Betta

He's so handsome, and very friendly too!

I am shopping for a bigger bowl for him.

My 55 gallon Rainbow Tank

This tank was a low tech Rainbow tank that I sold to my Dentist in late 2011.  I still enjoy visiting my fish every six months!

I special ordered the rainbows from a breeder in CA. 

He they are at the Dentist Office March 2013

They are still growing!  The tank itself looks like crap, oh well.

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6 gallon Fuval Edge

This tank has been up and running several years.  It evolves as all tanks do. It is the standard Edge with no modifications.  

 Look closely and you will see three PFR's, the fan shrimp and a nerite.

Fuval Edge 6 gallon tank

Petrified wood

clay fan shrimp house

Flora:

 Java ferns ( three diff. types), Marimo moss balls, C. Parva, Ceratopteris thalictroides, C. wendtii 'bronze' and Anubis nana petite.

Fauna: 

8 Corydoras hastus

10 Painted Fire Red Cherry Shrimp Juvis

1 Singapore fan shrimp

1 Pagoda snail - Brotia pagudola

Nerite and ramshorn snails

I love this guy, he is fun to watch but afraid of me.  I have to be very still and not spook him.

My new little juvenile PFR shrimp.  They are doing well, hope we have some berried shrimp once they get a little older.

The bigger clown killi, almost half an inch long.  Moved to my 10 gallon to make way for the 8  Cory hastus on their way!

Five PFR's , a pygmy cory and a big nerite!  Cory pygmaeus moved to the 5.2 gallon Mr. Aqua to live with the Blue Velvet Shrimp that should arrive soon!

Mr. Pagoda Snail

 

This snail is very cool!

10 Gallon Penn Plax Radius Community Tank

This is still a work in progress, waiting for some driftwood to arrive. Meantime I stuck a nice hunk of petrified wood in there as a place holder.  Looks good, maybe it will stay?

10 gallon Penn Plax Radius tank
Eheim classic 150 canister filter
Light: Archaea 27 watt CF

Petrified wood

Flora: Tiger lotus, Nymphoides sp 'Taiwan', Needle leaf java fern, Echinodorus vesavius, Cryptocoryne wendtii 'bronze', Persicaria sp 'kawagoeanum', Crypt Parva, Ceratopteris thalictroides, Crium, Anubis nana petite, Dwarf Pennywart, Amazon sword,  and a banana plant.

Fauna:
3 CPD
2 Pencil fish
3 Pseudomugil gertrudae
17 yellow Neocardina shrimp
3 Corydorus hasbrosus
1 horned green nerite snail
1 horned bumble bee nerite snail
1 tiger nerite snail
several ramshorn snails

Roy from 'the planted tank' forum also contributed wonderful plants to this tank as well.

Here is one of the pencil fish, a juvi yellow shrimp above and a cory hasbrosus below to the left.

 Yellow Shrimpy on the java fern lookin' at you!

5.2 Mr. Aqua Shrimp/Cory tank

I have always loved fish and aquariums.  As a small child I enjoyed watching my dad who raised fish during the 1940's thru the early 1060's in Anchorage Alaska.  He would bring his treasure back from Washington State and the East Coast, raise and sell fish and plants to the local pet store.

My latest tank...soon to be a shrimp tank with tiny corys and a nerite snail.

Many thanks to Roy from the planted tanks forum for some lovely plants! 

5.2 gallon Mr. Aqua bow front tank                    

Fluval C4 HOB                                                           
Fluval 13 watt CF light
Substrate Brightwell Rio Escuro-XF

Seiryu Stones

Plants:
Ceratopteris thalictroides
Needle leaf java fern
Echinodorus vesavius
Cryptocroryne wendtii 'Bronze'
C. Parva


Fauna:
3 corydorus pygmaeus
1 zebra nerite snail
12 blue velvet shrimp

Love these Echinodorus vesavius