Kinbote Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Nice tank, antwan. In case anyone's interested, here's a couple of shots of my planted tank which only has about 50w of 'daylight' fluorescent lighting (further reduced by the blackwater treatment and floating plants) and never gets any fertiliser or CO2. These are right after I pruned out about a bucket full of ambulia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirio Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Awesome looking tank Kinbote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Wow that is amazing! !drool: What sort of Tetras/Apistos you got in there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 are those just like sticks/twigs? Ive been wanted to get something cool like that in my new tank jst don't know where/what trees i could use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinbote Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Thanks for the replies. Not much in it at the moment; a dozen rosy tetras, 2 megalechis thoracata (or whatever hoplos are called now) and 8 brochis splendens. The wood is tea tree that I stripped and cleaned to give it kind of a flooded forest feel. The plants are sitting in aquabasis under the sand, but not very much of it as I transferred it and the plants from an old tank about half the size. I was using fertiliser and liquid CO2 back then but haven't bothered to since I moved everything into the new tank 6 or 7 months ago, and I still have to prune pretty regularly to stop it getting completely out of hand. Here's another shot taken today where you can see the mass of floating plants on the right. Not sure what those are or how they got there, either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Looks like duckweed, spreads like wild fire if you get even just one little bit of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Its hard to get rid of once you have it, some fish will eat it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinbote Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Looks like duckweed, spreads like wild fire if you get even just one little bit of it Yeah, that's probably it. I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 can i ask where you got the driftwood from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinbote Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 can i ask where you got the driftwood from? The verticals and the big branch lying down are tea tree from my property, the thick bogwood type ones lying down are from Hollywood but they're sold at all the fish shops in Auckland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 I have split this from the other thread as it was about antwan's tank, not this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 nice !drool: i like low ligth ..gives you a airee feel about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinbote Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 I have split this from the other thread as it was about antwan's tank, not this one. Alright. I wasn't trying to hijack anything, just showing my experience with an unsupplemented planted tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 That's one of the most OTT stands I've ever seen! :slfg: Very nice setup.. Looks very natural - I like that! I would put an army of corys in there, hehe. Duckweed :love: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Its hard to get rid of once you have it, some fish will eat it My snails are floating around upside down under my duckweed eating it :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-obstacle Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 I would put an army of corys in there, hehe. +100 - an awesome group of sterbai or adolfi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinbote Posted June 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Yeah, some corys with that peppered look would blend in pretty nicely with the gravel on sand base I've got, but I went for the brochis splendens because I thought corys would be too delicate to handle the hoplos barging into them all the time like senior drivers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 I love that flooded forest feel :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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