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VOTE NOW..September 2019 Tank of the Month

Vote now for your choice for September 2019 Tank of the Month

  • PheonixKingZ

    Votes: 6 10.7%
  • Ingrid

    Votes: 4 7.1%
  • Lilyann

    Votes: 13 23.2%
  • Buffy1977

    Votes: 17 30.4%
  • WinterSoldier

    Votes: 4 7.1%
  • Briggan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Copper09

    Votes: 12 21.4%

  • Total voters
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We have 7 worthy entrants for Fishforums' September Tank of the Month Contest. View all the tanks and descriptions below and then go to top of page and click on your choice for TOTM

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Please DO NOT post any comments about specific tanks in this thread...such posts will promptly be deleted. This thread will be cleaned up occasionally for best readability.

Poll will close on September 10th at 6:58 pm EST. We at fishforums.net thank you for your participation.
 
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Ok, here’s my tank....

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Tank name: “Plant Paradise”

Size: 10 gallons.

Tank material: glass

Equipment:

Filter: 3-10 gallon Tetra filter, with pant hose over the intake.

Heater: Interpet 3-10 gallon adjustable heater.

Lighting: 14 Watt FCB, in desk clip lamp.

Inhabitants: 1 Male Super Delta Tale/Dumbo Ear Betta Fish, 1 albino bushy nose pleco, about 30 MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snails), 5 Blue Rams Horn Snails, And 1 very big Zebra Nerite snail.

Plants: Anacharis, 2 types of Anubias, Lacy Java Fern, And River ferns.

Fertilizers?: Nope! I just let it grow!

Hardscape materials: 2 lb Dragon Stone, 3 pieces of driftwood, and lava rocks.

Substrate: Play sand.

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How long has this tank been setup?: around 4 months.

Water parameters?:

ph: 7.5

Ammonia: 0ppm

Nitrite: 0ppm

Nitrate: 0ppm

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This has been my 10 gallon betta tank “Plant Paradise, and I hope you enjoy! Thank you for looking! :thanks:
 
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Tank name under water paradise
Size 60 litres it is a tetra aqua art explorer line 60l
Tank material glass
Equipment aqua art explorer line led light
Tetra easy crystal filter box 300
Tetra ht 25 -300 heater
Tropica plant growth system 60 this is a co2 machine
Air stone through temple
Moss balls × 2
unknown plant ×2
Seachem one year combo alert
Thermometer
Plant growth substrate and gravel
Tropica driftwood
We have 6 platties and 6 guppies
Ps the tank is about 2 months old
 
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Size: 180 gallon
Tank info: Established/built 3 years ago. However, change arrangement ( revamp) every 6 months. This is an older version.
Fish:
African characins:
9 alestopetersius nigropterus
10 phenocogrammus aurentiuus
7 alestopetersius brichardii
5 hemigrammopetersius pulcher

South American cichlids:
3 geophagus neambi
5 geophagus sveni
5 biotodoma cupido
3 biotodoma wavarinii
4 pterophyllum altum


South American Catfish:
7 corydoras eques
6 brochis splendens
3 otocinclus gulare



Water Paramaters: pH 7.2; KH 3/ GH 5. TDS range 85- 115.
Ferts: Seachem Root tabs/Thrive All in One Liquid Ferts
Lighting: Licah 72 inch LED Light + 2 Fluvel 3.0
Filters: 2- Fluvel FX 6
Heater: JBJ`s TrueTemp digital heater and controller
Air Pump: 2- Eheim 400

Water change/gravel cleaning: 1- 60-75% weekly.
Feeding:
Staple: 3 mixed New life Spectrum pellets: Cichlid, Algaemax, Thera-A.
Staple: NLS Optimum Freshwater Flake
Rotation: Frozen brineshrimp with spirulina, Freeze-dried blackworms with spirulina
Once weekly feed with Boyds Vitachem- supplemental vitamins


 
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Hello all :D

New to all this, and still learning lots, but I’ll try and do a write up.

200 litre Fluval Roma tank. 2 weeks old. Moved from a smaller tank. 1st time using live plants.

Sand and planted.
Root Sticks and fertiliser
Fluval 306 and my old internal filter too currently whilst still establishing.

Home to
1 platty
1 danio
1 golden algae eater
2 gourami
2 pleco
10 neon tetra
2 lamp eye
3 other tetra
2 Cory julii
2 silver flying fox
2 frogs
1 whiptail catfish
Pair of dwarf cockatoo cichlids
2 redline torpedo barb
 
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This is my 20 gallon tank
Planted with dirt, clay suppliments every month. As well as dynamite plus fertilizer once in awhile.
Plants are amazon sword
Brazilian Pennywort
Guppy grass
water wistera
lighting is the light that came in the top fin box.

Fish are
Enders (unknown ammount)
Guppies 3
neon tetras 5
1 female betta (soon to be moved)
1 otocinclaus

I forgot to add maintenance

once a week water change once and thats basically it
 
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Here’s my tank!
Size: 10 gallon standard, divided
Established: about 2 months ago using media from another tank, fully cycled
Filter: Tetra internal filter whisper 10i
Light: Originally for reptiles, I have a low wattage basking bulb in a heat lamp sitting on a mesh lid for the tank (I will be replacing these with more appropriate lights very soon!)
Substrate: natural river gravel, some large river stones
Decorations: 3 silk plants, slate tiles (hard to see in the picture, but it’s up against the divider)
Fish: two male bettas, a black mustard gas and a black crowntail, separated.

Maintenance:
The glass and divider are kept clean by rubbing the algae off, I add new water whenever needed, I condition the water using seachem prime. I don’t keep this tank on any particular cleaning schedule.
Feeding: I feed the fish 5-6 days out of the week with betta pellets and flakes. I try to get each fish 4 pellets and skip a day or two to prevent digestive issues from the pellets or flakes until I can get healthier foods.

So, this tank is clearly not in its final stages of competition, but we’re getting there! Thanks for reading about it! :)
 
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Here’s my low tech planted 5g

Tank is a Topfin retreat 5g with the filter compartment removed

Fish inside are:

Pair of wild type honey gouramis
Pair of sparkling gouramis
Ember tetras
Mystery snails
Pencil fish

Plants are:

Rotala wallichii
Alternanthera Rosanervig
Blyva novoguineensis
Rotala nanjenshan
Myriophyllum
Rotala macrandra
Salvinia minima
Taiwan moss
Fissidens

Lighting is ONF flat nano+ and lights are on for 10 hours a day.

Filtration is an azoo mini hob.

I fertilize with 1ml of flourish and trace after every water change.

Substrate is used Amazonia supplemented with root tabs.

Water change is done every 4 days and tank has been setup for almost two months now.

I feed my fish NorthFin pellets (community and krill pro), and twice a week they get frozen food (daphnia, baby brine, spiraling enhanced brine, music shrimp)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
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