My 25 gallon planted tank update 7/10/10 3 months old

[TimmyME]

looks great!



[amblisky]

what is that beautiful flowy fish?

[RaffleReefer10]

WOW!!!

[jok3rzz]

any tips on how you the height in the background but making it look so natural, ive set up my fish tank but it seems too flat

[hydralisk3313]

@jok3rzz Just put more substrate at the back. Make a small substrate mountain.

[CLONEtrooperECO]

Magnificent how long did it take

[FareezLovesMe]

Beautiful. It was a great pleasure watching this video ; so thanked you for sharing it with all of us.

[SuperRaymond08]

I find all these awesome planted tank so amazing and unbelievable! i wish i had the talent (and money)

[PartAwesome]

What substrate are you using? Is it just gravel, or do you have something underneath it?

[chant4chakri]

What is the kind of lighting ur using... It's pretty amazing how the light is able ro seep thru to the bottom layer... Mine's a 10 gallon recently planted... Suggestions pleaseeee..!!

[vqfive]

@chant4chakri

I ran four 24" T5HO on this tank. 

[DBZuncutfight]

@vqfive beautiful who designed the tank if u plz tell me some designs for 15 gallon tank please

[JUNAID187]

how do you stop debris growing on your moss ?

[vqfive]

@JUNAID187

Lots of Siamese Algae eaters and lots of shrimps

[JUNAID187]

@vqfive

define "lots".

Are we talking hundreds here?

[vqfive]

@JUNAID187

In this tank I have 20 small 1-1.5" SAE and like 30-40 ghost shrimps. You probably could get away with halve that. Shrimps are cheap so put a lot of them in there.

[JGO749]

@vqfive

Curious but gold fish would not be able to work with plant life? or what do you think??

I think if I were to put shirmp in here they would probably try to eat them all.. :( I have two pretty big gold fishes.

[vqfive]

@JGO749

Goldfish eat plants plus the amount of food you would need to keep them healthy would get the tank to dirty.

I wouldn't recommend Goldfish

[tenkeychy]

do you need the gas inorder to have a nice tank like this?

[vqfive]

@tenkeychy

IMO its best if you can. Your plants will grow to there full potential

[kgc1000]

very nice!

[XXGOLDENXXDRAGONXX]

What is the fish with the black stripe?

[vqfive]

@XXGOLDENXXDRAGONXX

Siamese Algae eaters (Crossocheilus siamensis) not to be mixed up with the Flying Fox which look like the same fish but there not. Flying Foxes have a goldish stripe above the black stripe

[XXGOLDENXXDRAGONXX]

@vqfive Are Flying Foxes' and Siamese Algae eaters a good beginner fish?

[vqfive]

@XXGOLDENXXDRAGONXX

the siamese algae eaters are one of the best algae eaters for a planted tank. there pretty easy to care for. the flying foxes are a litle more aggressive but easy to keep.

[vqfive]

xmas moss

You can use java moss but I think xmas moss grow more thicker for a wall

[starthi]

wht is tht plant on the wall? is tht java moss? im new to water plants. i want to make a moss wall, wht do u think about java moss?

[sofujun]

how do you clean this?? man thats nice

[vqfive]

@sofujun

what you mean clean? I don't do any gravel vac if that what you mean. You don't do gravel vacs in planted tanks unless you want a cloudy mess!. I just pick out all floating leafs daily and scrap the glass once every couple of weeks for GSA. 25% water change weekly.

[auzziman911]

how did you manage to get the riccia to stay onto the wall???

[vqfive]

@auzziman911

I used Tully mesh you can buy at any fabric store. I wrapped the Tully over stainless steel mesh with green filament fishing line then suction cupped it to the tank

[todrunk2fck]

wow, that is a beautiful tank!

[greendogg55]

wow awesome tank, what do you put in your water to help your plants and make them so green? my java moss looks ugly except this 1 spot where I stuck it in the gravel

[vqfive]

@greendogg55

Iron keeps them green. I do add some iron but I also have laterite mixed in bottom layer of my substrate. Lighting also helps I use 65K T5HO