I started this one on monday with a tank I bought and Equipment I had in the closet.

Filter: aquaclear 500

Powerhead: Aquaclear 50

background: Acrylic Black gloss

Substrate: Pink samoan sand

Stuff I'm still waiting on.

Satellite lighthing fixture VHO flouresent

heater: Visotherm stealth 250w


Here are the pics.








And here it is after the diatom filter.

That substrate looks like my aragonite sand substrate... does it show up just as brightly as aragonite in the light?

Have you decided what fish you plan to put in the tank?

Looks good!

I'm thinking shell dwellers. Maybe some brevis.

i love the substrate

That filter looks awesome! Now I'm going to look it up. :D

Keep us updated! Looking nice. :)

I'm leaning more towards west africans though. Maybe some more jewled and kribs.

Here are some mor pics since I have lights now.



These are after 25 minutes with the diatom filter.




Plants are just for now until i get my rocks in a couple of days.

Looks great! :D

looks heaps nice still love the substrate :)

Wow CC. That tank looks great! I've always wanted to have a tank full of multies. I'd love to do something like that in my 40 if they weren't so expensive.

Are those plants real or fake? I really like the way they look.

I've always bought fake plant because my dempsey's thought me a lesson of how much they love to destroy them. By the way Its FAKE Amazon sword.

Wow. I guess if I had just looked closer I would have seen that they we're IN FACT the same plants that I have in MY tank. LoL. Sorry for the confusion CC. I might have to buy some fake ones. Maybe then they would live, haha! :lol: Where did you buy yours from?

I got the plants from the local petland discount store.

yet another update. Some of my rocks started coming in. here are some more pics.




I know the con doesn't fit into this pic but i had to put him in there because the convict pair i have was going to snuff him out. LOL.

whats that fich thats in there

Looks TIGHT! I like it!

there is a con and 2 jewled cichlids in there now.

Getting the hang of resizing the pics now. LOl

Tank update:

3 julidochromis kipili, 3 more on the way
1 albino yellow lab for now
2 blue veriety zebras

Tangs and malawians together? Its only for now. I'm aiming for a TANG TANK.

pics in a few!

Looks really good! I'm glad I'm not the only one with fake plants! I know most aquariasts (is that a word?) :lol: on other sites frown down on the use of fake plants. Just have to be selective of what types you buy.Cool plants

I just bought some from this site. Some of the silk ones for my betta tank that is in the works. They look really good and are about 1/3 of the price of the ones at petsmart!

We'll see if the link works.

Down toward the bottom of the page are some that look really good.


Sometimes I see some at petsmart where I'm just like, "WOW! those look really FAKE!" But these actually look good and I think will be great for the betta because they don't have any even remotely sharp edges.

I haven't put them in the water yet though, then they should look really good.

Good luck, its lookin' good!! :D

Next time i go to the LFS I'll get the brand and post it.

Here are some pics of my new ones

nice :up: :up: :up: B)

I love the ones in the second last picture. What are they?

Fantastic sub, and great plastic plants....those are my favs!

definately julidochromis not quite sure on the genus though, could be regani or ornatus.

lol i think you meant to quote me then

here are some more pics of the tank, -4 fishes the red one is eating then while they sleep.

The tank looks great. :up:

Just got caught up on reading this topic. Hey, now that is a great looking tank! Love the substrate and the rock. Fish look very nice!

That tank is great wish I could set up something like that it looks nice.

Great Job!! Love the pics! :D :computer:

Thanks again guys, but you know I;m not finished. I still have a load of rock to put in there. I will keep you guys posted. Recently I bought a pair of kribensis but they didn't make the cut. They had a little run in with the power head <_< :down:

Here are some more pics

red jewled
regular jeweled
blue neon jeweled





Other africans

I put in some new rocks todaybut i'm waiting for the water to clear up so I coult take some pics. :) :up:

looks great! :D

here are some more :D :up:

That's a lot of rocks! Are you still planning on putting more in? What happened to the plants?

No plants but i'm planning on another layer of rocks.

Fake plants arent all that bad it aleveates from having to deal with snails and taking care of something else besides fish I love my live plants though.