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tang daddy
01-29-2008, 04:23 AM
Hey guys just thought I would share some pics of my new set up! It's a 30g breeder 30l x 18w x 8h used to be a frag/anemone tank I shut down and has been sitting in the gayrage for 8 months enjoy!

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tang daddy
01-29-2008, 04:25 AM
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tang daddy
01-29-2008, 04:26 AM
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tang daddy
01-29-2008, 04:27 AM
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tang daddy
01-29-2008, 04:31 AM
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and last one this rock was given to me from a freind the intresting thing about was it was found up a mining road about 2 hrs away from here, He was looking for moss for his carnivorous plants and stumbled across these awesome pieces of history can you seewhat the rock is encrusted with?

Ancient fossils that's right :lol:

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niloc16
01-29-2008, 04:37 AM
that looks awesome. i love the different color substrate

Pan
01-29-2008, 04:45 AM
Nice...whats the tree/plant?

Delphinus
01-29-2008, 05:36 AM
Dude that is freakin' AWESOME! Right on!! What is the timeframe of the photos? It seems to be more and more filled-in with each new photo..

I assume that's java moss? Man, everytime I try that stuff it just becomes an hair algae magnet.

Anyhow, I totally dig the look of this tank. :)

Starry
01-29-2008, 05:47 AM
Looks great! Love the java Bonsi tree.

Starry:biggrin:

tang daddy
01-29-2008, 03:15 PM
thanks guys!! :lol:

Ol nobody the tree looking thing is my own creation, a piece of wood root straight from japan my buddy hooked me up with a few pieces of it boiled it down for 12hrs and attached a base rock to the bottom, then I used taiwan moss with black thread to attach it to the wood. My original intensions was a bonsai tree! I was trying to grow out the TM and prune but the more I look at it it's leaning to a weeping willow oh well.

Delphinus the time frame of the set up was about 1 week and has been running for about 3 now I added the crs shrimp after a week although my water is aged and cycled from my old tank I used new filter media as I didn't want any snails in this setup big mistake!!
The CRS-crystal red shrimp were expensive about 20 bucks a piece I got them from imisky, he breeds higher grade shrimp and I took 20 shrimp from him but as the substrate and filter media is new it's going threw a mini cycle and I lost about 10 shrimp no biggie for some, but 200 big ones for me dang anyhow lesson learned like a speeding ticket I'll be more careful next time.

dsaundry
01-29-2008, 04:25 PM
Very nicely done...looks awesome..:biggrin:

christyf5
01-29-2008, 05:27 PM
Wow that looks awesome! I love what you've done with the two types of substrate and the java moss. Very impressive :biggrin:

Chowder
01-29-2008, 06:17 PM
Nice always liked the less is more look of fresh water tanks.

sharuq1
01-31-2008, 02:34 AM
Heh I need to copy that! :smile:

impreza
01-31-2008, 04:20 AM
I soooo want to due that!

Is the black substrate glued or anything? what is preventing it from being mixed?

impreza
01-31-2008, 04:23 AM
I'm a noob to freshwater plants, so besides the taiwan moss, what else is in there? do you run CO2 or anything?

tang daddy
01-31-2008, 04:29 PM
thanks for the comments guys, imprezza ask away! the substrate is eco complete with black gravel and white sand but not beach sand, I think it's synthetic and the reason for not using beach sand or aragonite is the ph would buffer higher than I want.

Since I'm trying to breed crs shrimp I need the ph at 6-6.5 and achieve that with co2 ladder system, substrate is not glued so it does mix in but not a big deal I have more sand also I'm going with finer ada soil later on which will stop the sand from further mixing.

Plants I have are taiwan moss, fissedin moss, glossostigma, HC, ultragrammafolia, mini pellia and a marimo moss ball. With my last set up looking like a rainforest I decided to sell everything and start over, new year new setup I want this design to be open with some accents here and there the idea in mind is a rock garden with nice manicured hedges and 1 tree I don't want a forest.

Plants I will be adding in the future is suberstwang and flame moss again keeping in mind that it's open and minimal, for now I am growing things out and then will trim it down maybe sell off what I don't use.

One thing that is equally rewarding with a planted freshwater set up is the versatility to achieve what ever you imagine and for me the rewards are endless. The crs shrimp were a big reason why I went with the set up, I had about 20 high grade crs at 20 bucks a piece that's 400 bucks in shrimp.... I wanted to see my investment and in a set up like this their easily viewed I also added 19 more but they were abit cheaper my goal in a year is to have atleast 100 crs in the tank and by next year 300 shrimp.

The colours of these shrimp remind me of their close salt water relatives the coral banded shrimp and are very pleasing to look at.

Keri
02-07-2008, 05:47 AM
Tang daddy that's a beautiful thank!! I've always liked those, what kind of lights do you have on it?

tang daddy
02-07-2008, 06:06 AM
Hey Keri thx for the comps.

I'm running a 24" dual t5 coralife in the rear 1 6500k, 1 10000k also I'm using a 24"pc with 50/50 they're not really for plants but rather more for foreground lighting.

Doug
02-09-2008, 10:41 PM
Now thats different looking. Nice job. Gotta love all the little shrimps running around.