Been away from the board for a while. My son turned 8 months old today. Hard enough taking care of him, my tanks, my house, my dog, oh yeah, and my wife and post here.
So I have this 55 gallon in my office. I was using it to raise Zebra Obliquidens and J. Transcriptus. That went over pretty well for the ZO's. TRanscriptus dont grow at near the rate of the ZO's and became feeders for the ZO's.
Not wanting to obliterate my aqua scaping in my 110 every time my female ZO was holding I just left the 55 empty after I sold the babies. Getting sick of looking at a bare bottom tank I decided to do somthing with it. My son LOVES my 110. So I was thinking of something to do that would be colorful with a lot of movement and cheap.
So I bought 40 pounds of black sand, 3 albino cories, 3 green cories, 4 C.Arcuatus, two albino bristlenose, 1 gold striped panaque (that's what it said at the store, I'll try to find an L number later) and a lion head goldfish. Other than the panaque, nothing cost me more than $6.
So I have satisfied my colorful, movement and cheap requirements for the most part. Really not much in the tank right now. A little root wood, couple rocks, a piece of slate and some flower pots.
For filtration I have two sponge filters and an Aqua Clear 30 that I dug out of a box of various tank supplies in my garage. I need a cannister for this guy. Any suggestions for one on the cheap? I have a Filstar on my 110 and on my 75. But they have shot up in price. With the holidays, I don't really want to have to drop $120 on a canister. Any good ideas for this tank in terms of a canister?
My plan is to add 4-5 more fancy goldfish. A ryukin or two, a black moor, maybe a calico. I'm going for low maintenance by under stocking big time and with a large cleaner crew to work on the stray bits of food that goldfish invariably spew everywhere...
Any other advice for a guy that hasn't done fancy goldfish in 20 years?
So I have this 55 gallon in my office. I was using it to raise Zebra Obliquidens and J. Transcriptus. That went over pretty well for the ZO's. TRanscriptus dont grow at near the rate of the ZO's and became feeders for the ZO's.
Not wanting to obliterate my aqua scaping in my 110 every time my female ZO was holding I just left the 55 empty after I sold the babies. Getting sick of looking at a bare bottom tank I decided to do somthing with it. My son LOVES my 110. So I was thinking of something to do that would be colorful with a lot of movement and cheap.
So I bought 40 pounds of black sand, 3 albino cories, 3 green cories, 4 C.Arcuatus, two albino bristlenose, 1 gold striped panaque (that's what it said at the store, I'll try to find an L number later) and a lion head goldfish. Other than the panaque, nothing cost me more than $6.
So I have satisfied my colorful, movement and cheap requirements for the most part. Really not much in the tank right now. A little root wood, couple rocks, a piece of slate and some flower pots.
For filtration I have two sponge filters and an Aqua Clear 30 that I dug out of a box of various tank supplies in my garage. I need a cannister for this guy. Any suggestions for one on the cheap? I have a Filstar on my 110 and on my 75. But they have shot up in price. With the holidays, I don't really want to have to drop $120 on a canister. Any good ideas for this tank in terms of a canister?
My plan is to add 4-5 more fancy goldfish. A ryukin or two, a black moor, maybe a calico. I'm going for low maintenance by under stocking big time and with a large cleaner crew to work on the stray bits of food that goldfish invariably spew everywhere...
Any other advice for a guy that hasn't done fancy goldfish in 20 years?
