Tiger Valley 2.0

**imke_j** · 17th Sep 2010, 07:40 AM

My new tanks finally arrived after four weeks of waiting! They were produced on my demand with glass coverage.

I will set up one for my Tiger / Supertiger today before leaving for a holiday tomorrow. My external canister has been running since my former tank has been broken - and I'll re-use it as well as the gravel.

Dimensions:
80 cm width
30 cm depth
35 cm height
Glass is 6mm

Cross your fingers that this time I'll have no bad luck

**adrianng1996** · 17th Sep 2010, 10:14 AM

nice tanks...good luck ..

**shrimpsdotcoza** · 17th Sep 2010, 11:55 AM

good luck imke, looking forward!

**minicooper** · 17th Sep 2010, 03:23 PM

Imke, Looks forward too!!!

**divyb** · 18th Sep 2010, 08:30 AM

nice! i look forward to these being set up

**Elisa** · 24th Sep 2010, 06:43 PM

Hi Imke,

I'm nosy how the tanks will develop. Good luck!

**imke_j** · 3rd Oct 2010, 01:40 PM

After returning from my holidays I found my new tank still waterproof, which made me feel good! Since the canister filter has been running without break, I have had no bacteria bloom.

I re-used the Ebi Gold soil from the former tank. I don't care how active it still is, because my Tiger live in tap water. I added some roots with moss and bamboo leaves. Like the former set up, this is a simple breeding tank only with no aqua-scaping efforts. My gain is to keep the shrimp healthy and make them breed. After having 150-200 shrimp; I'll do selection and cross special couples in 2oL Tetra tanks, which look best.

Filtration is done with external Eheim 2224 and air-driven under-gravel filter in one corner.

Excuse the losy shots; I have taken them with my mobile.

**retardo** · 3rd Oct 2010, 04:12 PM

Nice start. I can't wait to see the progress!

**countcoco** · 4th Oct 2010, 09:28 AM

Very nice! You procured some choice pieces of driftwood sir moderator!

Are you going to write about this tank on your blog as well?

**imke_j** · 4th Oct 2010, 11:44 AM

Thanks for the compliments. Hopefully I can fetch my camera and take some close up from the Tigers soon - I have a very nice bluish female, some berried and juveniles. It's good to see that thing are going better now

@countcoco: I will write both here and on my blog about this tank; but shrimpnow is first choice and I will do brand-new updates here.