75G Ideas Anyone?

[brandoncw]

The star of this tank is a 4.5 inch red belly piranha. There is two large pieces of driftwood, sand substrate, and lightly planted (fake). I'm looking for some ideas on what to add as decor for the tank. I'm aiming towards a mostly naturalistic look thanks guys
Adding a pic when I get home. (4-5 hours from now) check back then if your wanting a picture of my current setup

 

[fluttermoth]

Could you please post the dimensions of the tank and whether your water is hard or soft.

 

[brandoncw]

Could you please post the dimensions of the tank and whether your water is hard or soft.

i dont know the general hardness or anything like that but the ph from the faucet is 7.5 and after a day or two it goes down to 7 and dimensions are  48.5" x 18.5" x 21.2"

 

[fluttermoth]

If you look on your water supplier's website it'll tell you your hardness

We really shouldn't be recommending species to you without knowing; hardness is a lot more important to fish than pH.

 

[brandoncw]

ohhhh i wasnt meaning anything alive lol. just some new decoration ideas etc

 

[brandoncw]

this is my tank setup and a pic of when i first got my fish and what it looks like now, he/she has grown up alot since then 

 

[Blough]

ohhhh i wasnt meaning anything alive lol. just some new decoration ideas etc

If possible, live plants would look really cool in that tank.

 

[brandoncw]

ive tried live plants but they wont live very long, i tried fert tabs but i think its the substrate, i would have to put plant substrate under it for the plants to work, though i have noticed some of the new fake ones look quite real
i may look in to moss for the wood too

 

[brandoncw]

this is the newest addition as of a couple days ago, it is a raccoon skull i found when i went out fishing so i boiled it for an hour to disinfect it then put it by the pirnahas "lair" 

i think it looks pretty cool 

 

[HarpyFishLover]

Pretty! The skull does go well for a piranha's lair lol...

 

[brandoncw]

Thanks HarpyFishLover.

 

[RainboWBacoN420]

What live plants have you tried?
 
And maybe a big piece of some branchy driftwood would do nicely on the right side of the tank, you can tie java ferns to it as well to give it some foliage. 

 

[brandoncw]

What live plants have you tried?
 
And maybe a big piece of some branchy driftwood would do nicely on the right side of the tank, you can tie java ferns to it as well to give it some foliage. 

i have tried hair grass, it was eaten by the piranha, go figure, and some that had a scientific name i cant remember, it lasted a month and amazon sword also about a month

 

[RainboWBacoN420]

 

What live plants have you tried?
 
And maybe a big piece of some branchy driftwood would do nicely on the right side of the tank, you can tie java ferns to it as well to give it some foliage. 

i have tried hair grass, it was eaten by the piranha, go figure, and some that had a scientific name i cant remember, it lasted a month and amazon sword also about a month
 

You picked some pretty difficult plants to grow, amazon swords aren't the easiest plants to grow, but they do require some care, mostly just good lighting and ferts. Piranhas are herbivores? I thought they were solely carnivorous?
 
You could try some anubias or java ferns, those are pretty hardy plants that don't require too much light or ferts. 

 

[brandoncw]

 

 


What live plants have you tried?
 
And maybe a big piece of some branchy driftwood would do nicely on the right side of the tank, you can tie java ferns to it as well to give it some foliage. 

i have tried hair grass, it was eaten by the piranha, go figure, and some that had a scientific name i cant remember, it lasted a month and amazon sword also about a month
 

You picked some pretty difficult plants to grow, amazon swords aren't the easiest plants to grow, but they do require some care, mostly just good lighting and ferts. Piranhas are herbivores? I thought they were solely carnivorous?
 
You could try some anubias or java ferns, those are pretty hardy plants that don't require too much light or ferts. 
 


Red belly piranhas like many other species are actually omnivores  eating both plants and animals (there is one species, the name escapes me though, that is completely herbivorous)
 
 I may try those, i do have a bag of organic peat moss, i use it to cover traps. it is more commonly used as a garden topsoil, i was wondering if it could be put under the sand to be used as a plant food source.
also a correction, i tried dwarf hair grass.