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[guano]

Just rescaped my Australoheros Oblongum comm tank

Before



The driftwood was just small enough to fit thru the top braces without any cutting


I am so sick and tired of the silver dollars eating all the plants I stick in there! So I tried fake plants for the first time from the craft store



What do you guys think? Should I keep the plastic or ditch it?

 

[archers]

Looks nice. Whats the stock?

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[Reechardd]

Looks good bro! Keep the plants ! Add some long grass so it can wave around !add a top current to give it the glimmering effect!


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[guano]

Looks good bro! Keep the plants ! Add some long grass so it can wave around !add a top current to give it the glimmering effect!

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Its starting to grow on me the more I look at it and most importantly the wife loves it. I think the long grass suggestion is a good idea. I hope to find some I like, the LFS over here are kinda lacking. Thats why I got those plants from the craft store my wife goes to.

There is actually a lot of top current. I got 4 10w led floodlights and a Koralia Evo 1400 pointed to the surface and the tank does glimmer nicely but does not really show up in the pictures.

 

[guano]

Looks nice. Whats the stock?

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Thanks! I got 6 juvie australoheros oblongums. Eyeballing, largest one is around 3" smallest around 1.5"
6 buenos aires tetras 1.5-2"
5 spotted silver dollars 1.5-2.5"
5 colombian tetras 1-1.5"
12 red eye tetras 1-1.5"

Here some old pics I took of the chanchitos






I'll try and get some updated pics in the new tank later

 

[guanl23]

of all the fake plants i've use, the ones you have right now are my favorite, especcially when they get some algae growing on them!

 

[Deathinnumbers]

Those are awesome fake plants. Looks great

 

[CrimsonFog]

Nice setup, my friend. I love the stock list. Nice mix. I bet you can watch this tanks activity all day long. I know I would!

 

[guano]

Those are awesome fake plants. Looks great

Thanks Death!

of all the fake plants i've use, the ones you have right now are my favorite, especcially when they get some algae growing on them!

Definitely needs algae on them! Standing back, its pretty hard to tell that they're fakes. But from up close is a different story.

 

[guano]

Nice setup, my friend. I love the stock list. Nice mix. I bet you can watch this tanks activity all day long. I know I would!

Thank you! it's very relaxing watching them and having a beer. Not much of a monster stock but needed something the wife likes too since I'm gone at least half the year and she has to take care of them trying to get her into my obsession