Reply To: Chris’ African/mbuna Journal

well today i didnt get out of bed till 11ish.

i started to brake up the slate which didnt turn out as i planned. turned out alot smaller but to be honest im glad as i like the look of the smaller bits. ive only used about 3 rocks (ony about 1/2 the rock due to the size and shape of the broken of pieces) and ive got 9!

the rock is about half way there at least so not much to go

i also went to a fish shop (took about an hour) to buy a pump the most suitable pump was an eheim which they wanter £90 ($180) so i bought a pond pump for £35ish ($70). its quite noisy and will have to be turned off at night (i could hear it in the living room about 15ft away when the tv was turned off) the jets are very powerfull and im glad i only got the 2400lph one instead of the recommend 3500lph pump.

sand i almost all washed used 2 out of the 3 bags and will use a max of half the last bag

ive put 4 under water leds in that was in my previous tank. ive put them behind the rock so at night/dark they glow though.

ive got a few photos but will post when ive finished the rockwork.

chris