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Post by racoll »

Jools has just added this article of mine to the website.

Its main aim is to run through some of the common problems that newcomers to the hobby suffer from.

Many of the same problems do crop up from time to time in the forum.


Jools suggested some photos to break up quite a large chunk of text.

So, I would like have images of the following in the article:

1) A really nice planted tank
2) A river tank (preferably no/few plants)
3) Driftwood snag tank
4) Some catfish feeding on frozen bloodworms
5) Sand/gravel of different types.
6) Species of the plants mentioned
7) A quarantine tank
8.) Algae (preferably different types)
9) A fish (preferably catfish) suffering from ich


Feel free to submit any other photos that you think would work.

Just add them to your post with the [img] tags.


Good luck and thanks.
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Post by Mike_Noren »

For all your algal needs:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/algae_gallery.htm
All the pictures on that page are public domain, so if there's any there you can use, just grab them.
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Post by Marc van Arc »

Hi Racoll,
Perhaps you can use some pictures from this thread:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=17108

Or this one:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=17148

Key words: sandy bottom, Vallis, bogwood :wink:

BTW: your article is very worthwile and I hope many people will learn from it. Minor spelling thing in Plant section: it reads Anubius; should be Anubias.
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Post by racoll »

Great.

Thank you both.

Lovely looking tank Marc. :D

I'll decide what goes in when this thread dies.


Thanks for the spelling correction also.


KEEP THEM COMING.......


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Post by Jools »

I just made the arrows transparent too, which is a little touch but makes it look nicer IMHO.

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Post by Shane »

Very nice article. Feel fre to use these if they meet you requirements:

1) Anubias decorated tank/African driftwood snag

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2)Planted tank. Not sure if it is "really nice."

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Post by racoll »

I just made the arrows transparent too, which is a little touch but makes it look nicer IMHO.



I don't know if i'm being stupid, but they look the same to me. :?


Also, I wonder if people have photos of an internal power filter and an air powered sponge filter.

:D
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Post by bronzefry »

Here's a 75 gallon planted tank that had duckweed at the time:
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The plants later choked out the duckweed. It's a "beginner" tank.
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Post by Kostas »

Here are some photos of my 1meter river tank at some of the phases he has gone through...

With Pistia stratiotes on top...
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With plants...
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Unfortunately i had to keep lights closed for most of the past summer due to heat and lost all plants except Lemna :roll:

Not aquascaped at all... :roll: I am upgrading it soon and so i havent really cared to make it appealing after the summer...
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Post by racoll »

Any more photos :?: :D
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Post by Kathryn002 »

Hi,
These are a couple of pictures of one of my Panda Corydoras eating a bloodworm:
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Crop them, do whatever you want/need to do.
Don't worry if for any reason you can't use them. :)
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Post by Kathryn002 »

Ooops, missed these out in the previous post.
I had some problems with algae a while back, and have some photos.
They are not the best but if you need them, use them:
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Post by sidguppy »

top are not algae, but Blue Greens, sometimes called 'blue green algae", or more correct: cyanobacteria.

bottom are filamentous algae and brown algae; both are true algae species.
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Post by Kathryn002 »

Thank you. :)
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Post by kcmt01 »

By sheer coincidence, I had a brown algae disaster overnight. I added some pH Decreaser from Jungle to our 35 gal. hex tank... This is what our filter looked like this morning! Completely plugged with brown algae! Note the stream coming from the bypass. The filter cartridge was brand new!
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here is one of my favorite planted tanks.
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55 gallon planted

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Post by racoll »

Great stuff.


Thank you all. :D


Keep them coming.........
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Post by featherback »

Here's my tank....

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Post by grokefish »

Rivertank
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Planted tank
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One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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Post by H »

Hello!

I've got some pictures, they're probably not what you're after, but you're welcome to use them if you would like!!

Java Fern

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Anubias barteri var. nana

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Anubias barteri var.barteri

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Natural 4mm rounded gravel
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Polished Amethyst gravel
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Algae on a Hygrophila leaf
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Echinodorus 'Ozelot'
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Cryptocoryne becketti 'petchii'
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Group planting
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Hygrophila polysperma
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Mutated Trilobed Java Fern!
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Newly set up tank
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Same tank 3months on
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Anubias 'nana' & Echinodorus 'Ozelot'
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