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November 5th, 2009
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| 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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November 5th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| i cant see any pics  | |
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November 5th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| And here's the pics: | |
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November 5th, 2009
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| | 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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November 5th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| I'm in love... | |
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November 5th, 2009
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| | 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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November 6th, 2009
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| | 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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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| That is really pretty! Thanks for sharing. | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| 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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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| awesome.... 200 gallons? I'm so jealous | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| great tank! Must took awhile to set everything! | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Very beautiful!. I bet the Angels love all the space!. Thanks for sharing pics! | |
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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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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| Gorgeous. The matinence must be killer though. Still very lovely tank. | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Hello f1. Beautiful!  You should be very proud!
Nate, he stated that it is actually outside.
Ken | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| I love all the plants-let us know when you do some trimming and need to get rid of them, | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Your tank is absolutely B-E-A-UTIFUL! | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| Fantastic! Thank you for sharing with us! | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Quote:
Originally Posted by aquarist48  Nate, he stated that it is actually outside.
Ken |  oops! I guess I was spacin' out!  | |
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November 6th, 2009
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| | 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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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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January 5th, 2010
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| | Fish Lore Newbie
| is that tank outside? amazing! | |
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January 5th, 2010
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| | Fish Master
| God, I can't get over how beautiful that tank is!! | |
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April 4th, 2010
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by Amanda 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!  http://picasaweb.google.es/115448966...26923624814162  http://picasaweb.google.es/115448966...25885178513362
Last edited by f1ea; April 4th, 2010 at 01:46 PM.
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