Updated Photos of my 125

Well, It took a few hours to re-decorate the tank. But here is what I have. For those who are used to seeing my tank, you know where the new wood is.... for the others it is the 3 pieces on the left side of the tank.

The scratches in my tank show more now with the added light.... plus I think some sand got stuck in my Mag-Float

 

No, they are now all over the tank... they were freaked out from the 2 hours with my hands in the tank.... even worse, the change in the environment....

The cool thing is they let me work within less than an inch of them and dont move. I think they are more freaked out here from the change than me....

My fish love me!

 

Plus they do occasionally shoal. Rarely but they do...

 

Thank you, It is on its way to my dream tank.... time will make it into what I see..... I see a wall of plants in the back and hardly any background showing. Unfortunately that dont happen overnight, plus I also am missing 1 plant I want..... MICROSWORD. I want a small area with a lawn!

 

Sand.... wife cleaned it a few times and stirred up sand..... I took it off and sand impacted all into the cleaning side.... cleaned it out and all is well now, except the scratches all along the tank

And thanks.... it has came a REALLY long ways!

 

It is a plain silver

 

Ok, this is what my tank looks like after throwing away about 25 stems of stargrass and about 15 of my half living Java Fern (sorry if anyone wanted it but they were really ratty looking peices) and removing all plants/driftwood/rocks, vacuuming and changing 70% water in an effort to remove any organic substances that could be contributing to algae growth.

While I was at it I re-modeled a bit

 

They are.... that is the side I usually walk up to so they wait there for me to feed them if I am looking at the tank. They do move around when I am not paying attention to the tank though! I have caught them all a few times all on the other side....

 

Thank you! It will drive you nuts trying to aquascape a 6 foot long tank like this. I have read about it and everything says that the 6 foot tanks are the hardest to aquascape well as you either end up with a jumbled mess, a nicely aquascaped setting that looks like 2 separate tanks, of for a very few a nice even looking show piece. I am by no means near that point yet but that is where I want to be!

fordpwr: It is about a 8 months established as a 125, however some of the stuff in the tank came from my 55 before I moved the tank to the 125. I had the 55 going for a year and before that had a few things in a 29 I started everything with. So there are some things in that tank that date back about 2.5 years or so. Not much though. I actually trimmed everything down for that photo as I did throw away about a 2-hand-scoop of plants and trimming from the tank.

ira: thank you, TONS of time on this tank. I end up spending a few hours a week on this tank alone between fighting algae, feedings, and cleanings! Hey it keeps me busy!