I wasn't sure where to put this so mods feel free to move it to wherever you feel it should be.

Hello everyone, I'm Kel, I was asked to join up here by someone on youtube by the name flowerhornsdotorg and share pictures of my planted tanks and also help people with plant related questions. I'm by no means an expert with plants but have had planted setups for well over a year now. I've had many many different scapes(as is the norm with us planted folk) and genreally my scapes change every few months.

At the moment I have 5 tanks running, 4 of them planted, all with small fish, the largest fish I've kept were bichirs and a geophagus but that was many moons ago

Anyway here are my setups and current scapes;

Tank 1 - 39" x 14" x 16" - approx 130Litres

Lighting - 2 x 28 W T5 unit with built in reflectors

Filtration - Aqua pro 2, 800L/hr.

Dosing - Tropica plant nutrition +

CO2 - 2 x Nutrafin cannisters & Flourish Excel

Fish / inverts
5 Corydoras Melanotaenia(beautiful golden corys, highly recommend them)
5 Corydoras Aeneus
7 Otocinclus
6 White cloud mountian minnows(+ 1 WCMM fry)
Plenty of Malaysian trumpet snails



Tank 2 - 32" x 14" x 16" - approx 105Litres

Lighting - 2 x 20W built in lighting.

Filtration - Fluval 305

Dosing - Tropica plant nutrition +

CO2 - Just Flourish Excel

Fish / inverts
2 x fancy goldfish
Half a dozen Malaysian trumpet snails



Tank 3 - Clearseal tank 24" x 12" x 15" - approx 60 Litres

Lighting - 1 x 18W

Filtration - 2 x fluval + at the moment,I'm waiting on a Tetratex Ex600 to be delivered for this.

Dosing - Tropica plant nutrition +

CO2 - Just Flourish Excel

Fish / inverts
6 Corydoras Panda
5 Corydoras Trilineatus
10 amano shrimp
5 or 6 Malaysian trumpet snails



Tank 4 - Can't remember the measurements offhand but it's 25 Litres

Lighting - 1 x 8W built in bulb.

Filtration - Stingray elite 5

Dosing - Tropica plant nutrition +

CO2 - none

Fish / inverts
A dozen cherry shrimp & malaysian trumpet snails



Tank 5 - 24" x 12" x 12" - approx 50 Litres

Lighting - A table lamp(this is my non planted tank)

Filtration - Fluval 2+

Fish / Inverts;
Used to contain several african dwarf frogs but after a bacterial infection from a new frog I'm left with just one female. I used to breed these and have written articles on them. I'm hoping to locate some healthy stock soon to get my breeding project back on track.



Here's the most recent video of 3 of my tanks, I have plenty more on youtube including alot of videos of my frogs breeding, singing, the tadpoles etc;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3VAfsUy5AI

So that's my setups, the planted tanks were re-scaped last week so aren't at there best particularly the goldfish tank which has yet to be scaped, I 've just chucked the plants in for now until I decide how I want it to look.


I'm not sure what I can contribute to this site other then help with plants and general advice about the hobby, I've never kept flowerhorns, the only cichlid I've ever kept was a geophagus(as I said at the top of the post) but that was only briefly. Anyway that's me and my setups :D

Welcome to flowerhorns.org,,
you have some amazing planted tanks.

Thank you James

Welcome! It's nice to have you here. Nice setup! Hope you enjoy your stay!

welcome sis...

Nice to have you join us

We will move the topic to the planted section where all the newbies like myself can benefit from

I hope you can continue to share with us as those are beautiful planted tanks with great aquascaping work

Ive always been amazed at planted tanks and setup my 10g in the next couple of weeks. My shrimps are growing fast and need the extra room :) I hope you can assist a newb like me with dumb questions, cause I know there will be some.

Welcome to the site!

This post has been edited by danz: Apr 26 2008, 08:19 AM

wow very nice tanks you have!!! So when is the flowerhorn setup coming??Your tanks are beautiful!!

very nice tanks you have there!! I always wanted to try one of those!!

beautiful planted tanks you have,i am glad you joined us, enjoy your stay sis.

Thank you all so much for the welcomes I'll try to help out as much as possible.

welcome Kel we could use always more info so feel free to share some thanks for nice pics looks like you gotit down packed

You have some nice tanks.
I thought gold fish would eat plants and aquatic vegetation?

I just found this thread.
Very nice plants you have there and an excellent scape too.
It looks like you mastered the proper usage of sand.
The mountain scape has a sense of simplicity but nevertheless killer.

very very nice ......i wish my 125g would look like that :)

Thank you for the welcomes

Phoman - the goldfish are very good, they do nibble on the days I skip feeding but not enough to cause any lasting / substantial damage

Roundhead - The mountain scape is exactly that, simple, no plants just rocks & moss balls flattened out, the proper usage of sand? not sure what you mean?

Awesome tanks. Thanks for sharing

Luv those settups!ur cute urself welcome I'm shore allot of people will want to ask some planted tank questions.pat

Thank you everyone & feel free to ask me any questions, I'll try to answer as best I can

very nice plant tanks. you must be proud of your work

i've had a planted 75g for years now with no such luck...