Anyone else in URS doing planted tanks?

[jansenwrasse]

So I set one up a while ago, it basically consist of Calerpa sp. but has really peaked my interest!!! Wondering if anyone else has one?

P.S. Mine is really an excessively large fuge but aren't all planteds fuges?

 

[tmz]

Hi,

I have two refugia with chaetomorpha and gracieria algaes in them if this is waht you mean.

 

[suppressivefire]

oh i thought you meant fresh water.

 

[jansenwrasse]

Na salt water sorry, Tom do you have any pictures?

I'll try to get some up to show!

 

[KurtsReef]

My sump has several growing in it, they are not 'planted' however do attach themselves to things.

 

[tmz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13354795#post13354795 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jansenwrasse
Na salt water sorry, Tom do you have any pictures?

I'll try to get some up to show!

I'll be posting some soon in my 600gal puddle thread. Not much to look at though just a pile of chaeto and gracilaria.

 

[GMaquarium]

I have been doing the planted tank thing. Most of my plants are now split up in a few different tanks. Comared to freshwater planted tank its very easy, but its very hard to get a very organized, groomed look and interesting aquascape.

 

[jansenwrasse]

Agreed I have seen some great planted tanks for F.W. as well infact "G" I like the pic of yours!

 

[tmz]

This thread has lot's of pictures of refugia with algaes.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=13356044#post13356044

 

[jansenwrasse]

Nice tom Thanks for the look!

 

[becon776]

hahah... I remember before I got into salt.. I said I'm gonna take this fw thing as far as it can go...Had a 125 set up w halides and full grown discus. It was pretty cool and could possibly rival some reefs. google takashi amano if you want to see what the epidomy of fw tanks are. CO2 addition, undergravel heating cables, pH controllers controlling the co2 solenoid valve, full rodi for the discus, black water tannic acid additions hahahaha. finally i caved and went sw but sometimes i miss the old calm fw.. that was my biggest thing.
it's different because the discus were slow swimming and there wasn't much current, and the vallisneria just slowly waved back and forth with the ebb and flow. haha.. i still have the old stuff.. I should set it up!

 

[becon776]

my old baby

 

[gandolf8]

I have mangroves in my fuges.

 

[belgian_waffleman]

becon776, that was an awesome setup. Even more complex than a reef system :eek1: .

I had a low tech 75G planted for 6 years before taking the plunge.

Pic taken before I took it down:

I have seen these SW tanks with mangroves that look pretty neat, it's just not the same...

Waffleman

 

[doryarlin955]

I used have a planted tank with caulerpas when I had dwarf seahorses, but that's long gone

I'm actually getting back into fw bc of how little time I've got anymore... I just finished getting a 55g ready for some tanganyikan shelldwellers