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this is a picture of my first tank setup a 29 gallon bowfront with tigerbarbs and a rtbs

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q318/kaboke_photos/IMG_1212.jpg

already running a second tank 20 gallon long still cycling with no fish (clear amm. instead )don't now what fish yet open for ideas

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q318/kaboke_photos/IMG_1213.jpg

hope you like it

Kaboke:

Your tanks are looking very good. How long have you had the 29 setup? A 20 gal is pretty good sized. The extra length opens up a few more options for stocking. I don't know what your fish preferences are, but you could setup a nice community tank or something.

†Aquapickle†

I have the 29gallon for 2 months and the 20 gallon just a couple days so its still cycling and i have still some time to think about the fish and a communitty tank is what i'm going fore

dreaming of a 125 gallon with a black ghost knife and a half dozen red line torpedo barbs

Kaboke

Now THOSE are clean tanks!!

Nice to see the live plants. I wish you good luck with them, as I know they can be a struggle to maintain.

As I've said before, I don't understand the question about what fish to keep!? Turn me loose in a fish store & I could fill several tanks!

I don't know much about fish tank sizes, but your 20 looks like a regular 20 to me. I say that cause I have a 20 sitting here that looks like yours & I have a relative that has about a size 20 gal. & his tank is REALLY low & long. So I just assumed mine was a regular 20 & his was what you call a 20 long?

Aha! I knew I saved this site for something! I will put it below. It's a site telling about tank sizes, so you can measure your tank & tell what size it is. I just measured my tank & it measures the closest to a 20 gal. high. Not that it matters that yours is high or low....... it's just something to use if you ever want to know for sure for some particular reason.

http://www.anapsid.org/resources/tanksize.html

I just noticed that tall rock in your first picture. Is that a real rock? Whatever is it, that was a good find! I'd like one of those in my tank to hide my submersible heater!

He no those rocks are fake but i thought that the look cool

and so far my live plants are growing and looking healty i'm trying to keep it that way

and for the 20 gallon its a 20 high my mistake

Kaboke

Kaboke

Your tanks look like you have a good start. Here is some advice that I have gotten from this board when I set up my first planted tanks.

Fill your tanks up with plants. Right now they are very lightly planted which will leave the door open for algae.

Check the planted tank forum if you want to learn about lighting and fertilizing. There are a lot of very advance planters over there (They love to talk to!)

On takeing the pictures I would do the following to help reduce the glare and make your tank easier to see online.

First get a background (PetSmart sells them).
Second, take the picture at night with all the lights off except the tank's light.
Third Turn off the camera's flash.

Once I started doing this I got much better pictures even with my crappy camera. Hope that helps! Keep up the good work.


Rick
See all my pictures at Google Web Albums

Good advice on the pic taking slick! I'll have to remember that if I ever get a camera.

Kaboke! It just occurred to me! I'm trying to get this certain background that has rocks in it & the one you have that I like I think would go perfect in my tank with it!

Do you remember where you got it??

Ya sure i do i have them from Petsmart i think it was something like 19$ i really like them to en the look so real

and for the plants i'm trying some lowlight plants for now but they are hard to find arround here and i'm probably going to upgrade my lichtning but i'm still reading and trying to get us much information us possible i'm not yet ready for that


Kaboke

Oh Yeah now i looked more closely and noticed it is a normal 20 gal. Still it can hold a nice community of fish. Slick has some good tips, I began using these and that improved my photo quality tremendously. Wow only two months and you've got two nice tanks setup. I wish my parents would let me setup another tank.

†Aquapickle†

$19 for a fake rock kaboke!? Wow................I don't know about that. I live by a lake, so I might look there before paying that much for one. But thanks.......... I'll remember petsmart if I have to resort to buying one.