Behemoth planted tank

While I am stunned at the beauty of this tank, I can't help but wonder what will happen when *one* fish has to come out for meds or something. Do you do a water change and stomp around in there in hip waders at low tide, or go snorkeling w/ a sucker gun?
 
Yeah, when I was first introduced into planted tanks I was thinking along the lines of self-sustaining. It definately didnt turn out that way! For these nice plant tanks your pretty much doing something daily to them, unless of course you got all sorts of fancy automatic dosers and water changing systems, and dont have problems creep up on you.

Its funny how we interpret scale... you almost need some frame of reference. If I didnt remember how big it was from the original postings i would think it was only a couple hundred gallons or less! But it is looking VERY GOOD!
 
Fish are well quarantined for months prior.
I've never had disease nor needed medication in my tanks for clients nor my own planted tanks for 15 years now.

And that's without quarantining.

Nick 23, I agree as well.
I'd remove the Discus, Rose lines, Mollies, personally and add more Altums/remove all other Angels and have more smaller fish schooling.

Few species basically and smaller fish.
I have a tank, 350 gal that's like that and it looks much larger.
But it's not my tank, I do what the client wants.
He will mature with his taste over time and he has already.

The tank is far from complete.

As far as ADA, well, this project had a different goal than aesthetics, this is a fish tank, not a scape with a few fish accents.

Many will prefer thios as there are many fish in here.
A lot of people believe that you have to have only a few fish to have planted tanks.

Such tanks likie these challeneg that notion and entertain th eye when beheld in person with not only the awesome plants/wood/rock etc but the shear diversity and mass of the fish themselves.

While initially many will look and think that's too many fish, this is a massive tank and with massive amounts of wood and plants and hiding places.

One might say a similar thing about many AF cichlid tanks also. But they do still might good:-)



Regards,
Tom Barr
 
plantbrain said:
Haha, you have not seen the rest of the house either nor the view:)

Regards,
Tom Barr
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Rest of the house? Why would you need to go anywhere else? Maybe a bathroom...but why else would you leave that tank?????
Simply awesome Tom :clap: :clap: :clap:

-Bill
 
yikes - absolutely beautiful.

In my tanks, altums will eat cardinals, however, the cardinals have much less space to escape to! :)

joel
 
plantbrain said:
Here's an update, 24 Altums, all eating well, 30 Discus. Never got the HC growing well, switching to Utricularia grass.

I'm not going down there for another month or two, I'm redoing an office tank for the same client, he's swapping a 150 gal for 300 gal for the office.
This is not my photo but one the client sent.

Regards,
Tom Barr
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:eek:

...are those Japanese moss balls in the right side?
 
if i ever won the lottery i would want one of these its awesome
 
The rest of the house:

http://esquirehouse360.com/

Some folks that like the tank:

http://www.wireimage.com/FeaturedEvents/2219

That should give you an idea.
While most are in awe of such $$$, I could care less, my job is to save folks $$$ and help them achieve their dreams, whether is a poor student kid, or the Richest person around. But..........they and all the others are still people.......Do not be blinded by it.

Regards,
Tom Barr
 
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