My Low Tech Tank

[Egmel]

Well here it is planted With no other decs as yet. Have some mopani wood soaking ready for that gap. Now all I need is for it to finish cycling & get some fish! Cheers again for all the help. l suspect I shall be back when everything starts dying!

P.S Click on the photo to go to my flickr journal if you want to see more pics.

 

[RadaR]

Good start you have there. Will look so cool with the wood. Consider a red plant.

 

[Egmel]

Consider a red plant.

Have V. low light (20 us Gallon with 15w light) so I opted for plants with as much chlorophyl as possible!

 

[RadaR]

Ah, good point. Im glad your clued up on this

 

[Themuleous]

Think it needs the wood, very plant based at the moment, are you planning to put anything in the foreground (other than the wood that is!)

Good start thou

Sam

 

[dasmall1]

A blue or black background would look nice!

 

[Egmel]

Think it needs the wood, very plant based at the moment, are you planning to put anything in the foreground (other than the wood that is!)

I have a couple of rounded pebbles (Granite from the beach) which have been bleached/rinsed and now require baking before they can go in. And some small rounded aquarium gravel to add a bit of texture. Though I'm trying to keep some plain sand as I'm hoping to put some cories in and I want somewhere for them to 'shnuffle'!

A blue or black background would look nice!

I keep on saying that to my Bf but he's not so sure! I'll get something black to hold up behind it to persuade him this weekend!

 

[Dubby]

Wonderful tank, Egmel. Waiting to see the effect of the wood.

The swords appear to be in too deep. It may not be in reality, but I cant see the crown in the pic, hence my comment.

 

[Egmel]

The swords appear to be in too deep. It may not be in reality, but I cant see the crown in the pic, hence my comment.

Quite possibly. Will that be a problem? I had a bit of trouble getting them in as they kept wanting to floating out, plus I wanted to get them close to the pond soil part of the substrate to encourage them to put their roots down deep (they're in the deepest part so they might as well make the most of it!)

 

[Egmel]

Right have added the mopani wood and a couple of stones, I still need to find some sort of caves for the cories and pitbull Plec I'm hoping to put in