nano freshwater planted tank

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ISteedman

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This is a small project of mine to make a freshwater version of a nano reef. Lots of good light and nice green full plants. also to be inhabited by my beta and 2 random tetras I have, maybe some guppies too.

plan to make it with an internal sump like the reef pictured.

The lights re 2 f8t5 bulbs from a broken makeup mirror!

now to find a 55gph pump for my sump.

Updates to come!:nilly:

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Sounds cool to me, I set up a 10g with my girlfriend that's kind of along the same lines of what you're going for, but maybe a little bigger.

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You can see more pictures of that tank at:

http://imgur.com/a/VR10r

Those pictures were taken a few months back, I can try to post some new pics tomorrow if you're interested.
 
Actually the one on the right is a female, but she's one of the best looking/colored females that I've ever seen. We split the tank so they wouldn't kill each other as we'd read that aside from when they're spawning that they should be kept apart. They would flare at each other and attack the divider some times, so I'm glad we put it in there. Occasionally he would build her a bubble nest on his side and try to woo her, but sadly he passed away two weeks ago.

After he passed away, we bought two more brightly colored females as they can be kept together without beating each other up and we were planning on taking out the divider. However, when we got them home they were so tiny compared to our female and we decided to leave in the divider.

As for a stock list, we just went to the LFS and talked to the staff about light requirements and then picked out the ones we liked. We're using two Zoomed Ultrasun Compact Flourescent Bulbs to light the tank and don't use any special fertilizers/substrate or run CO2 but our plants seem to do just fine. I'm looking through what LiveAquaria has and trying to identify them, but I could be mistaken on a few of them.

1. Micro Sword (Lilaeopsis novae-zelandiae)

2. Anacharis (Egeria densa)

3. Chilensis (Sagittaria platyphylla)

4. Dwarf Baby Tears (Hemianthus callitrichoides)

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The others I'm not really sure and can't look up right now, but I hope this helps and good luck on your project, keep us updated with pictures.
 
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