40 Gallon Planted Tank

I thought that I would post the pictures of my tank that I just recently set up, It has grown a lot in the past few months and I love how it is looking now
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:oops:yumm pleco poo!!
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Red Tiger Lotus is finally coming back, I thought I had lost it
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Very nice. Love the blue ram.

Very nice!

So fun to do the time laps photos to see where one started. All my Lotus melt back to nothing when moved. So annoying....


Very nice set up, keep us posted

I really like the look of the wood that's laying next to the black and white rock. Any idea what type it is? It would look cool in all my tanks

ooooh, so pretty! Look at all that plant growth! Great job, MorganEA!

lloyd378 wrote:I really like the look of the wood that's laying next to the black and white rock. Any idea what type it is? It would look cool in all my tanks

Its Manzanita  

What a great transition your tank has made...the plants are loving it obviously. Great work.

Very nice!  

MorganEA wrote:

lloyd378 wrote:I really like the look of the wood that's laying next to the black and white rock. Any idea what type it is? It would look cool in all my tanks

Its Manzanita  

Wow, my manzanita has never had those tiger stripes! You got a real nice piece

It still has bits of bark from the look of it. After a while the entire piece should darken and will not have such a high contrast.

Beautiful female Platy  

lloyd378 wrote:

MorganEA wrote:

lloyd378 wrote:I really like the look of the wood that's laying next to the black and white rock. Any idea what type it is? It would look cool in all my tanks

Its Manzanita  

Wow, my manzanita has never had those tiger stripes! You got a real nice piece

I scraped most of the bark off by hand because my dads sandblaster was broken, the darker bits are bark that I was too lazy to scrape off
Thank you everyone for your comments  

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It took me forever to sex this stupid ram! Im pretty sure its a female.

Pretty!! Definitely a female. He black spot on her body has "jewels" (blue speckles/scales)
while males don't have the blue jewels on their black spots. (teehee, that sounds dirty.)   

 its taken forever because some days it doesn't look like she has blue flecks on her black dot!

Now I need to find her a man!!

What are the dimentions of this tank H*l*W?  I was given a tall tank close to this w/black silicone like yours Need help with gallon/volume of what I have. Nice tank set-up I bet your a proud Dad Huh?

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I have this tagged, you enter your dimensions and it tells you approximately how many gallons.
and yes im a proud mom   this tank has turned out way better than I thought.

our power went out for a long time so when it finally came back on I did a huge water change. While I was at it I trimmed off dead leaves and moved some stuff around.
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Edit: I need something taller in the back, any suggestions?

Oooooh, your tank is starting to fill out nicely! Here is a picture of my background plant.
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Take a look at these...they are great tall plants

Aponogeton ulvaceus
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Crinum thaianum
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Vallisneria sp.  'Asiatica'
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I love the look of the curly Val! FishNAbowl is that a kind of Rotala?

Nice update. The plants are really filling in nicely!

a crappy ipod picture with my new LED lights, its so much brighter now   
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MorganEA wrote:I love the look of the curly Val! FishNAbowl is that a kind of Rotala?

Just seen this : O

rotala indica rotundifolia

Your tank is looking really nice!

Thanks! I'm not sure if I like the lilies as a background plant so I'm going to add some more Rotala to fill in the empty parts.

I experimented with that "Lilly" plant for a while. It's a neat plant, now only have 1 left and is planted in front of the Rotala in my tank.

I love the color but the lily doesn't seem to like my tank, the leaves always have holes in them and it doesn't cover the back very well.

This plant doesn't create a very solid wall. I put 5 plants in a straight line, about 5 inches apart. It grew 2 feet + hit the surface and kept going. Again, a solid wall it did not make.