120g South American Community

[coryjac0b]

The whole system consists of a 120g main display with 55g sump. It is a marineland 120g XH. 60x18x26. The plants, especially pothos help a lot with keeping nutrients down.

Full Tank shot:



"Floating" Plants, which consists of mostly pothos, and some other plants that I can't recall names or species:



One of my adult Cobalt Angels always begging:



Juvenile cobalts that I picked up recently:



Checkerboard cichlid background, bolivian ram foreground:

 

[gregkarr09]

beautiful looking set up and gorgeous blue's! very natural set up! I'm sure they are super happy!

 

[AquaAlex1993]

That cobalt blue is stunning!

 

[Drstrangelove]

Great looking tank. For some reason, I think that the overall lighting you have is probably pretty close to what they actually have in the Amazon.

 

[coryjac0b]

Thanks, I was going for a half dim half full lit look. Seemed a bit more natural to me.

 

[magpie]

Very nice! For some reason the text is in black so I didn't realize you had written anything in your post. Was going to comment on the dicrossus and ram. I also see some cories... anything else in there? Edit: just clicked the first pic larger and see maybe a laetacara?

Nice setup. Can you take another pic of the plant side of the tank? There's some glare and I'm curious how the roots are going into the tank and what it looks like. I'm considering something similar on one side of a future tank. How often do you trim the roots?

 

[coryjac0b]

Very nice! For some reason the text is in black so I didn't realize you had written anything in your post. Was going to comment on the dicrossus and ram. I also see some cories... anything else in there? Edit: just clicked the first pic larger and see maybe a laetacara?

Nice setup. Can you take another pic of the plant side of the tank? There's some glare and I'm curious how the roots are going into the tank and what it looks like. I'm considering something similar on one side of a future tank. How often do you trim the roots?

Stock list as of this moment:
Cobalt, Platinum and Black angels. I'll be re-homing the platinum and black angels soon.
Male dicrossus filamentosus
Trio of Bolivian Rams.
German Blue Rams, i think two females
Green cories
Unbonded pair of Keyholes.
Trio of Laectacara Curviceps.
Long fin bristlenose pleco
Lemon drop ancistrus
Clown pleco
Dozen Cardinal Tetras, Half Dozen Rummy Nose.
Trio of A. Cacatouides "orange flash"

I can take a few more pics this afternoon. They plants are just threaded through some egg crate and the roots in the water. A few of the plants are zip tied to the egg crate to keep them from resting on leaves or branches.

I have not trimmed the roots yet. I was hoping for them to go deeper and almost touch the substrate. One of the plants has one long shooter root that is growing horizontal and almost to the other side of the tank.

I did some digging and the plants are pothos, anthurium ( kind of like a peace lily), an aluminum plant, and I can't remember the last one with the large leaves with the reddish veins.

 

[coryjac0b]

Finally was able to take a few more pics of the root system and how I have some of the plants mounted.

 

[magpie]

Thank you! That's helpful.

I am taking down a 65 gallon tank and ripped out a ton of rooted plants (so I can catch the fish I'm rehoming.)

I left two huge swords just floating at the surface to give them some cover in the meantime and even though they're literally just dumped in there, I love how it looks with the more open bottom but vegetation and roots up high. The fish seem to like it too. It's a nice mix of having open space to swim and also to actually see the fish, yet give it a more natural look and give them some cover.

I'm definitely going to do something like your system with pothos in the new tank.

 

[coryjac0b]

Looks good. I like it. The pothos is definitely the fastest growing. If I let the runners go it will be touching the stand in about 2 months.