Room spec.

Owner:
Björn Hansson of Lund, Sweden.

E-mail:
bjorn@mif.nu

Amount of tanks and tank sizes:
1*720L, 3*540L, 1*530L, 2*375L, 1*190L, 3*160L, 6*100L, 1*45L = 18 tanks

Racks:
Mostly standard aluminum-racks. Some homa made in metal.

Heating:
Individual heaters in some tanks, other tanks without heaters.

Lighting:
Individual lights for all tanks. Mostly flourecent tubes, a few light bulbs.

Filtration:
Powerheads with filtersponge in the bigger tanks. Airfilter with
filtersponge in the small ones.

Electric installation:
Standard outlets with cabels everywere.

Flooring:
Painted cement floor.

Substrate:
Bare bottoms in some fry tanks, but the rest has got sand. Mostly sand from
diffirent beaches.

Interiors, (plants rock work):
One tank with Back to Nature and the rest with rocks of diffirent sizes and shapes. Some plants i frytanks. Roots in
my Ancistrus spawningtank.

What could have been done better?
Everyting. Especially the electrics and the planing of the room. Better
racks wouldn't hurt...

Do you have a show tank in your livingroom?
Yes, a 170L tank whitout cichlids. It´s filled with livebreeders, rainbows,
plecos and other crap. My girlfriends fishes in my tank.

Fish

What cichlids do you keep?
Tropheus moorii 'chaitika', Tropheus moorii 'katoto', Tropheus moorii
'kasanga', Tropheus black 'kiriza', Tropheus 'ikola', Tropheus black
'pemba', Tropheus red 'moliro', Eretmodus cyanostictus, Altolamprologus
compressiceps, Neolamprologus pulcher, Julidochromis ornatus, Lamprologus
brevis, Labidochromis caeruleus 'golden', Labidochromis sp. 'hongi',
Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos, Pseudotropheus tropheops 'redfin', Metriaclima
estherae, Apistogramma viejita.

Your favourite fish in the room and why? (only one individual)
One of my small 'kasanga'. 'He' has got the letter U on the side of his
face, so 'he' is easy to keep track of.

Last fish purchased:
Lamprologus brevis

Nr. 1. on your wish list:
A big group of wildcaught Tropheus black 'bulu point' with the perfect
spots.

Maintanace

Waterchange frequency:
30-50% every other week.

Method of waterchanges:
Hose and a 4500L/h pump.

Smart gadgets to help working the room:
A bent plastic pipe at the end of the hose so I can hang the hose on the
tank when i fill it up. No hands necessary.

Foods for fry and grown fish:
Home made shrimpmix, spirulina flakes, frosen cyclops, algea wafers and
granulate.

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