Peacock Paradise, 75 gallon

[Green Thumb]

the white rock in the back is only temp, just weight down some wood, this is tank with all equipment, all fits nice but you see the powerhead for the CO2 a little too much
need to finish planting tomorrow, may even try a little stauro porto velho on the right hand foreground, not sure if the lighting/CO2 will be enough as its med lighting at best, 2 65 watt coralife power compact with 6 month old bulbs and the worst reflectors I have ever seen aside from plain white ones.. looks like brushed aluminum

tomorrow will do all the anubias and ferns, there will be alot of them....

 

[808badboy]

Nice love the driftwood


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[hollyfish2000]

Driftwood is great.
I wouldn't personally use C02 in an African tank. It's not necessary, either, as I've found out with my planted tanks recently.
Is this an all male tank? Is that a black molly?

 

[Green Thumb]

CO2 being necessary is dependent on lighting/ species you plan to grow

for this amount of light, without proper CO2 and Fertilization, this tank would be an algae nightmare

the substrate is 2/3 onyx sand by seachem, which will slighty raise KH, also the white in the rocks in calcium based this again will raise KH/PH and should add enough buffering that the drop is PH is minimul

also the lighting is not too strong where I would have to have really high CO2, some of my high tech tanks are way over 30ppm, so I can make the CO2 and ferts non limiting, therefore being able to maximize the species/growth with this amount of light/ while not effecting the personality/activity levels in the fish

this is not an all male tank, I do not sell the fry/juvies tho as they may be mutts, even tho most aulonocara are not pure bred anyway IMO

yes those are black mollies, 2 black mollies, 1 full grown brustlenose plec and 3 baby BN plecs maybe 1"TL, I may also add some nerites if I get diatoms from NTS, hopefully a mature filter and a used tank will keep that from happening. Normally I keep shrimp for algae, however in this situation, they would be eaten

 

[Avatar]

I like it. Be tempted to cluster and invert the driftwood myself - like some place that's flooded.

I dismantled a Coralife T5 dual strip light last night and discovered the "reflector" is a paper-thin strip of foil. On top of that, the housing is press-fit which essentially makes it impossible to repair when something goes amiss. Don't think I'll be buying anymore of Coralife T5 strip lights...

 

[Herb]

Looks nice! I plan in doing something similar with driftwood, plants, and rocks.


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[hollyfish2000]

Mikey -- I mention it only because I recently discontinued C02 in my main planted tank and never started it in my African tank, and just reduced the light intensity (shut off one bulb) and use Excel. This is the result. I decided to try and simplify my life . . .

 

[dogofwar]

Other than the fact that my fishroom is only lit with a couple of dangling 13W flourescent bulbs...and I have a brown thumb, I could totally grow plants like that Holly...

Tony's planted tank has continued to fill with plants after taking CO2 off as well.

Looks great!

Matt

 

[Green Thumb]

that is the tank they came from, no CO2 or excell, even had nice growth out of the crypt parva, originally I had a DIY co2 thing in there but never used it


its just due to the more delicate species I plan on growin in here they will need CO2, if I was just doing ferns, anubias, and other lower light plants I would not be adding CO2 or Aquasoil

normally tho I am the guy who keep fish with his plants, not plants with his fish



here are some examples of other tanks of mine
5 gallon

20L that is currently my main planted tank as I am doing alot of emersed setups this summer

this tank before rescape

the aulonocara tank is only about 1/2 planted right now, it will be pretty dense when finished and grown in ... I am interested to see how the cichlids deal with the scape when all is finished

 

[hollyfish2000]

You do a wonderful job of landscaping and use of wood!!!

 

[Green Thumb]

thanks

 

[Reel Addiction]

Good looking tanks!

 

[Green Thumb]

round 2 of planting, still have another gallon baggie full of anubias and ferns, and a coupla small crypts, then it should be pretty much finished

the whole back will be a wall of ferns.. should look pretty cool behind the DW and rocks, I will need a little additional light behind the wood on the left as the DW sticks up too high and I cant get proper coverage, but I will only need 1 bulb of T-5 NO to grow the ferns that will be back there so NBD.. should be able to pick something up cheap

 

[808badboy]

Nice tanks I WISH I had Green thumb , been wanting to make a planted tank but never got around to it yet


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[londonloco]

Your tanks are beautiful. I have one "hi-tech" planted tank that is the bane of my existence. I'm not giving up on it tho.....