Lovin Fish said:Oh my gosh that is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing! I see a hatchetfish...what else is swimming arond in your beautiful tank?
Thanks i have hatchetfish, glowlight tetras, angels, a peacock eel, and a german blue ram
Lovin Fish said:Oh my gosh that is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing! I see a hatchetfish...what else is swimming arond in your beautiful tank?
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56 gallon column tank
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75 gallon just got Rescaped
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20 gallon shrimp tank.
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37 gallon endlers species #2 tank
Only t5 lights on all of them and weekly flourish comprehensive. The 56 and 75 get daily excel as well.
20gal one month in.
10g with blue hygro, wisteria, and banana plants. Stock light and dose supplement weekly.
Started out as a tank for carnivours plants, evolved into a American snapping turtle holding tank, and then into its current morph; a Wyoming native bog-like tank.
Tank:
The tank is a 20gal long Turtle-tank made by Zilla; tank is only about 1/4 full of water
Equipment:
Filters: AquaClear AC30 HOB filter, and Whisper internal filter
Lighting: Aqueon strip light w/ standard aquarium bulb and an Aqueon twin tube strip light w/ one standard aquarium bulb and one Floraxam plant bulb
Top: standard Zilla center-hinged screen top
Scape:
The tank was scaped using GE type II 100% silicone and river rock, it also contains a single piece of unknown (but most likely cottonwood) driftwood
Substrate:
Aquatic: standard aquarium gravel
Terrestrial; peat moss and sand mixture
Fauna:
Invertes: crayfish (possibly Orconectes virilis), damselfly nymphs, dragonfly nymphs, freshwater mussels, mayfly nymphs, planaria, scuds, snails, and stonefly nymphs
Vertebrates:
Fish, most likely some type of shiner (possibly sand shiners)
Flora:
Emergent: Equisetum, Forget-Me-Nots Mint and native sedge
Floating: Duckweed
Submergent: hornwort
Terrestrial: moss, native fern, and a orchid
Set-up:
To create the scape, I simply siliconed river rock into position, then filled in behind with the peat moss and sand mixture. I made no attempt to create a water-tight barrier, as I figured on working with hydrophytes.
Since everyone likes photos (and that is the point of this thread), here are a few of my favorite shots, and a current FTS.
That is sick! Very cool.
I could stare at all of these tanks for hours lol
How do you get one of these started? I always think these tanks look great but don't know what plants to get or how to make them grow. Or rocks or anything like that. What's some advice?
DragonFish71 said:More low tech, in order:
80g BW tank
115g angel tank
120g cichlid community tank