Here's our 135:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/135Jan05.jpg

Our 20 gallon tanks:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/CardTankJan05.jpg

http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler/CoryTankJan05.jpg

And this was the 120 before we converted it to salt:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dabbler...20Tank%203.jpg

As for backgrounds I really like the looks of a black or dark blue. Shows off the plants and fish very well!

I never did good at planted tanks I think my tank is to deep and the lights are just not strong enough :confused:

wow i didn't know you could have tinfoil barbs in a planted tank. very nice.

Actually they are bala sharks, not tinfoil barbs.

doh.. didnt know you could have bala sharks either. :biggrin:

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/me...Plantshot2.jpg

My former 65gallon with assorted plants (I lost track of what I had, and how many), and assorted fish. It was my pride and joy for a few years, but it slowly went downhill starting about a year ago. This picture was taken a couple of weeks before I tore it down last December.... so this is pretty much the worse shape my plant tank has ever been in (notice the lowered water level :confused: ) . The fish seemed to really like the whole jungle look though, gave them tons of hiding spaces.

At its peak, the tank was running 220watts of PC with www.ahsupply.com reflectors, 2-3inch bed of flourite with a little bit of onyx sand, a few slate pieces and river rocks, and a pressuried CO2 system with DIY in tank CO2 reactor. It was filtered with an Eheim 2026 Pro canister and a Fluval404 canister, plus the quick filter attached to my CO2 reactor. At its downfall, the PC bulbs were 2-3 years old and noticably faded, I never got around to filling my CO2 tank for 3 months, but surprisingly enough algae never really got a foothold in the tank... whereas at its peak, algae would start spontaneously popping up as soon as the CO2 tank ran out. At its peak, I could keep and grow just about any plant commercially available. My amazon sword even sent a shoot straight out of the water and flowered for a few weeks before finally developing into another baby sword. Other plants that flowered included several of my anubias plants. I had a few riccia covered rocks for a little while... but I gave up on those because they were way too energy intensive to maintain.

-Rich

dang brother.. that sounds like a sweet rig. your tank looked overgrown but nice. im getting excited about doing my cube up.

I lost interest in my plant tanks when I started my reef, now I am getting into the plant tanks again. In the meantime the plants went downhill and I lost many of the nicer plants, I am left with about a dozen species of easier to grow plants. If anyone wants to do a plant trade (they are easy to ship by mail) please let me know.