Title: "Tranquility"

Tank Size: 48x12x21

Volume: 55gal.

Category: Unlimited Aquascape

Plants:

1) Rotala indica
2) Microsorium pteropus 'Windeløv'
3) Hemianthus micranthemoides
4) Hygrophila polysperma
5) Cyrptocoryne beckettii
6) Proserpinaca palustris
7) Echinodorus uruguayensis
8) Echinodorus 'Rubin'
9) Ludwigia repens
10)Hydrocotyle verticllata
11)Limnophilia seleana
12)Lysimachia nummularia
13)Ceratopterus thalictroides

Fish: 9 Cory cats, 3 Clown Loach, 2 Golden Algae Eaters,
6 Darf Algae Eaters, 9 Harlequin Rasbora, 3 Kribensis,
2 Black Marble Angelfish, 4 Black Mollies, 6 Dalmatian Mollies

Decorative
Materials: Java Fern cover rocks, driftwood with Java Fern

Substrate: Plane gravel

Background: Black

Lighting: 1x40w GE Aqua Ray 9325K
2x55w CF 9325K

Photoperiod: 12 hours on 12 hours off

CO2 system: Pressure tank CO2 24/7 on at 4 bubble/sec.
Aqualine Reactor in tank with powerhead pump

Filtration: Fluval 304
Whisper 3 (no charcoal)

Additional
Information: I have only been into Aquatic Art for two years. This is the first big tank I have created. I look at Aquatic Art as a painter with canvas. I tried to create a scene that would catch your eye and hold your attention. Just as an artist would hold you in deep thought as you ponder at a painting, I wanted to hold your thoughts for a moment in time as your eyes are guided across an aquascape, holding your thoughts as you are guided from side to side. Watching to see a Clown Loach peek out from a rock cave covered in Java Ferns. Or maybe a Krib comes out from his home under a group of Didiplis diandra by a piece of driftwood. Your eye wonders along a line of short Hygrophila polysperma as the leaves are bouncing. Upon closer look you see a school of Cory cats moving through.

As moments in time turns into hours, you watch a ramshorn snail fall from the top leaves of a Hydrocotyle verticillata only to be lost as he falls into a large Echinodorus barthii, just to start his trip to the top all over again. You feel you're watching a cycle of life caught in a snapshot in time. For that moment you're in a state of calm in a place called tranquility. That is the goal of all my Aquatic Art, to give peace of mind in a moment in time.

Fertilization: Flourish, Flourish Iron, Flourish Potassium,
Flourish Trace, Flourish Phosphorus, Iron Root Tabs,
13-4-5 plant sticks