These tanks are pretty amazing, luckily I live near one of the only two AFA stores in the US that sell all ADA products.
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770 Gallon Monster Setup
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These tanks are pretty amazing, luckily I live near one of the only two AFA stores in the US that sell all ADA products.
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I agree with your desire to go smaller. Keep a school of larger fish, but no more that 7, then populate with endless schools of shimmering tetras, and SMALLER loaches and catfish. Then go with upgraded lighting and live plants. I've always been of the idea that truly large tanks like yours look great with small fish. And smaller tanks look better with large fish. Seems counter-intuitive, but I think its true.
I just really like schools of fish, Thats why I have 10 frontosa, 11 Geos, wish my clown loaches had other buddies in the tank, the pair love to run around all over the place together.
Maybe I'm not as "extreme" as keeping tetras in a 10' tank, but I'll also jump on the "big tank small fish" bandwagon. I really liked the mook of my old 370g with just a group of 11 altifrons and some plecs in it, I think a big part of having a natural looking tank is not having it packed full of fish.
Good luck catching anything in there if you decide yo change your mind and go for smaller fish!!
Good luck catching anything in there if you decide yo change your mind and go for smaller fish!!
Plzzz get a tone of blue guill lol they are so fun to keep and get nice colors and will readily breed in a tank like that no problem plus tossing crickets in and watching them hit the surface is very entertaining
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Seeing Amano's aquarium had me thinking about a huge shoal of Congo Tetras, tons of Harlequin Tetra and some Angelfish. But I'm going to stick with my current stock for some time...I don't like changing things around...it's tough on the fish and seems like I have a decent balance right now.
I agree with you on the small fish, but I can't say I've ever seen a large fish in a small tank and thought it looked cool.
Schooling behavior is my favorite thing about watching a tank. I think that's why I've never like the idea of cichlid only tanks...all aggresion all the time.
Maybe I'm not as "extreme" as keeping tetras in a 10' tank, but I'll also jump on the "big tank small fish" bandwagon. I really liked the mook of my old 370g with just a group of 11 altifrons and some plecs in it, I think a big part of having a natural looking tank is not having it packed full of fish.
Good luck catching anything in there if you decide yo change your mind and go for smaller fish!!
lol, I've had to catch 2 fish
1. Red Texas that took me ~2 hours to catch
2. An aggressive clown loach that took me 5 seconds (he was hiding in a pipe that I pulled out with him still in it).
Thanks. I'd love to check that place out too...Amano really has an awesome eye for setting up a tank. I wonder what his response would be if someone asked him if he ever considered adding an RTC to the 5 meter display?
If it was legal to keep them in CA, that's probably what I would have, but as far as I know, it's against CA Fish & Game law to take any species (alive) from any body of water.
Nice setup Alex. I used to have a tall setup & wanted to keep the housekeeping easy...no gravel! Plants were in pots. I hated those sock filters that had to be cleaned ever so often. If I had to do it over again, I would go for a veggie filter that would be at least 25% of your water volume. Imagine...the veggie filter outside the house and drill a hole in the wall to connect pvc to it. I read somewhere that some people run veggie filters as their only filtration. Check out these links. Good luck. Dan
http://www.pond-solutions.co.uk/pjmvegfilter2.htm
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/veggie_filter_instructions.html
http://www.pond-solutions.co.uk/pjmvegfilter2.htm
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/veggie_filter_instructions.html
Thanks Dan. I like your old tank...looks very serene. The pots look cool. I actually wanted to put a pagoda statue in my tank, for the look and to provide another hiding spot for my loaches (I thought it would be cool for them to retreat to the Pagoda at night to sleep, which I'm sure they would). I wanted one similar but smaller than the one pictured below, but then I found out how much they cost and I changed my mind- lol.
In regards to going bare bottom, I have considered it, but my loaches like rummaging through the gravel too much for me to remove it. Every bare bottom tank I've seen, the loaches always look bored out of their minds (just my opinion, I have no way of knowing that and I don't mean to offend anyone keeping CLs in a bare bottom).
I like your thinking in regards to filtration. If I could design my system all over again, I would incorporate an over-tank plant filter along with a closed loop Ultima II 2000. I would just have to figure out how to get some sort of effective surface skimming and I think that would be the ultimate filtration. Adding a drip system would be the cherry on top, but my municipal water company adds chloramines, so I think I would have to get a dosing pump to add some conditioner along with the drip…not sure I want to go that route because it seems like there’s a lot of room for catastrophic problems (dose pumps fails, not realizing supply of conditioner has been depleted, etc).
Under tank sumps for tall tanks (like I have) are pretty inefficient in that it takes a lot of energy to pump water back up to the tank...fighting against all that head requires a big pump, so that's a major reason I would go with above tank filtration and/or closed loop. In other words, I think there are lots of advantages of designing a filtration system for large tanks more like a pond than for an aquarium.
Thanks for the links- good info in those articles.
In regards to going bare bottom, I have considered it, but my loaches like rummaging through the gravel too much for me to remove it. Every bare bottom tank I've seen, the loaches always look bored out of their minds (just my opinion, I have no way of knowing that and I don't mean to offend anyone keeping CLs in a bare bottom).
I like your thinking in regards to filtration. If I could design my system all over again, I would incorporate an over-tank plant filter along with a closed loop Ultima II 2000. I would just have to figure out how to get some sort of effective surface skimming and I think that would be the ultimate filtration. Adding a drip system would be the cherry on top, but my municipal water company adds chloramines, so I think I would have to get a dosing pump to add some conditioner along with the drip…not sure I want to go that route because it seems like there’s a lot of room for catastrophic problems (dose pumps fails, not realizing supply of conditioner has been depleted, etc).
Under tank sumps for tall tanks (like I have) are pretty inefficient in that it takes a lot of energy to pump water back up to the tank...fighting against all that head requires a big pump, so that's a major reason I would go with above tank filtration and/or closed loop. In other words, I think there are lots of advantages of designing a filtration system for large tanks more like a pond than for an aquarium.
Thanks for the links- good info in those articles.
