Natural Looking Aquariums?

[CodeRed]

Can you all help me out here? ^_^ My mother dearest is wavering on the idea of setting up my five gallon to be an actual, cycled tank, and I think a couple pictures of nice, natural tanks would help tip her over the edge. I WOULD go through the betta tanks thread, but geez... that thing is huge o_o


-I'm looking at you, SK. You know I love your tanks.-

Also, feel free to say what plants/rocks/decorations you've got in there, and how you set it up and put everything together ^_^ Thanks for the help? If anyone does? LOL.

[vaygirl]

You know me, I love posting pics. :D All of my driftwood comes from Aquariumplants.com. Most of my plants come from there or from Petco/Petsmart.

Tango: The bell came from my LFS. Almost all his plants are tied to rocks with thread.


Senor Feeeeesh: The cave and columns came from Petsmart. The java fern is tied to the columns. Amazon sword is rooted. I have Eco Complete in there.


Guppies and Corys The vase came from Linens and Things online store. It's big. This tank is a wild and crazy mess.



Kilo: I have a couple Red Crypts. There's a big 3x5 mat of java fern in the back corner. They sew the plants to coconut fibers. I bet anyone could DIY that. Everythings weighted down with 'lead' weights.

[weluvbettas]

janine your tanks are gorgeous!! what plant ferteliser and light do you use?

[betta99]

wow those tanks are beautiful

[Jayy]

Goregous tanks Vaygirl!!!

[vaygirl]

Thanks! In the guppy/cory and Senor Fish's tank I use Ecocomplete substrate which has built in fertilizer. For the others I use liquid Flourish but not all the time. I usually forget. They're lucky if they get it monthly.

Most of the lights are between 1.5 and 2 watts per gallon and are Marineland daylight lamps. My guppy/cory tank has the least light. It's a 15 watt Nutrigrow bulb so it's 1w per gallon. I think that's balanced out by Ecocomplete. Plus, I use low light plants for all of my setups. And I have a LOT of snails. I think they help out more then anything. When I don't have snails I get diatoms, bad! I credit the snails with half my success. :)

[weluvbettas]

my tanks dont have lights can i buy some sort of lights still to make the plants grow?????

[JB5]

This is actually a 6 gal but its still a small tank with a natural look.

[bloo97]

Oooh! Nice Tank! I am JEALOUS!

[bloo97]

No live plants for me! All silk. :P
I don't know if this is %100 natural, but It's my most natural tank.