Post your setup

Post a picture of your tank setups, im trying to get some ideas on how to decorate mine, so i want to see some samples.

 

I'll skip the 3 gallons & pond because I don't think they'll be too helpful, but here's my other tanks:

10 gallon:


20 gallon:


55 gallon:


75 gallon (actually, it doesn't look like this any more. I had to put a divider in so I removed most of the decorations):


-Chelle

 

where can i get dividers for a 55 gallon?

 

i only have a picture of one right now
here you go
http://www.bryansaquarium.com/images/48gal.jpg
Peace fish addict

 

chelle... your tanks are frikin nice... what is the wooden thingy in the middle of ur 55 gallon? All of your tanks are very nice. How much did you spend on decors for all your tanks?

 

wow chelle i love the 75 gal. pitty it dosnt look like that anymore :cry:
my old look that i have a picture of dosnt look that nice but i changed it all so it looks nice now, ill try get a picture.

 

Thankyou.

That's actually rocks stacked up, not wood.

As for cost, the little vase thing in the 10 gallon cost about 10¢ at a thrift store and the live plants cost about $10.

The bricks in the 20 gallon cost about $3 and I got the plants at a craft store so they only cost about $12.

In the 55 I spent about $5 on artificial plants, the 2 resin stump decorations did cost quite a bit ($25 each, I think) and the rocks where just left over pieces of flag stone from when whe where building our pond.

The pot in the 75 gallon cost about $7. I can't remem $4, and the rocks where free.

So I think that's about $80 total (not including the sand).

-Chelle

 

hey, t-chelle, in your first pic, whats the twig thing in the back? i lie it, and when your not looking im gunna pinch it! hehe.

my main warm water 15gal is the whole natural bog wood plant thing.


I went to a carboot and got a two toned piece of drift wood worth about £15 for £3 coz the bloke knew nothing about fish.

 

The dark antler looking one on the left is driftwood and the lighter colored one on the right is made of rubber. I bought a box of used tank supplies at a yardsale a few weeks ago for $5 and it had a hood & light (what I was mainly wanting), HOB filter, under gravel filter, heater, a couple fake plants, and that driftwood & rubber branch thing.

Oh, and that bunch of green things hanging down on the right is pothos roots. I have it in there to help control nitrAtes. And the 2 large leaved plants in the 2 back corners is pothos that is completely submerged. That stupid stuff is actually a house plant but it's doing better submerged than my fully aquatic plants. :roll:

-Chelle

 

I HAVE MOSS BALLS IN MY TANK THAT ARE MEANT TO CONTROL DIFFERENT THINGS, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE THEM?

 

Yes, I have moss balls. But just for looks as I've heard they only really help conditions in the tank if there are tons of them in there. I do like to watch my pictus cat roll the ball around the tank too, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen :lol:

 

mine just like to poo on it! lol

 

lol.

 

haha thats funny

 

Here's what the 75 looks like now. As much as I hate doing it, I really hope I find Charlie a new home soon because I don't like keeping them in such small spaces. I can't keep them together and I can't get another tank.



-Chelle

 

so there not getting along anymore ?

 

Nope. They suddenly turned on eachother and he almost killed her. In fact, in that picture, they're getting ready to charge at eachother through the divider.

-Chelle

 

how did it happen did you have to remove either for a sickness or anything ?

 

Wow! t_chelle your 20 gallon tank is nice but ur 55 gallon tank is just utterly amazing! What fish are in those two if its not a problem?

 

I did have him removed briefly for pop-eye treatment, but they had started getting aggressive towards eachother before that. They where showing some mating behavior before all this started so I think what happened is he wanted to breed but she didn't.

No problem.

The 55 has african cichlids:
3 Pseudotropheus lombardoi (kennyi mbuna)
2 P. socolofi (powder blue cichlid)
3 Labidochromis caeruleus (yellow lab)
2 Melanochromis auratus (golden cichlid)
1 Aulonocara hybrid (ob peacock)
1 pleco

20 gallon is my fry grow out tank:
5 pygmy cory cats (permanant residents)
2 apple snails (permanant residents)
10 M. auratus juvies (going to the LFS soon)
10 L. caeruleus juvies (going to the LFS soon)
4 kennyi/ob peacock fry (look like kennyi)
3 goldfish fry (did have 11, but I put 8 of them back in the pond today)

Actually, after I find a new home for Charlie, my plan is to move Sherbert to the 55 and move the africans to the 75 so I can get a couple more species to breed. I'm also hoping to try breeding some bettas soon.

-Chelle