JK47's 225 Gallon Show Tank!

[JK47]

UPDATE

Tank has been cycled for a while now. Here are a couple of full tank shots with all of the sand in, wood aranged. My swords are quickly being detroyed by the Uaru and Severums. My stocklist has been shaken up quite a bit too.... This has been allot of fun. Pics of the stock to follow.















What do you guys think?

 

[JK47]

UPDATE

Some of the new stock:
x1 Geophagus Abalios
x1 Satanoperca Mapiritensis
X2 Acarichthys heckelii
x1 Uaru Amphiacanthoides
x1 Black Ghost Knife
x2 L240 Galaxius Pleco
x2 Severum (one green, one red stripe)
and a couple other smaller fish. The good news is my landlord agreed to let me set up the 135 as a tank as well so long as it's in the garage. I may still get my Geophagus Sp Tapajos "Red Head" breeder after all. Stay tuned............

 

[mr.reef24]

great new photo's

mr.reef24

 

[volcomstone]

Sweet setup!

 

[Pharaoh]

Turned out really well! Nice job.

 

[AQUAX13]

great looking set up.

 

[yogurt_21]

beautiful setup,though it is a pity that you didn't keep it salt.

what was the initial cost of the setup and how much did you recover by sellign the parts you didn't use?

 

[cowboy8411]

beautiful setup congrats on the tank

 

[JK47]

great new photo's

Sweet setup!

Turned out really well! Nice job.

great looking set up.

Thanks guys! I worked by butt off getting this tank ready and setting it up. It was allot of fun! I still have allot more to do though.

 

[JK47]

beautiful setup,though it is a pity that you didn't keep it salt.

what was the initial cost of the setup and how much did you recover by sellign the parts you didn't use?

Salty fish smell.

Well I keep track of everything I do in an account so I am not taking money from the family for my tanks. Here is my break down. I sold allot of stuff I've collected over the years on CL to afford the tank to begin with. I used the money from the things on the tank I didn't use to basically stock it to this point. I will have more coming soon.

I went from owning to a rental house and the landlord would only allow one tank so I sold off almost everything I had to pay for this tank. He just gave me permission to set up my 135 G yesterday so I will have another build going soon.

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In the end I basically spent $40 out of pocket for the gas I forgot to budget if that makes sense. What do you think? I thought I planned it fairly well. The FX5 is going to throw me way over though. I planned on selling the 135 to pay for it but now that I'm keeping that tank, I'll have to pay for the FX5 out of pocket.