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thestooge Hobbyist Posts: 77 Kudos: 61 Votes: 0 Registered: 04-Jan-2006	I have had to get rid of my larger 29 and 20 gallon tanks do to a recent move, so I am stuck with a SMALL 10 gallon tank. Since it is so small I wanted to pay extra attention to my aquascaping. I was wanting to set up some kind of South American looking biotype. What type of driftwood/plants would you use (I want to try to go with live plants)? And how do people make it look like trees have fallen down in their tank (such as the picture here http://badmanstropicalfish.com/biotope/biotope1.html)? Fish CAN fly!
Posted 24-May-2006 20:32
GirlieGirl8519 Fish Master Malawi Planter Posts: 1468 Kudos: 1029 Votes: 35 Registered: 25-Mar-2005	Edited by GirlieGirl8519 To make it look like a tree, you would have to have a pretty big piece of wood. I'm not sure a 10g is big enough. Go to tropica.com and click on the advanced search button. You can plug in the height of your tank (in centimeters) and select the continent and it will give you suggestions based on that. Anacharis, rosette swords (echinodorus parviflorus v. tropica), dwarf hairgrass, hemianthus callitrichoides, stargrass, dwarf sagittaria, Christmas moss, and some types of ludwidgia are some good types I see that may work in a 10g. I didn't plug in the height because I forgot how tall a 10g is. Alot of those plants require high light...in a 10g that would mean around 4wpg. *Kristin*
Posted 24-May-2006 20:46
Theresa_M Moderator Queen of Zoom Posts: 3649 Kudos: 4280 Votes: 790 Registered: 04-Jan-2004	Maybe you could look for a piece of driftwood that's branchy...it really is hard to do something like that in a 10g. As far as plants what type of lighting do you have? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Posted 26-May-2006 21:22
thestooge Hobbyist Posts: 77 Kudos: 61 Votes: 0 Registered: 04-Jan-2006	Flourescent Fish CAN fly!
Posted 28-May-2006 16:29
JQW Fish Addict Posts: 869 Kudos: 758 Registered: 09-Apr-2003	leaves that has fallen into water well don't think u just want to chuck dead leaves into the water, won't do any good to it maybe some floating plant they are nice
Posted 02-Jun-2006 16:32


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