My 55 Gallon Tank

Bryan1957

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Here is a picture of my 55 gallon tank. I finally got a decent picture after propigating enough plants to fill the left side. I just finished a bout with black hair algae and lost almost all my Elodea to the dreaded stuff. I have a little algae left on some of the sword plant leaves and will dose excel as soon as I get some.
In the meanwhile here is the photo and thanks for comments.
Bryan
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There are quite a few guppies and swordtails with some platys. The guppies and swordtails had fry that were hiding in the Elodea, I couldn't trim it so it grew and almost covered the top of the tank. The black hair algae started in the top closest to the light and the problems began. I gave some of the swordtails to a friend today and put some in other tanks. I'll be going to my lfs this week to trade some for store credit. They multiply so fast it can be hard to keep up with them, I think there are another 20 or 30 fry hiding in the java moss and stones.
The tank also has about 10 dalmation mollies that are about 6 months old, 6 glowlight tetras and 5 corydoras lucomelas. The corys stay in the cave or java moss most of the day, but sometimes they rest under the large sword on the right side. I put two algae wafers in the tank about 5 minutes before taking the picture, that is why they are grouped so tightly.
BTW the tank is low llght, there is a two tube T5, 28 watts per lamp and one DIY 10 watt compact fluorescent that is over the large sword plant. I use DIY CO2 but don't get above 20 ppm CO2. I also dose with liquid ferts every other day. Definately a low tech tank.

Bryan
 
Sweet tank. It looks beautiful.


Great looking tank! I wish I could do live plants but they'd all be eaten ;P Hey if you want to prevent hair algae w/ out all the worry get a true Siamese Algae eater, when I did have real plants my SAE did a phenomenal job.
 
I like it,it looks great :thumbs:

the fish must love having so much plant to hide in :wub:

good job :nod:
 
thats what im planning to do with my new tank just have platys and cories and 1 pleco in there.
it will look great just like yours, i will be having plants aswell. :D
 
yep still think its a pretty good tank :wub:

so how you do that?put your tank as your avitar?
 
yep still think its a pretty good tank :wub:

so how you do that?put your tank as your avitar?

I used an imaging editing software to make the picture small enough for the avitar and uploaded the small picture to TFF. The settings can be found under "My Controls" at the top of this web page. About 1/2 way down my controls page on the left is a setting for my avitar.
The reduced image will need to be no larger than 120 x 120.
 

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