About 6months ago (~nov 2007) I decided it was time to take my 20 gallon out of the plastic and into the planted realm. I decided I wanted to make the tank look a little more sophisticated and figured I could either purchase all new silk and plastic plants, or spend the money on live plants, something I'd always wanted to try. I was also having trouble with water quality (WQ) and was losing fish due to a worn out bubbler that was no longer passing enoguh water through the small filter. So it was time to upgrade the whole system. Here is a photo journey from the start until now, and I will try to update regularly from here on out (this 20 gallon journal took a backseat to my 5 gallon tank which i started from scratch)...I hope you enjoy, and thanks for looking! Also...any suggestions are welcome!
Tank Specs:
20 gallon High tank
Regular aquarium gravel substrate
Marineland Penguin 100 Bio-Wheel HOB filter
18" 15watt fluorescent bulb
Flora:
Crypt spiralis
Crypt wendtii red and/or bronze
Crypt wendtii v. 'tropica'
Guppy grass
Sunset Hygro
large Anubias (sp.?)
Anubias (on driftwood)
Fauna:
1 female Betta
5 glolight tetras
7 neon tetras
5 zebra danios
2 endlers
1 clown pleco
3 Otos
3 amano shrimp
My 20 gallon before "renovations" began:
After preliminary renovations:
And moving into more renovations as the new filter began doing it's job and my WQ and tank had restabilized...
January:
February:
March:
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