Hey all dont share much on the site about what fish/tanks (more tanks then fish atm, I don't believe in buying fish without having a system to keep them in) I keep so figured I would copy this straight from a site a use more often just so anyone who might be interested can have a look, its no master piece just enough to keep me going why I finish school, working and schooling + keeping up with fish makes me understand the pain some mothers go through lol!
Well to start I believe it was 2 years or so ago when I first walked into a fish shop once again after a good 3 years of not keeping fish, Had no idea what I was doing and setup a 2ft tank then that 2 foot tank turned into a 4ft tank then 2 more tanks came all over the 100G mark, Now I have close to a total of 25 tanks all over 100G so MTS junkie!
Once I saw My first flowerhorn in the shop playing with my hand I feel in love and went tank crazy, quickly started reading as much as I could fit in to my brain in one day, then took over the garage.
This picture was where the garage was at after 2-3 weeks of throwing stuff out, I felt like I was getting no where and just wasting money on skips at one point, by this point my whole family was stating I have a fetish for fish and teasing me!
The first tanks for the fish room!
Shortly after this I was begging my cousins to come over and help me lift them, 2 of us tried 2 of is failed, we got the bottom ones in but no way could we get the top ones on, so finally my cousins girlfriend came and had the extra muscle we lacked, aussie girls powerhouses
Shortly after that a petshop was closing down and had another tier stand that would fit right in the area I needed so I snapped that up also, my girlfriend and I managed to get those tanks up onto the racks apart for the top one. even to this day she still hates me for that task
First row done!!
I moved most of my fish into these tanks, fry cichlids into the 4fts, mainly a mixed cichlid tank in the top left one.
Next I went and got a tank for the flowerhorn in the shop, owner was not very happy selling it but in the end he decided too.
then I found 2 almost full grown jags for sale, the owner was pretty sure they where a pair so I tried them out one month went by every time I let them out they would just fight so I decided to just let them out and see what happens after reading its hard to tell when jags are fighting or just having sex, big fellas like it ruff I guess
few weeks later this came
[video=youtube;1DYv6SDZcPE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DYv6SDZcPE[/video]
Went a few weeks without anything coming was learning about sumps to setup the 8ft/7ft tier, then I found a cheap 4ft 3 tier stand so jacked that up, went and got a Red devil I had always had my eyes on, before this I got my Jardini.
This is 6 months after I got him, he was about 35-40CM back then.
RD sleeping lol nice pillow.
I stopped for a while to get one tank in my bedroom done and bossy boots was not happy looking at an empty tank and I promised myself and her discus would go in our room, So I stopped with my fishroom as such for a good 3 weeks or so.
*link for discus video will be under** (movie limit =P )
Finished this tank, then decided it was time to move the jardini into the 7FT tank, went out to get bulk heads tried 4 different ones none went in! so I said stuff it got some aquarium silicone, removed the dividers from the sump got a hammer out hit them a few times got the biggest chunks glued them into it (had to do one tank at a time) cleaned them and got them all up onto the rack. we almost dropped the 8ft tank was veryyyy scary =O it actually broke the beam in the 7ft tank which had to be patched up also once I empty it I will fix the tank properly.
typing the rest, sorry about the poor English and some parts not making sense I am really crap at writing.
Well to start I believe it was 2 years or so ago when I first walked into a fish shop once again after a good 3 years of not keeping fish, Had no idea what I was doing and setup a 2ft tank then that 2 foot tank turned into a 4ft tank then 2 more tanks came all over the 100G mark, Now I have close to a total of 25 tanks all over 100G so MTS junkie!
Once I saw My first flowerhorn in the shop playing with my hand I feel in love and went tank crazy, quickly started reading as much as I could fit in to my brain in one day, then took over the garage.
This picture was where the garage was at after 2-3 weeks of throwing stuff out, I felt like I was getting no where and just wasting money on skips at one point, by this point my whole family was stating I have a fetish for fish and teasing me!
The first tanks for the fish room!
Shortly after this I was begging my cousins to come over and help me lift them, 2 of us tried 2 of is failed, we got the bottom ones in but no way could we get the top ones on, so finally my cousins girlfriend came and had the extra muscle we lacked, aussie girls powerhouses
Shortly after that a petshop was closing down and had another tier stand that would fit right in the area I needed so I snapped that up also, my girlfriend and I managed to get those tanks up onto the racks apart for the top one. even to this day she still hates me for that task
First row done!!
I moved most of my fish into these tanks, fry cichlids into the 4fts, mainly a mixed cichlid tank in the top left one.
Next I went and got a tank for the flowerhorn in the shop, owner was not very happy selling it but in the end he decided too.
then I found 2 almost full grown jags for sale, the owner was pretty sure they where a pair so I tried them out one month went by every time I let them out they would just fight so I decided to just let them out and see what happens after reading its hard to tell when jags are fighting or just having sex, big fellas like it ruff I guess
few weeks later this came
[video=youtube;1DYv6SDZcPE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DYv6SDZcPE[/video]
Went a few weeks without anything coming was learning about sumps to setup the 8ft/7ft tier, then I found a cheap 4ft 3 tier stand so jacked that up, went and got a Red devil I had always had my eyes on, before this I got my Jardini.
This is 6 months after I got him, he was about 35-40CM back then.
RD sleeping lol nice pillow.
I stopped for a while to get one tank in my bedroom done and bossy boots was not happy looking at an empty tank and I promised myself and her discus would go in our room, So I stopped with my fishroom as such for a good 3 weeks or so.
*link for discus video will be under** (movie limit =P )
Finished this tank, then decided it was time to move the jardini into the 7FT tank, went out to get bulk heads tried 4 different ones none went in! so I said stuff it got some aquarium silicone, removed the dividers from the sump got a hammer out hit them a few times got the biggest chunks glued them into it (had to do one tank at a time) cleaned them and got them all up onto the rack. we almost dropped the 8ft tank was veryyyy scary =O it actually broke the beam in the 7ft tank which had to be patched up also once I empty it I will fix the tank properly.
typing the rest, sorry about the poor English and some parts not making sense I am really crap at writing.