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my 20 gallon, want to add way more plants but not sure how to go about that
If you want more plants, go check out Marcus Fish Tanks. They have big, healthy plants at a really low price and their shipping is only $5 for 1-3 day shipping which is insane. They are super nice and helpful and many members on this forum recommend them.
 

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This is my 37 gallon, its my only "big" tank and I'm really proud of it it looks empty in the pic but ive got 6 panda cories, a few amano shrimp, 10 kuhli loaches and 2 bristlenoses, a lemon blue eye and a regular black/spotted one. They're my favourite fish besides bettas
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This is one of my betta tanks, its 7 gallons I think and has had a black background put on since this picture
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Ive got another 5 gallon and a 15 but they need a lot of work done. They're my older 2 and Ive progressed a lot since I set them up so one day soon I'll get them fixed up
I love the underwater jungle look of the larger tank!
 
Yesterday a good friend and hobby fotographer came over because he wanted to try and see what he can do with my fishtank. Here are some of the pictures unaltered. Still better quality than my smartphone camera.

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Two options:
1) Spend more money on plants, and/or
2) Wait three months.

What happens in 3-months with the aquatic plants market?
 
Yesterday a good friend and hobby fotographer came over because he wanted to try and see what he can do with my fishtank. Here are some of the pictures unaltered. Still better quality than my smartphone camera.

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courting Pencilfish (Nannostomus eques)
Great-looking blackwater habitat.
 

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Great-looking blackwater habitat.

Thank you very much. Just did a waterchange and raised the waterline a bit in hopes the pencils might be able to be a bit less agressive.
 
Yesterday a good friend and hobby fotographer came over because he wanted to try and see what he can do with my fishtank. Here are some of the pictures unaltered. Still better quality than my smartphone camera.


Overview (the tint is not visible very strong on the pictures)


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Cardinal tetras sparring


courting Pencilfish (Nannostomus eques)
This tank always amazes me when I see it. I absolutely love it, it looks so natural. Gorgeous fish as well!
 
Thanks again. Although I'm not really doing much. I remove dead leaves of the aquatic plants, add new leaf litter and mostly homemade alder cone extract regularly and change the water. That's all. Most work is away from the tank. Bottling up RO water, preparing the extract, hatching brine shrimp...
 
This is my betta and mystery snail tank at the moment! 10 gallons with an Aquaclear 20 filter with biomax and foam/sponge media, seachem flourite black substrate (because when I bought it, i was planning on getting it live planted as soon as possible... and since the last year went how it did, next week is when it is possible!), silk plants, adjustable heater, turtle ornament, mug hide... Oh, and indian almond leaves (although they hadn't really released their tannins yet in this photo, had just done a water change and added fresh leaves XD). My light is a nicrew plus, so nothing fancy, but should get the job done for what I am looking to do! We'll see.
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My four aquariums....in the lounge its 1 x 60 litre hex + 1 x 80 litre long, the hallway its a 60 litre hex and bedroom its a 60 litre longish.

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I got some new plants today from Aquatic Critter. I finally broke down and decided to try the ludwigia repens that I hear so much about. Gotta say, I'm not hating the look so far. There's also a few clumps of mini red ludwigia in there to help break up all the green. I also got a red tiger lotus bulb that's just starting to sprout that you can't see.

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I got some new plants today from Aquatic Critter. I finally broke down and decided to try the ludwigia repens that I hear so much about. Gotta say, I'm not hating the look so far. There's also a few clumps of mini red ludwigia in there to help break up all the green. I also got a red tiger lotus bulb that's just starting to sprout that you can't see.
Nice tank! I was thinking of trying ludwigia repens as well...
Just FYI, your one post away from 4k! Congrats!
 
I redid my 29 gallon that I recently posted here. Not a huge fan or how the gravel turned out but I wanted a change from the white that looks dirty within a few weeks of putting it in the tank. This tank will have only yellow fish lol.

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So I switched the hill stream look to my 20 long and put the danios and gobies in here.
It was black water, so a little tannin stained. It should clear up in a few days. I plan on getting something like Guppy Grass to put in the back. I also have 2 pygmy corydora and 1 other cory cat in here. I had more, but they died off. :/

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Working on my tanks... again lol.


Does this one look like two different scapes from the left to the right?
Or is it just me??

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This 20 Long has been in the need of a makeover for a year now, but I just don't think I like this makeover at all! I have NO CLUE what to do with it! I have the fake pot for my peacock gudgeons. They love it.
I am at the point where I may just totally take it apart and start fresh because IDK what to do.

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Oh and I can't find the remove for the light on the 20 Long and it's stuck on this purple light which I think is causing algae. Ugh
 
Working on my tanks... again lol.


Does this one look like two different scapes from the left to the right?
Or is it just me??
I see what you mean like the tank is cut in half...They both look good to me though!
 
I see what you mean like the tank is cut in half...They both look good to me though!

Exactly! IDK what to do to fix it because every time I work on it, it gets worse haha. Most of my live plants died because I had water lettuce that took over the surface, so I added in some very realistic looking (IMO) fake plants. Maybe I will just get a few more of those and put them on the left to make it look more cohesive.
 
Well. Haven't posted my 40 breeder or 50 tall in a bit. Added ludwigia rubin to the tanks
Also added some honey gourami to the breeder and some more platy to the 50. I also noticed a few babehs in the 50. Adding and angel and 2 Bolivian rams to this tank soon so I'm not worried about the platy over populating.
 

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Well. Haven't posted my 40 breeder or 50 tall in a bit. Added ludwigia rubin to the tanks
Also added some honey gourami to the breeder and some more platy to the 50. I also noticed a few babehs in the 50. Adding and angel and 2 Bolivian rams to this tank soon so I'm not worried about the platy over populating.
plants look great!
 

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Yea I have a finnex fugeray on my 65g and I love it. I just recently got a 55 gallon don't know the dimensions of it but it looks kind of like yours long alittle tall and not to wide but don't know if a 48 inch would fit it.

This is my 65g when I first set it up. I moved some plants around now but here it is
I really like your black substrate. It really makes your plants pop! That's what I have for my new aquarium... I've got a spot for it and all, I just haven't set it up yet. I need to move the aquarium where I want the new one to go. Problem is there's no electrical outlet where I want to move my guppy tank. So having to call in an Electrician to run some electrical line to the fuse box and put in a new outlet is not going to be cheap. It wouldn't be bad if I was working but we're both disabled. But I digress....
I'm glad to see how good the black sand looks and now I know I made the right choice over the beige sand. I can't wait to get it up and running!!
 
180L (~47,5g) custom lowtech corner tank
Bit of dirty glass but snails love it
 

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Today for you I have yet another update on my one and only 29 gallon low tech aquascape that you all may have seen before. The tank has seen some astonishing growth these past few weeks and I have to trim every time now when I do my weekly water change! I do not know what really happened as I have been doing the same maintenance, but plant growth has been much more apparent none the less.

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Bonus: Here is the planner for the new 10 gallon tank which will become my second aquascape for those of you that haven't seen already! I am setting it up after I get my plant order finalized, I am so excited to see what this tank will look like with plant growth!
 

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Today for you I have yet another update on my one and only 29 gallon low tech aquascape that you all may have seen before. The tank has seen some astonishing growth these past few weeks and I have to trim every time now when I do my weekly water change! I do not know what really happened as I have been doing the same maintenance, but plant growth has been much more apparent none the less.
Here is a full shot of the 29. The Manzanita floating around in there is temporary (waterlogged for new setup) until I set up my new aquarium and I am thinking about adding a Red Tiger Lotus to the tank. Tell me what you think about this!

My favorite section of my aquarium. I always see Shrimp and Snails popping in and out of these little caves I made. It is really entertaining!

A side view of the tank, and probably one of my favorite images of this tank so far! The wood to the left is temporary.

Bonus: Here is the planner for the new 10 gallon tank which will become my second aquascape for those of you that haven't seen already! I am setting it up after I get my plant order finalized, I am so excited to see what this tank will look like with plant growth!
Some great aquascaping skills that I don’t have are at play here. Cannot wait for the 10 gallon to be ready.

I think my favourite part of your 29 gallon has to be the lambchops! :happy:
 
Some great aquascaping skills that I don’t have are at play here. Cannot wait for the 10 gallon to be ready.

I think my favourite part of your 29 gallon has to be the lambchops! :happy:
Yup, I must say that I love my Lambchops as well! Every time I come in my room and they hear the door open there they are, flocking the top corner begging like little puppy dogs for food! Don't get me wrong, the Neon Tetras cautiously come up for their food, but they are much more skittish. The Rasboras also follow my arm when I have to trim plants or change their water while the Neons hide in the dense foliage. The Rasboras are definitely the more entertaining ones and probably one of my favorite schooling fish at this point!
 
A pic of the 20 gallon high that homes amanos cherries and assassin snails. And my currently cycling 75 gallon
 

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Added some more things to the two tanks I posted previously.
I think the 33 looks like one tank now lol, and the 20 looks better with some red/pink plants and some silly fake décor. And I usually never use fake plants or décor in my tanks, but oh well who cares.

There's' a bonus of my nano cube (also with fake décor lol) for my betta Endymion. He's such a lame betta, alwys being lazy lol.

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I think the 33 will become a sorority. The 20 was going to be, but I think the 33 will allow more girls. I just have to move y pearl gourami t my 40 breeder 1st!
 
Just a little 10g i threw together with stuff i had laying around in the garage. Gonna be a fry tank at least for now. Nevermind the reflection of "Supernatural" on the front lol!
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Just a little 10g i threw together with stuff i had laying around in the garage. Gonna be a fry tank at least for now. Nevermind the reflection of "Supernatural" on the front lol!
You should name the tank "Supernatural" as the plants aren't "natural" and it looks "super!"

New post that got merged with my comment above:
I had my betta in an ugly plastic 6.5 gallon thing and I didn't like it. So I found this on sale (6.5 gallon cube) and bellow is attempt #1:
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Which I loved but 2 problems:
1. I have the "pooping-est" nerite snail in the world who apparently ONLY poops on white sand. And I mean thousands of poops. So after cleaning it 2x a week with little success I switched the substrate to black gravel.
2. The black background made the whole tank a circus funhouse hall of mirrors so Milo the betta spent the entire time flaring so I took it off after about an hour of him being in there.

Solutions - changed substrate to black. See photo below. BUT - what can I do for the background to hide the cords/filter/heater/etc that won't reflect or involve me taking the tank apart. Even black textured paper with no shine at all makes the back look like a mirror. Any ideas or suggestions appreciated!
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Only set mine up a month next Monday-excited that I picked up my first live plants today and will start replacing with live as I go -still new at this - so will start swapping with live next water change. Also have some spider wood soaking in a bucket in my guest bathtub now.
 

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I got some more plants for the new 9g. This is what i got so far.
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I got some more plants for the new 9g. This is what i got so far.
Those small Vals in the corner will surely take over this setup too just like your 55, you know! If they could talk right now, they would be saying, "Hey look, it's monopoly! Lets buy everything out!"
 
Those small Vals in the corner will surely take over this setup too just like your 55, you know! If they could talk right now, they would be saying, "Hey look, it's monopoly! Lets buy everything out!"
Yeah QUITE familiar with Vals. :hilarious:
 
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Here's the current state of mine. I added some leftover background I had, not sure if I like it. The aponogeton is growing nicely and the anubias in the corner is slowly growing. I'm not really sure about the dwarf hairgrass. Yes, with root tabs, it grows but it I'm always removing algae from it.

My frogbit is bouncing back from shipping nicely. I added it on Monday and there are new roots already.
 
Here is the status of my two fish tanks right now. The 29g is in a kind of sad :( state right now. It is just so messy with plant growth as I have not been able to keep up with trimming! However, I plan to revitalize this tank once have more time off to do some maintenance. Here is some of the latest;
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Full shot; Everything is getting too messy and out of control in there! However, everyone loves it! I see baby snails and shrimp everywhere, the fish are always grooving amongst the plants, and the shrimp always make appearances now from the sheer number of them out! I usually see about 25-30 at a time now, and I even found an Orange Neocardinia shrimp that I did not purchase! Awesome!

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This is a side and top view of the aquarium, see what I mean? The plants are just everywhere!

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All of my young Crypts in what I aptly called Crypt Corner. Catchy isn't it?

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Here are some Shrimp on the big rock, the one on the right is Berried! :D

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I wondered what the heck that stalk in the middle was, only to realize that Anubias get flowers! This will be my very first Anubias flower, I am so excited for it to open for the first time!

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Here is the new 10 gallon after the first major trim! Plants are doing very well and I estimate that it will be another week or two until the tank is shrimp safe with water parameters. In a few months I will put a Betta in there!
 
Here is the status of my two fish tanks right now. The 29g is in a kind of sad :( state right now. It is just so messy with plant growth as I have not been able to keep up with trimming! However, I plan to revitalize this tank once have more time off to do some maintenance. Here is some of the latest;

Full shot; Everything is getting too messy and out of control in there! However, everyone loves it! I see baby snails and shrimp everywhere, the fish are always grooving amongst the plants, and the shrimp always make appearances now from the sheer number of them out! I usually see about 25-30 at a time now, and I even found an Orange Neocardinia shrimp that I did not purchase! Awesome!

This is a side and top view of the aquarium, see what I mean? The plants are just everywhere!


All of my young Crypts in what I aptly called Crypt Corner. Catchy isn't it?


Here are some Shrimp on the big rock, the one on the right is Berried! :D


I wondered what the heck that stalk in the middle was, only to realize that Anubias get flowers! This will be my very first Anubias flower, I am so excited for it to open for the first time!


Here is the new 10 gallon after the first major trim! Plants are doing very well and I estimate that it will be another week or two until the tank is shrimp safe with water parameters. In a few months I will put a Betta in there!

What you call messy, I call what I'm aiming for!! I LOVE the messy look! It just looks so much more natural to me! Very, very nice tanks!!
 
The big one is Pagoda too.
That stone does indeed look really cool! I might have to make a desert themed Aquascape in the future with these miniature "Stone Mesas" along with a small amount of plants. I am thinking some Kuhli Loaches for this setup like giant Sand Monsters!
 

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New friends in the 50g tall hex corner.( i really don't know what to call this tank lol)
Added 2 bolivian rams and an platinum angelfish.
 

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First my main tank. Did a waterchange today, added a liter of homemade alder cone extract afterwards. Love the tint like this. Latest readings: pH 6.2, GH < 3, KH 0, TDS 60mg/l, EC 130µSi/cm.

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Second my 10l plants-only tank. I run it with the waste water of my RO unit. I like how the plants are jungling in.
The water is only slightly tinted, all brown stuff is mulm, not algae. In such a small tank I can't prevent mulm from being blown up when I fill in water.
 
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First my main tank. Did a waterchange today, added a liter of homemade alder cone extract afterwards. Love the tint like this. Latest readings: pH 6.2, GH < 3, KH 0, TDS 60mg/l, EC 130µSi/cm.

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Second my 10l plants-only tank. I run it with the waste water of my RO unit. I like how the plants are jungling in.
The water is only slightly tinted, all brown stuff is mulm, not algae. In such a small tank I can't prevent mulm from being blown up when I fill in water.
I wish my aquariums looked like this...
 
It's neither hard nor expensive. At least for the looks. The water parameters are a different thing alltogether. Well... at least when it comes to work. Doesn't cost much though after initial investments. (RO)
 
While we're on the subject...here is my new blackwater tank as of today;
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I'm going to have to butcher the 29 trash can tank tomorrow; so because I really like watching it change, here's a recent shot. Don't judge the spot algae, I can't get my mag float through the plants and haven't scraped it since Christmas when family was coming.
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(There's also a person trapped in this tank but you can only see his knees. I think the plants ate his body)
 
(There's also a person trapped in this tank but you can only see his knees. I think the plants ate his body)
Don't put your hands in there sir, you could be next on the menu!
 

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