10g Converted Hospital Tank

[TheConstantGrower]

Just as the name implies converted 10 gallon hospital tank finally cycled designed and stocked hope you like the pics!

Sorry you cant see the ghost shrimp real well there but they are called GHOST shrimp for a reason.

Poor snail is so scared after the move, took 3 hours just for him to START to put his sucker out.

And night shots, cause who dosnt love a tank at night. sorry the camera dosnt take the greatest pics



Well thats it, thinking later on once i have full stability in the tank i might add a few more platys.

 

[england]

looks good!! was exspecting in the first shot to see newts or frogs
like the night shots fantastico

 

[ox5477]

The single LED night light gives that eerie feeling that if your under the light, your being watched cause you can't see anything around you in the dark haha

Looks good. Agree with nelly, thought you were turning it into a frog or crab tank with only a small pool of water... haha

 

[paul_219]

Very nice tank looking gr8. WOnderful pics.

 

[TheConstantGrower]

You know, while designing this tank, i deffinately had that thought cross my mind, after seeing how well i could actually sculpt the live substrate mixed with the sand i wanted to do it, but a 10 gallon tank isnt going to be big enough, but ive been thinking of a larger tank something along the lines of a 90 gallon wave front tank.

Building a natural ramp from the larger section of the tank where the substrate will be only an inch off the bottom, allowing plenty of room for some fish, then building up the other side with plateaus, plants that bloom above the waters surface rocks, places for mudskippers frogs and other things, i think it could create a good natural balance, will be hard to balance fish tank with a sort of shore deal. but i think in the end it will be worth it, this is a project for late summer. seeing as the tank i have my eye on is about 3200 dollars.

 

[wendywc]

Great layout!

 

[SJ2K]

Not sure if you mentioned this in here somwhere but how did you manage to create such a large heigh difference? I conciderd that when re-scaping but wasure it would just be a land slide and level out when water was added?

Looking great

 

[shelaghfishface]

that looks really great! i love the layout of the tank, and the level of the floor
looks really original
shelagh xxx

 

[TheConstantGrower]

Not sure if you mentioned this in here somwhere but how did you manage to create such a large heigh difference? I conciderd that when re-scaping but wasure it would just be a land slide and level out when water was added?

Looking great

One word: Patience.

You can see how theres a little water in there at all times, i think i added it about a cup at a time, and actually used the erosion effects of the water to bank the hills, the trick was getting the sand the right consistancy, i used a bag of black marine sand, and then added a bag of Live substrate, which is essentially mud. the consistancy is just right, i mixed them together fistfull by fistfull to get it just right.

Once the water is in there a little bit the banks will start to settle, you may have to re scoop some up there, but i found that planting everything in there gave it some rigidity while adding water.

Same thing on the other side, i found the more narrow bank was harder to do then the larger one,

Filling is the hard part you will need a few things.

a large glass (i used a 4 cup measuring cup with handle and spout)
a juice container / pitcher
a ton of patience
a well rested arm

Put the glass into the container and make sure the spout is facing the glass that way when the water reaches the spout it dosnt demolish your banks, Slowly and i do mean slowly fill using the cup to displace the water and your banks should be fine, Once the water level in the tank reaches the top of the glass and goes about an inch over you can pour much faster, but still use caution and some good common sense.


Hope this helps!