Another planted 20 gallon! (10 pics, 1.83MB)

[CaysE]

Here are some new shots of my 20 gallon planted tank, with 5 Goo Obo gudgeons, 4 threadfin rainbows, 3 cherry red shrimp, 1 oto, and an army of ramshorn and physa snails. Plants are corkscrew val, bronze c.wendtii, java moss, l.repens, r.rotundifolia, wisteria, blyxa japonica, and a dwarf lily.

 

[rich311k]

Nice looking tank. Great photos.

 

[newfound77951]

Very nice! The fish, plants and hardscape are all awesome!

 

[LandGhoti]

That first photo is stunning. I can hardly tell it's a tank! 8O

 

[WaterPond]

that is incredible. Its good to see you with some more goo obos. Very nice fish. I am thinking of trying some out someday. Tank looks great!!! that wood is awsome

 

[talloulou]

beautiful tank!

 

[maxwell1295]

Very nice!

 

[Jchillin]

8O 8O Very nice indeed!

 

[CaysE]

Wow, I appreciate the praise everyone!

Just for giggles, here's a little history. I was given the tank by my aunt as seen in the next pic. The only fish in there is a clown loach.

After all the researching I did when I finally became interested, I realized the clown loach was too big, and I had planted tank envy from seeing so many beautiful setups that other people had. So I gave the loach to my LFS, tore down the tank and started over.

Thanks again everyone! All of the real gurus here and on other forums inspired me to make a lot of progress and learn so much.

 

[WaterPond]

so the nutrafin co2 sstem does work!

 

[CaysE]

I managed to get a picture of a rainbow flaring its fins, too!

 

[RoLeX]

Nice setup. Plants look great and fish look healthy. well done

 

[drobertson]

Very nice set up. Love the drift wood and your plants look very healthy. Good Job

 

[AngelaOlsenFan]

wow, its beautiful!

 

[rkilling1]

Very nice looking tank CaysE.

 

[Gplayerz]

looks great keep up the good work

 

[CaysE]

so the nutrafin co2 sstem does work!

I'd say it's on the bleeding edge of "does work" in a 20 gallon tank. I'm only hitting about 10ppm CO2, so I think I'll end up moving this system to the 10 gallon I'm building. Now I need to figure out what to use for this one.

 

[Bubble_B0y]

i'm jealous
that's freaken GREAT !!!!!


QUESTION:
I noticed you have an aquaclear power filter.....
where did u get that sponge to cover the filter intake ??

 

[CaysE]

The sponge is from some other filter system, but I don't remember what exactly. I was sorting through the pond filter section looking for something, and found that. It has a hole right down the middle. The problem is, as you can see in the pics above, it pushed against the back glass and angled the lower tube. I trimmed a flat section so it sits flush to the glass now.

 

[redswi]

Beautiful, great pics