My New 1.2m Planted Community Tank

Here are a couple of pics of my new system planted up this past Sunday.

Many thanks to Prof Dirk, Darryn and Big G for your help and guidance in setting up my new system.

System as follows;

Size: 1200 x 600 x 550mm
Volume : Tank 390 Lt , Sump 110Lt
Filtration: Sump
Lighting: 2x54watt Sylvania Gro-lux + 2x54watt Osram Skywhite
Substate: 70kg Seachem Flourite
Plants: Have absolutely no idea.
Fish: None yet, waiting for tank to cycle.
Plant Additives: Prof Dirks 5 step dosing system

 

Looks good from what I can see because I cant enlarge the pics

 

i like the shape of the wood in the tank, cant enlarge pics

 

I can't seem to make the pics bigger. I wanted to post in such a way that I could include the images in the message body with a short explanation as to waht I had done. If somebody can tell me how to do this, I will re-post.

 

Rather than attach the images, upload them to another imagehost such as imageshack.us then add the link between the following tags
<img src="image link">

 

Try Photobucket it is very easy to use

 

Here are the bigger pics.














Looks great Steve. The wood is awesome.

 

That looks Awesome dude well done

 

I like the way your tank is build, nice setup

 

Thanks Gareth

Thanks Komodo.

 

Great tank

 

Awesome tank, such a nice piece of wood!!

 

Looks really good.
What did 70KG of Flourite cost you?

 

R290 a 7kg bag.... R2900

 

Looks great!! And is going to look damn nice when those plants settle in!!!

Where did you buy that wood?? Getting a 2m tank soon and is looking for some nice pieces.

 

Thanks Ace, I did the grand tour of the LFS and chose my wood carefully. I then basically put the two pieces together "lego" style. I cleaned the wood with a high pressure cleaner that I use for removing paint off my walls and oil stains off the drive way.

Exotic Reef have got some very nice big pieces, perfect for a 2m tank. speak to Reza, pm me for the tel numbers and address if you need it.

 

I love it. Can we see more pics.

 

Wow - the tank looks great - looking for something similar - who did the cabinet and woodwork for you

 

I have just learnt that planting a tank is very hard..................... haha

 

Will keep you guys posted with new photos as the tank progresses.

Thanks for all the great compliments.