65 Gal Jungle Kingdom

[Fish n Chips]

My low light, no C02, 65 Gal Jungle Kingdom. Hope you don't mind the cell phone photo.

Full stock list:

Plants:
bolbitis fern
marsilea quadrifolia
crypt parva
crypt wendtii green
red lotus
red flame sword
green hygro
brazilian pennywort
anubias coffeefolia
trident java fern
windlov java fern
regular java fern
anubias nana petite
anubias nana

Fish:
2 peacock gudgeons
10 dario dario
18 cardinal tetras
7 endlers
3 otos
1 albino BN pleco

Inverts:
200 or so cherry shrimp
2 amano shrimp
1 zebra nerite
Malaysian trumpet snails

[crazy72]

Hey this looks really good. So you're actually growing a red lotus in low light? How low?

Is there a piece of wood under the big Java fern on the left?

[tang daddy]

Nice tank, i was wondering what the red specs were at the bottom and then I saw you had 200 cherry shrimp....

I wish I could add cherries to my community tank but the EB rams like to eat them!

[AquaSox]

Really like the triangular design. Your cell phone picture is not doing it justice though lol

[2wheelsx2]

Hey this looks really good. So you're actually growing a red lotus in low light? How low?

You can go pretty low Franck. I got one growing slowly in the cube and most of the time it's 48 w t5 HO only and the tank is 24" deep.

[Fish n Chips]

Hey this looks really good. So you're actually growing a red lotus in low light? How low?

Is there a piece of wood under the big Java fern on the left?

There is a 30W 5500K T12 with no reflector, and a 21W 6700K T5no + 21W 10000K T5no light with a useless reflector around both bulbs (side by side bulbs) over the tank. This is sitting over a 2 foot deep tank with a lime encrusted glass lid in the way. It's on for 7 hours a day. So ya, pretty low light, but not just a single T12 or anything like that.

There are 2 red lotus' in there, one center left, and one at the far right. The center left one grows really well. The one to the far right get battered by a lot of flow which has caused the leaves to grow like crinkle cut potato chips, pretty neat natural structural reinforcement. I really like how quickly the leaves of this plant dissolve after they get dropped!

There is a stump under the java ferns to the left. There are actually rhizomes covering the whole thing with 3 types of java ferns and some anubias. I cut probably 20 big leaves off the stump every week just to keep it from choking out that whole side of the tank.

Really like the triangular design. Your cell phone picture is not doing it justice though lol

Ya, I'll have to borrow a camera from someone at some point. It's a really nice tank in person, and now that I've gotten rid of most of the stems that used to be in there, much, much, lower maintenance.

[Fish n Chips]

Nice tank, i was wondering what the red specs were at the bottom and then I saw you had 200 cherry shrimp....

I wish I could add cherries to my community tank but the EB rams like to eat them!

I wish I could add rams to this tank without loosing my shrimp. It used to be a mixed cichlid tank before this. Malawis, tangs, victorians, indian, and South Americans, all living together in harmony. I miss the bright colors and amazing personalities of the cichlids. But they were seriously hard on the plants!