First monster in the new 750 gallon!

[DeLgAdO]

Thanks everyone for the nice replies. To answer some questions, the tank is 120"x48"x30". I'm still up in the air on substrate. What do you guys think? Bare bottom or sand or gravel and what color if any? I also woke up with some very bad news this morning. It turns out some time last night my gar jumped or did something to break his back. He is still alive and continues to paddle up to the surface for air, but he has a hump now where he broke his back and obviously it is hard for him to swim. I am going to try and nurse him and see if he will make it, if not I will have to put him down. That figures, he goes from a 240 to a 750 and then breaks his back! This gar has a lot of history. I have raised him from 3" and when he was 12" he jumped out of a tank and was completely dry. I nursed him back to life and he has been doing great until last night. I am bummed. Hopefully he will survive and have a humped back and I can sell him on ebay for 500.00. LOL.

any fish vets around your location?

and yes do give the tank a look

i like bare bottom tanks but that is just ugly

i would have made the bottom and back wall black (or at least a background)

maybe some driftwood

a coarse sand and afew river stones would be awsome too

 

[ultimatejay]

your gunna need more that 2 weeks buddy

after 2 weeks start adding a fish every week

you add em all at once and your tank will go to hell.

and give the gar more than a week, he's a big boy, he'll manage.

The tank has already been running for 2.5 weeks so another 2 weeks and it will be fully cycled. I have been collecting and housing fish for over 20 years, so I know how to cycle a tank, but thanks for the heads up There are not too many novices that would just set up a 750 gallon tank.

 

[justjonx2]

NIIIIICe! i hope someday i'll get somethin like that. If i may ask, how much did that end up costing u to set it up?

 

[Timpon]

Hey Jay, give the gar a bit more time. I had one whose back got so crooked it was almost a U shape. Thought I might had to put it down, but it hung in there and the back straightened of its own accord in 2 weeks.

 

[DeLgAdO]

The tank has already been running for 2.5 weeks so another 2 weeks and it will be fully cycled. I have been collecting and housing fish for over 20 years, so I know how to cycle a tank, but thanks for the heads up There are not too many novices that would just set up a 750 gallon tank.

that tank is not fully cycled when you give it 4 weeks to cycle on one fish with more on the way.

you only have enough bacteria to support that single fish, so technically you tank is cycled to that one fish.

a tank is fully cycled when you have all your stock completed and the bacteria population can keep up with the waste output and keep ammonia and nitrite at 0 with no problem.

so it would be wise to add one fish per week, otherwise you would be adding more waste than the bacteria population can proccess.

you sound just like my lfs guy with the phrase "ive been keeping fish for over 20 years", just add "since before you were in diapers kid" (15% wc every other week, and tells me a new tank can be cycled with water from another tank ).

and 20 years doesnt mean a damn thing.

but this is good, most novices should start with a 750 and work there way down as they become more experienced, bigger tank= less margine for errors

 

[ultimatejay]

that tank is not fully cycled when you give it 4 weeks to cycle on one fish with more on the way.

you only have enough bacteria to support that single fish, so technically you tank is cycled to that one fish.

a tank is fully cycled when you have all your stock completed and the bacteria population can keep up with the waste output and keep ammonia and nitrite at 0 with no problem.

so it would be wise to add one fish per week, otherwise you would be adding more waste than the bacteria population can proccess.

you sound just like my lfs guy with the phrase "ive been keeping fish for over 20 years", just add "since before you were in diapers kid" (15% wc every other week, and tells me a new tank can be cycled with water from another tank ).

and 20 years doesnt mean a damn thing.

but this is good, most novices should start with a 750 and work there way down as they become more experienced, bigger tank= less margine for errors

Like I said, I have been keeping fish for over 20 years and I know how to cycle a tank. I have never killed a fish due to an improper cycle. What you don't know is that I have a pond filter that came with bacteria already in it to help speed up the cycle and I have about 7000gph flow, so my cycle will even be quicker with that much flow rate. Not only that but I have added old seeded media, etc. So I know you mean well, but please enough with schooling. Aren't you the one who keeps a flowerhorn with a one eye'd tigrinus?

 

[rayman45]

Like I said, I have been keeping fish for over 20 years and I know how to cycle a tank. I have never killed a fish due to an improper cycle. What you don't know is that I have a pond filter that came with bacteria already in it to help speed up the cycle and I have about 7000gph flow, so my cycle will even be quicker with that much flow rate. Not only that but I have added old seeded media, etc. So I know you mean well, but please enough with schooling. Aren't you the one who keeps a flowerhorn with a one eye'd tigrinus?

O SNAPPP

 

[DeLgAdO]

Like I said, I have been keeping fish for over 20 years and I know how to cycle a tank. I have never killed a fish due to an improper cycle. What you don't know is that I have a pond filter that came with bacteria already in it to help speed up the cycle and I have about 7000gph flow, so my cycle will even be quicker with that much flow rate. Not only that but I have added old seeded media, etc. So I know you mean well, but please enough with schooling. Aren't you the one who keeps a flowerhorn with a one eye'd tigrinus?

its dead

and my columbians killed it, all the rumbling they do at night.

they got to go

want em?

 

[DeLgAdO]

O SNAPPP

arent you the one who's snakehead beat the **** out of your tig

even

 

[Nic]

looks real good needs alot more fish.