My new tank...

[zoologist101]

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v259/eclecticoldsod/?action=view&current=002-15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/eclecticoldsod/002-15.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
12 U.K. gallons – 24X12 X15 inches – set-up 14 just days ago.


I cycle very fast, using an UGF with 25% of dirty old gravel; a dirty old internal filter; and 50% of plants and bog wood from a well-established tank. The bacteria I need are mostly there from the start. Any tiny spikes I get, I ignore, as do any newly added fish – [in this case 3 mollies and the babies that one of them produced yesterday] – all are doing well...
I will 'mature' the tank for several months before adding the shrimps that will (hopefully) breed well in there, after the fish are removed and the plants are better established...


Sorry the picture is so poor..!

 

[special lighting]

what picture!!

 

[Tank2379]

I see nothing?

 

[zoologist101]

Sorry, so you didn't get the picture.

 

[Tank2379]

"Try using the Image tab and paste it in there it should work

 

[zoologist101]

Sorry, I am so sick of trying to get a picture up on this site, I'm giving up on it. Life is too short for this sort of thing.

 

[zoologist101]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/eclecticoldsod/002-15.jpg

 

[FishCrazyBenBOMB]

Tank looks a bit mess but it's a good start for just growing plants before scaping.

 

[zoologist101]

Thanks, Tank. At last..! I can do a direct link from the puter, but going through photobucket is always a nightmare on my brain/machine.


*** If it lives and breathes I can keep it alive and probably reproduce it – but if it is in anyway electronic, I quickly start to realize what breeding biological females have to go through to reproduce***!

 

[zoologist101]

Thanks BenBomb. Early days yet, and the plants have yet to fill out, but I am not a scaper. Whatever comes up happily and easily is good for me... As long as helps keep the water clean, and provides loads of cover, me and me shrimps will be more than happy!
Many of my tanks are far from ascetically beautiful, but the shrimps do incredibly well, and my main area of interest is shrimps.
I do plan a large, beautifully aquascaped tank one day but I suspect that, although it may be beautiful to me, my shrimps will be happier [and breed better] in their small low-tech homes.


You can only give priority to one area of interest, and although I can't imagine a healthy colony of shrimps/fish without plants – I cant ever push what the plants need over what the shrimps/fish require...


However, with another 12 tanks to set up over the next few months, I could know a lot more about things shortly – although possibly not...