my 29 Gallon

[twoluvcats]

So here's the tank that started it all...


Inhabitants: 4 almost-golfball size apple snails, 3 zebra danios, 4 neon tetras, 2 black phantom tetras, 1 oto, 3 julii cories, 2 spotted cories, 1 bronze cory, and 1 pictus catfish...oh and a few baby apple snails that haven't been moved to the nursery yet.

Here's the right side


Left side


Closeup of my neons, danios and black phantoms:


I'm constantly changing things around in it...I'm hoping to add 2 teeny angels this week...have to go see how the stock looks at the kinda-LPS.

[ickyfishywishy]

preeetttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! i love ur tank its beautiful!!!!! the water is amazingliy clear mine hasent been lately "algea problems " u have natural plants in there? i read that natural ones help get rid of algea oh and is that yellow and red leaf plant real?? i love it it adds great color the pics are getting me psyched to change things around and get live plants for my tank ;D

[twoluvcats]

nope, none of my plants are live...they are a mixture of silks and plastic...I'm very picky about the fake plants I buy...its taken me a long time to get a mixture that I like in there.

[amanichen]

twoluvcats said:

nope, none of my plants are live...they are a mixture of silks and plastic...I'm very picky about the fake plants I buy...its taken me a long time to get a mixture that I like in there.

get some real ones

[twoluvcats]

oh you don't understand the black thumb i have

[amanichen]

*looks at own thumb*

Mine's pretty flesh colored, maybe you should get yours checked out by a doctor?

Try some java moss. It'll do well in just about any conditions, and will help control the nitrate in an established tank.

[twoluvcats]

how well does Java moss ship? None of the stores I go to carry it...so I'd have to aquabid it...but i'd hate to get a dead boxful.

[amanichen]

Easy easy easy. If all else fails I could send some to you =)

[twoluvcats]

wanna do a snail trade? Java moss for a couple few teeny apple snails

[amanichen]

Lol maybe just two apple snails. I only have a 10 right now, remember. And I'd have to eradicate the existing population, but they're generic brown snails and I'm bored of them. But yeah, I might be interested.

[twoluvcats]

PM me if you wanna...I'm not sure they'd be ready to ship for another week or so...they are all still about pencil eraser size...I'd like to wait till they are dime to nickel size before I start sending them off. They should start growing like gangbusters now that they are in thier own tank with calcium added.

[Rachel]

Nice setup TLC.

amanichen said:

Try some java moss. It'll do well in just about any conditions, and will help control the nitrate in an established tank.

I think you would notice a huge difference if you incorporate in live plants. I would never consider going back to fake plants myself. Java moss is your best friend and you would have to try pretty hard to kill it. It grows quickly, so even if you start off with a small clump you should have a decent amount in a few months. Honestly, you don't really have to do a whole lot of anything to maintain it either. I also keep java ferns myself, which are practically just as easy as JM. I really don't think you'd have any problems with live plants though. The upkeep is pretty darn easy.

[ickyfishywishy]

luvkitties, do u use anything to keep the water so clear? mine was that way for a while till these last few days its been slightly fogy :S all i could think of is its the algea or is it something else?