Post by parker002 on Nov 16, 2010 10:13:02 GMT -5
We gave my father-in-law's 90G tank to my brother-in-law to free up some space in the family room.
While cleaning out below the stand, I found 3 cheap plants that no doubt were purchased at Wal-Mart because they matched 3 of my plants perfectly.
I took the smallest of the 3 and put it with its pair to frame my cave and pillar on the righ-hand side of my tank. They are the two plants in the foreground left and right.
The other two plants were the modular kind, so I took them and my two, took them all apart, and combined them back together to get a different look. When you buy them, they have 4 fronds and can be quite bushy. I reduced them to 3 fronds and used the leftovers to make them much taller. On the far left of the tank I put one VERY tall (almost touches the surface of the water) plant in the background and a shorter version in the foreground. The other two I made similar in height, but with only 3 fronds on 2 bases, they "flow" much differently than would 6 fronds on just 1 based. They are the 2-tone plants behind the African wood, to the left of the sponge filter.
Those pictures also give you a good idea of just how much taller the new lift tubes are on the sponge filters. Here's a pic of the entire tank. I apologize for the quality but I think it demonstrates how far I have progressed. I can't believe how bare my tank used to be. It's a jungle now!
While cleaning out below the stand, I found 3 cheap plants that no doubt were purchased at Wal-Mart because they matched 3 of my plants perfectly.
I took the smallest of the 3 and put it with its pair to frame my cave and pillar on the righ-hand side of my tank. They are the two plants in the foreground left and right.
The other two plants were the modular kind, so I took them and my two, took them all apart, and combined them back together to get a different look. When you buy them, they have 4 fronds and can be quite bushy. I reduced them to 3 fronds and used the leftovers to make them much taller. On the far left of the tank I put one VERY tall (almost touches the surface of the water) plant in the background and a shorter version in the foreground. The other two I made similar in height, but with only 3 fronds on 2 bases, they "flow" much differently than would 6 fronds on just 1 based. They are the 2-tone plants behind the African wood, to the left of the sponge filter.
Those pictures also give you a good idea of just how much taller the new lift tubes are on the sponge filters. Here's a pic of the entire tank. I apologize for the quality but I think it demonstrates how far I have progressed. I can't believe how bare my tank used to be. It's a jungle now!
