My low light tank

[budak]

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[sherchoo]

Looks WILD for a low light tank.....good job

[benetay]

Yea i agree, nice tank you got there!

[checkerboard]

Has lots of potential in this tank. Just need the plants to fill up the spaces a bit more.

Some points though.

1) the bolibitis at the top of the highest branch may end up growuing beyond the surface

2) the blue background is a bit distracting for a tank with the wild look.

3) can add a bit more "dimension" to teh foreground by planting hairgrass with the marselia. it will create a nice effect of taller hairgras andshorter marselia and that is how it look in the wild.

but overall, i like this tank. Nice muix of Asian fishes, expect the flag fish which i presume is for algae cleaning purposes!

[budak]

Thanks for your comments

The crypts are still growing in, but hopefully they will fill in the sides and back after a while. Some bolbitis leaves try to poke through the surface. but i just cut them off.

The blue backdrop isn't so obvious in real life, but I just hadn't gotten round to removing it.

For the foreground, I actually have some hairgrass growing, but they keep getting uprooted by the SAEs..... I was hoping to get the Marsilea to grow like Erik Leung's in his 20 G tank (www.e-aquaria.com). It had spread out quite well in an earlier incarnation (using Lonestar gravel mixed with Bioplast base fert) but isn't spreading as well in the ADA soil though.

Ya, the flagfish was originally meant for algae control. It's a bit of an eyesore, but at least this individual's pretty peaceful.

[Georgeer]

Looks natural... fishes must be having good time in the tank.

[juggler]

Marcus, nice setup. I am sure the tank looks even better than in the pic.

One problem I found with low light tanks is that it is harder to find reddish plants.

[budak]

Budak's hand were itchy so tank was rescaped one lonely night.