SpankyPlants
01-05-2005, 5:00 PM
I'm so proud of my 10-gal tank, I just had to show it off! :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture001.jpg
It started out like this: just a piece of driftwood and some Fluorite. I had pretty crappy lights so I waited until I got better ones to add plants. The light in this pic is about 1wpg.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture003.jpg
After I got good lights (3.6wpg), I still didn't know what to put in the tank. It had become the hospital tank for my sick betta, so I decided to make it an asian swamp themed aquarium for him. I rescued a red tiger lotus out of my other tank from the clown loach (front right) and that was the only plant in this tank for a while. The betta took a turn for the worse and died :(. I ordered a bunch of plants online and moved the anubias nana from my other tank into this one because I had nowhere else to put it. The tank got an algae infection followed by a snail boom. I was very upset but then I realized that the snails were mowing the algae, so I left them be. Then it got BGA and I almost exploded.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture006.jpg
And now, tadaa! The finished product (for now)! I ordered more crypts and some hairgrass, and added 4 female bettas and 1 oto, soon to be 2 otos. I replaced the anubias with java fern and but the anubias in my 5-gal betta tank. The grip of the BGA is lessening on the tank, and I hope it goes away completely soon. The lotus, while not asian I don't think, looks good, so it's staying. Everything else in the tank, I believe, is asian, so I have a nice themed tank! Hooray! :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture001.jpg
It started out like this: just a piece of driftwood and some Fluorite. I had pretty crappy lights so I waited until I got better ones to add plants. The light in this pic is about 1wpg.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture003.jpg
After I got good lights (3.6wpg), I still didn't know what to put in the tank. It had become the hospital tank for my sick betta, so I decided to make it an asian swamp themed aquarium for him. I rescued a red tiger lotus out of my other tank from the clown loach (front right) and that was the only plant in this tank for a while. The betta took a turn for the worse and died :(. I ordered a bunch of plants online and moved the anubias nana from my other tank into this one because I had nowhere else to put it. The tank got an algae infection followed by a snail boom. I was very upset but then I realized that the snails were mowing the algae, so I left them be. Then it got BGA and I almost exploded.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/SpankyPlants/My%20Aquariums/Picture006.jpg
And now, tadaa! The finished product (for now)! I ordered more crypts and some hairgrass, and added 4 female bettas and 1 oto, soon to be 2 otos. I replaced the anubias with java fern and but the anubias in my 5-gal betta tank. The grip of the BGA is lessening on the tank, and I hope it goes away completely soon. The lotus, while not asian I don't think, looks good, so it's staying. Everything else in the tank, I believe, is asian, so I have a nice themed tank! Hooray! :D