| 2007 Top 10 Planted Tanks |
Rated #1: SKRPhoenix  [ Planted Tanks ] |  |
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United Kingdom |
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| Rank: |
#1 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
8.08 |
| Number of votes: |
24 |
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Tank os of 08/01/08 |
| Advice: |
Look after the water and the fish will do fine. |
| Fish Kept: |
Boesemani Rainbows
Peppered Cory's
Bristle Nose Plec.
Euro Rams
Armoured Shrimp
Gold Apple Snail |
| Plants Kept: |
Various & Unknown
(I'm no good with plant names) |
| Tank Size: |
30 |
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| Description: |
Juwel Rio 125
Upgraded to T5 Lighting
Additional AquaGlo T8
Standard Filtration+Aquaclear Quickclear
Hagen Marina LED Night Lighting |
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| Rated #2: FIKUS [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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Yugoslavia |
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| Rank: |
#2 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.64 |
| Number of votes: |
143 |
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130 gallons |
| Quote: |
n/a |
| Advice: |
Do not lose patience! Never... |
| Fish Kept: |
Paracheirodon innesi
Prionobrama filigera
Hemigrammus bleheri
SAE
Otocinclus vittatus |
| Plants Kept: |
approx. 20 species of aquatic plants
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| Tank Size: |
130 |
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| Description: |
150x55x60 cm
Sylvania Aquastar & Grolux T5 and T8 lamps,
external filtration (2000L/h),
Heater 300W,
CO2 addition 3b/s. |
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| Rated #3: barny61 [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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| State: None/Other |
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United Kingdom |
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| Rank: |
#3 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.51 |
| Number of votes: |
122 |
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New diy 10 feet tank, now planted and cycled. It's great to watch the fish shoaling in the evening, usually there are about 40 to 50 fish shoaling the complete length of the tank. You wouldn't think so looking at the photo because I had to take it from a distance to get the complete tank on, hence you can't see many fish. |
| Quote: |
Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow.(Only joking, of course) |
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Never be too eager to put new fish into a tank, Always quarantine them first. I have learned from my mistakes. Don't forget to change around 10 to 15% of the water once or twice a week.Although some people disagree with this but because I live in a hard water area I filter natural rain water for topping up the tank and since doing this the fish look a lot healthier and the catfish have started laying eggs on the glass.
Just by watching your fish on a daily basis you get to know when they are happy or are in anyway stressed and can act accordingly.
Addition 24/11/2006 > Have set up another small breeding tank for my Corydoras and currently have about 20 baby Catfish and believe it or not some are Bronze Cory's and some are Peppered, so they are all breeding at the same time. Fantasic. Will add photo of babies when they are large enough. |
| Fish Kept: |
Bronze catfish - 12
Peppered catfish - 8
Neon Tetra - 11
Glowlight Tetra - 8
Silver Dollar - 2
Clown loach - 1
Zebra Danio - 5
Black Neon - 4
Black Widows-3
Harlequins - 10
Rummy nose Tetra - 6
Humbug catfish- 1
Pleco - 2
Angels - 2 |
| Plants Kept: |
There are around 30 different species of plants, along with rocks and bogwood. The plants are rooting and growing but it will not look at its best until the groundcover plants have spread over the gravel.
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| Tank Size: |
90 |
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| Description: |
Have just spent 2 months making this 10 feet long tank and cabinet along with a friend Dale Ketteringham (many thanks, Larf). It is now cycled and has plenty of fish and plants in it, although some of the ground cover plants have a bit of spreading to do yet.
The tank is 10ft long x 16" high x 15" depth. The stand is made of 2" X 2" steel box section and will hold the weight of over 2 tonnes,On top of that is a timber flat base and polystyrene. All the doors are pine and painted. The hood is pine and primed and painted. The glass is 8mm thick but the bottom has an extra section (which is 16mm smaller than the base) thus forming and corner to bond the sides to. Used six tubes of top quality silicone. But was still petrified when I GRADUALLY filled it. (No leaks. phew!!)There are 2 x 42" T8 Auaqglow lights and the condensation tray is made from poly carbon and cut into 6 sections with handles fitted for ease of access to any section of the tank.
The are 2 external fluval 405 filters and 2 300 watt heaters. |
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| Rated #4: marcus01 [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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United Kingdom |
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| Rank: |
#4 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.46 |
| Number of votes: |
114 |
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much care and attention has gone in to this tank i hope you like it................it is a 40ltr tank running co2 under gravel fertz undergravel heater. it is dosed with fertz daily and it recives a half water change weekly |
| Advice: |
read lots and do things at your own pace |
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| Rated #5: nobobo [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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Netherlands |
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| Rank: |
#5 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.46 |
| Number of votes: |
120 |
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my tank a while ago |
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more of my tank at nobobo.com |
| Advice: |
experiment, read and try |
| Fish Kept: |
15 * Discus (green discus Tefe), 75* rumynoses, 50 * corydoras sterbai.
Some cardinal tetra's, dwarf puffers (to keep the snails hidden) and about 40 ottocinclus |
| Plants Kept: |
various |
| Tank Size: |
422 |
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| Description: |
(300*70*80cm, 1600 liter)
(10 * 2,2 * 2,6feet 420 US gallons)
Low tech, no CO2.
Custom build tank, tank is almost one year old.
Light: 6 * 58 watts T8 with simulated sun -up and -down by dimmer.
Filtered by 2 Eheim filterpumps.
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| Rated #6: hormoz [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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| State: Michigan |
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United States |
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| Rank: |
#6 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.46 |
| Number of votes: |
112 |
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| Fish Kept: |
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| Plants Kept: |
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| Tank Size: |
100 |
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| Description: |
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| Rated #7: SKRPhoenix [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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| State: None/Other |
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United Kingdom |
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| Rank: |
#7 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.44 |
| Number of votes: |
116 |
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Tank as of 26/11/07 |
| Advice: |
Look after the water and the fish will do fine. |
| Fish Kept: |
Boesemani Rainbows
Peppered Cory's
Bristle Nose Plec.
Euro Rams
Armoured Shrimp
Gold Apple Snail |
| Plants Kept: |
Various & Unknown
(I'm no good with plant names) |
| Tank Size: |
30 |
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| Description: |
Juwel Rio 125
Upgraded to T5 Lighting
Additional AquaGlo T8
Standard Filtration+Aquaclear Quickclear
Hagen Marina LED Night Lighting |
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| Rated #8: mralgae [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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Ireland |
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| Rank: |
#8 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.39 |
| Number of votes: |
191 |
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mralgae's planted tank |
| Quote: |
may your plants grow with you |
| Advice: |
never give up if things go wrong. everything is fixable |
| Fish Kept: |
5x angels, 3x boesemanni rainbows. 10x neon tetras. 10x ottos. 2x gold gouramies.
6x S.A.Es. 1x L14 pleco. 4x ammano shrimp. 4x zebra danios.
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| Plants Kept: |
Hygrophila polysperma, Vall:Americana, Pogostemon helferi, HC cuba,
bacopa australis, Echinodorus macrophyllus, Echinodorus bleheri,
Anubias batari:nana, bacopa caoliniana, Echinodorus ozolot, eleocharis acicularis, and I can’t think what else is in there.
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| Tank Size: |
64 |
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| Description: |
Rio 240L(63.4g) with internal filter removed and eheim 2236 external fitted and standard intake pipe with lily pipe return just below the water level to give a gentle ripple on the surface. Tropica substrate covered in black glass gravel. Pressurised c02 system using fire extinguisher running @ 1bps being diffused by a Spiro 9500 diffuser. Lighting = 2x40waquaglow & 2x40wdaylight. Total of 160w over 240L =2.5wpg
pH.6.6, ammonia.0, nitrite.0, nitrate.5, p04.0.
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| Rated #9: AdamS [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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Poland |
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| Rank: |
#9 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.38 |
| Number of votes: |
463 |
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Grove |
| Quote: |
If you can count, count on yourself. |
| Advice: |
Learn much and be patient. |
| Fish Kept: |
Acanticus adonis
Crossocheilus siamensis
Otocinclus huaorani
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Rasbora hengeli |
| Plants Kept: |
Anubias bartheri v.nana
Anubias heterophylla
Bacopa caroliniana
Bolbitis heudelotii
Barclaya longifolia
Ceratophyllum demersum, Chladophora aegagropila
Crynium calanistratum
Crynium natans
Crynium calamistratum
Cryptocoryne Jachnelii, Cryptocoryne wendtii
Egeria najas
Eleocharis acicuralis
Eustralis stellata
Glossostigma elatinoides
Heterantera zosterifolia
Hydrocotyle leucocephala
Hydrokotyle verticillata
Limnophila aquatica
Ludwigia glandulosa, Ludwigia repens
Micranthemum micranthemoides
Microsorium pteropus
Microsorium pteropus "Windelov"
Myriophyllum pinnatum
Nesaea pedicellata
Nymphaea lotus
Pellia epiphylla
Rotala macrandra
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala rotundifolia. "Green"
Rotala walichii
Ophiopogon minimus
Vesicularia dubyana - Java Moss
Vesicularia dubyana - Christmas Moss |
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122 |
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| Description: |
Grove. |
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| Rated #10: alexandre [ Planted Tanks ] | |
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Cyprus |
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| Rank: |
#10 out of 798 planted tanks worldwide |
| Ratings: |
7.33 |
| Number of votes: |
200 |
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150L
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| Fish Kept: |
Neons Tetra - Botia striata - Red cherry shrimps. |
| Plants Kept: |
Bacopa australis - Echinodorus tenellus - Eleocharis parvula - Eleocharis accicularis - Hemianthus micranthemoides - Micranthemum umbrosum - Microsorum pteropus 'Narrow' - Microsorum pteropus - Peacock moss - Rotala sp. ''green'' - Rotala sp. ''Nanjenshan''. |
| Tank Size: |
35 |
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| Description: |
150L (80x45x45cm)
Eheim2028
Aqua Medic CO2 reactor 1000 / 5kg bottle
96 W T5 (6500K / 10000K)
Ferts: Tropica Plant Nutrition, KNO3, KH2PO4, K2SO4
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