My FTS's (for really real this time...)

[clgkag]

That 300 hundred is sick! What is the plant at the top and how is it growing down in the water?

 

[HULON]

Looks just Beautiful Justin!!!

 

[JK47]

Looks great Justin.

Thanks Damien!

I must say...all that hard work paid off!!

Your tanks are very inspiring! Great Job!!!!!!!

Thanks for the kind words!

looks like you put a lot of hard work into that.

I did, thanks for the feedback!

great setups! those colombian tetras sure are great fish!

Thanks Jeff! I LOVE the colombian's.. They school in a tight pack and have great colors. It's a shame they have a bad rapp for "nipping".. So not true..

everything looks awesome! nice work!

Thank you Jo!! Its great to see you around bud, how have you been?

That 300 hundred is sick! What is the plant at the top and how is it growing down in the water?

It's a silk spider plant that was thinned out, cut into about 15 chunks and planted in various places in the tank. I mounted them over the Loc-Line returns so the sway in the flow. If I can find it, I'll add the pic I used to model this design after. Nothing in this tank is real, it's 100% artificial, even the wood.. I am on a quest to show fake plants can look just as good if planned well. The 300 is in the garage so I have no interest in pampering plants, it's about the fish.. Tanks in the house are all live plants though. That and this big guy make sure live plants "pay the price" for entering his tank lol. He even goes after the silks..

Looks just Beautiful Justin!!!

Thanks bro Hugh!

Nice setups! Do you have those plants growing into the back of that 10g?

Yeah they are live plants. I built a faux wall out of the 3D background and made a submerged sump/FW refugium. The plants consume the ammonia in this tank so it avoids the nitrogen cycle pretty much all together. The guys over in the planted setup would think I am a total idiot but it was a fun project I did with my sons so meh... I have a 180 GHP pump turning over the 10 gallon 18 times per hour but the majority of the flow is in the planted chamber, in the main tank is much less. I snapped a couple pictures from tonight for you below.











I finally got the other 100 lbs of sand moved over, it looks far better IMO. I also added another 50 lbs to the 120 gallon as well and am glad I did.. It's a little out of focus below but if you look closely you see all the orange heads in the front schooling together. They look tiny in this tank! The largest is 6" TL.







This is something likely only Jeff Rapps and myself have seen stateside??? 6 of these fish in one tank, at one time. (he got in a group a while back) I know of no other people in the US keeping a school of this size. I redid all my tanks to build this one for them. Breeding them is a #1 goal in my hobby. Please let me know if you know of other people keeping this species please, I want to talk to them!

 

[jsethcole]

very nice man. I like the faux wall sump/refugium. might experiment with that in one of my smaller tanks.

 

[jsethcole]

to prevent any "been there done that" mistakes, do you have a step by step or a link you refered to when building yours?

 

[JK47]

very nice man. I like the faux wall sump/refugium. might experiment with that in one of my smaller tanks.

to prevent any "been there done that" mistakes, do you have a step by step or a link you refered to when building yours?

Thank you Seth! sure thing, I have a two links for you. If you want to try something like that drop me a PM or start a thread, I'll happily help.


#1 my overhaul thread, I got injured and was off work 4 months, this kept me busy. Take a vacation day to read the whole thing though.. ADD warning
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358278


#2 is a sticky in the setup and filtration section that is all of the ^ above with little detail but has step by step pics on each tank and is in order. There is like 200+ pics in two pages though. (legit load warning)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=375030

 

[studd muffin]

Awesome!

 

[AquaCrazy]

Wow, those are very nice!!

 

[jsethcole]

Thank you Seth! sure thing, I have a two links for you. If you want to try something like that drop me a PM or start a thread, I'll happily help.


#1 my overhaul thread, I got injured and was off work 4 months, this kept me busy. Take a vacation day to read the whole thing though.. ADD warning
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358278


#2 is a sticky in the setup and filtration section that is all of the ^ above with little detail but has step by step pics on each tank and is in order. There is like 200+ pics in two pages though. (legit load warning)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=375030

Thanks for the links. Ill keep in touch via this thread and most likely a pm.

as far as time i think ill have plenty...

last week a woman ran a red light and t-boned me, totaling my car.. ive taken some time off work to deal with a little dose of life...

 

[JK47]

Thanks for the links. Ill keep in touch via this thread and most likely a pm.

as far as time i think ill have plenty...

last week a woman ran a red light and t-boned me, totaling my car.. ive taken some time off work to deal with a little dose of life...

Sorry to hear of your accident. You should for sure should start a project. Its therapy.. July 22nd I suffered a neck injury (VAD) and the disection clotted, resulting in two strokes. Relearn damn near everything you know and you would be suprised how much this hobby can help you recover. If you have dogs, training them can also be a major help occupying time and doing something of benifit. Drop me a pm anytime, I'll help with whatever I can.