600 Gallon update...Jan 2010

[marvinbaker]

Amazing. Those bass are huge. What's the current stocklist?

 

[LBathory]

Actually, humans built nets

Nice tank! Tems look huge...Look to be an easy 5lbs. Is that a pile of sand in there?

touche.

 

[Steve_89]

nice tank,can i ask what filtration you have on that beast.

Filtration is a sump..around the 125 gallon..full of scrubbies and matrix. I also have an FX5 and another larger canister for mech filtration...40% water changes every week.

Nice Steve, I miss pics of this tank!
Still a dat or two in there

Still got 2 dats in there bro...I took the other smaller guys out incase the tems eyed them up...they are now in a 180 where they will get way more food now and hopefully grow faster. Looking back on it I probably should have done this in the first place to grow them faster.

wow... nice!!! why use anesthetic?

So much easier than catching these guys out with a net...they went pschyo..they could have done some major damage to themselves. They are now in my tank with barely a scratch on them

to the people wondering why you would use anesthetic- its rather tough to hold on to a pissed off 2'+ fish when you dont use anesthetic

We also took the chance to vent them to see if there were any females in the group.

Very good call on the anesthetic. Large Cichla will knock themselves out against the glass when trying to flee from a net. Likewise, LG cichla tend to go into shock more frequently.

Exactly right...they were transported home in fresh water but were very calm. When I got them out and put them into my tank they were instantly fine again.

It is always worrying knocking out your fish and seeing them in this state...but if you know what you are doing...which the previous owner certainly did..it is a much easier way to move large cichla.

 

[Steve_89]

Very nice. Is that tank Glass?

Yes this tank is glass

This picture decribed what MFK owners is all about. Those are some giant bass and I love your tank.

Thanks bro

Oh yeah, Pioneer Monster tank there... Fish collection looks real good, steve!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Jack! Its not always necessary to have the bees knees of rare fish...and this is what this tank has always been about...Just keep 'em MONSTER.

Amazing. Those bass are huge. What's the current stocklist?

3x tems all pushing over 2ft.
1x motoro ray
1x green aro
1x albino suchi
2x datnoid

 

[fishfobia]

very nice thanks for sharing

 

[wonword]

Awesome!!!! Info on the anesthetic used and procedure? When I transfer my catfish he jumped out of the net and broke his pectoral fin barb

 

[doubledragon]

Great tank, with fish that back it up. Very nice! I really like the albino Id shark. How big is he? I wish I would have never sold mine.

 

[syndicate]

Wow steve looking awsome ..what are the dimensions? Also who made it?

 

[Hao]

nice fish and tank!

 

[jcardona1]

damn incredible!!!!!!! i dont think ive ever seen your tank before this!!