FishnFry

I've just acquired lotsa plants from a local hobbyist and so I was able to do some re-aquascaping on my 130 (again). Not very many fishes in it but the plants certainly fill the gap. Thought I'd share with you of what it looks like today.



Tank has :
Gravel: a mixture of silica sand #2, pea-sized gravel (both from ShawBricks) with some crushed oyster shells.
Light: Nothing special. It's only a 6' fluorescent tube @ 85w each x 2.
Filters: Rena Filstar XP3 x 2
Fish: 1 10" P Polleni, 1 5" Blue Sheatfish, 7 Boesmani rainbows, 6 cardinals, 12 corydoras sterbai, and several plecos.
Plants: Don't know every name of them but most are easy growing plants.

Please feel free to comment.

Thanks.

Shawnie

wow that tank is just awesome!!!! looks like a fishy haven!! make sure you enter it into the aquarium of the month!! nice job

FishnFry

Thanks Shawnie!

Rainbows can play hide 'n seek now.

Lucy

I love a planted tank with drift wood, it looks so natural, I love it.

FishnFry

Thanks Lucy!

Plants and driftwood really makes the setting so natural.

Allie

Wow C...that looks even better than when I saw it the other day. I love heavily planted tanks.

Martinismommy

That is gorgeous! I'd love to do a planted tank one of these days...

UNTAMED

Thats Amazing!!!! Your Fish Must Be Over The Moon, I Love How Natural And Colurful It Looks A Real Eye Catcher

FishnFry

Thank you all! It is quite heavily planted now so the fish always do some appearing and disappearing act especially when not very many big fish in it. Oftentimes the boesmanis chase each other a lot so it helps the smaller ones as they have quite a lot of places to hide now.

I can't wait to try adding my Red Spot severum in there and see what happens.


FnF

Allie

You HAVE to post a pic of him. He is gorgeous. and the polleni too.
Here's some of the plants I think I've identified.
1. Giant Bacopa
http://plantgeek.net/plant-30.htm
2. Green Hygro, Hygrophila polysperma
http://plantgeek.net/plant-138.htm
3. Anacharis, Egeria densa
http://plantgeek.net/plant-110.htm
4. Najas indica
http://plantgeek.net/plant-283.htm
5. Rotala rotundifolia
http://plantgeek.net/plant-186.htm

krazykid933

It's beautiful!

FishnFry

Thanks for all the comments..

Sounds great! That saves me time to check what plants they are. Thanks Allie!


I did posted a pix of the polleni a while back but since he had grown a wee bit, I think it's time for an updated picture of him and I'll post 1 for the red spot as well.

Allie

Well you've been doing me a lot of favours these days...I figured it was the least I could do.

FishnFry

I'm glad all your fishes are eating the med food. I just hope it'll help them out. Wish I had found out sooner about these food.

Best of luck!

Allie

So far so good...everyone is eating it still. I think it will help the ones who aren't as infected as the others.

Allie

It must have taken a long time to catch all those baby plecos you had in there before. lol

mrsmuffin

Your tank is absolutely georgeous!!!

platy ben

Awesome tank, LOVE the Polleni, they are such amazing fish, ive always wanted one of those, how big do they get, maximum?