My new japanese rock garden

tang daddy · #1 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!

tang daddy · #2 01-29-2008, 04:25 AM

tang daddy · #3 01-29-2008, 04:26 AM

tang daddy · #4 01-29-2008, 04:27 AM

tang daddy · #5 01-29-2008, 04:31 AM

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

niloc16 · #6 01-29-2008, 04:37 AM

that looks awesome. i love the different color substrate

Pan · #7 01-29-2008, 04:45 AM

Nice...whats the tree/plant?

Delphinus · #8 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 · #9 01-29-2008, 05:47 AM

Looks great! Love the java Bonsi tree.

Starry

tang daddy · #10 01-29-2008, 03:15 PM

thanks guys!!

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.