few pics of my 45

Full tank and stand/hood
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Closer look at tank
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Left side
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Right side
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And some nice pearling
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Still need a good ground cover and some foreground plants but cash is tight right now.
Will post an update in a week or so. Sorry for the crap pics btw. Thanks for looking.

Is this the same tank pictures you showed me a couple of days ago??......looks really good

Very nice tank and the hood/stand combo looks like picket fence planks which is super cool looking. Almost looks homemade like something I did in woodshop class in 8th grade. I got an A grade for it.

Love to see the plants tear happy air bubbles! Good job keepin them happy dude!

Sidekicking, thank you, and yes this is the tank I showed you on my phone at midway on Thursday.

Salzabar, thank you, this stand and hood was made out of two pallets I had brought home frome work and some interior house paint. I just wanted to see if I could make something nice with junk.

Sandnuka, it is nice when they do that I enjoy watching the process, thanky you.

did you paint the background or is it a poster?

Looks real cool no doubt!!

Well done. Love the plants.

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Just a little pic update. I pulled out a few things and added in a few things. Got rid of one kind of algea and started growing three others. Sorry for the craptastic pictures. Will update again in a few weeks. Thanks for looking.

It's looking great! Alot easier to see on the forum than on my phone lol

Well its crap pics from my phone... but thanks man.

Looks pretty good!

Very nice tanks and plants whats the benefits of planted tanks and or the downfalls!!?!?!

looks awesome dude! Your plants look so happy.

somethingfishy - Really depends on the fish you chose, some fish rip up plants... plants also effect the water parameters, droppin PH and makin the water soft... so they dont work for african rift lake cichlids... but great for New world cichlids, angels, discus, etc... also plants are great at reducing nitrate/nitrite/ammonia....

Thought I would dig this up to show my old planted tank. I am doing a new one in a 10 gallon, the anubias in my 10 is the same anubias in here.

Ah man you had to do it.....Now I want a bigger planted tank!

Very nice though....

Where did you end up setting the 45g at? You dont even have any more room, if I understand the "one tank to room rule". Is it in your bathroom?

Lol, no this is an old tank, I dug up the thread to show what my old planted tank looked like. You know I haven't even thought about the bathroom, my wife is gonna kill you. And I'm gonna have some potty pets.

nice tank, looks very natural.

Thanks I miss it, it died because it was overtaken by green slime algea, no matter what I did I couldent get rid of the algea, so I blacked it out for 2 weeks with a quilt over it and the lights off. I reached theough every other day and fed the fish. When I uncovered the tank the only thing alive was the fish, the amano shrimp, and the anubias. I lost a really big bunch of java fern trident, and to me that was the biggest loss, I really love that plant and its pretty tough to come by. All and all I broke down the tank and stuck it on the street with the stand, it was gone in 12 minutes. I watched as a young man stoped and loaded it in his truck and drove away..... pretty sad, but the tank was badly scratched and the stand was home made so not a big loss. Still sucked.

fish_n_vw wrote:Lol, no this is an old tank, I dug up the thread to show what my old planted tank looked like. You know I haven't even thought about the bathroom, my wife is gonna kill you. And I'm gonna have some potty pets.

As long as you dont use the bathtub itself to raise fish in it does work with the wife's "one tank per room rule". And calling them potty pets, too funny