Recent content by mmanist

I did the same thing on my 55g I set it up with Natural plants from my creek and river, I caught local Rainbow Darters and creek chubs, both thrived well in my tank!!! All my plants did well too. Good Luck and happy Fish keeping!!  

So about 3 years ago I gave up my fish, and my 35g. :( I moved all over, worked constantly, and never had the time to start back up. Well my mom finally said I'm down to 2 fish. My Africa krib, and my stripped raphael, she wants to take the 35 gallon down. Well since my two guys are older I'm...

Sorry I didn't get any pics up last week, When I came home from work friday, I found my little ferret Midge dead in her cage :/ , She was fine thursday night.... I only had her since May and she was only about 8 months old... :-( This weekend has just been really crappy.... My mom did some...

OK OK... I SEE... LOL I could do that, I'm headed up to my moms today sometime, so I can grab some of my filter media, I prob could almost take half of my media from my other tank, and just put my new in place of it. There is a ton of the ceramic rings and little bio balls, I will just put my...

Ya enough plants to stock the fish, LOL. I know I should of did it that way but, I wasn't thinking. I was rudely woken by my other half, Saturday morning. Only to walk downstairs to a lovely assembled stand for my tank LOL. It was a nice thing for him to do, I put off buying a new stand so I...

So I finally took a weekend and set my 55 gallon up!! I put my plants in (River Plants, and store bought) , and a couple rocks, and a piece of mopani wood. I have a few other piece of driftwood that I want to put in but, They won't sink LOL.. So anyways I will have to just rescape it when the...

So my question is, has anyone made there own substrate out of kitty litter and ferts (liquids or dry)?? Say, mix it up before you put it in the tank?? I work at a golf course and I have access to many different dry fertilizers. They are safe to put around the ponds, but I dont know about an...

Looking good!! Cant wait to see it all set up!! Sounds like your going the same route that I am!! I found a great piece of root drift wood at the creek. I picked up my sand there last night, I have plants from the river, and ponds. All that I'm waiting on is a dresser that Im going to set the...

Nobody knows what that plant is?

Thats cool, I've always been into antiques!! I went to an auction but didnt see anything good. The dresser is nice that i was looking at, has lots of places to store things in too!! Ya, when i fist pulled up a small peice of that I wasnt sure what it was, thought maybe hornwort but then i got...

Any who!! Here is some better pics of that plant!!

Yes I have an extra powerhead, just got my seals in yesterday for the c160, going to play around with it see if i need any more parts!! I put my driftwood in the tank to soak, since its just sitting in my garage with only water in it. LOL At least it save me from hoarding the bath tub for a...

Well right now my tank is sitting in the garage with just water in it, and the plants. (resealed it so I was testing it out) but a round about idea for water would be maybe 70-75 degree F, being that I wont do a heater since the fish will be basic shiners, darters, and chubs. Its been kinda...

So yesterday, I went down to the river and scooped me out some very nice plants. Hopefully I can use them in my aquarium, with a good light, and some soil/sand substrate. Basically what Im doing is trying to do a low cost planted tank with some darters, and a schoal of minnows and creek chubs...

Glass is never fun!! I did something similar but knocked the light into my aquarium :look: