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So im trying to get some pictures of other peoples tanks. becuz my ceylon seems bored in his new home. (55 acrylic,korailia 4 powerhead,black sand,driftwood plants.bubbles.) so id likes to see how everyone else has there tanks setup. i looked around here and just found pics of people puffers.

Try checking out ratemyfishtank.com

The decor gets moved around every time I do a water change, but that's pretty much it.

I like your setup mrgreen. Have you thought about java fern/moss?

Yes. I have a bit of it in Squirt's tank. I did have a moss ball but it fell apart. Planted seems so hard! I've looked into CO2 setups. Would love to have my F8 tank lushly planted. All I've got alive in there now is green algea. lol

mrgreen wrote:Yes. I have a bit of it in Squirt's tank. I did have a moss ball but it fell apart. Planted seems so hard! I've looked into CO2 setups. Would love to have my F8 tank lushly planted. All I've got alive in there now is green algea. lol

If you don't want to do C02, just buy some Flourish Excel. I believe SeaChem makes it. You dose a small amount of Flourish on a daily basis to maintain regular C02 levels for your aquatic plants. It's a cheap, effective and affordable way to directly infuse C02 into your water.

What's the SG, mrgreen? If it's pretty high, it might be contributing to the plant death. Even javas can't take TOO much salt.

My GSPs never got bored in here:

PITA to move everything around weekly to clean under all of it though.

Don't know if this will work but:

nice setups. i wanted to do plants. but my ceylon is 5" already. got it around .1012 already.







workin on building a canopy this week for it and gettin a new light. 8t5s with moonlights.

he doesnt seem as happy in the new tank. he cam from a 20l.

Pufferpunk wrote:My GSPs never got bored in here:

PITA to move everything around weekly to clean under all of it though.

WHoa! I'm lovin that set up!

All fake... Needs regular bleaching to look that clean too.

its nice tho.

how would a adult ceylon do wiht live rock and stuff?

LilGreenPuffer wrote:What's the SG, mrgreen? If it's pretty high, it might be contributing to the plant death. Even javas can't take TOO much salt.

Usually 1.008

I'd like to make a suggestion, if I may .... I have 2 Ceylon puffers, and they really enjoy being under something, so maybe you could give yours a cave or something to hide under, that seems to be what mine like doing the most. They like to "rest" alot. So that's what I'd try with yours jrchkn, see if he wants some place to hideout.