Hello all. Over the years I have upgraded from a 10 gallon tank with tetras to my current 150 with....drum roll please....MONSTER FISH.
I expect to hear the usual "you can't keep those fish together" but here goes:
Assorted Mbuna - yellow, blue, pink...you get the idea. 10 or so of them when they hold still long enough to be counted.
2 Tinfoil Barbs - still pretty small, fit in the palm of my hand. Looking forward to them as adults.
1 Red Bay Snook - very cool fish. Calm but afraid of nothing.
1 Texas Blue - the prettiest fish in the tank if I say so myself
1 Clown Knife - he is 15 years old this year and about 14 inches long.
1 Red Devil - hoped for a female but with the large hump forming....I say it is male. Doesn't bother anyone else as he grew up in the tank.
4 large plecos. Do they ever stop growing?
2 Convicts. They are left over from a population explosion in my old 55.
The tank is decorated with several large pieces of tan driftwood (held down by slate) and 5 pieces of the dark sinking type. I added some silk plants as
they live ones never seem to get a chance to grow. Gravel bottom with some rock/slate caves and several pieces of resin log/tree thingies.
For filtration I have an Aquaclear 110 dead center on the back to roll the water around. At the far right end I have an Eshopps overflow (twin tube) draining through the dining room floor to a 55 tank in the basement directly below. On the way downstairs it passes through two 5-gallon buckets stacked on top of each other suspended above the water in the 55. The top bucket is packed full of floss to polish the water. Water drains out of the top 5-gallon bucket via 75 small holes and into another 5-gallon bucket filled with bio balls. Water drains out of that second bucket via 75 holes down into the tank. Flows to the other end of the 55 through a bed of live plants (water hyacinth) and is pumped back up to the far left side of the tank, opposite the overflow via a magdrive 1200. Two submersible heaters are also in the 55 tank 'sump'.
For lighting I have two dual-bulb strip lights. Each light has two different bulbs within - power glow and marine glow. The combination gives a subdued white/blue tint and really brings out the colors.
I think that is it for fishy information.
Will
I expect to hear the usual "you can't keep those fish together" but here goes:
Assorted Mbuna - yellow, blue, pink...you get the idea. 10 or so of them when they hold still long enough to be counted.
2 Tinfoil Barbs - still pretty small, fit in the palm of my hand. Looking forward to them as adults.
1 Red Bay Snook - very cool fish. Calm but afraid of nothing.
1 Texas Blue - the prettiest fish in the tank if I say so myself
1 Clown Knife - he is 15 years old this year and about 14 inches long.
1 Red Devil - hoped for a female but with the large hump forming....I say it is male. Doesn't bother anyone else as he grew up in the tank.
4 large plecos. Do they ever stop growing?
2 Convicts. They are left over from a population explosion in my old 55.
The tank is decorated with several large pieces of tan driftwood (held down by slate) and 5 pieces of the dark sinking type. I added some silk plants as
they live ones never seem to get a chance to grow. Gravel bottom with some rock/slate caves and several pieces of resin log/tree thingies.
For filtration I have an Aquaclear 110 dead center on the back to roll the water around. At the far right end I have an Eshopps overflow (twin tube) draining through the dining room floor to a 55 tank in the basement directly below. On the way downstairs it passes through two 5-gallon buckets stacked on top of each other suspended above the water in the 55. The top bucket is packed full of floss to polish the water. Water drains out of the top 5-gallon bucket via 75 small holes and into another 5-gallon bucket filled with bio balls. Water drains out of that second bucket via 75 holes down into the tank. Flows to the other end of the 55 through a bed of live plants (water hyacinth) and is pumped back up to the far left side of the tank, opposite the overflow via a magdrive 1200. Two submersible heaters are also in the 55 tank 'sump'.
For lighting I have two dual-bulb strip lights. Each light has two different bulbs within - power glow and marine glow. The combination gives a subdued white/blue tint and really brings out the colors.
I think that is it for fishy information.
Will
