Just the beginning of my 55 gallon freshwater planted tank

[ashleynicole]

Ok so I recently upgraded from a 29 gallon planted to a 55 gallon. I will be adding a solid black background and am in the process of looking for a very large piece of driftwood or two to help fill the space. Also will be adding more varieties of low to medium light plants.
Here is a video:
55 gallon freshwater planted aquarium - YouTube

55 gallon
Sand substrate
Driftwood
Plants: Cryptocoryne wendtii, Dwarf Sagittaria, Anubias, java fern, wisteria
Livestock:
1 bloodred parrot cichlid
1 bolivian ram
5 turquoise ranbowfish
4 false julli cories
1 panda cory
6 neon tetras
6 otos
2 black kuhli loaches
1 rainbow shark
1 bristlenose pleco
1-gold apple snails
malaysian trumpet snails

Will be upgrading filtration soon to a canister, currently running an AC HOB filter. Lighting is two 15 watt flourescent plantgrow bulbs and two marinland doublebright LED strips. The LED's have been growing the plants in the 29 gallon for about 9 months now, I will post a pic of the 29 gallon before I moved the plants over.

 

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Here is one of the 29 before I transferred everything over. I got rid of a lot of the wisteria and trimmed the other plants but trust me, the wisteria will grow back, it almost took over this tank.

 

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I will be updating with pictures periodically.

Here is one of my Bolivian ram and a couple of oto's

 

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Got the black background



Oto's enjoying cucumber



Another of the ram

 

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Apple snail and rainbowshark are enjoying the cucumber as well.