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Today, I fixed my 20 gallon tank. I added two more rocks and a few more plants. I'm going to add more plants soon but for now .. here it is.....

(I'll have a video of it as soon as it's done uploading.)

As promised, here is a video of it.

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Very nice. I have the same plant in my DP tank. It's my favorite fake plant brand.

Which one? the light green one? if thats the one youre talking about. yeah they're nice lookin'. i like the soft green look. complements the GSP's color.

That's a very pretty tank! Well done.

Muselistener wrote:Which one? the light green one? if thats the one youre talking about. yeah they're nice lookin'. i like the soft green look. complements the GSP's color.

Yes, that one. I like them because their bases blend with my gravel, so I don't have to rebury them every time I clean.

yes indeed!!!

LilGreenPuffer wrote:

Muselistener wrote:Which one? the light green one? if thats the one youre talking about. yeah they're nice lookin'. i like the soft green look. complements the GSP's color.

Yes, that one. I like them because their bases blend with my gravel, so I don't have to rebury them every time I clean.

thanks!

schismy007 wrote:That's a very pretty tank! Well done.

It looks like there's grass in there? Is it real?

I notice that you're using a hang-on filter, are you happy with yours? I have two of them on different tanks and I quite like them, even if they are a bit of a pain to clean.

schismy007 wrote:I notice that you're using a hang-on filter, are you happy with yours? I have two of them on different tanks and I quite like them, even if they are a bit of a pain to clean.

yeah. they're not that bad.... its cheaper.

Lil' Swimz$ wrote:It looks like there's grass in there? Is it real?

It's not real. I did a bit of improvising. It was actually a clump of grass for breeding but i cut it into sections. =)

I had two of those plastic breeding grasses and because I didn't have any plants to put immediately in my Red-Line puffers tank, I took those and put them up against rocks, so they are standing up instead of laying flat, to give my puffers some cover. I think I'm going to leave them in because they don't look half bad, especially as I'm going to go to brackish with them anyway.

Improvising is a good thing in the fish-keeping hobby. I also printed off my own background pictures for that aquarium as well. I didn't want to wait to buy one, and the fish don't really care what's back there, so I did some looking on the internet, and found a background photo that I liked and printed it off. Then I cut the edges off the pages (I had to print out 4 pages for the size of the tank, some will need more) and taped them together, and then put it on the back of the tank. Looks just as good, and like I said, the fish don't mind.

I've made a spawning mop for cover for adult fish before, instead of getting more plants for the temporary setup. I don't have a bucket, so at times I have dechlorinated water in a plastic drawer. I quarantine in Tupperwares. I used control-top pantyhose as a baffle. I once put a CD rack in my hermit crab aquarium as a jungle gym. Ah, the things you can do...

Well, why buy something when you can improvise? I think it's a creative way to supply things for your tanks.