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I am in the process of setting up a discus planted tank.

Am looking for some ideas and am pretty disappointed that there are not many great planted tanks on the forum as i can see.. Anyone got any idea who has a great planted tank.?? Got any pics??

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Thanks.

I am not taking my reef tank down, just going to setup a new 400L corner tank.

Pretty much will be a hight tec planted tank with underfloor heating , co2 gear and looks like metal halide is the way to go.

fantastic web site this http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2006.cgi?&op=showpage&name=view-showcase

How come no one from NZ is on it? We must have some tanks that would rate with these.

I might do something like this, can we get all these plants in NZ.

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1 Ludwigia inclinata var verticillata "cuba", 2 Rotala macaranda, 3 Heteranthera zosterifolia, 4 Hemianthus micranthemoides, 5 Ludwigia inclinata, 6 Hygrophila difformis, 7 Hygrophila corymbosa species, 8 Hygrophila polysperma, 9 Barclaya longifolia, 10 Echinodorus magdalenensis, 11 Nuphar japonica, 12 Cabomba caroliniana, 13 Hydrocotyle leucocephala, 14 Anubias barteri var. angustifolia

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Am looking for some ideas and am pretty disappointed that there are not many great planted tanks on the forum as i can see..

this is IMO the best planted discus tank i've seen.

scrow down the pages.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/9-vt10 ... &start=120

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/7-vt10 ... c&start=90

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/6-vt10 ... c&start=75

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/5-vt10 ... c&start=60

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I don't know that I'd class mine as outstanding but I'm working on it.

The L shaped tank at first

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/my-l-s ... t4720.html

An update on the L shaped tank

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/update ... 13165.html

There are some very nice tanks in that forum and they show what can be done with the plants available her :):)

Cheers

Jude

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The top picture is the left half of the tank with some sort of Amazon Sword (it currently has a big flower spike poking about 15cms out of the tank at the moment - dint have a pic yet).

The bottom picture is the right half of the tank with a java fern tied onto the log with nylon. It used to be twice as big but gave it a big pruning a few weeks ago.

The other plants are straight vallis, dwarf vallis and hairgrass.

The only lights I have are two 36w 6500k Phillips flourescents. They are on from 9.30 to 9.30. There are another two flourescents the same in the hood but they arn't working (I need to take them apart and redo the wiring).

There is also a fair bit of sunlight from 4pm to 7pm.

I really really really need to rehome the redspot to get it looking really good though or at least to where i'm happy with it.

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