The stuff i have is a breeding slate which is used by my corys as a hideout.I have a couple of fake plants that i wish to get rid off as it has been killing my tetras by entangling em.I oly keep the small not so dangerous fake plants. 
An ode to the fake aquarium decor..
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I started in the hobby with fake decor, but moved to live plants when I upgraded my tank for the first time.
Live plants are very rewarding, but they are a decent amount of work. I do enjoy the hands-on factor of a live plant, but sometimes I just don't have time that day to deal with it.
It's worth it to me, though. But hey, your tanks look neat, Breeze!
Live plants are very rewarding, but they are a decent amount of work. I do enjoy the hands-on factor of a live plant, but sometimes I just don't have time that day to deal with it.
It's worth it to me, though. But hey, your tanks look neat, Breeze!
i love my girlfriends tank with fake glowin the dark plants, and rainbow gravel, and little huts and fake coral. it is different yet nice.
long live the fake stuff!!!!
long live the fake stuff!!!!
great looking tanks breeze, but the only plastic in my tanks are the intake and outputs from the filters and heaters
That 55 is very impressive. From just the photo I would have thought those plants were real. The 29 is great as well.
My two largest tanks are planted but my ten is stuffed with fake plants and logs that I started out with. It's easy to maintain and I can just turn the lights on when I want to check out the fish. No algae issues.
I think fake is the way to go with newbies or those who want to keep it simple, and you have shown what can be done with them if you have an artistic flair.
I'd post a pic of the ten but the plants are just kinda thrown in there. Not a work of art like yours!
My two largest tanks are planted but my ten is stuffed with fake plants and logs that I started out with. It's easy to maintain and I can just turn the lights on when I want to check out the fish. No algae issues.
I think fake is the way to go with newbies or those who want to keep it simple, and you have shown what can be done with them if you have an artistic flair.
I'd post a pic of the ten but the plants are just kinda thrown in there. Not a work of art like yours!
your tanks look better than mine, but all my stuff is real... real gravel, real anubias, real driftwood, real fish, real air bubble curtain, real filter suction, and discharge, real heater.... ok, so I guess we all have a bunch of fake stuff in our tanks............... I'll post pics when I can, prolly tonight.
Here's my kids tank. I let them pick out whatever they wanted...
I talked them into adding the black gravel in with the neon so it wouldn't be as hard to look at. Of course they went with the Mickey Mouse platies...there are a group of peppered cories and a couple of brigs too.
My other tanks are all natural.
I talked them into adding the black gravel in with the neon so it wouldn't be as hard to look at. Of course they went with the Mickey Mouse platies...there are a group of peppered cories and a couple of brigs too.
My other tanks are all natural.
I love your tank and your daughter's tank.
I have the same fake tree stump that your daughter has, but took out the fake plants that were attached to it and stuck some anachris down in the holes where the fake ones had been attached.
The anachris wilted and I took the remaining bits out. :headshake2:
I still have the bubbling treasure chest but the little scuba diver kept getting tangled up in the anachris so I took him out.
The fake sea anemone is gone and so are all the other plastic plants that I had when I did this tank shot. I don't have the guppies anymore.
:tombstone:
I do have a short sword plant of some kind now, and I need to fertilize it.
I want to change my substrate to either all black or black and white like one of DrVader's tanks. I want to get more plants, too, though I may kill them...sigh.
I really need to do an up-to-date tank shot.
EDIT: I don't know how I attached the thumbnails instead of the pics.... sigh.
I have the same fake tree stump that your daughter has,
but took out the fake plants that were attached to it and stuck some anachris down in the holes where the fake ones had been attached.The anachris wilted and I took the remaining bits out. :headshake2:
I still have the bubbling treasure chest but the little scuba diver kept getting tangled up in the anachris so I took him out.
The fake sea anemone is gone and so are all the other plastic plants that I had when I did this tank shot. I don't have the guppies anymore.
:tombstone:I do have a short sword plant of some kind now, and I need to fertilize it.
I want to change my substrate to either all black or black and white like one of DrVader's tanks. I want to get more plants, too, though I may kill them...sigh.
I really need to do an up-to-date tank shot.
EDIT: I don't know how I attached the thumbnails instead of the pics.... sigh.
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When I started out, pretty much everything was fake. Then I slowly started adding real plants. I prefer to have either all fake plants or all real plants in each tank.
Brackish tank: A ton of fake plants. Hard to do brackish plants and haven't had the time to start looking into it. Also have some Greek columns and clay pots.
20g long invert tank: Mix of real plants (anubias, Java fern and moss, and dwarf sag) with fake vals, hornwort, etc and clay pots and this really cool blue glass rock.
10g for Mom: Came with this really ugly seahorse thing and kept that in there or it was soooo bare looking. Also came with a fake hollow driftwood with some ugly fake plants. I also have an anubia and some Java fern which are real.
75g: Only have 2 fake baby hideouts (floating) and 2 fake plants in the substrate. One is a tall pennywort looking thing and the other is a hornwort that I haven't moved to the 10g yet. Also have a ton of real plants that I won't list here. Everything else in that tank is real besides the granite caves I guess.
Brackish tank: A ton of fake plants. Hard to do brackish plants and haven't had the time to start looking into it. Also have some Greek columns and clay pots.
20g long invert tank: Mix of real plants (anubias, Java fern and moss, and dwarf sag) with fake vals, hornwort, etc and clay pots and this really cool blue glass rock.
10g for Mom: Came with this really ugly seahorse thing and kept that in there or it was soooo bare looking. Also came with a fake hollow driftwood with some ugly fake plants. I also have an anubia and some Java fern which are real.
75g: Only have 2 fake baby hideouts (floating) and 2 fake plants in the substrate. One is a tall pennywort looking thing and the other is a hornwort that I haven't moved to the 10g yet. Also have a ton of real plants that I won't list here. Everything else in that tank is real besides the granite caves I guess.
