Can you top this Hobbs? My tank comes full circle.

[PUNISHER VETTE]

Was looking at some old photos in my photobucket and ran across one of my tank when things were not going so good.

Can you beat this Lady Hobbs?

Before/ right when i set the tank up(TOTM picture i think)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e289/tparkhi2/New%20Big%20Fish%20Tank/IMG_0858-2.jpg

During
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e289/tparkhi2/New%20Big%20Fish%20Tank/IMG_1432Large.jpg

After/now
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e289/tparkhi2/New%20Big%20Fish%20Tank/10monthsinorso003.jpg

[SamAnthrax]

Wow. Great improvement!!! Sheesh waht did you do to make it come to life again?

[PUNISHER VETTE]

Wow. Great improvement!!! Sheesh waht did you do to make it come to life again?

I gave up....and it ended up fixing itself.
:22:

[Brookfish]

I gave up....and it ended up fixing itself.
:22:

So the tank gods stepped in and lent a hand, cool!
great looking tank!!

[Lady Hobbs]

Big fight here this morning. Not with my tank but trying to get a photo of it! Best I can do with this camera today, I guess. Tank is a tad cloudy due to a peroxide treatment last night.

I also cut back my ludwigia, hygro and bacopa so plants aren't very tall right now. YOUR tank looks awesome.

[Lady Hobbs]

PS.....Dark substrate looks far better than the white, too! I love yours/hate mine.

[Sharon]

Both are very nice!!!thumbs2: LH, those plants look great to me...why do you get frustrated with your plants????

[Lady Hobbs]

I laughed when I saw PV's second picture. My gosh! Had I even been near that my plants would have been ripped out and tossed! Goes to show what patience will do for you because his tank is beautiful now. When I get 4 little spots of algae, I'm going on about it and onto my algae war, cutting plants back, soaking them in bleach, moving them here and there, cleaning the blazes out of things. CRYING on the forum. LOL I may never cry about aglae again now.

[PUNISHER VETTE]

Yeah. I think patience in my tank luckily paid off. Then plants grew just fast enough to keep from getting consumed by the algae. Once the brown dust settled the plants could breath again.

I'm hoping it was because my lighting was on 10+ hours a day. But since i just started my CO2 and ferts again I'll just keep a constant monitoring on things.

If they start going south again i'll back it down.

[Jellygirl]

I think both the tanks look lovely.

PV that looks absolutely awesome if you have just left it. It puts ideas in my head lol. - perhaps i'm trying too hard:hmm3grin2orange:

Jellygirl

[geowashlaw]

both are great tanks!

[Algenco]

good example of over tweaking, the tank needed and your fert schedule needed time to balance
lookin good thumbs2:

[sandy_n]

PV, the tank looks fantastic.