JK47's 135 Show Tank

[JK47]

**This will be my complete build thread for my dining room tank from start to finish**

So I can only have 1 tank in my new house and I have to make it show quality. I found someone on CL willing to trade me a "150 gallon glass tank/stand/canopy and vampire fish" for something chrome plated and goes "boom-boom-boom-boom"... I had to go check it out. Not a dime spent but gas out of pocket. ($19) The dims turn it out to be a 135 gallon tank - 72" x 24" 18" but I am cool with that and was stocked when I got to the place and saw the livestock/plants/extras in this tank.

(x1) Fluval 404, (x2) Emperor 400 bio-wheels.


I will have to replace a few panels on the stand, reseall the tank just out of habit and get some better lighting, subtrate etc... but I am pumped either way.

Descriptions and pics below:

Raw tank and stand at the house:




The wood from this tank was awesome! Very unique pieces:




The Amazon Sword has a 26" shoot coming from it and the Anubias almost fills a 5 gallon bucket:






Some livestock pics next...

 

[JK47]

The tank was dirty as all hell which you can see from the pics but here 3 of 5 buckets of fish we pulled from the tank:

The "vampire fish". I'm not sure if it's a L240 Galaxius or an L007 Vampire but it's 9" none the less:


This was a surprise, a 10" ghost knife:


and a ton of "other" amazon fish. Easy 30 but you could not clearly see them over the tank being so dirty....

 

[swede]

nice pickup ! keep posting pics as things progress

 

[famous323]

nice pick up

 

[zerojquan85]

dang.. thats awesome..... its like having a fully setup aquarium straight to your home.. just clean up and add more fish.... lol..

Also... the 9" pleco... it seems to have bristle coming out... i not 100% positive.. But not a galaxy pleco or vampire.. ..... I believe its either a spotted bristle nose pleco... or a spotted medusa pleco...

love to see pictures of it once the tank is set up...

btw.. what did u trade it for? a bike?

 

[Starlette]

Nicely done!

 

[JK47]

nice pickup ! keep posting pics as things progress

Thanks bro. Can't wait to re-build that stand and canopy. This tank seriously needs less tetras and random fish and to get some Red Head Geophagus!

 

[JK47]

dang.. thats awesome..... its like having a fully setup aquarium straight to your home.. just clean up and add more fish.... lol..

Also... the 9" pleco... it seems to have bristle coming out... i not 100% positive.. But not a galaxy pleco or vampire.. ..... I believe its either a spotted bristle nose pleco... or a spotted medusa pleco...

love to see pictures of it once the tank is set up...

btw.. what did u trade it for? a bike?

I traded a .40 S&W Baby Eagle Pistol for it. The wife bought me an H&K P2000 SK .357 SIG (awesome wifie BTW) so it was time for that BE to go.

That is for sure no BN or medusa, I breed BN and this fish is too big for either. The colors are just really stressed. The guy told us he had not done a water change in over 3 months....

 

[JK47]

Nicely done!

Hi BABY GIRL! How many of you get to say their wife made their first post on your setup? Welcome to MFK baby!

"Starlette" is my wife and is taking care of the tank while I am in socal for my job. WELCOME TO MFK!!!!

 

[famous323]

cool wife