Photo #3 - 4 Foot 50 Gallon Tropical Community Tank.

50 gallons planted tank (mostly live plants and fish) - 4 Foot 50 Gallon Tropical community tank.

Submitted By: Derek on 10/01/2007

Photo Caption: 4 Foot 50 Gallon Tropical community tank.

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50 gallons planted tank (mostly live plants and fish) - Many changes along the way, have taken the riccia out etc.

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Ranked #95 out of 2712 planted tanks pictures worldwide

This picture looks better than 96.5% of pictures in this category

The Average Score for this picture is: 6.96

This picture has been rated : 175 times.

The Average Score for this category is: 5.37

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Country: Canada

Description: 4' 50G planted - Tank is c02 enriched 6.4 ph, 2.5kh, 3.5gh, 0 ammonia 0 nitrite 5 to 10 mg/l nitrate. With 3.7 wpg of 6500k lighting on a 10 hour cycle.

Advice: I have slowly switched all my tanks over to planted tanks over the last couple years and could never go back, the fish are so much calmer, and its just plain peaceful to watch them putter around in a planted tank.

Fish Kept: 18 Cardinal Tetras, 10 Neon Tetras, 6 GlowLight Tetras, 1 SAE, 4 Peppered Corries, 3 Pearl Gouramis 1m 2f, 4 ottos, 10 Japonica shrimp And the following that will be rehomed in a differnt tank very soon and replaced with a few more Cardinals, 8 Zebra danios, 3 colombian blue red and 2 white skirt tetras

Corals/Plants: The left of the tank is Riccia fluitans and Vesicularia dubyana tied down onto a system of hollow rock caves on a sand substrate. The center of the tank is all ludwigia repens, Nuphar stellata, Eleocharis parvula, Echinodorus tenellus, and a few crypts in flourabase, with a anubis on the wood that seperates the wood from the sand. The right of the tank is Microsorum pteropus regular and Windelov rooted onto a twisted pile of roots about 2 inches of the plain gravel with larger rock substrate, to create mangrove effect under them for the fish to find shelter. And a lonely crypt off in front of them.

Tank Size: 50 gallons

COMMENTS

Beautiful! But I don't know about #1?

Ying

2007-10-17 01:14:08

excellent tank you have, you should be proud. well laid out & the neons/cards in place just sets it all off brilliantly:) well done.

mralgae

2007-10-14 08:54:32

Hey Mr. Waxhead! It's me, lol :o) Great-looking tank and it definitely deserves the score! :o)

AnonymousNY

2007-10-05 07:35:16

I am sure it will balance down as it pulls in more votes, as there are many tanks far nicer then mine on here. I just noticed the tank from india in 2 only has a few votes as well. So it must just be a issue of a handful of high votes, rating it high, and as lower votes balance it out, it will come down the rungs fast, I am sure.