Freshwater tanks and fish...

Well, I've been meaning to post some updated pictures of my freshwater tanks and fish, so here they are!!!

10g with flash...


...without flash...


Dwarf platys in 10g...


3 betta tanks and 1 fry tank...



"Spike" the betta...



"Moe" the betta...



"Popeye" the betta...


*Singing*... I'm goin' on a shrimp hunt....


And last, but certainly not least, Bob the snail...

your fish
I over your fish
And I think you took some

Beatiful Bettas, and I like your Dwarf Platies. I have some, and I think they're just an adorable variety.

they are positively lovely 3fsh

Dazzlingly beautiful pics, 3fsh. You really have talent for plant selection and placement. I noticed that you have a CO2 bubble ladder. What are the tank specs, and wpg? See what you can do with the layout with more plants I'm sure it would look awesome. Fantastic betta pics too btw.

Dazzlingly beautiful pics, 3fsh. You really have talent for plant selection and placement. I noticed that you have a CO2 bubble ladder. What are the tank specs, and wpg? See what you can do with the layout with more plants I'm sure it would look awesome.

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Thank you... ) It's not looking all that great right now because I desperately need to re-aquascape the whole tank. Many of the plants are only in there because I'm selling them and I have nowhere else to put them. The tank is a 10g with two compact flourescent lights (coralife plant-gro brand) with 3/4 flourite and 1/4 gravel and a penguin bio-wheel filter for tanks up to 20g. I have two species of crypts, lotus plants, a micro sword (I believe), an anubias, and some other un-identified plants. The Co2 cannister isn't running at the moment, because I had columnaris in there for a while and the fish were gasping for air at the surface due to the meds + the reduced oxygen in the water from the Co2.

Any suggestions for tank layout?

You could do it how I did my old 10G...I rather liked that set up...if I can find a pic. somewhere.....

There....The top one
We seem to have a few of the same decorations, so it might work...

Any suggestions for tank layout?

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Well, it looks great to me as it is. It lacks order and symmetry yet it's pleasing to look at. It seems as though you have a nice line going from the back-right corner to the front-left corner. I liked the layout in the first place; however if you feel the need to re-scape then there's some things that I would do. The Fluorite substrate is good, and if it's sloped towards the back of the tank (about 2cm at the front and 6-10cm at the back) it gives the entire scape more depth, specifically the stem plants in the backround to cover equipment and such. The driftwood in the tank is contorted and uneven, perfect for a planted tank. If it is buried in the substrate then it might take on a more natural, archaic appearance. When getting plants, remember it's always good to have more of an odd number of the same species of plant in a tank rather than one of many different plant species. The scape will look jumbled with too many plants/textures and give an impression of horror vacui. I wrote a little bit about that and the use of scalene triangles to replicate natural variance in the planted tank in my second photo thread here.

The Co2 cannister isn't running at the moment ... the fish were gasping for air at the surface due to the meds + the reduced oxygen in the water from the Co2.

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I've heard that CO2 saturation doesn't correlate with oxygen levels. I was busy studying for a while and this is basically what I found out: dissolved oxygen saturation value varies with oxygen pressure in the air, water temperature and dissolved salts (metal+nonmetal) present. So, although some (only about 1%) of dissolved CO2 reacts with H20 to form carbonic acid (HCO3-) thereby causing a pH shift to an extent determined by the water's buffering capacity/alkalinity (ppm of the CO3.2- ion), it does not affect the dissolved oxygen saturation value. So you don't have to worry about your fish having enough 02, the gasping was probably caused by some other factor. Except try to keep the CO2 levels between 15 and 30ppm because fish might start to get stressed with levels higher than 30ppm.

-Nospherith