FW: Your tank "Then and now"

Guess i will post a good one..

From noxious blue/silver gravel
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Fully planted
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BK, your tanks have the most dramatic changes. How long ago were the 'before' shots? If they're from when you 1st joined this site, then you have learned well, young Grasshopper. Impressive.
 
BK, your tanks have the most dramatic changes. How long ago were the 'before' shots? If they're from when you 1st joined this site, then you have learned well, young Grasshopper. Impressive.

Thanks alot slappy.
The time frame between before and after was around 6-7 months, but the before shots were taken about a year back, just about the time when i joined this site (noobie lol)
Guess you can say i went nuts for plants lol
And really got to thank AC for having such great info/members.
 
Yeah, I wish I had this site when I first got started in the hobby...even though the internet hadn't been invented yet. ;) I read plenty of outdated books and a few magazine subscriptions but really knew nothing (even if I thought I did) the first 10 yrs or so into the hobby. The internet and sites like this have been priceless in the amount of info that has been available to me.
 
Started out with the Castles (April 2007)

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Then went to artificial plants (July 2007)

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Then went to real plants for the first time ever (June 2008)

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Rearranged and as it is now (September 2008)

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Its in need of a trimming (again) and rescaping (again) ... its becoming a jungle very quickly.
 
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