20G "Temple in the Woods"

[HoustonFishFanatic]

I know the name sounds weird, but the driftwood thats the central piece in this layout reminds me of old temples covered with trees I have seen in my childhood . The trailing roots of Anubias over the wood and the cave formed under it looks like a ancient temple entrance. Hence the title "Temple in the Woods"

This tank has just regular sand substrate and DIY CO2. I just started this tank as a experimental tank to see what kind of plants i could grow.



I would like to hear your comments and criticism for more improvement.
Thanks
Bhushan

[finfan]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

beautiful tank, and i love the name too, makes complete sense, i am pretty new, but i have been completely obcessed with planted tanks lately, so i saw at least a 1000 pix on the internet of tanks, based on that i would say that if you moved the val looking plant from the middle right to the right corner, it would probably look even better, but the tank is amazing looking just as is

are those bolivian rams?  where did you get them?  they have more color than the other pix or live one's i have seen

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

That looks really nice for plain substrate and DIY co2!!!!

[Bogdan]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

It is a beauty, looks very natural. Fish, shrimp and plants seem to be happy.
How many W/G of light?

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

beautiful tank, and i love the name too, makes complete sense, i am pretty new, but i have been completely obcessed with planted tanks lately, so i saw at least a 1000 pix on the internet of tanks, based on that i would say that if you moved the val looking plant from the middle right to the right corner, it would probably look even better, but the tank is amazing looking just as is

are those bolivian rams?  where did you get them?  they have more color than the other pix or live one's i have seen

Thanks a lot FinFan for the compliments. As you said yeah i need to do some thing about the right side I actually have some pearlweed, HM and crypt. Wenditti in there. I had just done a trim a few days back and it needs to fill in. The Val like plant is Crypt. Spirallis. I am trying to do a triangular layout with tall plants in the middle and slope on the side so that a viewers attention goes straight to the center.  The crypt, Spirallis was actually on the right side as you suggested but i thought it would make more impact at the center. :wink: Thanks for the idea though.

Yeah the fishes are bolivian rams. They are actually a lot more colorful thank the ones you see in the store. I had bought 2 of them from Aquazoo and got 4 from a member here on the FishBox. They are about 2.5".

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

It is a beauty, looks very natural. Fish, shrimp and plants seem to be happy.
How many W/G of light?

Thanks Bogdan. Its a 65W 12000K odyssey fixture.

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

That looks really nice for plain substrate and DIY co2!!!!

Thanks a lot , Q. :bsty: Dang couldn't find mikes place today.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

Do HM on the right side and just trim it a few days before taking pictures. :wink:

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

Sounds like an idea.Its still not where i want it. I hope the M. Minuta i got from you today can grow in sand.
The NASH Meet was a nice one today. Love looking at those tanks at ADG.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

Yeah Mike and Jeff become magicians when they get in the zone!

The minuta should do fine in the sand put it's a pain to plant if you got shrimp and fish that will pick at it cause that stuff up roots like no other.

[HoustonFishFanatic]

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Yeah thats what i was thinking i have got about 6 cories in there.

[Somefishguy]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

great lookin tank

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

You could remove them or go to a craft store and buy the plastic cross stitching grids and make a cage around what you are planting till they root.

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

great lookin tank

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

[HoustonFishFanatic]

Re: 20G "Temple in the Woods"

You could remove them or go to a craft store and buy the plastic cross stitching grids and make a cage around what you are planting till they root.

They have been in there for a couple of hours and none is uprooted still. Lets see how it goes. The plastic grid sounds like a good idea.