show me your planted tank setups

[Willow]

so im taking the plunge, im going to convert my cube i think into a planted tank and would like to see what you’ve got and to find out if anyone locally is into planted tanks.

[christyf5]

My 15g tall. 2x23 compact fluorescent, Hagen CO2 ladder. Haven't decided on a background yet.

http://www3.telus.net/seamonkey68/tnmarch32005fw.jpg

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Willow,

I have a great source for f/w plants. We'll have to go one of these days (preferably a Monday or Friday) if you're interested in saving $$. :razz:

Anthony

[Rikko]

An assortment from my 77 (rather old..):

http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/01.jpg
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/02.jpg


Here was my moonlighting while it was up. It was a crude DIY job that I put up to test it out and it ended up staying for quite a few months until I saw some corrosion and pulled it down to build a "proper" one. Shortly thereafter I decided I needed a reef tank. Needless to say it's still on hold.
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/03.jpg

The only full tank show I was ever able to get with my camera. WTB new digital camera. :(
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/04.jpg


And one of my gf's 55:
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/kim.jpg[/img]

[Ryan]

My 15g tall. 2x23 compact fluorescent, Hagen CO2 ladder. Haven't decided on a background yet.


Why not go with a blue. It will realy offset the fish and plants in your tank. Or a black. Both of these will realy bring out the colours of your fish and plants.

[christyf5]

My 15g tall. 2x23 compact fluorescent, Hagen CO2 ladder. Haven't decided on a background yet.


Why not go with a blue. It will realy offset the fish and plants in your tank. Or a black. Both of these will realy bring out the colours of your fish and plants.

Because the bulbs were 2 for $10. Maybe one day. :biggrin:

[Invigor]

i think he means for the background

[Ryan]

ya the background. But blue bulbs also bring out colours in your fish.

[Willow]

ya the background. But blue bulbs also bring out colours in your fish.

i said show me your "planted tanks" not tell me all about your damn blue bulbs.

[christyf5]

i said show me your "planted tanks" not tell me all about your damn blue bulbs.

You should have been more specific :razz: We salties are always about the equipment :wink:

j/k :biggrin:

[doublette]

Here's our 135:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/135Jan05.jpg

Our 20 gallon tanks:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/CardTankJan05.jpg

http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/CoryTankJan05.jpg

And this was the 120 before we converted it to salt:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/Full%20Tank%203.jpg

As for backgrounds I really like the looks of a black or dark blue. Shows off the plants and fish very well!

[Murminator]

I never did good at planted tanks I think my tank is to deep and the lights are just not strong enough :confused:

[Willow]

wow i didn't know you could have tinfoil barbs in a planted tank. very nice.

[doublette]

wow i didn't know you could have tinfoil barbs in a planted tank. very nice.

Actually they are bala sharks, not tinfoil barbs.

[Willow]

doh.. didnt know you could have bala sharks either. :biggrin:

[Richer]

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/metroopt/Aquarium/Freshwater/Plantshot2.jpg

My former 65gallon with assorted plants (I lost track of what I had, and how many), and assorted fish. It was my pride and joy for a few years, but it slowly went downhill starting about a year ago. This picture was taken a couple of weeks before I tore it down last December.... so this is pretty much the worse shape my plant tank has ever been in (notice the lowered water level :confused: ) . The fish seemed to really like the whole jungle look though, gave them tons of hiding spaces.

At its peak, the tank was running 220watts of PC with www.ahsupply.com reflectors, 2-3inch bed of flourite with a little bit of onyx sand, a few slate pieces and river rocks, and a pressuried CO2 system with DIY in tank CO2 reactor. It was filtered with an Eheim 2026 Pro canister and a Fluval404 canister, plus the quick filter attached to my CO2 reactor. At its downfall, the PC bulbs were 2-3 years old and noticably faded, I never got around to filling my CO2 tank for 3 months, but surprisingly enough algae never really got a foothold in the tank... whereas at its peak, algae would start spontaneously popping up as soon as the CO2 tank ran out. At its peak, I could keep and grow just about any plant commercially available. My amazon sword even sent a shoot straight out of the water and flowered for a few weeks before finally developing into another baby sword. Other plants that flowered included several of my anubias plants. I had a few riccia covered rocks for a little while... but I gave up on those because they were way too energy intensive to maintain.

-Rich

[Willow]

dang brother.. that sounds like a sweet rig. your tank looked overgrown but nice. im getting excited about doing my cube up.

[trilinearmipmap]

I lost interest in my plant tanks when I started my reef, now I am getting into the plant tanks again. In the meantime the plants went downhill and I lost many of the nicer plants, I am left with about a dozen species of easier to grow plants. If anyone wants to do a plant trade (they are easy to ship by mail) please let me know.