Hello, I saw a fish tank in a pet store I would love to duplicate, it was a square base tank, only 1&1/2 feet tall i think , filled with maybe 8 inches of water. They had rocks bordering two walls of the tank, complete with live plants growing on them and a tall rock more in the center of the tank with a small plant growing on it. All the rocks stuck out of the water, and the plants were all dry land species. The tank had a couple of archerfish and I believe a goby in it. I have a couple of archers in fresh water but I would like to move them to brackish because they would be happier and healthier in the long run. So my question is, how would I replicate something like this? I couldn't see any filtration systems in the tank making me think it had some kind of canister filter hidden by the rocks, but I really don't know. I would ask at the store but I'm afraid I'm busy this week so I thought I would throw the question out on the internet and check it whenever I could. Any suggestions or knowledge would be appreciated. Thank you!
Duplicating the petstore's brackish tank
- Thread starter SkeptikalScabies
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Well I found time for the pet store after all. Its a 90 gallon square tank with a canister filter underneath it. I simply didn't notice the piping leading down to the water and draper up and over the tank lip duew to the mountain of rocks and foliage.
Nice. Try to get a picture. I definitely need some inspiration for shooting displays for my archers
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one guy on here has a great mudskipper paludarium set up. Archers don't strictly need this though, and would probably appreciate the extra water volume over a half filled tank.
Go to reef central dot com and search in the DIY for manmade or artificial rock. You can pretty much cast/sculpt whatever rock formation you want. Some pretty special setups to be seen over there, though I always imagined that designing rockwork for reef tanks, emphasizing display of corals, limited some of the design possibilties. WIth enough time and imagination, a fella could create something really cool.
Go to reef central dot com and search in the DIY for manmade or artificial rock. You can pretty much cast/sculpt whatever rock formation you want. Some pretty special setups to be seen over there, though I always imagined that designing rockwork for reef tanks, emphasizing display of corals, limited some of the design possibilties. WIth enough time and imagination, a fella could create something really cool.
Wow! The word "envious" is on my mind. I would love to be able to do something like that.
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