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Version 2.0 Now with more plants.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:49 am
by chunkyckn
I added more plants and now the tank has 2 Otts, 2 Pea pod puffers, 40 feeder snails and 30 ghost shrimps. So far, the puffers seems to be leaving everything alone, but I guess it's just day one. Let's see if they'll start eating the snails in a few days.
Let me know what you guys thing.
Old stuff:
I have a 20G long tank for my dwarf puffers. I plan to put a total of 4 Dwarf puffers in there. Do I have enought plants and caves in there to keep my two crabs and dozen of ghost & red shrimp alive?
Please advise.
Pics of the crab.
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Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:05 am
by plurmaster
Nice tank
Is a big tank for 4 DP's but i would definately recommand heavily planted tank for them to explore. Try using some LIVE plants.
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:05 am
by CtHM
I would personally reccomend MANY more plants, you need tall plants. Rule of thumb: Make sure your puff can't see straight from one side of the tank to the other.
I'm a personal fan of over planting :]
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:00 pm
by apachepufferman
I agree with CTHM. If you don't want a plant that is really tall though try the plants that you can stick on the walls of your tank. they are pretty dense and they give your DPs a place to hide as well.
here is a pick of my community tank. See the plant on the back wall in the center with the blue flowers. The Red one on the right also hangs on the wall. You can place them at any height you want and fan them out as well to.
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:43 pm
by chunkyckn
Ok, I guess I'll just get more plants for the tank. Thanks for all the input. I can't do live plants because I'm a noob and I don't have enough time to take care of them. Doing 50% water change every week is already enough work for me.
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:32 pm
by yunachin
Rocks and plastic mangroves are also a good choice to fill up voids.
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:36 am
by apachepufferman
chunkyckn wrote:Ok, I guess I'll just get more plants for the tank. Thanks for all the input. I can't do live plants because I'm a noob and I don't have enough time to take care of them. Doing 50% water change every week is already enough work for me.
I don't have any real plants either. I am working towards that point. I might start in my arrowhead tank because its smaller but i hope to get to having all my tanks with real plants.
Re: Do I have enough plants in my tank?
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:16 am
by chunkyckn
I just added more plants and a new log. It's kinda messy, but I hope it should do for now.
Re: Version 2.0 Now with more plants.
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:57 am
by Pandora
That's looking really lovely
Re: Version 2.0 Now with more plants.
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:22 am
by side19
i like the fake wood in there. and the varying colors are very pleasing to look at.
Re: Version 2.0 Now with more plants.
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:16 pm
by apachepufferman
very nice. if you don't mind my asking what is the 1x4 floating in the water for?
Re: Version 2.0 Now with more plants.
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:46 pm
by chunkyckn
The floating piece of foam is for the Crabs to rest on.