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100 gallons planted tank (mostly live plants and fish) - 100 gallon tank looking pretty bare because I just removed 90% of all the leaves due to ugly black/red brush algae. I literally pulled up all the plants or removed them from the wood, removed 9 out of 10 leaves from each, bleached much of the wood and accessories, and then replanted.

100 gallon tank looking pretty bare because I just removed 90% of all the leaves due to ugly black/red brush algae. I literally pulled up all the plants or removed them from the wood, removed 9 out of 10 leaves from each, bleached much of the wood and accessories, and then replanted.

Submitted By: peterkarig on 02/26/2008

Photo Caption: 100 gallon tank looking pretty bare because I just removed 90% of all the leaves due to ugly black/red brush algae. I literally pulled up all the plants or removed them from the wood, removed 9 out of 10 leaves from each, bleached much of the wood and accessories, and then replanted.

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State: New York

Country: United States

Description: 100 gal planted freshwater tank with two large powerheads running undergravel filter, two canister filters with max 275 gal combined capacity, and four 65 watt VHO flourescents run 8-10 hours per day. Soil is a mix of mediums averaging about four inches deep. There is a moderate current that provides excercise for fish and circulation for the plants.

Advice: Try live plants and make sure you have adequate lighting, and over-do the biological filtration. You will need to clean less often and you'll have a more stable ecosystem.

Fish Kept: 14 inch arawana, 3 8-10 inch Florida spotted gars, 2 eight inch hydro gars, 2 7 inch weather loaches, 1 6 inch talapia.

Corals/Plants: Large, medium, and small anubias, java fern, java moss, Amazon sword, and a few kinds of other medium to small nice plants.

Tank Size: 100 gallons

Quote: "respect my authoritae!" South Park

About Yourself: My father is a geology professor who helped origonate the idea of plate techtonics, my stepmother is a marine biologist who introduced me to freshwater fishtanks when she was studying crayfish behavior(she was far from the sea as we moved to Ithaca NY when I was ten). I used to raise fish I caught in the local streams and ponds. I buried flat rocks in the front corners of my tank and watched as the crayfish created their burrows, and then I was able to watch them as I had set it up so I would be able to see into their homes. I would return fish and crayfish to the stream when I went away for trips and when they got too big. I'm a respiratory therapist, I have an eight year old son, and we're both into fishtanks and N-scale trains.