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Old November 5th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
My 200 Gal planted Angelfish tank

Hey all...

Finally i took some time to take a couple of crappy pics of my large outdoor Angelfish tank. Tank is low tech 200 Gal (8ft Long), fully planted, 128W + natural light...

Fish: (11) Angelfish, (6) Serpae tetra, (8) Black skirt tetra, (2) Flame gourami, (6) Clown loach.

Plants: Hygrophyla difformis, Egeria densa, Bacopa caroliniana, Anubias marble, Echinodorus, Vallisneria americana, Ceratophyllum submersum, Hydrocotyle verticillata, African fern, and some others...

It used to be a Walstad style natural tank, but i had to tear it down due to a severe algae outbreak because it gets too much sunlight. Several fish and plants died in the process, but its slowly recovering........

i dont have too much time to take care of it right now, because i'm extremely busy w/ work and my upcoming baby son but hopefully in the next months i'll be able to bring it into form and finish the sketchy provisional stuff... and take better pics
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Old November 5th, 2009  
Fish Master
 
i cant see any pics
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Old November 5th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
And here's the pics:
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Old November 5th, 2009  
Fish Mentor
 
That is beautiful !!!

I would love a tank that big, but I don't know where I would put it.
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Old November 5th, 2009  
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I'm in love...
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Old November 5th, 2009  
Fish Mentor
 
Oh wow! It's like seeing an outdoor jungle haven! LOL It surely is beautiful! Well done f1ea. Thanks for sharing!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Wow very nice! I love the tank but I dont envy the water change. LOL

EDIT- I just noticed all the plants around the tank as well. It almost looks like its outside...very cool.

Last edited by Nate McFin; November 6th, 2009 at 12:08 AM.
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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That is really pretty! Thanks for sharing.
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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That fish tank is absolutely stunning, the best tank ever. How long did it take to make it so beautiful? How much did it cost too?
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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awesome.... 200 gallons? I'm so jealous
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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great tank! Must took awhile to set everything!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Very beautiful!. I bet the Angels love all the space!. Thanks for sharing pics!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Nice tank That is really cool that you have it outdoors. Do you find it harder to keep the temperature constant? Thanks so much for sharing the pics
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Gorgeous. The matinence must be killer though. Still very lovely tank.
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Hello f1. Beautiful! You should be very proud!
Nate, he stated that it is actually outside.
Ken
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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I love all the plants-let us know when you do some trimming and need to get rid of them,
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Your tank is absolutely B-E-A-UTIFUL!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Fantastic! Thank you for sharing with us!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
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Nate, he stated that it is actually outside.
Ken
oops! I guess I was spacin' out!
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Old November 6th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
Thanks for the replies!

Wow thanks for the comments!
I'm glad you all liked it...

So far the biggest challenge has been controlling the LIGHT. Because it is a bit more than just a fish tank; i'm actually using jungle-like landscape to provide shading, but the surrounding plants are still not fully grown, so it's not been too easy...

The temperature has behaved pretty well... ussualy constant on the high side (around 82F), its even a bit cooler than my smaller indoor tanks.

The angels love the space, but the thing they love most is the bugs that sometimes fall inside following the lights... between them and the Black skirt tetras they are having a banquet. At night while the lights are still on its pretty difficult to get pics of them as they are all lurking on top waiting for bugs to fall (and the ocassional frog!).

As for money... hmmm much of the things i did with contractors friends of mine in their time offs, so it may have taken a bit longer but i've been able to get good deals on almost everything... the most expensive though have not been the plants/fish, but rather the outdoor landscape (plants, roof and base structure), the canister filter; i had to spend some extra $ replacing plants that died the 1st time around.......

Will post some more pics and a few more details later today.

Thanks again
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Old November 7th, 2009  
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More pics.....

Here's some pics from setting it up when it had a soil underlayer... then the new version.

The last one is a special 'fry' tank...

Last edited by f1ea; April 4th, 2010 at 11:24 AM.
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Old January 5th, 2010  
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is that tank outside? amazing!
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Old January 5th, 2010  
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God, I can't get over how beautiful that tank is!!
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Old April 4th, 2010  
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God, I can't get over how beautiful that tank is!!
Thanks!
Then maybe you will enjoy these pics after some "slight" improvements
Fish have grown a little... they're having fun.

The pair of angels in pic #2 keep spawning. They've had 3 batches make it through free swimmers, but they end up getting eaten. I'm very tempted to breed them separately; we'll see, Gotta make a nice home for them...

Hope you all like it!

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Last edited by f1ea; April 4th, 2010 at 01:46 PM.
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