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[Jl29]

Trying to create a small (10g long) sub tropical stream. Not sure what will go in here once it's cycled but quite happy so far. Any suggestions welcome!

 

[Rgtx]

Trying to create a small (10g long) sub tropical stream. Not sure what will go in here once it's cycled but quite happy so far. Any suggestions welcome!View attachment 844274View attachment 844275View attachment 844276View attachment 844277

Wow, nice job. What's the length of that tank? Looks decent for a 10g. You can try celestial pearl danios for those smaller tanks, I like there look.

 

[New2fishlovinit]

Trying to create a small (10g long) sub tropical stream. Not sure what will go in here once it's cycled but quite happy so far. Any suggestions welcome!View attachment 844274View attachment 844275View attachment 844276View attachment 844277

no suggestions right now but Wow very cool. May I suggest a journal so some (me at least could follow) would love to see this as it grows out and you stock it up! Very nice.

 

[Jl29]

Wow, nice job. What's the length of that tank? Looks decent for a 10g. You can try celestial pearl danios for those smaller tanks, I like there look.

Thanks a lot- hope it makes a nice home for some fish. It's 60.6*31.2*20.5 so almost exactly 10 gallons and quite shallow. I had thought of CPDs.. maybe that will be it.

no suggestions right now but Wow very cool. May I suggest a journal so some (me at least could follow) would love to see this as it grows out and you stock it up! Very nice.

More than happy to if it would be of interest! I'll keep taking photos and put something together when I have a bit of time.

 

[Cooperman411]

Trying to create a small (10g long) sub tropical stream. Not sure what will go in here once it's cycled but quite happy so far. Any suggestions welcome!View attachment 844274View attachment 844275View attachment 844276View attachment 844277

BEAUTIFUL tank!

A school of pygmy corydoras as a species-only tank may work. 6-10 or so should work in a 10 gallon long. Read up on them. They are very entertaining and all over the tank - not just bottom dwellers. They like some, but not strong, water movement. By "species only", I mean no shrimp, no nothing else. Maybe a nerite snail.

 

[Jl29]

BEAUTIFUL tank!

A school of pygmy corydoras as a species-only tank may work. 6-10 or so should work in a 10 gallon long. Read up on them. They are very entertaining and all over the tank - not just bottom dwellers. They like some, but not strong, water movement. By "species only", I mean no shrimp, no nothing else. Maybe a nerite snail.

Thanks a lot!
I had not considered them, but anything with a personality is appealing. When we were kids we kept dojo/weather loaches and I've got some again recently- brown and dull they may be but still my favourite fish. So interesting to watch. Will watch some videos on pygmys!

 

[Aaronious]

Just rescaped my 75. That's why there is a rock on the stump on the left. More plants growing in on the stump and in back right of the tank.

 

[Fishnturtleguy933]

New 75 gallon doing great.
Currently housing 2 angelfish 3 pictus catfish and 3 bleeding heart tetra(like 4-6 more going in asap) ignore the water lettuce roots on the driftwood, removed it once i noticed lol.

Edit:working on containing the duckweed and water lettuce as well, it floats back to the top for the most part. Anything thats stays down gets eaten by the 3 pictus so no harm no foul i guess lol.

 

[wrs2]

I just redid this.
It came out how I wanted, but something seems off! Maybe I should’ve used just river rocks?
Any advice??

 

[Cooperman411]

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I just redid this.
It came out how I wanted, but something seems off! Maybe I should’ve used just river rocks?
Any advice??

I think it looks great. I say leave it and when you get a new tank or need to re-do an old one, take out some of the driftwood then. By then the plants will have taken over anyway.

 

[kallililly1973]

WC last night on the tigers 29. Cleared out some of the Anacharis. Plenty left if anyone is interested in a plant package deal. PM me for details.

 

[Froggylove78]

Heres some pics of my tank with my new co2 injection plants are going nuts looking so good now almost need to do my first prune

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I love that the fish came right up to the camera

 

[Aaronious]

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I just redid this.
It came out how I wanted, but something seems off! Maybe I should’ve used just river rocks?
Any advice??

just needs some nicely placed moss. Or something like some Anubias Nana Petite. or a few smaller stones out front. It's all the same size stuff.

Having said that, it looks great!

 

[Sokamix]

My 20 gallon long.

 

[Shrimpaquatics]

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I just redid this.
It came out how I wanted, but something seems off! Maybe I should’ve used just river rocks?
Any advice??

I think it’s looking great

My 20 gallon long.
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I like how natural this looks

 

[Kassh4815]

55 gallon cichlid tank

 

[John58ford]

Trash can 29:

Haven't really shown this one since it had the bloom but it's still a cool tank in it's own right. The school of rummynose is in there still, they just run around under the full tank lower canopy most of the time.

 

[Jl29]

Celebrated v-ich-tory with some maintenance on the tank so thought it was a good time to show it off. No fish lost and all looking happy so hopefully it stays that way. Think the high temp made the plants go nuts!

 

[AmStatic]

Still cycling… getting closer to adding inhabitants

 

[Mickiemas]

60x18x15 inches

 

[New2fishlovinit]

Getting where I want them.


lots of red in this tank. just added the scarlet temple around the bigger green ..regular.. temple plants. The front crypts are supposed to be one green and one red but they are both reddish.


So happy for this tank. The cardinals are brave again! They are swimming out front even if I’m walking around in front of the tank. White skirts don’t care they just swim like they own the place. oops old heater still in .. forgot to pull before photo.

 

[Jl29]

Getting where I want them.


lots of red in this tank. just added the scarlet temple around the bigger green ..regular.. temple plants. The front crypts are supposed to be one green and one red but they are both reddish.
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So happy for this tank. The cardinals are brave again! They are swimming out front even if I’m walking around in front of the tank. White skirts don’t care they just swim like they own the place. oops old heater still in .. forgot to pull before photo.

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My cardinals have gone weirdly shy recently. Any reason why yours did? Only thing I can think of is a friend moved his hand very rapidly near the tank recently and they were clearly stressed by it

 

[Fishkeeper25]

my micro fish tank
Inhabitants:
Tank size: 1.5 gallon
Background information: I plan on adding more plants as well as some duck-weed as of now I just have windelov java fern (the water is amber colored because i used materials from one of my other tanks to create this one) I have had both of these guppies since they very first came out of their mothers stomach, they are about 6 months old now.

 

[Linda1234]

I purchased some cardinals from one source which were incredibly shy and not very brave; but from a second source they were extremely bold and not shy at all (which can be a problem during water change). Both sets were labelled as wild from Brazil though the second set was a bit older.

 

[New2fishlovinit]

My cardinals have gone weirdly shy recently. Any reason why yours did? Only thing I can think of is a friend moved his hand very rapidly near the tank recently and they were clearly stressed by it

For me it was the move all 20 cardinals plus the 6 whiteskirts were in a 29 cramped but never Really shy. Moved to new home and it too awhile to adjust I guess and the plants have grown in even more .. my Angels will spook from a random hand movement 5 ft away but chase the water change hose … or my hand .. i Love that about them

I purchased some cardinals from one source which were incredibly shy and not very brave; but from a second source they were extremely bold and not shy at all (which can be a problem during water change). Both sets were labelled as wild from Brazil though the second set was a bit older.

Mine were 1/2 tank and 1/2 wild 10 each purchase. They are all active and eating etc but I have some deformities, that I attribute at least partially to wild soft water fish in my hard water . No more wild Corydoras or Cardinals for me.
One has a very bent spine, another with a miner bent spine, one has a black circle mark on tail, another has a raised white spot (Looks firm and solid white not squishy and translucent) on its back side, and then there is “no face”. No face had lost most of his lower jaw, part of his nose and had frayed fins .. thought he was dead for sure. He’s fine, still missing parts of his face. All of these fish have been basically the same for months… 6 ..or more.. nothing has spread and they all eat just fine. I figure it’s going to be shorter lives unfortunately, but ill make it as good as I can.

 

[Leeman75]

My 55 gallon SA/CA Cichlid tank.

It's overstocked and very filtered with zero plants because any plants that go in their get gobbled up by the Acaras, Rainbow Cichlids, and Angelfish.

Inhabitants: 2 Electric Blue Acaras, 1 Koi Angelfish, 5 Rainbow Cichlids, 3 Black Skirt Tetras, 2 Emerald Cories, 1 Clown Pleco, 1 Blue eyed Lemon BN Pleco, 1 Black Spotted BN Pleco, 8 Brilliant Rasboras.

It's a busy but very peaceful tank!

 

[shrimpscaper]

My 4.2 gallon shrimp cube after rescape.

 

[Kellye8498]

My 36 gallon bowfront pea puffer tank.

 

[V1K]

Just rescaped my 75. That's why there is a rock on the stump on the left. More plants growing in on the stump and in back right of the tank.

I like the less usual choices for emersed plants, not the usual pothos and co. What plants are these?

 

[Linda1234]

My 5 gallon after a water change and addition of a few plants. On the right you can see one of the three pleco and above one of the hairy snails (sadly one of the hairy snails was assassinated). This aquarium has a barclay in the back - you can see three of the leaves poking up behind the spiralis. On the left there are three different types of nurii 'rosen maiden' crypts. I'm not convenience that all vendors 'rosen maiden' are the same but still they are very nice plants and one day in an appropriate thread i should show close ups of each plant. In the front right the tall plant is Hygrophila Pinnatifida which is another interesting plant that is very easy to grow. The ones i have are growing fairly quickly in different tanks under different condtitions (but same water). There is a queen silver crypt front just left of the hygrophila. I'm not sure i like this plant as it was rather expensive but again it seems to be growing fairly well in this low tech tank; but i would say the verdict is still out till i've had it for at least 6 months (this one is only 5 weeks old. I had a crypt flamingo that seemed to grow quite well but after 4 months just up and died on me (or at least dropped all leaves); the one in the hi-tech tank is still growing well.

There are also 15 or so shrimps if you can find them. The most i have found at one time has been 12 - but one day i can only find 8 and the next 10 so who knows how many are actually in there.

Not sure what to do about those pleco - soon they will need a new home after all no one wants three adult pleco in a 5 gallon - well you might but I dread the damage they would do the plants. Shame how few people around here actually partake in aquatic setup in my neck of the woods. I must be the only one I know with an aquarium in this building.



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[SamMe]

I like the less usual choices for emersed plants, not the usual pothos and co. What plants are these?

Fittonia albivenis (nerve plant) is a pretty, but unusual emersed plant.

 

[Aaronious]

I like the less usual choices for emersed plants, not the usual pothos and co. What plants are these?

Corkscrew Rush

and

A fern, I don't recall the type, but apparently most ferns can be grown emersed. A buddy and myself are kinda trying this out. Just put a local type into a tank recently. Here that is.




There is a small pothos cutting and two cuttings of a dark type of Purple Prince (Wandering Jew) in there. Also one other type of Rhizome plant. But the Corkscrew Rush and the Fern are the two prominent plants. If you really want I can track down the types of these plants later.

I also, not pictured, but I added a couple mangrove bulbs.

 

[ForBettaorForWorse]

Not sure what to do about those pleco - soon they will need a new home after all no one wants three adult pleco in a 5 gallon - well you might but I dread the damage they would do the plants. Shame how few people around here actually partake in aquatic setup in my neck of the woods. I must be the only one I know with an aquarium in this building.

I would definitely take a pleco, lol. I think i'd have to wait until the fall though, should be setting up a 29 then...
Also would have to decide if I want to risk adding another one... I hear it's iffy at best with them sometimes

 

[New2fishlovinit]

Only a few pearl danios for stock but the plants are working the way I want so far.

 

[Wideglide]

Well this is the new tank, 72 gal bow front, my lovely wife got this for my bday. We just added our first inhabitants, 5 black neons, and I ordered 15 more that should be here Wednesday. I'll be transferring my other fish from my smaller tank in 4 weeks after QT.

 

[Watersplasher909]

my first ever aquascaped tank

 

[New2fishlovinit]

Sitting next to the white sand is the black sand 40 gallon breeder.

most of the plants are in their “trim back” stage - the carpet is improving.



top down view -



and the fishes hiding except for the brave whiteskirt!

 

[Rgtx]

Finally my driftwood is fully waterlogged after 5 months needed to be held down my a rock. Still wanting to do a rehaul of tank specifically with the big driftwood orientation/location.

 

[EnlightenedOne]

6.5 Gallon planted tank with 1 Male Betta, kuhlis and shrimp!
Not done on this one.

 

[John58ford]

29

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20L

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[V1K]

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I like the crypts growing on the "rock" wall, looks awesome! How are they even growing so healthy looking there, I thought crypts are heavy root feeders and you can't just stick it to a rock like some java fern?

 

[John58ford]

I like the crypts growing on the "rock" wall, looks awesome! How are they even growing so healthy looking there, I thought crypts are heavy root feeders and you can't just stick it to a rock like some java fern?

I built bowls into that wall, each bowl is about the size of a coffee cup, full of small aquarium gravel. There's a nicely detailed post about how I built that tank here: Post in thread 'John's network tanks part 2 DIY filter and 3D background' John's network tanks part 2 DIY filter and 3D background | Freshwater Aquarium Builds Forum | 429653

 

[Linda1234]

My brand new 10 gallon for a pair of A. pucallpaensis:

 

[bumblinBee]

29

Shellies in a planted tank? Never thought I'd see the day! I might be jealous of your setup All of your tanks are looking amazing, keep on doing what youre doing!

 

[Strider1520]

Time to do some major trimming (been slack on the plant husbandy) - getting overgrown but here’s my 36 bow front. Just got MTS as well-2 betta tanks should be here Wednesday . Sure no aquascaper-just trying to keep wet pets happy and in the middle of an algae fight-sorry for so much algae in pictures-ongoing fight right now. (Also not a glamor shot of tank. Just snapped two shots on the way back here to my PC)

 

[V1K]

Shellies in a planted tank? Never thought I'd see the day!

IDK, if anything, for me the state of the plants in that one is the proof that shellies and plants don't mix ... Especially when you compare it with their other tanks, lush and thriving . An interesting experiment though!

 

[Blacksheep1]

My brand new 10 gallon for a pair of A. pucallpaensis:


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Would love to see photos of them when they are settled

 

[John58ford]

IDK, if anything, for me the state of the plants in that one is the proof that shellies and plants don't mix ... Especially when you compare it with their other tanks, lush and thriving . An interesting experiment though!

The giant anubias in that 44 gallon(also a Shellie tank) was trimmed out of that little 10 gallon 2 months ago leaving the little recovering rhyzome and putting the tank way off balance. Here it is pre-trim:

I have found ludwigia, crypt wentii, and especially anubias nana to thrive in my diy Tanganyika buffers, in this particular photo you can see the lower layers of leaf that were not adapted to the insane high amounts of potassium, magnesium and calcium struggling but all the new growth flourishing. All that was left after the trim was the ill-adapted lower leafage(the upper went on to become what you see in the 44). This caused a quick hair algae spike limiting light to the ludwigia and tangling up the delicate leafs causing damage when I grab the suspended tangles of hair. As this tank was set up over a year ago with the Shellies and all original rooted plants remain planted(pinned by rocks originally), as well as quite a few crypt runners making it I would call it a success overall. Biggest issue is the nitrogen output of the now fully overstocked colony (I wouldn't add another mystery snail due to bio-load), and my own lack of time to do any significant maintenance or trimming on these tanks since the beginning of little league baseball season. I have a stack of 55s I want to move this colony into but alas, haven't found the time yet this year to finish design/layout.

 

[Fishkeeper25]

my 20 gallon freshwater tank
stock: one albino pleco
one red male delta tail betta, 5 neon tetras (had six one died, he was about 3 years old already rip buddy) I plan on getting one more neon to complete the school but as of right now Im fixing to move houses so I dont think getting new fish will be the best Idea
I also have an albino corydora as well as an emerald corydora (Im aware they school, I plan on getting more after we move) and one kuhli loach I had a school but most of them died off except one healthy girl whos about 3 years old now i plan on getting more of these guys as they are just amazing little guys to watch and so unique

6.5 Gallon planted tank with 1 Male Betta, kuhlis and shrimp!
Not done on this one.
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really nice looking tank!! how many kuhli loaches do you have? just curious, I love kuhli loaches with their little stripes looks like you've got a perfect substrate for them as they love to burrow, mine will disappear for weeks and then just be out randomly.

 

[bumblinBee]

Did maintenance on all my tanks today but honestly the only one I'm very happy with right now is this one. Used to really enjoy doing water changes, but today it just felt exhausting.