my 10 gallon

[ryanjcalifornia]

I thought it might be humorous, after seeing all of these amazing, super great planted tanks, to show my plastic-plant tank, which is in my dorm. All the school allows is 10 gallons, and I dont use live plants because, I dont think I have the time commitment to give to them.

It is a 10 gallon tank, I do water changes weekly, and it has been set up for 7 and a half months now.

I have plastic plants, and decorative rocks, but I also have dead coral that I picked up off of the northern beaches of oahu(the white corally stuff).

The fishies in the tank are a Gourami, 2 cories, 2 danios and 2 barbs.

When I graduate, I want to do a larger planted tank, but for now, as cheesy as it looks, I'm doing my "natural looking as I can" tank... don't make fun too much, now

[bobrob]

It's pretty damn cool. I have a plastic plant set up and i also have that exact same plant (the on in the middle) in my tank.

[bobrob]

Oh yea nice gourami.

[shimpboat]

Looks great for, how did you say, "plastic plant tank".

[Jawz]

hey that looks great to me, im one for plastic plants cuz im a cichild guy. Just curious what the equipment is on that thing?

[depthC]

It looks pretty natural to me. I like it. I also have a plastic 10g tank that looks pretty cool when i bunch them all up in a corner and make it look like a jungle. Nice tank.

- depthC

[ryanjcalifornia]

thanks guys, those are nice things to say...

Jawz: equipment wise, I have 1 top fin 15 filter, 1 top fin 20 filter, and the heater that came with it...pretty basic...

it was basically an 'all in one' set from petsmart, which i set up and cycled at the beginning of schools, then started adding fish, and I decided that the top fin 15 wasn't cutting it, cuz it was pretty ghetto and broke down sometimes, so i bought the topfin 20 to help as a back up, and things have been running great...although the 15 still breaks down from time to time.

It's been a fun tank, and a fun start to a great hobby.

[1979camaro]

heater looks like a marineland visitherm to me...good heater

[sinasster]

The tank looks great!

Doesnt the coral through the PH off, being in fresh water

[ryanjcalifornia]

not really...clothahump said it would be ok if i boiled it, I did, and it's fine...he said actually that it would act as a buffer. The fish seem to be doin fine...