80 gallon re do

ok so after the ick outbreak i finally decided to add sand to the 80 gallon and redid the rock to expand it out the sides let me know what you think

it looks good

I love it, but I'm a plant person so you need some plants in the middle!

great rock work. What will this beautiful tank house?

philuponthepho wrote:

I love it, but I'm a plant person so you need some plants in the middle!

I agree any pointers for plants to house with my cichlids and that will grow in sand or take root on rock

nitty wrote:

great rock work. What will this beautiful tank house?

It will house my convicts a few of my kenyi 1 plecko 3 Chinese algae eaters and my red star flowerhorn
a few red zebras a few yellow labs and what ever else i pick up next weekend lol

tie stuff down and you will be fine. Anubias and java fern do well.

thanks sounds great will have to go to tlfs and pick some up

Let us know what you find!

i am diggig teh sand bed

lordraptor1 wrote:

i am diggig teh sand bed

i love the look as well it is play sand from lowes cheap as hell but real hard to clean it took 3 days to get the tank to look like that and countless filters

I hope you cleaned it before you put it in the tank.

redstarflowerhorn wrote:

lordraptor1 wrote:

i am diggig teh sand bed

i love the look as well it is play sand from lowes cheap as hell but real hard to clean it took 3 days to get the tank to look like that and countless filters

i use pavestone pulverised limestone in my salt tank and the rule is clean, clean again, clean again, then clean some more. it takes forever to get it clean and tehn it goes in the tank and it still clouds up but i can take heart in the fact that my protien skimmer removes teh floating stuff that is causing teh cloudiness in a matter of 30 minutes to a few hours depending on how dense the particles are.

philuponthepho wrote:

I hope you cleaned it before you put it in the tank.

nope used the tank to clean it

redstarflowerhorn wrote:

philuponthepho wrote:

I hope you cleaned it before you put it in the tank.

nope used the tank to clean it

Thats probably why it took you so long to get it clean. Stick it in a 5gallon bucket and rinse it until the dust clears then your safe to put it in ur tank. Leave it alone for a few hours until the sand has settled and then turn on the filters. Lol, saves ALOT of time!

LOVE THE ROCK. Well done!

Yeah you have to clean it before you put it in. It's rough trying to do it in the tank.

Looks cool!!! I like the rockscape!

As far as plants; Get some java moss and tuck it in between the rocks in random places. Get a few java ferns and tie them onto the top layer of rocks with cotton thread. Southern water nymph planted in the center would also look great, my cichlids don't seem to eat it and it grows fast.
It looks really nice! Good job!

Windleves fern my also work, its a modified version of java fern but its pricey.