New Showtank

[dizkuz]

Started a new project for my living room last week so i thought i will share it to all you guys as well.

Bought a tank secondhand with a BTN background in it that i felt i found where cheap, BTN doesn't come cheap i most say.

135x50x70(lxbxh) 475 L


http://www.backtonature.se/


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[Eddie]

Very nice! What are tank stats? What are you planning to stock it with?


Eddie

[dizkuz]

The choise of Discus i wanted for this project is red/brown fish. so i went for Red covers and Rose red, 7 adults of them to this 500l tank.
here's a few of them.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_7150.jpg
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[Eddie]

Wow, that is definitely going to look amazing! The red is gonna just set that background off! Can't wait to see the pic when everything comes together.

Absolutely gonna look gorgeous! Those are some nice size RRs/RCs too

Eddie

[dizkuz]

I needed a new bench to the tank so i made a simple one for my self, just some hour work and its done, its doors one the gable for filter and such, i painted i black later on:D
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_7220.jpg
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[Eddie]

The stand looks great too, pretty handy. Nice work.

Eddie

[dizkuz]

I went for light color sand, 0.2 -0.8 mm sand, so fine sand its almost impossible for dirt to penetrate, easy to clean become all dirt stays on top of it:D Thats way i like it:angel:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_7322.jpg
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[dizkuz]

I also chose to use Terminalia catappa leaf in the tank for the look of it and they benefit the give,(most belive in them to work) i put down 15 leaf in the tank and think i will do.

Terminalia catappa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminalia_catappa
http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Indian_almond_leaf

For lightning i went for the red spectra fluorescent lamp i had, 2 of them will do fine:)

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[Eddie]

Damn, that is super nice! The fish look awesome in there.

Eddie

[dizkuz]

For plants i had a bit of prob to chose what to go for, so for now its just anubias in the tank and i dont think i will have any more plants except some flouting plants, and some Monstera deliciosa that will grow over the tank and just have the roots in to the tank for the nice effect they give and work as a good filter on top of that.

Here is where im at now to day with the project, I really enjoy the tank in the living room i most say. No more TV for me at nights :angel:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_7443.jpg

Brgds Danne

[Eddie]

I'd like to see pix of the Monstera deliciosa rooting in the tank, that would be crazy to see.


Eddie

[dizkuz]

I'd like to see pix of the Monstera deliciosa rooting in the tank, that would be crazy to see.


Eddie

Thanks for all your comments Eddie:)
The monstera is rooting as cuttings now and will take a few weeks before i add it to the tank. i do it in a windows before i add it.
Have a few older photos to share with the same use of monstera....
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/Bild030.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/CIMG0059.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/CIMG0072.jpg

just a link for monstera :angel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa

[Eddie]

Yup, that looks really good. I might have to get me some of that MD. Really really nice looking.


Eddie

[Scribbles]

Beautiful tank and discus! Must have been alot of work, but well worth it. Thanks for sharing.

[FLGirl1977]

That set up is amazing! I love the colors and fish that you chose. Where did you score such beautiful fish?

[seanyuki]

Wow Danne,

Beauitful drift woods and very nice discus too.....are you going to Aquarama this year? You must teach me a few tricks in growing huge discus lah.
Thanks for sharing your new project.


Cheers
Francis:)

[plecocicho]

:bounce2:Wow, althought i would prefer wilds in there, WOW!!!:D
You must post some more pics and a short movie too.

[dizkuz]

Beautiful tank and discus! Must have been a lot of work, but well worth it. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks.
Not really, it toke not so many hours to make this:)


That set up is amazing! I love the colors and fish that you chose. Where did you score such beautiful fish?

The RR is from a friend of mine, he had around 400-500 of them, sold many before a accident happened to his tank, We liked them so much so i bought them up from different people that had bought them from him, so some of them where harder to grow because different treat. the RC i had about 10 of them but just keept 2 females in the end.


Wow Danne,

Beauitful drift woods and very nice discus too.....are you going to Aquarama this year? You must teach me a few tricks in growing huge discus lah.
Thanks for sharing your new project.


Cheers
Francis:)
Hi there francis
Hope everything is good to you and your family.
I wish i could go back to Singapore and KL soon, but i guess i most get married to make that trip, my girlfriend told me she will pay for a honeymoon to penang if i merry her. Still not married:D
No secret to grow big discus, WC and more WC with out sickness is the ticket. still trying to get them big as ala colin styla bro.
Its impossible man. LOL


:bounce2:Wow, although i would prefer wilds in there, WOW!!!:D
You must post some more pics and a short movie too.
Thanks plecocicho.
My video cam is no good but i will try to make one someday:angel:

[aquadiva]

Wow! Beautiful tank!! Great looking Discus also! :fish::fish: Very showy looking, quite the eye catcher.:gorgeous: Great job!!:thumbsup:

Anna:sun:

[JFlo]

Very cool!! I wanted to do one of those background but was afraid to try it. Now I have a tank full of fun and its to late to pull the trigger:D A+ on that tank!!

[rickztahone]

that tank looks so incredible, great work. the discus look just as great

[Kratz]

Okay, call me stupid......

I love that background, but have never heard of BTN before. What does that mean? Is this something you bought or made?

Just so happens that I bought a 150 gallon tank today that will become a show tank. I'm very interested in putting that kind of background in it

[seanyuki]

I think BTN background means Back To Nature background..:)

Here's a link to DIY BTN backgrounds.

http://www.backtonature.se/english/montera_amazonas.html


Cheers
Francis:)






Okay, call me stupid......

I love that background, but have never heard of BTN before. What does that mean? Is this something you bought or made?

Just so happens that I bought a 150 gallon tank today that will become a show tank. I'm very interested in putting that kind of background in it

[Eddie]

BTN backgrounds are crazy expensive, you could buy 3 more 150s for the price of the background itself.

Eddie

[Kratz]

Thanks for the link. Natural types is what I'm all about when it comes to tanks.

I have a 90 gallon that I'm almost fanatical about keeping it as natural looking as possible.

The only two non natural looking things that you can see are the intake for the canister filter, and a small power head that I use for aeration. The return for the canister is a spray bar that is out of sight, and I use an inline heater on the canister filter.

When the plants mature and fill out some more, the intake and powerhead shouldn't be visible either.

I'm now seriously thinking about doing my own BTN background on the 150 thanks to this thread.

[dizkuz]

Thanks for the link. Natural types is what I'm all about when it comes to tanks.

I have a 90 gallon that I'm almost fanatical about keeping it as natural looking as possible.

The only two non natural looking things that you can see are the intake for the canister filter, and a small power head that I use for aeration. The return for the canister is a spray bar that is out of sight, and I use an inline heater on the canister filter.

When the plants mature and fill out some more, the intake and powerhead shouldn't be visible either.

I'm now seriously thinking about doing my own BTN background on the 150 thanks to this thread.


As Basshead said. they are mad expensive, but last forever. if you got the money they are all worth it...

About BTN so are they made in sweden from Swedish company but are exported to many countries, and i think you should find it USA as well.

BTN is very popular in sweden, see them all over the place and can buy them in many stores and lately there's a new line of them called slimline,
Slimline is approx. 10 mm thick and comes in two colours White Limestone and Red Gneiss.

And the best part,they are not so expensive:D

Maybe throw the company a e-mail and ask them where they delivery in USA or maybe a simply sponsor could arrange a bulk order to simply members.


SlimLine
http://www.backtonature.se/english/slimline.html
BRGDS Danne

[dizkuz]

Just share some photos now when they have saddle them self in to the new tank.
Going to big sales among hobbyist this week end, hope to find something new to the tank:D

Some photos,


http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_8581.jpg
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http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_8615.jpg

[FLGirl1977]

Those are absolutely beautiful! Please share more pictures when you get the chance... I keep drooling over this tank! ;)

[dizkuz]

Those are absolutely beautiful! Please share more pictures when you get the chance... I keep drooling over this tank! ;)

Thanks alot FLgirl.

Lets see what i can find tomorrow at the sale, i will look for floating plants and some corydoras:D

[seanyuki]

Hi Danne,

May I know the filtration system for your tank.....I always learning.

Cheers
Francis:)

[dizkuz]

Hi Danne,

May I know the filtration system for your tank.....I always learning.

Cheers
Francis:)

Hi there Francis

Its nothing special or DIY in this tank,
Just 2 Aquael UNI filter UV 750 behind the BTN and a Fluval 405, the in take behind the BTN and out take i drilled in to the BTN. so its quit turbulence behind the BTN:)


Many people use the hole background as a filter aera of the BTN as a filter but i wanted to keep it simple to clean when ever i need to.

Hope this will be OK in the long run.

[seanyuki]

Hi Danne,

Many thanks for your quick reply.

Cheers
Francis:)

[dizkuz]

Just a litle update.

I bought some more Anubias to the tank and the floating plants have been added, Salvinia auriculata and Limnobium, 17 Corydoras Sterbai as well

And i have added a pair of Albino, im not really sure what kind but the looks white with some blue shine in the fins with some red, I would guess Cobolt Albinos, someone that knows for sure?

Some photos where the tank is now.

[dizkuz]

Sorry!:o

Heres the photos.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_9278.jpg
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[FLGirl1977]

WoW! Everything looks great, I really do like the plants! I liked it without as well, but everything looks great. I'm so jealous of your fish though! Are you sure you don't want to ship them to me??? ;)

[seanyuki]

Hi Danne,

Your tank always looks great.....thanks for the updates


Cheers
Francis:)

[dizkuz]

A small update from the show tank that still is alive:) Just a clip i made when i tried out my new canon 500D film function.
Thought i would show it here as well....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2h5FxZ3yuE&feature=channel_page

Brgds Danne

[chintz]

Really nice tank!

You pic #10 becomes my destop pic on my computer......

[seanyuki]

Nice video Danne......thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Francis:)

[Scribbles]

Absolutely beautiful!

Chris

[rbarn]

What sand is that exactly ??? Where get it ???

Love the fish

[dizkuz]

Just a update or a prof of life on the show tank :)
Feeding time and im trying to learn the canon with out AF, so sorry to turn the pic to blur, but just turning the focus to the wrong side some time thru the film clip......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqy-zkIhks&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdiskusforum%2Ese%2Fviewtopic%2Ep hp%3Ff%3D11%26t%3D3889%26start%3D100&feature=player_embedded#t=15

Brgds Danne
PS many of the plants is going to a another tank later, thats way its a mess just now.

[dizkuz]

What sand is that exactly ??? Where get it ???

Love the fish

Sorry for the extreme late replay....
Its from a local store for cars, its sand for blasting color, its all natural and not to sharp edge to it and cheap as hell,,, many Sweeds use it:D
Brgds Danne

[Lytehouse]

Beautiful fish.

You've done a great job making their home equally as beautiful.

Thanks for sharing.

[Darren's Discus]

Absolutely Beautiful,
thank's for sharing.



cheers

[rdzralph]

Beautiful tank! Can you share on how you keep your plants so green?

[Patr1ck]

Beautiful tank! Can you share on how you keep your plants so green?

Yeah... and how there is not a spec of algae either? Wow!

Thanks,
Pat

[dizkuz]

Thanks to all of you that liked it :)

But i promise i have had my share of algae but i learn something about them every time it happen, the hard way :mad:

I did a mistake to sell all my Salvinia auriculata n Limnobium (Fast growing flotingplants) and in the same moment i change the tub lights and put in reflector to them so i would have better light that i had before, now i have power glo 18000 k and Aqua star 10000k, power glo, didnt get the Rose red as fine in color as before but the plants like it better.
But now i didn't have enuff of fast growing plants and more light to handle so it exploded in Staghorn and some other friends of his, so there for i nuke it with excel/EC= easycarbo and get some fast growing plants fast, so i bought some polysperma to take care of it and about 50-70 Cherry Shrimp that supposed to be in there sence day 1.... But now its OK again for this time:D


So i have made many mistake to learn from....
Just for making it short :angel:

The tank is a:

Low light 0.35 W/L x 10 hour
Nutrients: PMDD
Co2 i use EC= Easycarbo
And follow the IE (Estimative Index) style in WC and nutrient dose...
http://www.barrreport.com/estimative-index/62-estimative-index-dosing-no-need-test-kits.html
Haven't vacuum even once, thank god for corydoras to do that job.
film 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZFhIx2s2o&feature=player_profilepage

[bigfry]

Gorgeous, thanks for sharing.

Any pairing/spawnings ?

[dizkuz]

Gorgeous, thanks for sharing.

Any pairing/spawnings ?

Thanks!

I only have 1 female in the thank so shes having her best time of her life i guess.
She have had a many spawning but wriggler only a few times. But i got some small corydoras turnig up time to time so few of them made it from becoming food to the discus...
And scrimps is crazy, it will take over the tank.......

Regards Danne

[Chef]

very nice tank and discus:)

[dizkuz]

Just a small update on the show tank in my house, still live and kicking and haven't clean it once sence last update, only weekly WC.... =)

Try later to get a full size photo on the entire tank later...
Brgds D
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4258103848_71d406081f.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4257344281_a38972d263.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4227255111_87eaf59f4c.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2712/4228024274_bf4fe369ed.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4226096999_912bc705aa.jpg

Latest but a bit old clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOx7cUUatY

[seanyuki]

Nice discus Danne.....would love to see the showtank.
Thanks for sharing......wishing you and your family a belated Happy New Year.

[dizkuz]

Nice discus Danne.....would love to see the showtank.
Thanks for sharing......wishing you and your family a belated Happy New Year.
Same to you and your family Francis.
Brgds D
Ps, haven't seen a update on your collection lately :)

[traco]

Beautiful tank and gorgeous, fat discus! I love the monstera deliciosa you had set up in your old tank, never even thought of taking one of those for placement in a tank.

Great job and thanks for the update photos!!:)

[dizkuz]

Beautiful tank and gorgeous, fat discus! I love the monstera deliciosa you had set up in your old tank, never even thought of taking one of those for placement in a tank.

Great job and thanks for the update photos!!:)

Thank you!!
Yes the monstera is a great idea to a BB tank but in this case i had to remove it, to much competitions to the other plant in the tank:)
Just love this RR, its from the same batch as the winner in the swe champ...
creed to the creator....

brgds D

[Eddie]

Beautiful tank Danne, the RR look amazing! I love their colors in that tank, so nice.

All the best,

Eddie

[Dan S]

Hello Dizkuz,

Great setup you have there. Do you keep any plecs in with the BTN background? Ive just got a Pangea background and Im wondering what Plecs will be ok with it?

Dan

[Patr1ck]

Hello Dizkuz,

Great setup you have there. Do you keep any plecs in with the BTN background? Ive just got a Pangea background and Im wondering what Plecs will be ok with it?

Dan

Ive had a Bristlenose and a Zebra in with my Mesa Flatrock Background and they left it alone. I just put in a Royal and Green Phantom today. Ill see how they do as well.

Pat

[Chef]

tank looks really good. thanks for share

[Scribbles]

Beautiful tank and discus!

Chris

[MikeF]

I love that tank. Thanks for sharing. I think that some rose reds will be in my future.

[pastry]

okay, very very veerrrry jealous of that tank. absolutely AWESOME. i love the sand, the lighting, the background, wood, anubias growing on the wood, and having near the same color discus in there.

little by little i've been improving mine. still working on the plants. my discus are a mixed bunch of turqoise/cobalts with tangerine/pb's. i'd love to just keep one color scheme but too attached to give any away.

do you still have the tank set up? could we see updates? are all of the plants on the driftwood anubias?

[Sharkbait]

Hey Danne,

What is the bioload for the tank? In the video it looks like it's pretty densely planted with the driftwood. 8 discus? I saw a whole wack of corys, shrimp and neons.

If it's a 500L (about 130gallon) tank, how often do you change the water? I'd like to stick to around once a week to keep my EI dosing method in check.

Just curious because I have a densely planted tank with a couple schools of smaller tetras and was just running around the issue of swimming space, bioload, etc. and if I have to trim back on my plants or sell livestock.

[fishkeeper59]

thats a beautiful tank, where can i find a background like that in theUSA?, i pulled up the website and all their disributors are overseas. and your fish are awesome, you got it going on. good luck

[Patr1ck]

Here are a couple. I got mine from the first link.
http://aquariumhabitats.com/backgrounds.html
http://www.notjustfish.com/
This one is the manufacturers site.
http://www.aquaterra-intl.com/index.html
I got the Mesa Flatrock. I love it and have had it for almost a year. So far so good. As far as debris getting behind it, Ive see none. A few of my shrimp and a Hillstream Loach live back there maybe they help out.
hth,
Pat

[dizkuz]

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_8699.jpg

Thanks eddie, the best to you to :)

Hi Dan:)
Im not using any plecos im only use Sturisoma and my corrys in this set up... But i know many people in sweden using l-128 l-200 on and so on with BTN.. Only the worse wood eaters will be banned, as Panaques.....

Thanks Chef, scribbles and Mike f:)

Pastry :)
No its not only Anubias, its many different anubias and many different javas ( Microsorum Pteropus) and many different moss and some bolbits on the woods... And the tank is still running and i added a photo for you but no photo session lately at the tank. I hope the best to your tank :angel:

sharkbait:)

Yes it was overload with fish for some time but its only 5 of the that livs in the tank, few went to friends breeding prog, and i lost two when my heater broken and almost boiled them all..........
So 5 discus and 20 corydoras and some tetras and 2 Sturisoma and some scrimps... Feed only 2 times a day and never use any heart mix, my fish was from BB tanks to adulthood than put them over here, dont need the same food because they dont grow no more..... An i do EI with 60-70% WC a Week, sometime i do 2 wc in the same week... I have a fluval 405 and 2 UV consider filters behind the BTN. But sure i need to prune down some greeens time 2 time so the can swim around the centerpiece of wood....

Fishkeeper thanks and nice to see that patr1ck helped you out:)

Big thanks for your intress
brgds Danne

[rickztahone]

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_8699.jpg



that's a gorgeous tank!

[velocilraptor]

Amazing looks very natural, like a picture from nature... well done

[toomanyfish]

hi..
Am in love with your tank and have been following it very keenly.going to be setting up a tank very closely based on yours hope i do well...also i liked the initial setup with lots of the annubias rather than the last pic you posted but thats just my opinion

[dizkuz]

Thanks Rick, Val, toomanyfish:)

I got bored to the school of neons so i had to get me some new fish to the tank... And believe me when i say it wasn't easy to get hold of them :mad:

Anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqiciST3z2A
Brgds D

[jball1125]

Wow that is beautiful!

How do you keep your plants sooooooo green without using co2 or high lighting?

[dizkuz]

A Small update!

Rescaped the tank and the BTN had to go:)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4475694507_a3fba17623.jpg




Name: Destination java island
Tank: 135x50x70(lxbxh)
Filter: Fluval 405, 2 x Aquael Uni Filter UV 750
Light: 38w t8 x 2 powerglo 18000k, 38w t8 x 1 Sylvania Aquastar 10000k, 2 x power glo t5 39w 6,700 K
Co2: 1 b/s
Substrat: Sand


Flora:
Anubias barteri
Anubias nana
Anubias barteri var. nana petite
Microsorum pteropus
Microsorum pteropus narrow
Bolbitis heudelotii
Crinum calamistratum
Hygrophila polysperma
Vesicularia dubyana
Taxiphyllum sp peacock
Eleocharis acicularis
Sagittaria subulata
Cryptocoryne crispatula
Hydrocotyle verticillata.


Fauna:
Corydors sterbi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Neocaridina heteropoda
Tetraodon travancoricus
Otocinclus macrospilus
Symphysodon sp
Hyphessobrycon cf. ornatus
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi

[yikesjason]

It looks very nice, great job.

[waters10]

A Small update!

Rescaped the tank and the BTN had to go:)



Name: Destination java island
Tank: 135x50x70(lxbxh)
Filter: Fluval 405, 2 x Aquael Uni Filter UV 750
Light: 38w t8 x 2 powerglo 18000k, 38w t8 x 1 Sylvania Aquastar 10000k, 2 x power glo t5 39w 6,700 K
Co2: 1 b/s
Substrat: Sand


Flora:
Anubias barteri
Anubias nana
Anubias barteri var. nana petite
Microsorum pteropus
Microsorum pteropus narrow
Bolbitis heudelotii
Crinum calamistratum
Hygrophila polysperma
Vesicularia dubyana
Taxiphyllum sp peacock
Eleocharis acicularis
Sagittaria subulata
Cryptocoryne crispatula
Hydrocotyle verticillata.


Fauna:
Corydors sterbi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Neocaridina heteropoda
Tetraodon travancoricus
Otocinclus macrospilus
Symphysodon sp
Hyphessobrycon cf. ornatus
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
What was the reason you got rid of the background?

I personally thought this was the most impressive discus tank that I've seen on this forum! I can't think of a reason to rescape it! :)

Can we get a full tank shot?

[dizkuz]

Thanks yikesjason

Thanks waters10
And for your questions

I removed it because it going in to a other tank and this one in my living room i wanted a new look to it, had the BTN over 1 year and many people in sweden use the BTN so i dont find them all that... The one i had was a bit custom do... This tank i have now will not be much older either i think..... I like the hobby when it moves and i can make new plans and do them... not only keep discus:)

I really get happy to hear that you thought my old one was impressive and i hope this one maybe can be that too in time....

About full shot have to wait for a while :angel:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4476514489_52f728a725.jpg
Brgds D

[Disgirl]

Your partial tank photo is really beautiful and I look forward to seeing the whole thing sometime. Beautiful plants!!
Barb:)

[Eddie]

I love the new look, without the background. I think it opened up alot of space and the tank looks PHENOMENAL!! Pure HEAVEN! I love it man!

Take care Danne,

Eddie

[dizkuz]

Thanks Barb :) And thank you Eddie :)

I think it open up the tank aswell and my diskus like this better i hope :D

[toomanyfish]

can we for crying out loud have the full tank shot already???

[darkknight87]

wow. Very nice.

[Kingfisher]

May I ask where someone might purchase a background like that for a 112 gallon tank? Thanks.

[GrillMaster]

Beautiful tank! :thumbsup:

tc

[kleankord]

amazing

[Jennie]

I was checking out those backgrounds online and they wanted 600 dollars for them?? I'd rather spend 600 on the fish. did you make that??


For plants i had a bit of prob to chose what to go for, so for now its just anubias in the tank and i dont think i will have any more plants except some flouting plants, and some Monstera deliciosa that will grow over the tank and just have the roots in to the tank for the nice effect they give and work as a good filter on top of that.

Here is where im at now to day with the project, I really enjoy the tank in the living room i most say. No more TV for me at nights :angel:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb129/dizkuzzz/IMG_7443.jpg

Brgds Danne

[Patr1ck]

May I ask where someone might purchase a background like that for a 112 gallon tank? Thanks.
http://aquariumhabitats.com/backgrounds.html
http://www.aquaterra-intl.com/gallery.html
Check out Rocky I and Rocky III. I have the Mesa flatrock in my tank. It looks awesome.

Pat

[RudeDogg1]

sorry to high jack but has anyone on here (who has the slimline mesa rockwall background). Have any of you used extra panels to continue it onto the sides of the tank? Or is it a no no?

[Patr1ck]

sorry to high jack but has anyone on here (who has the slimline mesa rockwall background). Have any of you used extra panels to continue it onto the sides of the tank? Or is it a no no?

I have the Mesa flatrock but didnt continue it on the sides of the tank. I dont see why it couldnt be done. Some of the other backgrounds in the display tanks on the above links are done that way. The way I see it is, its your tank do what you want with your creativity. Post some pics when you get done as I would like to see how it turned out.

Pat

[lee1]

very nice, the lighting and color looks unreal in the last few shots. thanks for the inspiration!

[robinrob]

Amazing tank setup. A real inspiration for me to model on. Good work. Any new pics?

[pastry]

Is Dizkuz still around??? Loved his tank, plants, and discus on this thread and then towards the end he mentioned another show tank he was setting up (and we never got to see!). So has anyone heard from him? I thought it was worth bumping this old thread.

[dizzzkuz]

Is Dizkuz still around??? Loved his tank, plants, and discus on this thread and then towards the end he mentioned another show tank he was setting up (and we never got to see!). So has anyone heard from him? I thought it was worth bumping this old thread.

Im Still Around! :angel: 9 Years later reply ;)

Been in to aquascaping for years but back in to discus again, just grow out tank for now do, but they will end up in a show tank in the end...
Fun to be back at simply and walk the memory lane...
Brgd Danne aka Dizkuz

[pastry]

Great to hear from you! Your old tank has always inspired me!