Neo Gooba Tank ::56K Warning::

[Cephas]

This is my thirty-four litre (eight to nine gallon) tank named for the tribal heads decorating it (which my brother named 'Goobas'.) It's also my first tank beyond(ignorantly) keeping goldfish when I was a kid.

I've posted it before, but I've since gotten new plants and fish for it.


The new and improved (I hope) aquascape.

 

[Cephas]

A wide-shot of the tank and its surrounding décor.

 

[StingrayKid]

Ahhh... scary Tiki! Awsome tank!

 

[Jen]

Well done. That looks fantastic.

 

[Cephas]

Thanks. Here's another one. It's one of the first times I've managed to photograph a fish without it turning out as a colourful blur. My camera doesn't like movement very much. This platy looks pregnant most of the time, this is one of her thinner days.

 

[littlefishie]

I love the giant heads! They remind me of these African masks my mother has an obsession with.. so pretty.

 

[GSD]

cute platys

 

[moe_1]

normally those ornaments would look pretty bad...like those "no fishing" signs.
but i like the heads, really goes well, gives the tank a jungle feel to it.
nice work.

 

[Cephas]

Hey, thanks everyone.

normally those ornaments would look pretty bad...like those "no fishing" signs.
but i like the heads, really goes well, gives the tank a jungle feel to it.
nice work.

Grr... whoever came up with those "No Fishing" signs whould have his intestines pulled out with a coat hanger. The goobas lose a lot of their effect in photographs; when you can actually see the fish swimming around them it makes them look like they've been their for centuries, and the blank expression of the standing one (and that of the platies and cories...) tends to make the tank more cheery.

cute platys

Thanks. Pretty-much all of my fish are the under-dogs that'd been left after no-one else wanted them. It makes them more cute, I think.


Though I'd like to ask for a bit of advice. There's one type of plant that I've put in my tank since day one. I don't know the name of it, but I looked it up via a picture-ID thing and it said it was supposed to be one of the hardiest plants there are. I've got a photo of it below; anyone have any ideas as to why it always looks brown and sick?

 

[Jen]

Is that a Hygro species? If it is, my Hygro polysperma did the same thing... all the lower leaves died off and it got very stemy. When I added more light the lower leaves came back. How much light do you have on your tank?

 

[dirtydogg]

Awesome Tank!

 

[Cephas]

Is that a Hygro species? If it is, my Hygro polysperma did the same thing... all the lower leaves died off and it got very stemy. When I added more light the lower leaves came back. How much light do you have on your tank?

Yup, it looks like a "hygrophila polysperma" according to this site, and that's pretty-much exactly the same thing that's happening to mine.

As for the light, the tank came as a boxed set with everything in it. (It's by a company called 'AquaOne'. All of pet shops I've been to lately've been swamped with their stuff.) I went to their website and looked up my tank. All it said about the lights was, "NEW PL Light tube included for a brighter clearer tank...". I've no idea what the Hell that means, but I hope that the bulbs are a standardised size so that I can up-grade them without too much trouble.

 

[Nospherith]

hey nice tank. The goobas add a mystic dynamic to the entire assembly you have going there. It looks really good. What are the books that you have around the aquarium?

 

[Yenko]

Wow! Once your plants fill out they will look great!

I have to complement you on being the first person on the board to have a nice tank with an obviously man-made centerpeice. Your Platies look great.