Lets see your tanks

[Shane Tesser]

Hey guys lets start something new, lets see tank pics. Together we can help solve the mysteries of keeping fish. I have currently half a dozen tanks, ill start by showing you all a little piece of the corner of my 150gallon planted (heavily planted) community tank. s.t.

[Shane Tesser]

Ill start us off rolling. Here is a pic of my big community tank, not the clearest in the world but not bad, thanks for capturing it Jeff. This tank if your wondering is six feet long and is kept in my bedroom. s.t.

[Shane Tesser]

Here is another Pic, a much smaller tank, my chilid tank, it is a wee 90 gallons, and this is the part of the left corner, i dont have a pic showing the whole thing, im working on it though, the tank is floor to ceiling wall to wall rocks, with pvc hidden out of site underneath as well as hidden flower pots. Its cost almost $500.00 for the rock work alone, almost embarrassing. s.t.

[corr]

Hey Shane. Here's a couple of pics of my tanks...

This one is a 40 gallon planted with Tiger Barbs and Khuli Loaches. It looks quite different now. I should take another pic.



This one is a 50 gallon Malawi set-up. There's a yellow Lab on the left just like yours. I wanna put these guys in a 125 soon. I know what you mean about pricey rock! It's crazy expensive! The stuff in this tank is just beach 'pebbles' and lace rock I got at a landscaping place.



I also have a 15 gal in the kitchen with N. Multifasciatus breeding... very cool fish. My daughter has a 5.5 in her room with a couple guppies and a dwarf anubias.

[corr]

Here's one of my Multis.



All pictures were taken with the camera that I got from that Jeff guy.

[Shane Tesser]

Corr, i love them. Is that a gigantic Jave moss, ive just only recently put one in and its starting to take off but your is lovely. The use of rocks in the Chiclid tank is awesome. I had first gone with lava rock because of the various display tanks in the stores, and was a big apprehensive about trying something new, but now that ive seen yours i think im going to change mime. I think i wasted my money on that stone, wanna buy some lol. The roundness of those stones is by far a much more natural look, good job. Your maltis tank is also incredible, a perfect species tank, perfect substrate, shells, and a large Jave fern, awesome, awesome, awesome. Im loving it. Ya gotta send More!!!! And that goes for everybody else reading this! s.t.

[Shane Tesser]

I can't believe how bad my spelling is JAVA FERN, JAVA MOSS, JAVA FERN, JAVA MOSS, JAVA FERN, JAVA MOSS, JAVA FERN, JAVE-DOOO!!!! JAVA MOSS JAVA FERN, JAVA MOSS, JAVA FERN, i think ive finally got it LMAO, s.t.

[corr]

Hey tanks man! lol, Your tanks look awesome too! Yeah, that's a Java fern in the Multi tank. It's about 8" across. Hasn't really grown much since I got it actually. There is a couple tied to coconut shells on the left of this pic, too. They don't grow much either, they just kinda exist. Knowwhatimean?

I just took this pic a few minutes ago. Notice the sword is gone. I gave it to my brother to look after. I found it was really limiting what I could do with the tank as far as placement of other plants (big shadow). That Hygro really went nuts in a short time so I let it... gotta trim it twice a week almost! Go with the flow, right?

If you go with the beach pebbles, remember they are a lot heavier than lava rock. I cut a piece of Lexan to fit the bottom of the tank just to be save... don't want any pressure points! :bugout:



Cheers

[Shane Tesser]

In one respect i dont blame you for loosing the sword, in another, i will offer this advice for what its worth. I prune mercilessly. I remove about a shopping bag a week. I have found that the way to deal with big swords, there is four in my tank by the way, is to cut looking straight down. I kinda climb right on top and any leaves in the way of the plant underneath, are pinched off. This also incourages the sword to grow upright as opposed to outward. Mine are actually two varities, all are more than thirty inches tall, flower and have shoots like crazy. I have been growing and selling them, the problem is that i do not have enough space for all the shootlets, and to be honest about ten or so a week either go in the garbage, or at times into the chilid tank as a veggie diet, lol. s.t.

[corr]

Yeah, I was cutting 2 or 3 large leaves off a week. It was still to big for the tank though (it's only 16" high). The leaves would poke through the surface and turn brown and crusty. The Africans eat it eh?

[petpoor]

here is a shot of my reef tank

[Jeff_Favelle]

Very very cool!! Wow. I want one!

[Shane Tesser]

Beautiful tanks, looks like its been established for quite some time, what are you currently housing in it, corels, fish etc?

[petpoor]

This particular tank has been set up and running for 3 yrs now, but I have been keepin reefs since 1992. Currently there are at least 75 different pieces of live coral livin in this tank,representin many species some are even babies that i grew out due to them reproducing in the tank, there is three huge bubbletip anemones that have a mated pair of false Percula clowns that live in them. also there is one Tridacna Deresa Clam.
Some of the Corals include::
Xenia
bubble coral
few staghorn corals also known as SPS corals
many leathers
gorgonians
mushrooms of many colors
torch coral
plate coral
tongue coral
green star polyps
pink star polyps

The fish list at the moment is :
red sea desjardini sailfin tang
red sea Sohal tang
red sea purple tang
yellow tang
sailfin tang
juvenile orange shoulder tang
foxface
green scat(ugly fish but an apitasia eatin fool)
16 green chromis damsels
5 yellow tail damsels
sunrise dottyback
strawberry dottyback
royal gramma
flame hawk
lawnmower blenny
banggai cardinal fish
here is a few more tank shots

Ok enough as I am sure you all are bored by now

Tom

[Jeff_Favelle]

Those are cool looking tanks man!!