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@Pepere I have seen your tanks, you have some nice plants in there. Which are your favorites?
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@mountaintoppufferkeeper Those puffers look really cool! I will have to look into their care 🙂 @Beardedbillygoat1975 A puffer! 🙂Also that is a very nice pleco. Is that an aquatic frog?!?!
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@Lennie We will see what @mountaintoppufferkeeper has to say then 🙂
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@Lennie @mountaintoppufferkeeper Is there such thing as an easy puffer to keep? If so, what are the easiest ones in your opinion? I am definitely not opposed to some work and keeping bugs (owned several arachnids and reptiles), Just don't want to feed shelled food regularly. 🙂 Puffers are really hard to resist though LOL
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My 75g tank is not set up yet, but my top 5 fish would be: 1) Puffers in general LOL I am not sure if I will ever own one but they are so cool to watch 🙂 If I did get one it night be pea puffers (or another species that doesn't need shells) @mountaintoppufferkeeper Let me know if pea puffers are easy-ish to keep lol 2) Either a L177 Gold Nugget Pleco or L260 Queen Arabesque Pleco (stunning patterns): 3) Peacock Eel (I mean it is an eel...): 4) Hillstream Loaches (look kinda like baby stingrays 🙂): 5) Ropefish (I love snakes so...) 6) Honorable mentions (technically not fish but that's okay LOL): -Shrimp and Crayfish (love the variation of color and movement that they add to a tank)
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@Tanked Very shiny 🙂 @mountaintoppufferkeeper I love puffers, so personable. But I cannot feed a fish tons of shelled food LOL @JChristophersAdventures Yeah that will look great with some many fish. Also I love galaxy rasboras 🙂
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@Fish Folk Wow those rams are stunning, I am going to have to try that some day. Would be totally worth the effort. @nabokovfan87 That is good to know, I will have to look into them further then. I really wanted one when I first saw them but then backed off when I thought that they would be aggressive. @Lennie Wow I have never seen a Red Lizard Whiptail before, very unique fish 🙂 What colors of discus are you going for? @AquaHobbyist123 I thought the Fieryblack Shiner was going to be huge. Very "big" looking fish for such a small guy LOL @JChristophersAdventures a 75 gallon nano tank will be fun to watch for all the schooling fish. You will have to send pics once it is fully up 🙂
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@nabokovfan87 Yeah I think that they are a really neat fish. The only reason I didn't have them on my list, is because I want a gold nugget pleco, some HSLs, and maybe a smaller schooling fish (to name a few). Figured that they wouldn't o well with those.
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@Fish Folk What did you have for tank mates with the German blue ram? Discus?
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@Fish Folk Wow! that is the nicest German Blue Ram I have ever seen! He is so colorful. @nabokovfan87 I love plecos. My dad had a 55 gallon tank and those one of the groups of fish that I was most interested in growing up. I would love to get a gold nugget pleco one day 🙂 Also are the Red-Tailed Black Shark aggressive? I have never seen one in real life but those are very cool.
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Subject says it all, what are your top 5 favorite fish in the hobby and why are they your favorite? Include pics of them if you can. If you can't though, don't worry about it 🙂
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@Beardedbillygoat1975 Wow this is great information, thank you! 🙂 I hope to get CO2 going in the future but, I have spent all my budget on everything else after deciding to go with an Fluval FX4 and spray bar LOL
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@Lennie Yeah I think that I might try an island. I have 40lbs of blue seiryu stone, 3 (12-18") ghost wood branches, 36lbs of bio-stratum and 80lbs of torpedo beach sand. Should be able to come up with something. Just have to finish figuring out the plants LOL
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@nabokovfan87 I spoke too soon LOL apparently there is a part 2 for the first vid.
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@nabokovfan87 Yeah those look incredible. I wish he had a 'full tank shot' of the first one though LOL 🙂 Not sure that 40lbs of blue seiryu stone and 3 medium pieces of ghost wood could make a scape like this though. Might try it out just to see, but still have my original backup plan LOL
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@nabokovfan87 I actually watched it when you posted it on a different topic. There is no wood in there though. 😞
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@nabokovfan87 Yeah, I think the idea is more to make it look like a rocky slope with plants on top, then just a wall. If you plant moss, etc. in the rocks and wood then plant some longer plants at the top of the rock like MD did, it looks like a rocky area on a sand bed. Mine will likely not extend the full length of the tank. I only have 40lbs of stone and a 75 gallon tank LOL @Lennie @nabokovfan87 What I really love is something more like this: But the amount of money that would require is insane LOL
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@Lennie I totally agree, the scape-it site unfortunately makes it hard to create what I was really imagining in my head. I want the left side to be higher then the right by at least a few inches. Additionally, the rock placement is going to vary in the depth from the glass: If you could imagine the below image is from the top looking down with sand in front and the bio-stratum for the plants in back: I am not very artistic so difficult to portray in the scape-it tool, but perhaps something a little more like this: @Lennie this is from MD fish tanks channel. It is close-ish to what I imagine in my head.
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@nabokovfan87 @Lennie Okay it is still a rough draft, but it is no longer a "very rough" draft LOL I might change the red plant in the middle though, not sure yet
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@Lennie For example I like 'Vallisneria nana' (because grows dense and is straight) for the background but would prefer it to be just a bit wider like 'Microsorum pteropus'.
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@Lennie Tank size is a 75 gallon. The Plants on either end are "Cryptocoryne crispatula" but they are just placeholders for any broad-leafed really tall growing plant 🙂
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@Lennie Yeah that color is very cool. Bacopa is prob a no-go for me then, as my pH is 7.8 from the tap. Might go down with wood and aquasoil, but 40lbs of stone might bring it back up again. @Lennie @nabokovfan87 My tank is not set up yet but I made a very rough draft of the scape on https://scape-it.io/en/
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@nabokovfan87 The 'Bacopa Caroliniana' is now on my list 🙂 Also the 'Hygrophila Pinnatifida' looks very cool, does it require CO2 system to get red?
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@Lennie Wow I love the 'Anubias nana' and 'Crypt flamingo', the 'Echinodorus leopard' is really neat as well.
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@Fish Folk Wow that first one is very green 🙂
