Betta Tank FINISHED photo journal

[CatLover]

This thread, and your tank, is fantastic! I love how you have planted it! I wish I could plant like that... I have THE worst luck with plants (aquatic and regular).

I am eager to see the tank after the wood is added

Keep up the great work!!

 

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This thread, and your tank, is fantastic! I love how you have planted it! I wish I could plant like that... I have THE worst luck with plants (aquatic and regular).

I am eager to see the tank after the wood is added

Keep up the great work!!

Always give it another shot, and when it doubt . . . more light.

Anyway, your wish will be granted all the arranging of wood and planting . . . IS DONE. I got TONS of photos . . . save the best for last (in other words, patience, full tank photos are the last thing I'll post).

But, for a special treat, (and a preview as to the new lay out) I present the photo I FINALLY GOT OF MY ZEBRA BOTIA.

 

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To start off, I'll say the wood I was originally going to use . . . was WAY too big . . . so I traded it in for a bunch of smaller pieces . . . and I didn't even use all of those.

 

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Boil the wood for an hour to get as much tannin out as possible . . . unless you like tea colored water . . . the guy at the LFs told me a lot of tetra, catfish, and small cichlids actually prefer the brown water . . . whatever, this tank has rasboras, loaches and betta, so boiling away.

 

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Wood is the perfect planting media for moss (though I didn't plant mine with moss), java ferns (I did use java ferns), and anubia sp.

I bought a pot of Anbia bateri v. nana today . . . always buy potted if you can afford it, u get healthy roots. It's just annoying to pull out the foam planting media is all . . .

 

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Some other plants I bought . . .

the green/red plant is R. indica . . . I decided that it's leaf shape looked to much like micranthum's for this tank, so I just put it in a different tank. It ended up looking like a pale, almost sickly micranthem when planted near the micranthem.

The other red plant is R. Wallichi, Feather leaf plants should get the same disturbance attention as hair grass really needs.

Some twisted Vallis to contrast leaf shape with my regular vallis; put the twisted ones in the middle and moved the regulars out to the side.

 

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Time for the good stuff . . . full tank photos!!

It'll be a couple months before the plants really grow in and the tank starts looking really nice but . . .

. . . I'm happy

 

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Slightly different angle

 

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That's all folks . . . Hope u enjoyed the journal of putting my tank together . . . this thread may now rest in piece . . . or without updates. I'll post pics as the plants grow, but I'll just make new threads. Viva la betta!!

PS-- Until the next pics, the kuhli's would like to say . . . just chillax. B)

 

[kev_kb]

Nice update and a very nice tank you have there!