Beautiful Plantless Tropical Tank Possible ?

[SittingBull]

Hi, i'm new to this forum, but not new to the hobby. I've got a couple of questions to ask, and would appreciate help from all of you guys. Thing is, i have a tank (2ftx1.5ftx1.5ft), and i used to do up this heavily planted tank, with moss on driftwoods, CO2 tank, high watt lights and all.. However, i got kinda sick, cos with heavily planted tanks, there's lots of work, which inc constantly replanting, withering, clearing of dropped leaves etc..... make no mistake, but back then, i really love the look of it, like an underwater jungle and all.. Absolute beauty.

However now, i would like a totally new look to my tank. I've seen some beautiful marine tanks with no plants at all, but only consisting of rocks... My question is, is it possible to do up a really beautiful tropical tank, with limited or not plants, just rocks and driftwood, and yet able to create a beautiful natural habitat consisting of little communities of small fishes like tetras, BBG etc ?? I've search this entire forum for pictures of plantless tanks but no avail. Anybody knows where i can get pics to draw ideas from ?? THANKS A MIL !!

 

[SPLiSH]

Many African Cichlid tanks have only rocks and look awesome! I don't know if any Africans can go in that size tank, but have a look around anyway.

 

[SittingBull]

Anybody know where i can get more pics on beautiful tanks with no plants ??? Btw, the moss that is usually tired onto driftwood, are they ok with no CO2 cylinder being use??? Anybody knows how i can do a tropical tank with no plants, and yet just as great as those plantless white sand white rocks marine tanks???

 

[demonmagus]

how about shelldwellers? they need a lot of shells (duh) and that's about it tbh.

 

[SPLiSH]

Btw, the moss that is usually tired onto driftwood, are they ok with no CO2 cylinder being use???

That's usually java moss, it does fine without CO2 and is very, very easy to care for.

 

[fish-r-fancy]

a good website to get you some ideas is ratemyfishtank.com . Just go to the site and click on the picture of a freshwater tank that has a captune thats something like non planted freshwater tanks. It will show you a pic of each tank,give you some info about the tank, then you rate it and the next tank comes up. Good Luck.