tank journal

Hi all, I recently joined this forum so I thought I would share with you my story and most recently completed project. About 10 months ago my sister got a betta fish in a 4 gallon aquarium. This sparked the memory of my first ever fish tank. A ten gallon aquarium in which we had several...

Hullooooooooo! My name's Mouse, I'm new around here, and I have to say I was really surprised to see what looks to be an active aquarium forum in 2019! Dang! :D These days it seems like forum culture has really died down, so I'm excited to jump in and try and get myself situated in the...

Hey all, I've never started a tank journal before, and I thought this might be a good time to start! I currently live in a small 2 bedroom apartment, with the smaller bedroom converted into what we call the "Critter Cavern". This is where I keep my fish tanks, my leopard gecko, my girlfriend's...

[3/15/20]tearing this tank down, plants for sale here: https://www.plantedtank.net/forums/153-sale-trade/1305337-tank-tear-down-big-driftwood-plants.html last photo of tank [older still working photos start here (click)] [12/9/12] Tank Info: Tank: 75g Heater: Ehiem Jagar 150 watt Filter...

I don't think I really qualify as a lurker. I joined back in March 2009, when I lived in AZ, and was thinking about setting up a tank. I didn't at that time, and didn't visit regularly for a bit. Then I thought about it again, would visit for a bit, not get it done and stop visiting… This time...

hi everyone! as you may have guessed, I collect rare/interesting variations of otocinclus catfish (and nano sized catfish in general). this is where they live: uhhhhh... {cough} went to hawaii for a week, & someone miiiight've forgotten to actually plug in the light timer. oops. {/cough}...

I found this 89 gallon, custom built tank on craigslist for $150. Couldn't pass up the chance to give it a go. It has been challenging due to being viewable from three sides. It holds a total of 110 gallons, but the fish actually have 89 gallons to swim in. The rest of the water is flowing...

1/5/15 Viv-viv-Vivarium! Setting up a test emersed/vivarium in here with leftover clay media from aquaponics, Marineland LEDs, and slapping in some aquatic plants. [4/18/14 10g is now a holding/quarantine/hospital tank. Current (temp) residents: several plants and cherry/rili mix shrimp...

Started 5/7/13 Inspired by I had two 2 gallon capacity glass "bubble" bowls ordered from save-on-crafts.com. Cost roughly $15 each after shipping costs. Going to be used as homes for two bettas named Hearts and Spades. Substrate: EcoComplete Heaters: Hydor 25W Submersible Plants: Brazilian...

Hello! I'm setting up a 55 gallon tank. I got the tank and stand from an ad on Craigslist. :proud: It's going to be a community and female betta sorority. I plan on having: about 8 female bettas, neons glow light tetras black phantom tetras zebra danios some kind of rasbora julii cories otos...

Okay, my final tank was set up today when my plants arrived. :) This is a 10 gallon planted tank that will hold fancy guppies (my oldest daughter adores them) once its cycled. Substrate: CaribSea Tahitian Moon Sand Hardscape: Lace rock, bogwood, unknown rock (not limestone or sandstone)...

Specs: Tank: marineland 10 gallon with glass top canopy Substrate: CaribSea super natural sand HOB: AC 20 Sponge filter: seapora 30 I recently got a 10 gal, and I have a couple questions. 1. I want it placed on my table, and in hindsight, 5.5gal would be better, but a 10 gal would be more...

Hey PT, I traded 8 Fire red shrimp (thanks to dmattbfan5 for that) for two CPO's back in June. I quickly went out and bought a cheap walmart 5g glass tank with ans Aquatech filter. My goal was and still is to have as many shrimp as the tank can sustain and then move some to my 55g. I used plants...

Hey all! I think the last time I did an update was maybe 3 months ago. My 55 gallon has come a long way since then. I've done two think trimmings and have taken advice about plant placement. I'm still slowly working towards that that symmetric clean plant layout and I think I just need to swap...

Hello everyone! I've made some big changes to my tank recently, and I thought I'd finally start documenting my progress. I have two tanks set up currently, a 36 bowfront and a 20 tall, with a 40 breeder waiting in the wings. I think I'm just going to focus on the 36 for now. Tank: 36...

Hey everyone, last night I went to AFA and boy, I was amazed.Their tanks there are so nice, I wanted one myself. So I bought a Do!aqua mini-m (which I didn't expect at all), some glosso, some blyxa japonica, and some rocks(man, that costed me an arm and a leg, but I thought it was well worth...

will i have enough high for my 30 gallon tank(36 x 12 x 18). i have 96 watts of Coralife (cf i think) lamp with a 6700k lgith bulb. its open top so light can penetrate through easier. i want a HC or Glosso foreground when i rescape and im gonna have ferts and Pressurized co2 by then.... thanks