I finally got around to re-'scaping this tank after I almost literally tore it apart looking for the little blue ram I had in there (never did find him). Anywho, this is in my (6yo) son's room, so technically it's his tank, but since he lives with his dad most of the time, I get to play with it.
Tank Specs:
29gal tank (got it for free from some people I bought a couple canister filters and lights from)
ZooMed AquaSun T5HO light fixture with 2x24W bulbs (one "daylight" bulb and one "plant" bulb...can't remember the exact names)
Penguin 200B HOB filter
Hagen 150W heater
DIY CO2 (coming soon)
Decorations:
Jaguar skull
Triceratops skull
Crocodile skull
One piece of wild-collected driftwood
Three random pieces of grey granite, used to hold the piece of driftwood in place
Background:
White butcher paper (may be changed to black background...pending input)
Substrate:
Flourite Red plant substrate as the bottom layer (about 1")
Black aquarium sand as the top layer (about 1")
Plants:
1x Anubias nana
1x Amazon sword
1x Java fern
1x Baby tears on a lava rock
1x Purple waffle
2x Water wisteria (two bunches)
3x Corkscrew val (three separate plants, but bunched together)
Livestock:
7x Tiger barbs
2x German blue rams (coming soon...the two males I had died earlier today from an accident involving the tank which prompted the sudden redo)
1x SA bumblebee catfish (Grover)
1x Bristlenose pleco
3x Peppered cories
So, here it is in all its glory. I think it looks rather awesome, if I do say so myself!
FTS before (this was right after discovering that an opened bag of bottom feeder pellets had fallen from the back of my filter into the tank and created chaos...my two male GBR were buried under a pile of soggy, decaying pellets, both of them dead):
FTS after:
I'll try to get some really good close-up pics tomorrow when I move the fish back into the tank (going to let it run overnight, just to make sure everything is kosher).
Tank Specs:
29gal tank (got it for free from some people I bought a couple canister filters and lights from)
ZooMed AquaSun T5HO light fixture with 2x24W bulbs (one "daylight" bulb and one "plant" bulb...can't remember the exact names)
Penguin 200B HOB filter
Hagen 150W heater
DIY CO2 (coming soon)
Decorations:
Jaguar skull
Triceratops skull
Crocodile skull
One piece of wild-collected driftwood
Three random pieces of grey granite, used to hold the piece of driftwood in place
Background:
White butcher paper (may be changed to black background...pending input)
Substrate:
Flourite Red plant substrate as the bottom layer (about 1")
Black aquarium sand as the top layer (about 1")
Plants:
1x Anubias nana
1x Amazon sword
1x Java fern
1x Baby tears on a lava rock
1x Purple waffle
2x Water wisteria (two bunches)
3x Corkscrew val (three separate plants, but bunched together)
Livestock:
7x Tiger barbs
2x German blue rams (coming soon...the two males I had died earlier today from an accident involving the tank which prompted the sudden redo)
1x SA bumblebee catfish (Grover)
1x Bristlenose pleco
3x Peppered cories
So, here it is in all its glory. I think it looks rather awesome, if I do say so myself!
FTS before (this was right after discovering that an opened bag of bottom feeder pellets had fallen from the back of my filter into the tank and created chaos...my two male GBR were buried under a pile of soggy, decaying pellets, both of them dead):
FTS after:
I'll try to get some really good close-up pics tomorrow when I move the fish back into the tank (going to let it run overnight, just to make sure everything is kosher).