October 2007 Tank of the Month - Dan Pellegrini - Page 2 - Announcements

dapellegrini · 10-11-2007, 04:32 PM

Thanks everyone.

I have had very few algae problems, but nothing that I haven't been able to overcome... My biggest problem has been collectoritis and stem plants that grow too fast

travis · 10-16-2007, 04:55 PM

Congratulations Dan. This is a well-deserved Tank of the Month.

dapellegrini · 10-16-2007, 06:17 PM

Thank you Travis!

Demise · 10-16-2007, 08:28 PM

Nice Tank, the plant placement is perfect!

Jessie · 10-18-2007, 10:56 AM

Nice work Dan! I love the beautiful and crisp lines and color. Well deserved!!

cynkatt · 11-12-2007, 06:26 PM

this tank is amazing, i am especially interested in knowing what the lovely red background plant in the bacground is and your ground cover front plant is

dapellegrini · 11-12-2007, 06:28 PM

thx. the red plant is Alternanthera reineckii, the foreground is Marsilea quadrafolia

dapellegrini · 02-10-2008, 04:34 PM

These photos are a couple of months old now, this tank is waiting to be torn down and replaced with a 120-P. I thought others might be interested to see how it has progressed since the last set of photos...

I have been serious neglecting this tank for the past several months, except for a couple bouts of collectoritis where I needed to find more room to add plants ;D At some point I added some Tiawan Moss and Riccia and then just kind of let it all go wild. Interesting how little pieces of riccia have wedged into areas of moss, growing on top of clover with Ranunculus , HM and other plants all kind of growing in a big mess of plants. I do regularly remove leaves from the lace plant (maybe 50 leaves a week) and have started to trim the two stem plants that remain in the tank. I kinda like the "mounds" idea, and find it interesting how this kind of happened by itself. Not super clean, but hey, super low maintenance has to count for something!

Is this a yellow shrimp? I don't remember ever adding any ???

Here is one of the fish I recently added ;D Hangin out in the mess of plants. I think there is some needle-leaf java fern in there too...

All of my otos hang out together in the corner. You can see some of there here:

and the glass cat's like to hover around in the shadows:

The Sidthimunki's think it is time to eat:

One of my latest plant additions (you can see that I have had to resort to planting things on top of other things ;D )

And a bunch more shots to make the thread that much more interesting...

I forgot to mention the Blyxa has also gone out of control... not very attractive from the side

.. I have a male and female dario dario couple that really like it though

Yes - ripped out the red stuff, cause it was just growing too fast.