3g mangrove, planted tank

[Fenker]

I figured I'd start another tank, since I had my 3g with water still in it sitting I figured it would be a good tank to do something with.
Back California alot of marine plants were banned, so I never really considered a marine planted tank.
so i have a 3g with a ac110 and a 70w mh I figure it would be a waste for them to sit. So today I went to the shop and built a simple plywood stand/hood for it, I dont want to paint it, but I didn't edge band it(would have taken a couple hours) so i just left it, if I get really into this tank ill do something about it.
I also put a 3" piece of acrylic in the tank so i can fill the back of the tank higher with sand for the mangroves.
I built it tall so the mangroves can grow tall and u can see them.
I'm also going to cut the intake on the filter so its higher in the tank, and paint the back black.
I'm also going to put a smaller impeller on the filter to slow the flow down.

I'm going to stock it with mangroves, different macros and eventually dwarf sea horses.

Pics up next

[Fenker]

[Scutterborn]

Spiffy!


-Ben-

[Mr Cob]

looks great, really liking the stocking plans

[koa25]

Nice. That is going to be a pretty sweet setup.

[allan]

The MH, what are you going to run on it? 65k? 10k?

I think this will be an awesome build and grow... I wonder if it would have been a good idea to build the top so that you could raise it over time. Mangroves get pretty tall, don't they?

Going to be a neat experiment.