MiamiAG

I'd like to congratulate Ghazanfar Ghori for being selected as the APC April 2004 Tank of the Month!



Tank Specific

• Dimensions: 48 x 18 x 20
  Lighting: Two 48" 110Watt All Glass compact flourecents w/ GE Freshwater/Saltwater Aquaray bulbs
  CO2: 10lb cylinder w/ a DIY inline external reactor
  Filteration: Eheim 2026 Pro II
  Substrate: 100% Seachem Flourite
  Fertilzation: KNO3, K2SO4, KH2PO4, Plantex CSM dosed using Ehiem Liquidoser

A few months ago:



Design Concept

This tank is not aquascaped. Ive been using it to try out different species of plants. At any one time this tank usually has 35-45 different plant species, though all may not be visible in the pictures. It's interesting to see all these plants react to different nutrient levels as I continue to play with my fertlizier mix ratios. One of these days I'll aquascape the tank. One of these days.....

aquoi

A perfect symbol of good plant growth. Might have been better if it as scaped. Neverthless the good health alone is beautiful.

Anonymous

Such unruly growth! A vibrantly healthy collector's tank.

Carlos

Gomer

Couldn't have said it better IMO

Raul-7

Awesome tank, I always admire you for using a lot of species in one tank when people usually would disagree. The color you got of out of the E.stellata is amazing, I assume the 9325 bulbs help? Are the All-Glass retrofits any good?

Ghazanfar Ghori

Hello, my name is Ghazanfar Ghori and I have a problem.
Yes! I admit it! I have acute collectoritis.

Im thinking I may as well accept it and go for a dutch style tank. There's
no way I can pull off a nature aquarium with so many different species.
Amano may be able to do it - I cannot. Easier to go with a Dutch style.
Isn't that what we all do anyway? We admire Amano's style but endup
with a half-Dutch half-Amano wannabe looking aquascape.

This tank has taught me a lot about different plants, their growth habits,
how to rid my tanks of algae and nutrient preferences - which is
what the goal was all along. Any aquascapes that ended up along
the way were out of pure luck and sticking to tall-back , short-front rule.

I'll plan an aquascape...one of these days. (If I keep saying it, maybe
it'll happen!)

Gomer

That is not a problem ....it is...umm...NOT A PROBLEM!!! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH COLLECTING!!!!

SCMurphy

The problem is his collectoritis has a strange form of dispersalitis to the club members who catch retaineritis and end up with jumbled masses of 120 species in a 10 gallon tank. I must have 40 different stem plants that I would never have kept before, because of Mr. Ghori. Some of which I have noticed he doesn't have anymore.

jerseyjay

It's normal Ghazanfar. You have been hooked since the beginning and you sound like a broken record everytime I talk to you online or on the phone. I'm done with collecting, I'm done with collecting, I'm done with collecting.....but....I still want to grow those 5 more species .

Let's wait for that aquarium room and see if things go other way. If not, you will have 10 tanks full of plant collection.

It's chronic not acute in your case

Keep me posted on Randal exchange

Ghazanfar Ghori

Hey man! Gotta spread the wealth ...weeds..whatever!