My 2 Foot Community

[Sibelius]

These are my first attempts at photographing my 2 year old community tank. It's in need of a clear out, but I hope you get the idea of what sort of thing it is. It's got an old heater, a daylight and moonlight bulb, and an old cannister filter. Water changes are every 2 weeks or so. Sorry about my rather poor first camera skills, but this was a first try, and below are the best 10%, which says a lot!

The whole tank.

Some of the fish.

by the way, the stock are: 6 lemon tetras, a pair of black phantoms, 4 amano shrimp, 3 corys (bronze sterbae and julii) 2 khulii loaches, 2 gobies (peacock) and 1 otocinclus

and the photo of which I am proudest is:

The planting is simple, around the wood it's pretty much all vallis and crypt wenditii. (everything else died.)

Any comments, critique etc etc, are more than welcome.

Oooh, and i want to plug you my journal for my new PFK nano, which I need help with!!! (see sig)

 

[chardonnay1000]

It looks nice and natural, i have black phantom tetras 2, i was thinking about khulli loaches for my next addition but it says you need caves for them, have u got any in your tank its difficult to see?

 

[RadaR]

Truly great! Looks natural and different from alot of the tanks Ive seen.
Fish look fantastic too. Love the gobies.
Just had to comment on this one, good job!

 

[mikster]

nice peacock gobies, i was going to have some of them once but i changed my mind, nice tank.

 

[Sibelius]

Thanks RadaR and Mikster, you've made my day! I sometimes like to let it run rampant, and the plants spil everywhere, which I like. It does mean that it's hard keeping the dead leaves in check though (seeing as how I don't use C02 and ferts are liquid, and only once every 4 weeks or so!)

Chardonnay 1000. I'm sorry that it's not very clear. There are plenty of nooks and crannys around the tank that keeps my khuliis happy (even though they may move to my sand substrate nano in the near future.) There's a gap under the slate that they like to go in, and an indentation in the back of the wood at the bottom, where it meets the gravel, that is nice and cosy too, I bet! Also, the vallis in the back right corner is densely grown, so they feel secure in there. (mind you, that's my Julii's spot.)