Hello from San Antonio

[johnnymisty]

Welcome to the box

[allysangels]

huzzah! geekery!

[mnemenoi]

Welcome aboard, there is much geekery here

[AquaticAddict]

Very nice tanks, welcome to the Box. Love the 1st planted tank!

[mistahoo]

If you want anything from this tank once you gain your confidence and are up and running, ill hook you up.

Sounds great! I'll hit you up when I'm ready. I actually have a nano tank in the works, but it's nowhere near what I want it to look like. The plants I have in there are actually thriving which is something new to me! I had some before in a 100g but they were looking pretty dull. My 5g Fluval Chi nano tank

New to keeping cichlids maybe we can swap experiences. :)

Sure! I wouldn't mind swapping what I know... I'm fairly new to cichlids as well. Started back in April of this year, but I catch on fast! Been around all kinds of fish and aquariums for a good chunk of my life, mainly trophs, petros, other tang fish, and a little bit of sw, planted, and shrimps.

[supadave]

Welcome to the Box !!!!

[GoSpursGo]

Hello from San Antonio

New to keeping cichlids maybe we can swap experiences. :)

[GoSpursGo]

Hello from San Antonio

If you want anything from this tank once you gain your confidence and are up and running, ill hook you up.

[GoSpursGo]

Hello from San Antonio

Everything in this tank could be grown under CFLs. Might actually do that and move this fixture to start my first igwami set up.

[mistahoo]

Sweet! I'm new to the plants and such so kinda wanted to get an idea of your lighting because those foreground plants look interesting! You wouldn't happen to know where I could get some would you?

[GoSpursGo]

Hello from San Antonio

24w a bulb. Fixture has solid reflectors as well. Too much light really but noob purchases will happen. No complaints...

[mistahoo]

How many watts?

[GoSpursGo]

Hello from San Antonio

Heavy planted one has aquaticlife 4 bulb 6000k 650nm 10kk and 6700. Only run 2 bulbs with an hour of burst.
Foreground in it is very overgrown hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan' and h. zosterifolia.

[mistahoo]

I like the first planted tank. What kind of lighting is on your tanks (low/med/high?) also what are those plants in the foreground on the first pic? I'm new to the planted stuff and I'm having a hard time remembering all the names and which plant is what.

[barberking12]

lookin good