My own river

[Josethatfishguy]

Hello everybody,
Wanted to start my own thread on my tank and see if any info helps out anybody, I currently have a aggresive tank with some usual suspects. Ill give my specs and stock that lives in it

Tank:
60 gal, not sure the brand

Lights:
Two 34 watt hydrofarm t5ho lights (were used for my previous hobby )
Two 24watt t5ho lights from home depot, cheap and effective

Filters:
I decided to use 3 diffrent ones to equally filter out crap/particles floating at various levels,
Aqua top cf-500uv
Ehime ecco 50 gal canister filter
Penguin 150

Substrate:
Ecco complete w/ api root tabs

Fish:
3 golden barbs
3 tiger barbs
2 platinum barbs
2 black ruby barbs
3 s.a.e
1 (king) firemouth chiclid
2 apple snails (one blue and one golden)
10 ghost shrimp that have been with me for almost a year. They got smart quick and found a log

Plants:
Red lilly pad not sure the name
2 mini lili plants, got from walmart lol but doing quite well
Red flame sward
Anubias nana
Anacharis
2 moss balls
5 amazon swords
3 wavy sword plant
4 crypt wendtii

Ill take some more when I get a chance

 

[LostInFish]

Looks great could use some big drift wood pieces to make perfect just my opinion

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Didn't take close ups but I do have d.w

 

[Corydoras92299]

I like your  fish tank

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Thanks, it's work in progress. Still learning, having fun

 

[Convict2161]

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Update on my own river, moved some of the wood around to give the fish a fresh scape. Added a couple of plants as well


Overview of the river



Some compacta I picked up some compacta still learning the sientific names



Red lotus



And a mystery plant that's grabbing very well any ideas??

 

[Fresh2o]

Update on my own river, moved some of the wood around to give the fish a fresh scape. Added a couple of plants as well

Overview of the river

Some compacta I picked up some compacta still learning the sientific names

Red lotus

And a mystery plant that's grabbing very well any ideas??

The mystery plant looks like Dwarf Sag or maybe a species of Blyxa. Not sure though. Nice tank.

 

[FishCr8zy]

Update on my own river, moved some of the wood around to give the fish a fresh scape. Added a couple of plants as well

Overview of the river

Some compacta I picked up some compacta still learning the sientific names

Red lotus

And a mystery plant that's grabbing very well any ideas??

The mystery plant is definitely a Dwarf sag. Blyxa joponca might be another solution but it will grow into a bush type of plant.

 

[bettaowner]

Nice setup. The fire mouth looks great.

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Here is an update, dwarf sag. Melted. I really liked the stuff, I wonder what went wrong but atleast everything else just keeps growing. Will update some more pics after water change

 

[Fishdude3233]

Very nice aquascaping

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Two picks of the what I could get of the gang, barbs move way to much lol





Its soo hard to capture all the colors, these photos don't do any justice to how amazing barb color can be

 

[Josethatfishguy]

Sorry for the picture re post, app kinda went wacky