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After rearranging my one 10 gallon, I now want to redo my 25 gallon tank. Any thoughts will be considered, so let me hear them.

Here is what the tank currently looks like. http://community.webshots.com/photo/439782932/482467360ydCDHz

Do you have any ideas of what you are wanting to do? Maybe some live plants or are you wanting to stick with plastic? I would ad more substrate. It looks pretty shallow, for starters. Are you jsut wanting to rearrange some stuff or are you going to do a TOTAL renovation? New fish? Same fish? Can you give us some specifics? That might help us to help you.


Christina

chrissy's questions are right on the money.

One immediate suggestion: I would go with a darker background for the back of your tank - try a piece of black posterboard, it'll make all the difference in the world.

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Back in the saddle!

Definitely! I put black gravel in my tank with a small bag of the neon colored rocks jsut to give it a little color. It really has made a HUGE difference! It makes the fish look SO much brighter and more colorful. I just love it.


Christina

I really don't have anything in mind as to what to do with this tank.
I am just looking for a rearranging of the stuff already in there.
Definitly no additions, plants nor fish.
But I'd be willing to remove some things if it makes for a better apperance.

Adding more sand is definitly my first priority. When first setting up this tank, I didn't have enough time to rinse enough sand.

I already have a black background on the tank. The picture just isn't that good.

In that case I would just start playing around with it and see what looks good. I personally like randomness,s so I would "throw" stuff around in there and see how it all looks and if I don't like it I change it. I am working on my 25 gallon tank right now and yours is much wider than mine. Mine is tall and not too terribly wide. I am putting live plants in mine right now though so it will look much different than yours since I do not have plants like yours. Try shuffling some stuff around and see how it looks thats is really the best thing to do.
By the way, I would suggest you maybe getting a plant or 2 I knwo you said you weren't going to get anymore but it looks like you need some short ground cover. Maybe try some breeding grass if you can't find any artificial ground cover I uses that on mine. That would help make it look a little better IMO.
Have fun redecorating and pleas elet us knwo how it turns out.

Christina

Last edited by dvmchrissy at 21-Oct-2005 20:39