After seeing some of the amazing transformations of many of your tanks from start to current, I decided I should take some pics and document my progress with this tank.
I have just finished the final stocking,(for now), and the tank has been set up for about 2 months with slowly increasing fish and plants. Today I added some crypts, pygmy chain sword, onion plant, mondo grass and another small grass that I can't remember right now. I already had a Bleheri and an Amazon and an argentine sword. There is also a patch of some sort of stem plant that noone seemed to be able to tell me what it was, but it looked nice so we will see what it turns into.
Anyway, here's what it looks like today. I may have to re-arrange some once things start to grow but it's a start.
As you can see I need to hide the equipment better. I have a large peice of wood that will hide most of it once it has soaked enough water to stay submerged. And once the plants mature I should be able to hide everything well.
For livestock It is sort of a Noahs ark of a community tank, only they mostly came one by one rather than two by two, heh heh. Eventually I will move some around to my other tanks and make a more thought out list but for now I have:
1 lemon tetra
2 glo light tetras
1 rummynose that somehow got into a bag with another fish
1 sterbai cory
1 albino white cloud
1 pencil fish
1 albino brislenose
2 cherry shrimp
So that's where I am today. hopefully in a couple weeks it will start to look a bit different.
Thanks for looking, and thanks for all the great advise and inspiration.
I have just finished the final stocking,(for now), and the tank has been set up for about 2 months with slowly increasing fish and plants. Today I added some crypts, pygmy chain sword, onion plant, mondo grass and another small grass that I can't remember right now. I already had a Bleheri and an Amazon and an argentine sword. There is also a patch of some sort of stem plant that noone seemed to be able to tell me what it was, but it looked nice so we will see what it turns into.
Anyway, here's what it looks like today. I may have to re-arrange some once things start to grow but it's a start.
As you can see I need to hide the equipment better. I have a large peice of wood that will hide most of it once it has soaked enough water to stay submerged. And once the plants mature I should be able to hide everything well.
For livestock It is sort of a Noahs ark of a community tank, only they mostly came one by one rather than two by two, heh heh. Eventually I will move some around to my other tanks and make a more thought out list but for now I have:
1 lemon tetra
2 glo light tetras
1 rummynose that somehow got into a bag with another fish
1 sterbai cory
1 albino white cloud
1 pencil fish
1 albino brislenose
2 cherry shrimp
So that's where I am today. hopefully in a couple weeks it will start to look a bit different.
Thanks for looking, and thanks for all the great advise and inspiration.