pretty x3 I've looked up Aqua scape stuff several times.

Plants and fishies looking amazing keep up the good work!

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That's a whole lot of shrimp. :3

78 to be exact!

Are those the little freshwater aquarium "sharks?" Like bala sharks?

No this is only a 20 gal, they're emerald eye tetras . I'd love to own a bala shark but sadly I've got no room for a 500 gal tank :<

Oh, I always thought those little bala sharks were tiny. They're not actual shark-sharks, they just have big dorsal fins so they're nicknamed sharks. They're a type of minnow I think. https://aquaticmag.com/wp-content/u.....atic-Mag-2.jpg

http://s65.photobucket.com/user/cen.....ion00.jpg.html they get pretty big- iredecent sharks get big too http://www.tankterrors.com/wp-conte.....on_catfish.jpg (actually called paroon cats)

neither suited for a tank under 200gals haha

Lol, no I suppose not.

oo pretty! i could never do something like that, i dont have the patience for it though but i do have a hobby of my own i collect National Flags

Yeh they're a bit of work, but so rewarding. And that's cool!

yeah it is and yes i know i love flags theyre so pretty, sometimes depending on how they look

I always thought miniature land/aqua scape stuff was really cool. Have the hardest time finding where to start hobbies like this though

I love helping people start an addiction:) I'm more than willing to spam yah with details if you want haha

dude, I love how established your moss and plants are! How long did it take your plants to really blanket the bottom like that?
*I too love settling up aquariums, I currently have a koi tank but currently I'm in the process of replanting it! I'm also thinking about doing a shrimp tank! What kinds of shrimp do you havw?

The moss of the bottom is all new! I got a 6x6 tray of coral moss (that was NOT on mesh mats) and broke it up to fit the places I needed it! Everything else took around 3months , no ferts no c02 just really good light! In here I've got 25 CRS shrimp, 46 CBS shrimp around 10 mixed neos and 20 emerald eye tetras :> the vitamins and RO water that the shrimp need are the most difficult thing about this tank haha all my other ones are totally hands off besides water changes

Damn that's a beautiful aquarium, though, I can't see any of the shrimp, they hiding or are they those specks in the top right?

http://i.imgur.com/auCNl2A.jpg heres some :> i took some highrez pics yesterday but i havent gotten them off the camera yet

Oh that is too cool, thank you.

What kind of shrimp have you got? I spot what looks like a cherry on top of the big rock, but I can't identify the other ones- ghost shrimp or Amano/Japanese Algae Eater shrimp, maybe?

Shrimp tanks are adorable though :3

CBS and CRS <3 some mixed neos snuck in from my other tank on some java moss haha

YOU'RE INTO AQUASCAPING TOO! And I love the way dragon stone looks, and you have java moss, moss balls, anubias and one of my favorite carpet plants, Staurogyne repens! And are those crystal reds and crystal black shrimp with pristella tetras? Do you go low tech or high tech? Sorry if I'm getting a little too excited but I don't see many others into the hobby like me lol

nah you're fine!! tetras are emerald eyes (my favorite, they glimmer and school sooooo well) all low tech! i wanna get a c02 set up later but that's for a project with my husbands 120 gals, i like my tiny tanks being low tech <3

What sort of lighting do you use? I've had zero luck keeping any moss in my tank. http://i.imgur.com/yKXN3za.jpg

basic LED hood lights the 20 gals came with- what kind of mosses are you trying with? in this tank ive got the basic moss balls, java moss, coral moss, and flame moss- all growin like weeds , java moss is pretty indestructible, it just gets scraggly quickly, coral moss is my favorite but it's slow growing and the 6x6 pad of it i got ran me $80 (and i got it from a wholesale auction) so it's better for small tanks or gluing it to wood for a clumping effect (like this : http://imgur.com/a/1iYde )

I cannot recall everything I tried, but I will look into the ones you mentioned! I've got a pretty strong lighting set up, as well as food sources for anything that grows. I've just had no luck getting anything to grow on the ground towards the front of the tank.

Woah that's sicc. Remember to keep an eye out for cyanobacteria colonies

yeh ive heard thats on the rise recently - keepin my peepers peeled

I've got 4 planted tanks. 3 of them got it, tried for 5 months to get rid of it, finally bleached everything and threw away all gravel, plants, and driftwood. A month later I've got it back in the same three tanks.

i had a shrimp tank with a white crawfish for along time he was soo cute

so you have crystal reds? crystal blacks? Do you have some high quality crystal reds or something? Can't tell what the white ones are? Have any of your crystals cross bred? What size fish tank do you have? How often are your water changes? I used to have a super heavily planted (mosses like you have and then tons of taller and others etc in my old shrimp tank. I had only natural ornaments like porous rocks and mopani wood good for rooting plants on and growing things etc. But I realized a lot of my shrimp were cross breeding. So I ended up dismantling it. If I ended up remaking one, I would actually increase from a 25 gallon to a 40 gallon breeder and use certain species (around 8 different ones) all of which live in similar conditions and can't cross breed with each other, but the start up cost just for the shrimp breeders would be around 300 dollars.

cbs,crs, and golden bees (totally forgot about those since ive only got 10 and 25+ of every other type) .

yes they cross breed , but with the combo of shrimp i have they will stay either cbs , crs, or if the golden bees cross with either they will just become higher grade crs/cbs since it'll increase the amount of white in the offspring (thats what most common SS-SSS grade CRS shrimp are, only pure line CRS have never been crossbreed.)

this is a 20 gal tall, ive also got a 20 long, a 55 long, and a 120 tall.

water changes on this tank are roughly every 2 weeks, on the other tanks i do them every month with regular top offs when the water level gets low.

I'd personally suggest maybe 3 12 gal long tanks stacked if you're worried about cross breeding, it would look VERY pretty too.

and yeh- i think total cost for this tank was around $700 including plants, rocks, substrate, hardware, and shrimp, but i did it all waaaay over time, this tanks been up and running for around a year.

My original tank had a bunch of species that supposedly were impossible to house together. But since it was large for the amount of fish and everything I had and had plenty of species friendly hiding spaces all my species did fine and weren't stressed. I had breeding from all of them except my Indian Dwarf Puffers and that's just because I didn't make them the mops they need to breed well. *shakes head* They are more annoying to breed XD.

at first i was like. "Oh cool! Miniature landscapes with real plants thats kickass!" then i realized "floating fish? wait no. its an aquarium. kickass" x3

o0o look at all those mini water doggos

Cool and my hobby is building Gundam Models

This is super cute. I always liked fishtanks cause they just settled my mind. Might get some little crustaceans some day or small reptiles.