show me your 55 gallon planted tank

heres a link of tanks to drool over lol, lots of great looking tanks and you can get alot of ideas!

http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2009.cgi

also check the photo gallery in the forums theres lots of pics there to.

here's what mine used to look like

here's what my 55 currently looks like (yeah... it's turning into a bit of a jungle, lol):

i water is a bit couldy right now, and i just did a massive trim / replanting.
this is what it looks like today

Mine was like this at one time...

It has a 2x 65w CF.
This > http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3733+9871&pcatid=9871

No CO2 atm.
Started with 2x DIY bottles. And kept reading about how, inconsistant CO2 lvls can cause as much problems as anythign else. So I removed them.
Now trying out some snake oil(what I like to call it).
This stuff > http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3746+4603&pcatid=4603

I think I'll end up sneaking in CO2 bottle someday. ; )


This is my second planted tank.
First was a 30g that all of those plants came from.

This one has went through alot of changes/ re-aranging.

I just added a few anubias, swords, n stuffs a little while back.
And just got some mosses in yesterday, that I need to figure out how to deal with, today.

I seem to be in the "toss plants at it and see what happens" stage right now.
Gotta see what I like and what likes me. : )

There's some info on it, in the thread in my sig.
Might get around to updating it, someday.

Oh yea... and the drift wood!
Be careful when buying the stuff. It looked like a really cool Little peice, sitting on top of that 180g in the store. Then I got it home and was Uhhhhh? Ohhhh chit. lol
I had to cut around a 1" x 6" peice off the big part to just be able to squeeze it in.

It came close to being tossed into the pond.
I keep considering doing it, with all these plants. And now a bunch of mosses to figure something out for.

Good luck with yours!
Send pics!