New 40 Gallon

crackmonkey · Nov 19, 2005

Its all ready to go, just need to find the Figure Eights in my local fish stores which is proving hard. Two Plecs in there to keep it cycled until I find my puffers (no salt in there before you say it). Obviously i'll be getting plants, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it look better? I was thinking I should have just wood or just rock, one or the other. :blink:

nicklfire · Nov 19, 2005

nice tank, would look great planted.

what kinda filter do you have, i notice it's green

crackmonkey · Nov 19, 2005

nicklfire said:
nice tank, would look great planted.

what kinda filter do you have, i notice it's green

Ultra Jet Pro, I'd never heard of it before either but it's a good filter. For 50 Gallons max.

Ethos · Nov 19, 2005

Looks nice, I noticed the drip marks.
From filling, huh?

crackmonkey · Nov 19, 2005

Ethos said:
Looks nice, I noticed the drip marks.
From filling, huh?

Yeah. I need some new backing paper as you can see, and hopefully I'll get my Figure Eights this week from my local store, they keep saying they're getting them in on a certain date then when I phone them they say they never came

Probably be getting small Figure Eights and that store keeps them in freshwater so should I also keep them in fresh until they get older then gradually add the salt?

withington · Nov 20, 2005

to plain for my liking

pica_nuttalli · Nov 20, 2005

go on ahead and slowly acclimate them to a very low SG.

i'd skip out on plants unless you mean plastic one; most live plants can't handle the salt. my suggestion is to add more driftwood (lots of long, thin pieces).

MXPX4318 · Nov 20, 2005

pica_nuttalli said:
go on ahead and slowly acclimate them to a very low SG.

i'd skip out on plants unless you mean plastic one; most live plants can't handle the salt. my suggestion is to add more driftwood (lots of long, thin pieces).

not to go against what you said but I think that plants are a possibility in a low SG brackish tank, I've succesfully kept Java fern and Java moss myself in brackish water, and after viewing http

/www.plantgeek.net I found this list of brakcish adaptable plants (note I haven't tried anything other then java fern and java moss myself (though I will be trying to hygro soon enough as I have a crap ton of it) but here's the link, give it a look:

http

/www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=8

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