

 

[Aquacraze]

GREAT job with that tank, and those axies are ADORABLE!!

 

[memojo1979]

I'm even more jealous of your axies (specifically Leopard + Vi) than your tank
I currently have 3 different colour types (golden albino, wild, leucistic) + have to wait for the leucies to grow a LOT before I can add them to my 4ft tanks

 

[Aaran]

Leopard and vi would be the crown jewels of a collection they are beautiful, their markings are superb!

 

[MereB]

Thanks Guys I think they are pretty special. It's a shame I can't ship them to you all it would be awesome to have them all over the world.

I've had to add another Wild Type to the tank because he was far too big to stay in with his much smaller siblings. My middle son is also quite attached to him, has been for quite a while now so 'Fast' has joined them. At first I really disliked it's name but since moving him it's become quite apparent that his name is more ironic than it first seemed. He was named quite sometime ago for his fast movement around the tank but within an hour it became apparent that 'Fast' is in fact very very slow in the brains department. Now I know that axies aren't that smart to start with but this not so little one takes the cake. I had to rescue him twice in the first half hour first because he got himself all stuck in behind where Hoo-Dee-Nee is in the pics above and was obviously stressed at not being able to get out. Which he could have done if he wasn't so dense as to figure out all he had to do was swim UP. 2nd time he got himself all trapped in a triangle rock formation and again all that was needed was to go UP so those 2 problem areas have since been filled in or altered so he can get himself out
This one really is as thick as two bricks but Whesley loves him and I couldn't leave him with his smallest siblings who he could easily have had as snacks and as stupid as he is he's kind of growing on me now so I guess he will be staying. I have a strange feeling that Fast, or 'thick as' as I've taken to calling him, is going to be absolutely HUGE! He's almost the size of 'Fish' and she is a good 6 months older.