Today I finally put the water and the substrate in the tank. tomorrow I will begin my fishless cycle. sunday or monday I will add some plants. I hear its good to add them while during the cycle. I am getting manzanita Driftwood hopefully within the week.
I think I will go with 9 puffers, a few ottos (2) maybe and i will try some shrimp in there once the plants have grown alittle so they have a place to hide as well. sounds good? or no? Tank is a 46g bow
Will add pictures tomorrow hopefully the water will celar a little before then.
I know they could eat the shrimp but i have heard of a few people with success with the shrimp!
Your tank will be amazing. Planted tanks usually are. I have my first planted tank right now. It's only a 10 gallon, but it's got a TON of different plants in them. I've found that my little dwarf puffers LOVE the ferns and leafier plants. At night you'll find them sleeping either IN the ferns or on one of the broad leaves of the plants.
First picture is of how it looks now, its really not that cloudy in my tank i swear. lol I took it the second the wood was in the tank so there was a few substrates stirred up.
Second picture is what it looked like at first.
Third picture is a close up from my cellphone of the hairgrass. surprisingly it took a better picture then my normal digital camera
I will take new photos of the tank after work. Hopefully they will turn out more clear.
Just wish my camera would do the tank justice. Might have been the lighting. Hopefully I can get a better pic today of the tank. Trust me, if I had way more money to spend on the tank right now that tank would be FULL of plants. but since I dont I have to pick and choose what plants I get and where to place them. I am hoping that the hair grass will grow well, or the microsword. if they dont, my backup plan is to try to get some stones covered in java moss in there. and some moss on the wood if I cant get green algea to grow on it.
As promised Updated photos of my tank. Went to the LFS well 20 miles away one. and they had a sale of amazon swords 3 for 5.50 so i got 6 and some java moss which i wrapped on some of the manzanita wood. Also the one picture you see one of the new snails. his name is winston. Chester is bigger but he dissappeared lol Winston is about the size of one of the faces on here
I got mine at different times. If you do it the way I did, make sure you rearrange and add more plants/rocks etc when you add the new little guys. They can be territorial.
My mom has been bugging me for a birthday list, so I told her if she wanted to get me something to get me the puffers for an early bday present. lol so she said YES! I just bought some "feeder" shrimp. They were selling them a dozen for 3.99 so I did that to kinda eat whatever they wanted that was in the tank. and I got some snails for free at the LFS. They have been going crazy on the glass and a few plants. I purposely didnt clean the back or sides of the tank of diatom after the photo was taken. There are like 15 pond snails in there I believe. Hoping they lay eggs at least once before I get the fish so there is some snails to snack on as a housewarming present for them. Hoping to get the puffers this saturday or next. so more picturse are on the way.
Any idea with the plants or are they good? I wanted to kinda make a jungle but not cluttered. Hoping when the hair grass or micro grows out it will look much better.
my tank got cluttered quickly, but then again, I'm just working with a 10gallon. I wish I had a 40+ gallon tank for my little ones!
I mentioned it in another thread, but the snails won't last long, at all. Not only will they hunt/kill all the little ones, but they're work on the big ones.
My tank just had an ammonia spike from too many half eaten snails. The puffs would gang up on the big snails (twice their size!) and kill them, but only eat as far as they could get in the shells. They got a massive water change and all the dead snails picked out. They're happy as can be now!
lol Yeah I dont plan for these little guys to make it very long. Once they start getting picked on I will get some ottos in there *after tank is mature enough* maybe
It seems that I've gotten most of the LFS around here snail-free. I'm trying to breed them in a five gallon, since the DPs made it impossible for them to breed in the 10gal.
nice. They're gonna love it. You'll have some extremely lucky little fishies!
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