This tank started with the water and guppies from an established bucket pond. Now I have albino and julii Cory’s, cherry barbs, lambchop raspboras, amano and neocaridina shrimp for livestock, lots of snails and a few types of plants and salvinia floaters. What could I do different set up wise or does it look good to others? Of course it only matters if I like it, but I see so many amazing tanks here and I just don’t have that kind of “vision”. I may swap my filter to the other side and move the salivinia over since it’s blocking light from getting to the larger anubias on the left. Doesn’t seem to be suffering yet, but not sure if it’ll be getting enough light. If you’ve read this far I appreciate it.
Posted by S4Phantom
5 Comments
8/10. Can’t help but hate the unnatural gravel with such lovely natural decor. Also wish you had some sand for the Corys. Still a very pretty tank though!
I’m not an experience by any means I usually just look at posts but it looks like what I wish my tank would look like. The only thing I’ve seen is some ppl say that painted rocks can be toxic to fish. How much did this all cost you if you don’t mind my asking?
I’d rate it 7/10 it would be like 9/10 if there wasn’t in natural gravel lol, it just hurts my eyes, no offence, every thing else about this tank is amazing though, I can only imagine what this tank would look like without the in natural gravel and instead aquasoil or sand, great job
Also sand or aquasoil would definitely be good for the Corys, one time I accedentally mixed aquasoil with gravel, I thought it would be fine because there was more soil than gravel, but one morning I woke up and my Cory’s barbels were gone and they never grew back🥺
Nice plants and wood, from a plant nerd there’s always room for more plants!
If possible, you could arrange for a spot with sand for the cories.
Solid 5/7 tank.
Looks great. Nothing wrong with a good quality coloured gravel. The cheap ones are painted. The good stuff isn’t and is no different to the fish. As long as your gravel isn’t painted rock that look.