In 2012 my wife and I decided it was time to renovate as we were expecting our 2nd child.
part of my specs for the renovation was to relocate and properly house Rohan's 5x2.5x2.5 he gave me many years ago.

the floor was reinforced to take the weight and a drain and tap installed. fast forward to 2015 and I finally started to get the thing setup.

Tank specs
tank: 5x2.5x2.5
filter: K1 sump driven by 2x 3000L/h wave makers with eheim 1262 return pump
heater: 2x shego 1000w
management: Aquatronica with level and temp alerts
Lighting: initial LEDs from past projects, current custom PAR38's future custom LED rig (90% complete) photoperiod 10 hours
CO2: pressurised from 3L tank with solenoid and timer
Décor: 2 XXL driftwood branches 2 large goldvine heaps of caves!
maintenance: EI method for plants weekly water changes of 25% solenoid to be installed to automate changes with chloroamine filter.

Plants:
Blyxa Japonica LOTS
Java Fern LOTS
dwarf java fern
Echinodorus amazonicus x3
Echinodorus "Red October" x1
echinodorus devils eye to be added

live stock
tony Tan Manacaparu red back angles x2
F2 redback angles from fishchick aquatics x2 (bred by me)
L134 x6
L066 x23
L104 x4
Peppermint bristlenoses x5

heres the full story.
2'nd January gluing in walls to hold the substrate


then washing 84kg of fluorite black and 36kg of shiny black sand. no need to rinse my a$$


next came adding the water drift wood substrate and fish this happened between Jan 4 and 10. getting the sump in was a pain.


initial lighting was setup with some old units I had lying around my 40w 6500k led unit and my 75w marine unit.