Pictures of my tanks

[Martin Thoene]

Great looking tanks.

Martin.

[loachmom]

Your tanks are a pleasure to look at. Lovely plants.

[chefkeith]

Nice looking tanks.

[helen nightingale]

they are lovely tanks. 100 times better than any with the coloured gravel, i reckon.

i am sure you could advise me on plants, i am hopeless. at the moment i am trying to work out how to keep an onion plant at the bottom without burying it in the sand too deep at the moment it prefers the end of the tank ferthest from the filter outlet it looks you have your plants under much better control

[zmo63]

we dont have any onion plants, but I did have the same kind of struggle getting our banana plants to stay in the right spot. Honestly, I kind of just let them win - found them places without so much current surrounded by other plants.

You can also try planting them at a bit of an angle. Since you only want about 1/3 of the bulb buried, it gives the plant a little bit more to 'dig in' against the current:

http://www.plantgeek.net/images/plantpi ... anthes.jpg

[helen nightingale]

hey, thanks i will try moving it tommorrow. maybe it will stay put if it put it behind a bit of wood for shelter.

[Ded1]

zmo63, since you use airstone for Co2, allow me one question.

In your own experiance, is it the place where on bottom of your tank you put that airstone important?

[chris]

Hi Ded1,

I'm zmo's husband, Chris.
That's actually the a diffuser that came with the CO2 system, but it works just like an airstone really. The diffuser or airstone is supposed to be set about an inch above the substrate. This is so the bubbles have more time to dissolve into the water/ The faster the bubbles reach the surface the less CO2 gets in your water. We had to move this one up a bit because of the driftwood.

[Ded1]

Hi Ded1,
The diffuser or airstone is supposed to be set about an inch above the substrate. This is so the bubbles have more time to dissolve into the water/ The faster the bubbles reach the surface the less CO2 gets in your water.

Hi Chris.

Thanks for explaining. Working all day something with my DIY CO2 and I am full of questions.

I did reach similar conclusion, just needed someone to confirm it. Thanks.

[mistergreen]

Hey Ded1,
you can get this glass diffusor for your DIY CO2.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/P ... 004+113779

You can find it for cheaper on aquabid.

Or if you have a powerhead, you can introduce the CO2 line in the uptake part. The CO2 bubbles will breakup into smaller bubbles by the propeller? (spinning motor thingy).

[Ded1]

Very practical and not expensive. Thanks, will consider it seriously!

[revhead]

Very very nice setups indeed. You have a very 'green thumb' & should be proud of what you've acheived there. Any fish i'm sure would truly love to call either of these tanks home !!