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Dr. Bonke,

What can i say???? Man your tank looks absolutly B-e-a utiful!!

Any ways i wish my tank could look as good as yours, with the planted aspect. I am currently trying to do that with my 4 live plants and iam trying to build up my "collection" or "stock" of them. I have a question what are the proceures you partake with your tank..like water changes? Feeding? Syphoning? and other things? Do u have any advice of what to do with my plants? Here are two of their names...they are all potted by the way:

1) Some sort of Norwiegen..( if i spelled that correctly)

2) And a great Amazon...the one who's doing the best as of right now...

- and here are some of the descriptions of my other 2 plants:

The first one is a really vastly growing clover-ish type.


And the other oe my lfs told me that it can grow multiple stems and replant itself..and it has ridges on the end of the leaves..with sort of a redish stem.


And if you feel really generous it would be really appreciative if you could post some pic's of my plants i have listed and their names so i can get some info on them...or you can provide the info..



TIA

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Superb aquarium. You should charge people to visit it!

And that remark was only slightly humourous. This is utterly resplendent. A first class example of how it should be done. Any public aquarium that can't match this shouldn't bother.

As to the matter of your Angels nibbling the corymbosa, a suggestion that may or may not prove helpful. I've been road testing new TetraPro foods with my own fish, and the new TetraPro Vegetable Discs (no, they are NOT crisps, certainly not when they've hit the water! Bad Tetra! No biscuit!) with added Spirulina algae may inject enough vegetable matter into your Angels' diet to end their cravings.

I have to say, it's somewhat amusing to hear of fish that get cravings that cease when they're pregnant, so to speak





Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

I haven't been on the forums much in the past week, and I see that a few questions have accumulated thatneed answers

Peter17: I have a question what are the proceures you partake with your tank..like water changes? Feeding? Syphoning? and other things?

Actually I'm a bit lazy with the tank and only do maintenance during weekends mostly (or when my wife is watching American Idol and I can't stand to be in front of the tv ). Things I do in general: First: cleaning the front glass, as I have not yet been able to completely eradicate algae growth in my tank, the glass tends to get quite green in two weeks time. Second: Trimming, lots of trimming. I use two methods, if I don't have the time to do a full service I cut away old leaves and the tops of stalk plants with a pair of small scissors. The tops I usually plant into the substrate again with a pair of tweezers. If I have more time I opten remove entire plants from the substrate and cut away the lower parts, and just replant the younger upper parts. This works real nice on plants such as Myriophyllum, sunset hygro and other stem plants. Finally I do a 30% water change about once every two or three weeks. I try to syphon away any loose debris, but I don't try to clean up the substrate in any way.
Other stuff that I do about once to twice a month is cleaning the filter (once) and changing the yeast solutions of the DIY CO2 (twice).
Feeding: my fish get frozen red mosquito larvea and some shrimp pellets once a day... oh and the angels of course get lots of vegetables in the form of the Hygrophila

Mangor 34: One question, is the a sword plant you have in the middle?

Yes it is a sword, Echinodous "Rose" according to the label. It was supposed to stay fairly medium sized, but each leaf tends to get bigger and bigger... I hope if won't get bigger than it is now. The round shape of the leaves at first was probably the emersed form of the plant.

DonnieBoy: What size tank is that?

Its dimensions are 120 cm wide (4 ft), 41 cm deep (16" ), and 55 cm high (22" ), which makes it about 65g I believe (240 liters).

DonnieBoy: What is the grassy looking plant in the front of the tank?

I'm not quite sure which you mean, but I think you mean either:
Hemianthus micranthemoides: the bright green stuff on the middle to right side
Cryptocoryne willisii: darker green next to the Hemianthus


Last edited by Dr. Bonke at 11-Mar-2005 07:04

Great Display Dr. Bonke.

I got a few questions, if you please.

What size tank is that?

and, What is the grassy looking plant in the front of the tank?

I really want to start getting more plants added to my tank but the 2 lfs in my area have really cruddy looking plants for sale.

Don

Wow, just plain nice Doc! The best planted tank I've seen on here to date.

WOW! Very nice tank!

One question, is the a sword plant you have in the middle?...i got the same plant and the aquarium called it a melon sword. At first it has round leaves...then turned into the one you have there.

Last edited by mangor34 at 03-Mar-2005 10:17

That is without a doubt a brilliant planted tank. Awesome!

Peter17, thanks for your praise, I'll try to write up all the things you asked a bit later today (I'm at work right now and don't really have the time for it at the moment). As for photos of your plants, I'm afraid I cannot post pictures for you as that is against forum rules, here is a link to a sticky with the information on how to post photos if you're not a premium member:
http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Photo%20Booth/32304.html?200407301332

for identifying the plants on your own, the following site is quite useful, they have photos of many different plant species:
http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide.php

I'll try to come up with a better answer to your questions later today or tomorrow, for now you can find most of the information of my tank in my diary thread, which I started about a year ago when I first set up the tank, you can find that here:

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Technical%20Tinkering/36299.html

An absolutely gorgeous tank. I'm just preparing to set up my first really heavily planted tank and I can only hope it looks even close to this when completed and grown out.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

Last week I posted a photo of my tank right after I did some major weeding maintenance and I said the tank would look better a couple of days later. Here is that photo:


Well, now it is about one week later, today I did some small maintenance, like cutting off two floating leafs of the tiger lotus and trimming the Myriophyllum, which was about 2 feet long. In general I'm quite happy with the way the plants have grown during the past 6 days, except for the Hygrophyla corymbosa "Siamensis". It would have grown quite nicely if it weren't for my Angels, they have bee feeding on it like it is some sort of deliscious salad or something. Here's a photo of the tank, of 1 hour ago:


The Hygrophyla corymbosa "Siamensis" is the bright green stuff in the back on the left side. The leaves look absolutely horrible... I hope the Angels will breed soon again, because then they are too busy with the eggs and fry and leave the Hygrophyla alone, it usually recovers quite nicely during those periods... just to be eaten away again when breeding time is over. If anyone has any good suggestions on how to teach them not to eat the Hygrophyla, please let me know. I will get some algae wafers next week and see if that helps, but I am afraid it won't do much good... [/font][/font]

Thanks Dr. Bonke for your reply. I also have 10 Rummy's in my tank & i also wish to buy 5 more. They are very beautiful fish & the colours are superb.



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Excellent-looking tank! The rummy nose tetras look awesome!

Jason, the tank inhabitants are:
5 Angels
4 Black mollies
1 Betta (female)
9 rummy nose tetras (I would love to make this a school of 15-20 )
6 rosy tetras (these I could live without, they're boring fish)
3 yoyo loaches
6 Corydoras cf copeii (I think, the LFS had the name wrong and I'm going on comparison with other photos I've seen on the web)
3 Otocynclus vittatus

Wonderful tank. One of the best seen here & the Plants are brilliant.

Apart from the Angels, Betta, Mollies & Rummynose Tetra, what are the other tank mates?.




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dude_dude, as Janna said, it is indeed a Betta, it used to be completely red, but in the weeks following het purchase she slowly lost all red and now is completely white. She's pretty in a way, but has a bit of a nasty personality, especially to the black mollies, who she chases quite a lot.
Thanks for the compliments people, I'm quite happy with the look, but there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Thats a really nice tank
Very nice pictures..and i those angels

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

That is a white marble female betta. It makes sense that it is the size of a betta.


Wonderful tank, as always, Dr. Bonke!

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

whats that white fish in the second pic that looks about the size of a betta at the top of the tank?

THE BEST TANK IVE EVER SEEN