Tom's Bucket O' Mud

[bae1994]

Amazing the best planted tank I've seen

 

[Ps3Steveo]

haha, sounds good! Look foward to pics

Not the easiest fish to photograph, will dig the flash out once they've settled in a bit more...

Love these, spotted some at my local MA yesterday and thinking I want some in the fry tank now, fry out, these in me thinks.

 

[BigTom]

Cheers chaps.

Ian, this is with the D200 and Sigma 10-20, which I've had for about 4 or 5 years now.

Steve, they're great little fish, mine spend most of their time hunting inverts through the plants then shoal a bit around dawn and dusk.

 

[lljdma06]

Always lovely, Tom and with so little effort too.

 

[BigTom]

Have added a few more emergent plants to fill out the transition between the water and the triffid (which has roots across the entire 9 square feet of substrate now!) and had a bit of a tidy up. Some photos -

New and improved emergent planting...

It's a jungle out there...

Little fish in a big pond...

Lilly spathe...

 

[bae1994]

Looks better every post

 

[SchottayB]

Cant belive I haven't seen this post yet. What a stunning peice of art you have done there. Thumbs up to that mate, very well done!

 

[lljdma06]

All I can say...

I love this tank.

One of my favorites. Have you ever entered this Paludarium in competitions?

Liz

 

[BigTom]

Cheers all.

Not really thought about comps to be honest Liz, it's still very much a work in progress and I suspect will always be a bit too chaotic to be worth entering anything serious with. I just like looking at it!

 

[coldcazzie]

I agree with bae it looks better every time you update it! Fabulous! If my little biotope ends up looking half as good I'll be chuffed, you've done a great job

 

[SuperColey1]

You really do need to work on your scape titles. lol.

'Bucket of mud' conveys to me the image of a half baked attempt at scaping where the scape/attempt at growing plants is just half hearted and bound to failure.

Where your tank is quite the opposite. One of the few natural looking setups around where it does look like you've photoshopped the glass and room onto a real piece of nature to make it look like a tank.

The subdued lighting looks like the natural shade from trees a stream would get and the rock placement plants and wood look like they've been there since time began.

AC

 

[BigTom]

You really do need to work on your scape titles. lol.

'Bucket of mud' conveys to me the image of a half baked attempt at scaping where the scape/attempt at growing plants is just half hearted and bound to failure.

Where your tank is quite the opposite. One of the few natural looking setups around where it does look like you've photoshopped the glass and room onto a real piece of nature to make it look like a tank.

The subdued lighting looks like the natural shade from trees a stream would get and the sonte placement plants and wood look like they've been there since time began.

AC

Thanks man, that's a really great thing to hear.

 

[lljdma06]

Like I said before. When I become a famous opera singer, I'll hire you to build me a "Bucket O' Mud".

 

[BigTom]

Well, the most exciting thing to update on is that there are now more fish - 6 Parosphromenus 'sintangensis' (trade name). Awesome fish, still pretty shy but just starting to colour up after a couple of days in the tank.

I was staking the tank out with the camera hoping to get a shot of one of the Paros (without any luck), and ended up snapping a few of one of the cherry shrimp... once I got them on the computer I noticed what seems to be white spots of some sort, any idea what they might be and if I should be worried?

 

[coldcazzie]

no idea about the white stuff, but what fabulous pictures!