Hey all, My name is Mike and I am 17 and have been pondering on the idea of a great planted tank. I have tried before when I was 10 with some success but I had no idea about substrates and c02 or lighting or anything. I just caught some lilly pads with my fishing pole and stuck em in my tank. LOL talking old school:hihi:
Anyways Here are a few pictures of my tank, stand, and hard scape ideas.
I dont know why the color is all messed up but it is...
Tank 56G
My slope in progress with a cave
Hope you like it! Leave as many segestions, questions, or just comments as you would like! :biggrin:
PIC UPDATE!!!! These are some of the new plants I got. Found a new aquatic fish/plant store that wont argue with me about whether plants are true-aquatics or not. Great selection and the manager is a fellow plant enthusiast! I'm so happy :bounce::bounce::bounceics....
I'm planning on moving a few plants around to more vary the leaf type. Any scaping suggestions, comments, and critiques are encouraged!
maybe a crypt? If it is, then you might want to make sure that the rhizome isn't buried, is there a picture of a flower on one of the buttons on your camera? The flower button is usually the macro button, which helps you take better pics
Rhizome is the name of the root bundle/stem doohickey thing. Basically you just want to bury the roots of a Rhizome plant, anything above the roots (will be rather bulbous typically) should be exposed to the water.
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^ Roots ^Rhizome ^Leaves and Stems
Hopefully this diagram will help.
Edit: The same applies to Rosette plants. The Rosette is where all the individual stems meet (like a bunch of celery). Again, only the roots should be buried. I've found the easiest way to do this is just to plant the thing then gently pull the plant up until it's where it should be.
Alright, well... dont know much about rams (other than what I have been reading for the past 10hrs) but decided to purchase a few that I fell in love with at the store. Both are gold rams. Turns out from what I read that gold rams are just a strain of the BGR (German Blue Ram). From what I have read I have come to a conclusion that I did in fact purchase a pair. So... what I want to do is bread them and have lots of little gold rams to admire and give to good homes. When I put them in the tank they were not shy at all and immediately began to explore every nook and cranny. My rams don't spend all the time in the world together but I often see them swimming side by side.
I did get to witness one very strange act by my van Rios though. When I put the rams in one of the rios began to rub up against my ram. Imagine a cat rubbing against your leg, same kind of thing. It wasn't aggressive at all and the ram wasn't even fazed by it. He just sat there getting rubbed down. What could this have been? A hello? Was he cleaning off his old slime coat or what?
Any way, The new pictures of my rams. The red on the fins is much deeper in real life but these are the best pictures I could get in a few minutes.
What I think Is a male (You cant tell but his bottom fins are pointy and his top fin has 1or2 extra long spines)
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What I think Is a female
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2 Pictures of the Couple swimming together
I think it'll rebound just fine. My GF's Dwarf Hair Grass suffered while it wasn't getting light for almost 3 weeks while we waited for a replacement Coralife fixture to come in. Looked pretty sad, but once the light went on it was mostly green again after about a week.
Got 3 new plants! It's starting to fill in nice... Im loving the purple effect of those cardinal plants. have 2 going to get 1 more. Ill post more pictures 2night. My male ram has a beautiful blue sheen over him at the right angle showing his relation to the BGRs. The female has a beautiful pink belly. Hope she spawns soon, I've been feeding frozen foods since I got em. Wish I could get this on a picture. Anyway, I've decided to do alot of hairgrass and some giant grass on the right corner maybe along with some red plant.
Great photos! Your rams are gorgeous. I have only had the Lobelia Cardinalis 'small form' so far and mine never had that purple hue. I hope it stays for you.
In person the purple is about 4-6x what it is in these pictures. I hope it stays also. The newer leaves seem to not have as much but I hope that is just until they fully develop.
Just was admiring my tank when I notice that MY TELANTHERA IS BLOOMING!!! I'm like Woah!!!! :eek5::eek5::eek5: Thats new :thumbsup:
I can't get any pictures but it looks sweet!!!! I'll keep trying to get a good close up. Anyway... they are little white buds blooming at each joint of the plants. The contrast of the white on red is stunning :bounce::bounce::bounce:I'm excited :hihi:
Kinda like this but alot bigger and pure white pedals:
Alright. Nothing has changed to much though... Got some new grass and thickened my Telanthera up a bit. I really like that telanthera because of the red color. I need more red plants... Any suggestions?
Looking like a need a nice black background so I'm going out tomorrow for one. Poster board will work right?
List for Tomorrow: Black Poster Board, Slate Rock, R/O water, Maybe plants, New Filters.
FTS, (Lights were off):
My New Favorite Plant, Cant see the buds to well though:
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