Well, I've had my tank up and running for about 2 months now. It's my first actual tank (had a small fish bowl growing up - looking back I realise how bad that was!).
To start with, I had a few fish and was even brave enough to buy some live plants. This is how I started out:
After stumbling across the members pics thread in here I realised my effort wasn't as good as I thought, so rearranged a bit and bought a few more plants. Not to mention a few more fish. Then I realised I should get a second filter to help with the extra fish. Then I read about floating plants so bought some frogbit. I put black cardboard on the back which I think made a huge difference too. This is how it looked then.
Sorry about the reflection, but that's the only pic I have on my laptop of that stage....
Just today, I had some plants arrive in the mail that I had ordered a few days ago. They weren't as big as I was expecting them to be, so what I planned doesn't quite look as good as I'd like it, but hopefully they'll all grow pretty quickly. I also found a few fry when moving things around, so have them in the breeder. Takes away a bit from the FTS, but oh well. I'm excited about my first fry
Here it is today:
Keen for any feedback/advice from the more experienced aquascapers out there. I don't really have a theme lol, have just put bits of everything to try and figure out what will work in my tank and what won't.
Another rookie mistake was the white gravel! Argh! All the poop shows up so much!! lol
To start with, I had a few fish and was even brave enough to buy some live plants. This is how I started out:
After stumbling across the members pics thread in here I realised my effort wasn't as good as I thought, so rearranged a bit and bought a few more plants. Not to mention a few more fish. Then I realised I should get a second filter to help with the extra fish. Then I read about floating plants so bought some frogbit. I put black cardboard on the back which I think made a huge difference too. This is how it looked then.
Sorry about the reflection, but that's the only pic I have on my laptop of that stage....
Just today, I had some plants arrive in the mail that I had ordered a few days ago. They weren't as big as I was expecting them to be, so what I planned doesn't quite look as good as I'd like it, but hopefully they'll all grow pretty quickly. I also found a few fry when moving things around, so have them in the breeder. Takes away a bit from the FTS, but oh well. I'm excited about my first fry
Here it is today:
Keen for any feedback/advice from the more experienced aquascapers out there. I don't really have a theme lol, have just put bits of everything to try and figure out what will work in my tank and what won't.
Another rookie mistake was the white gravel! Argh! All the poop shows up so much!! lol
