Having passed my one-year anniversary on AC, I thought it was high-time to start a photo thread, beginning with a look back at my first "main" tank, a 20g long.
In March 2010, I snagged a deal on CL. Only $200 for all this! If I'd known then what I know now, I would have spent my $200 on the equipment I ended up buying to replace most of this stuff, lol!
In any event, it made for a nice tank with pool filter sand and a sexy piece of driftwood I got for cheap from an eBay seller.
Yeah, that PFS was reeeeeeally bright.
Adding rocks and gravel helped.
So did all the poop from a school of otos — and my fabulous blue ramshorn that had hitchhiked into the tank back when it was still cycling!
Sadly, numerous novice mistakes (and one killer betta) later, all five otos and my lovely ramshorn were gone. Being pretty upset, I just let the tank sit for a while with its burgeoning population of MTS. Fast forwarding a couple more months, and skipping over a tale of many harlies bought and lost, I decided that I really disliked several things about the whole set-up.
So I recently got a new stand ...
... an Eheim 2213 canister filter ...
... and a 29g tank!
The sand, you'll notice is no longer white. It's Red Flint PFS, which is a beautiful mix of tans, browns, reds and black. I absolutely love it.
More pics to come of the planted tank. And current inhabitants.
In March 2010, I snagged a deal on CL. Only $200 for all this! If I'd known then what I know now, I would have spent my $200 on the equipment I ended up buying to replace most of this stuff, lol!
In any event, it made for a nice tank with pool filter sand and a sexy piece of driftwood I got for cheap from an eBay seller.
Yeah, that PFS was reeeeeeally bright.
Adding rocks and gravel helped.
So did all the poop from a school of otos — and my fabulous blue ramshorn that had hitchhiked into the tank back when it was still cycling!
Sadly, numerous novice mistakes (and one killer betta) later, all five otos and my lovely ramshorn were gone. Being pretty upset, I just let the tank sit for a while with its burgeoning population of MTS. Fast forwarding a couple more months, and skipping over a tale of many harlies bought and lost, I decided that I really disliked several things about the whole set-up.
So I recently got a new stand ...
... an Eheim 2213 canister filter ...
... and a 29g tank!
The sand, you'll notice is no longer white. It's Red Flint PFS, which is a beautiful mix of tans, browns, reds and black. I absolutely love it.
More pics to come of the planted tank. And current inhabitants.