Show your artificially planted tanks

[katydidmischief]

Originally Posted by Kelly100

Yall's Betta tanks are BEAUTIFUL !!!! I would love to get a Betta one day soon. I HATE to go to Petsmart or any place that has them, and see them in those tiny containers. How pitiful they seem !! When yall clean their little tanks, do you change all the water completely ? And what about filters or heaters ?

I do partial changes during the week--around a gallon, since that's what the siphon picks up when I vacuum the gravel--and a full change once every 10 days. I do have a filter, a Top Fin 10 power filter, that's baffled and a slim heater by hydor.

[TheCheese909]

I usually do a 25% change or a 50% change- I try to do about 25% once a week and 50% acouple times a month.. Once in awhile i'll do 95%, but rarely- the tank has to have some sort of problem with it for me to do that.

Now, i did say 'try', i do slack a bit on the three 5 gallons i have since they all have really good filters and when i do vacuum them it's usually about 40% i take out.

[Jupiter]

Originally Posted by notsabrina

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Very cool!

[labloverl]

Originally Posted by notsabrina

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Love it! How big is it?

[katydidmischief]

notsabrina, that pirate ship is gorgeous!

[OrangeAugust]

This is Shiny's new 2.5 gallon tank!

[Leafygreens]

Here's mine. That's Pierre in the upper right corner. It's a 10 gallon tank, all fake plants. I'd like to try real ones someday but this being my first tank I wanted to take things slowly...

[labloverl]

Funny how a picture can make a 2.5 gallon and a 10 gallon look the same size! I love the different stone arches everyone has as well!

[labloverl]

Originally Posted by labloverl

Ok, here's my 10 gallon. The fake plants don't look as good as they would in an undivided tank, but I still like it. The fish love all the hiding places too. Most of these plants are from the craft store, and I had to make the leaves into plants that stood up as I used the parts with the metal in the stems.

Does anyone think that I have too much in mine? Several leaves are not attached, so they just fall to the bottom.

[katydidmischief]

So Michael and Toothless' tank has been updated with more plants.