Hello everyone. This is my first post but i have been lurking for a few years now.

My name is Brandon and I am from Lancaster County Pennsylvania.

I have been keeping Apostogrammas for a few yard now but have always wanted to create my own aquascape but never wanted to do anything too big. I was more the nano type of guy just for the small pure aesthetics.

I had bought a Fluval Chi that I was keeping a goldfish in. She has since out grown the 5gal version of this tank so I released her to my mothers outdoor pond where she is doing great!

Anyway this tank started off low tech so I could test the waters in a purely planted tank and getting everything just right with the tank. Slowly i added brighter lights. Co2 and a fert dose regimen.

I'll give specs in the next post.

The tank before the rescape:











I got some time to wade through a local trout stream that saw record flood levels over the summer and was able to find some great wood that was uprooted and washed into piles along the banks.

With the wood I created this hardscape:






And this is the initial rescape that I completed today. Let me know your thoughts.

Hi everybody,

I would like to present my last tank.

Ranking IAPLC 2011: 206
Title: akusugi's king and his throne of rock
Dimensions: 100x70x55

The pictures step by step, this tank had several versions:

Tank from Bangkok Thailand.
Just the picture before trimming.
I just love to add more plant as much as I can.

I've been wanting to do this for a while and the current $1/gallon sale at Petco gave me the inspiration. Picked up the tank the first day of the sale. De-rimmed it about a week later and then yesterday got to building the stand for everything. Still need to do some adjustments of the door on the stand, sand + finish the stand, and drill the holes for the filter tubes and C02 lines. Still undecided on a light fixture. I'll definitely be getting an Odyssea fixture but I can't decide on the 24" 48w or 24" 96w fixture. Going for high light high tech so I'll probably end up with the 96w. I haven't really seen anybody copy the style ADA stand where the hoses run through the top of the tank. Thought I'd give it a shot. I also recessed the tank about 1.5" in the stand since the silicone on the base of these cheap tanks is really hard to clean up. I still have to finish the silicone removal on the top of the tank.

Overall view:


View of where the tubes will come up:


Drilled the filter lines and Co2 line...

Ludwigia pilosa emerged




Hopefully I can get some flowers out of this plant.

Hello Everyone,

I want to introduce you to my new aquascape (IAPLC 2011 ranked 29th). I have a group for aquascaping in Turkey by the name of "ADist" (Aquarium Design İstanbul). We all close friends and usually help each others setups. For this setup, they helped me too (for some steps) . So, first of all, i want to send my thanks to them.

Hi there, iam new to this forum , im from greece .
I am new to aquariums, and this is the first i make.
Do you like it? I want to tell me ideas to improve my aquascape.
Tank: 100x40x50cm
Light: 5 x 30w , 9hrs
Filter: 2 X Eheim ecco pro 300
CO2: eheim diffuser 2kg.
Substrate: seachem flourite, and black gravel.
Ferts: powders,Kno3, Po4, B,K2so4, and microelements.
Plants: Anubias, Sagittaria, Hygrophila polysperma,nymphaea lotus,valisniera nana-americana,cryptocorines wendi brown ,rotala, polysperma,java moss,Echinodorus bleheri,Hydrocotyle verticillata,Marsilea hirsuta ,Pistia stratiotes .
Fish: 2 Angel fish , 2 gourami, 7 corydoras, 4 otocinclus , apple snails.


By nicpapa at 2011-07-16


By nicpapa at 2011-07-16

Caddo Lake is a ~25,000 acre lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana. With a high nutrient content and almost ideal water conditions (the average depth is roughly 4 ft), aquatic plants abound.

I made my first trip out there a few weeks back to collect plants for my Masters research, including hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata), purple fanwort (Cabomba pulcherrima), giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) and water hyacinth (Eichhoria crassipes). I saw but did not collect another 2 dozen or more species.

So last summer, I grew a few aquatic plants outdoors in full sun and they did excellent. Now I have the itch to try more species for next year, and I'll try to document my progress here. I am currently acclimating the plants I have to emersed life and I'll eventually harden them off of high humidity so I can move them outside when the weather warms up again.

Current species list:
-Gratiola aurea
-Gratiola brevifolia
-Ludwigia peploides
-Ludwigia senegalensis
-Staurogyne repens
-Staurogyne sp. "Bihar"



I have quite a few more species pending, but I'm waiting until after the holidays to have them shipped to me, this way they don't get held up any longer than they should be.

If you have any uncommon or rare species you'd like to share with me, let me know.

I arranged a collection trip near a canal at about 2kms from my place(kolkata,west bengal,india).
team:aritra(jr),rahool,my cousin and me
photography:Rahool

We thought we will not get much plants/fishes as rainwater just poured into the fields,ponds at that place..I planned to visit that place and check the condition,and then to arrange a bigger trip.