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Home-Made Underwater Paradise

Oxygen bubbles under a Java fern leaf

Welcome to my project on setting up a 75L (20 US Gallons) tropical freshwater underwater aquatic plant paradise in my home in London, UK. I have been documenting the process of setting up this aquarium using my Canon 350D with mostly the EFS 60mm macro lens since the day (21 Jan 2006) I received the Aqua One AR510 (51x24x58cm) glass aquarium tank completes with two 11W compact fluorescence light (two independent on/off switches) and semi-dry filter system that sits on top of the aquarium (see pics below). I have to buy the water heater (Visitherm 100W) separately to keep tropical plants and fish. Update: new photos added here.

Below is a step-by-step pictorial guide (with comments/review on each aquarium product):

Some recent photos after about a month: