Who are the fish keepers on here ?

[Sweety]

Ok here's some pic's

My double stand set up I built 3ft Marina tank on the top with Malawi in & a 18" tank underneath with glass sliders with Red Cherry Shrimp in


Better pic of the Shrimp tank


My Wife's 2.5ft community tank with a home made hood


Lastly the 16" Betta tank we have in the bedroom

[macabethiel]

I love the plants I know how difficult it can be to grow them.

Brilliant

[Sweety]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

I love the plants I know how difficult it can be to grow them.

Brilliant

Most of my plants are Anubias nana (ones growing on wood/rock) & they are almost bomb proof & don't need much light to grow & the one in my wife's tank is 13" long the others are mainly Java fern, Java moss, Amazon Swords & Star grass but the Star grass does need good light to grow well. The Betta tank & the wife's tank have a 1/2" layer of aquatic compost in the bottom of the tank (nice & cheap) & a 3/4-1" layer of play pit sand on top of it & found it to work well & last for around 3 years before the plants use up all of the goodness from it

[elty001]

I have got a couple of community tanks.
a 6'x1'x1' with two tinfoil barbs,one silver shark,three red tail botia loaches and a common plec.
I also have a 3'x1'x1' bow fronted tank with five rainbows,one bristle nosed plec,two zebra loaches,two black widow tetra and two silver tipped neons.
I used to keep turtles but they need a giant tank to survive and grow properly and are very messy.
I have streamlined down to just the two tanks.
will get some pics up later when I get home.

[macabethiel]

I love Tinfoil Barbs but for some reason went for Silver Dollars & Silver Sharks instead !

[spinna]

Im sure I commented on how nice the pics were in this thread about 2 days ago but it seems to have vanished (bloody phones) so I would like to say your tanks all look great guys

[macabethiel]

I went Canoeing about 15 years ago on the River Trent I collected floating bit of greenery as it looked like a water Lilly.

For the first 4 years it grew and died back without flowering and was a drab pale green or light brown.

I decided to give it one more year and planted it in a chimney pot with the bulk of the plant close to the surface. The photo is what it did next it - grew right out of the water and since then has spread each year with floating seed pods and has a white flower to it.

Never seen one like it for sale in a garden center ! Sadly George the Belgian Shepard died a couple of years ago just before his 16 th birthday.