To the poster above!! Awesome rockscaping man! Looks pretty natural to me! I'm a big fan of the whole sand substrate, just feel like it looks more natural than gravel. But that's just me.
For the first pic, I reckon an 8 easily. Second.. 7.5?? Clean the glass lol! As for suggestions on how to improve, I wouldn't pretend to tell you what to do, I'm new to this! But I'm sure someone will come along with something smart to say!
No joke, a customer at my LFS has two salmon catfish in his garage pool. Wtf??? Rate THAT tank!
This one's mine. Only had it about 5 days. Was a complete freebie from a family member (except for the substrate, I replaced theirs and bought my own sand for my Africans). I know it's pitiful compared to all the previous tanks in this thread (all of them are utterly amazing!!), and I'm not even expecting a score above a 5 (from what I've gathered, things like ornaments and deliberate caves and fake backgrounds are a no-no). But I'm learning and assure you that in a few weeks time when I make the 40 min trip to the only decent cichlid aquarium in the area, I'll totally rescape it and it'll look completely diff!! Atm only have 9 cichlids, (3 johanni's, 2 electric blue, 1 electric yellow, 1 hongi and 1 unknown potential juvenile hongi). Anyway so don't hate on my rookie tank pls
edit: oh, and the reason my water looks so cloudy is cause it was a rush job photo taken only 10 mins after I'd completed filling it with water for the first time! Took the pic to send to my dad who's been into cichlids for a while! Water is much much clearer now!
thanks alot Ptyochromis I did change it again thou cause I got those f1 rusty's from alpine freak on the trading post they all came alive and are doing well after that tramatic 4 day shipping. I liked all the little holes I had in there to thanks
Its ok, I don't know how long those will stay planted if you plan on getting shellies. Based on the shell bed I assume you are going with multis, not alot of room for the larger shellies. The rocks look good, might look better if you take them higher up. Just make sure those rocks go all the way down to the bottom of the tank, I have had rock piles collapse from fish digging out underneath of them. And don't forget about the golden ratio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio. I give it a 6.7 out of 10. Not many difficult changes will have a big impact.
well its an old picture im doing that same kind of tank again but its a 20 long not a 29g, rock and lack of finding the fish for the tank was the reason tank went down very quickly
Here is my 125g mbuna and the white overflows in the back will be black to blend into the background like the returns are. So lets here it whats the raiting on this.
Its ok, I don't know how long those will stay planted if you plan on getting shellies. Based on the shell bed I assume you are going with multis, not alot of room for the larger shellies. The rocks look good, might look better if you take them higher up. Just make sure those rocks go all the way down to the bottom of the tank, I have had rock piles collapse from fish digging out underneath of them. And don't forget about the golden ratio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio. I give it a 6.7 out of 10. Not many difficult changes will have a big impact.
Here is my 125g mbuna and the white overflows in the back will be black to blend into the background like the returns are. So lets here it whats the raiting on this.
Numbers are hard... I will for sure give that a VERY Nice tank! :thumb:
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