My Aqua Hobby Journey

[dimfer]

awesome tank, and gorgeous arrows. Sad that you lost a fish but, without sounding heartless, at least it wasnt one of your beloved arowanas. Really good job and looks great!

thanks. this experience proved to me how hardy arowanas are. The one that got sick the most looked really bad at the height of the infection.

 

[Davey_8313]

All I can say is wow! That looks really nice....

 

[Jesto]

Very Good Work Ding!

I can empathize with you

Your Aros are probably quite happy now. Did your DFi SR loose some color when it was added into the community?

 

[redtailfool]

thanks. this experience proved to me how hardy arowanas are. The one that got sick the most looked really bad at the height of the infection.

The healing power of salt is excellent.

 

[dimfer]

Very Good Work Ding!

I can empathize with you

Your Aros are probably quite happy now. Did your DFi SR loose some color when it was added into the community?

yes. I think the higher ph on this tank has something to do with it.

 

[dimfer]

The healing power of salt is excellent.

yes, now I am a believer.

 

[arapaimag]

FANTASTIC TANK AND GREAT PICTURES AND DETAILS.

I wish I knew about the salt cure for the aro before.

I just lost a fantastic red tail golden aro about 6 weeks ago. I used other meds when he got red sores and scale problems and lost him over a weeks time.

Have you started working on your wife yet with the plan to build your next tank?

 

[cichlaguapote]

Wow great tank and great project..

 

[dimfer]

FANTASTIC TANK AND GREAT PICTURES AND DETAILS.

I wish I knew about the salt cure for the aro before.

I just lost a fantastic red tail golden aro about 6 weeks ago. I used other meds when he got red sores and scale problems and lost him over a weeks time.

Have you started working on your wife yet with the plan to build your next tank?

thanks for the kind words Mike, you are one of my inspirations here.

I am sorry about the loss of your RTG.

I was so convinced that Melafix would cure them in the early stage of infection, only to find out that the med has it's limits too in the end. To be honest, I was preparing myself to lose the chilli red which was affected the most. It was just sitting in the bottom of the tank for days, like it was wasting away. The cloudiness of the tank complicated things for me as well, making it really hard to see them when they are 2 ft or more away from the glass.

Salt worked like magic for them. Within days, almost everybody was back to normal.

I don't think I'll be building a bigger tank in the near future. It takes a lot of effort and resources to do projects like these. I could only imagine what you have gone through with your monster projects. Even if I do aquariums full-time, I don't think I have the guts and patience to go as deep as you did.

Now that my tank seems to be stabilizing, I'll relax a little bit and have some down time before kids go back to school.

I am also in the process of building my audio system, hopefully I could finish it also soon so that I could enjoy both hobbies at the same time, in the same room.

 

[dimfer]

Wow great tank and great project..

thanks