Insanes 68G planted El Natural

[insane]

Gday guys,

Here's my setup...

Current stocking is
3 x Harlequin Raspboras
6 x Longfin Zebra Danio's
4 x Angelfish
1 x Red Tail Shark
1 x Black Ghost Knife
Many x Shrimp


Tank when full and pretty by insane phototography, on Flickr

I had some issues with the tank, the above image is from when I first completed the aquascaping, filled it and put shrimp in.

I then found a silicone seam tearing apart, had to drain a lot of the water and repair it.


Outside tank seam after repair by insane phototography, on Flickr

A lot of people have told me to give up on the tank and sell it as a reptile enclosure, but I think I did a **** good job on the new silicone seal. It has been 2 weeks now since the repair and it is tight and clean still.

I am slowly refilling it to see how the seam holds...


photo 5(1) by insane phototography, on Flickr

A couple of plants at the front..

photo 5 by insane phototography, on Flickr

Best Ghost Tube ever....

photo 1(2) by insane phototography, on Flickr
The little bugger has made 3 tunnels out of the tree into the tank...

The red tail shark is so scared..

photo 1(1) by insane phototography, on Flickr

The Zebra Danio's and the tree with shrimp in the background

photo 2 by insane phototography, on Flickr

Shrimp lining the underside of the tree.

photo 1 by insane phototography, on Flickr

Hope you like it.

The tank background is a pale blue and it's not helping my water looking green... I will have to scrape it off and repaint White or Frosted I think. The water is slightly yellow/green, but not as much as the photo's show.

Dan

 

[vexxiang]

Wow! That's pretty impressive. Where did you get the tree?

 

[missnathasha]

Beautiful!! Where did you get that tree!?

 

[Brookster123]

Awesome!! Tree details pkease

 

[Keke89]

Just stunning!!!!

 

[00youknowit00]

Amazing tank, great job!

 

[insane]

Thanks guys.

I scavenged the tree after a particularly high tide here, it did have lots of smaller branches also but they were just too tall. I believe it's a mangrove, it was pretty much the perfect driftwood, sank straight away, no tannins and no slime on it. I bleached it for a day and had no colour come out at all.

Cheers,
Dan

 

[J1Time]

That tree really is a one of a kind. Very nice!

 

[insane]

Thanks guys!

Just a bit of an update,

The tanks going really well, everything is working as it's meant to, except that I don't have enough light some of my plants are reaching upwards unfortunately. Apart from that it's going really well and I will have that sorted soon.

I acquired some new stock 2 days ago, just though I'd show off!


Fish tank by insane phototography, on Flickr


Fish tank by insane phototography, on Flickr


Fish tank by insane phototography, on Flickr


Fish tank by insane phototography, on Flickr


Fish tank by insane phototography, on Flickr

Dan

 

[Saverio]

Sweet! What kind of shrimp is that?

 

[Fresh2o]

Sweet! What kind of shrimp is that?

Appears to be a species of Macrobrachium.

 

[insane]

Yup!

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