show me your planted tank setups
 

so im taking the plunge, im going to convert my cube i think into a planted tank and would like to see what you’ve got and to find out if anyone locally is into planted tanks.

My 15g tall. 2x23 compact fluorescent, Hagen CO2 ladder. Haven't decided on a background yet.

http://www3.telus.net/seamonkey68/tnmarch32005fw.jpg

Willow,

I have a great source for f/w plants. We'll have to go one of these days (preferably a Monday or Friday) if you're interested in saving $$. :razz:

Anthony

An assortment from my 77 (rather old..):

http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/01.jpg
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/02.jpg


Here was my moonlighting while it was up. It was a crude DIY job that I put up to test it out and it ended up staying for quite a few months until I saw some corrosion and pulled it down to build a "proper" one. Shortly thereafter I decided I needed a reef tank. Needless to say it's still on hold.
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/03.jpg

The only full tank show I was ever able to get with my camera. WTB new digital camera. :(
http://rikko.no-ip.org/pics/fw/04.jpg


And one of my gf's 55:
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Why not go with a blue. It will realy offset the fish and plants in your tank. Or a black. Both of these will realy bring out the colours of your fish and plants.

Because the bulbs were 2 for $10. Maybe one day. :biggrin:

i think he means for the background

ya the background. But blue bulbs also bring out colours in your fish.

i said show me your "planted tanks" not tell me all about your damn blue bulbs.

You should have been more specific :razz: We salties are always about the equipment :wink:

j/k :biggrin:

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.