My 650 gallon Central-American Cichlids
- Thread starter Pedro Cruz
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Hi mates!
Unfortunately, I'm back with bad news. In deed, they could be worst if I had notice the leak in the frontal glass of the tank later... I saw it when "only" about 20% of the tank water was already at the floor! I had to urgently buy a childreen pool and pass the water left, fishes and woodrift.
Meanwhile the tank is recovered and with half the fishes back. I've made a terrible mistake - covered the pool the first day! When I noticed the deaths I took it off, but it was too late for half of them! I lost a couple of H. pearsey F1, 2 V. synspillum F2, 1 V. argentea F1, 1 Ancistrus sp and 3 Botias...
Here is a vídeo: "Do sonho ao pesadelo" = "From dream to nightmare"
[video=youtube;cee_67bdnu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cee_67bdnu0[/video]
Now I'm back, stronger then ever!
Unfortunately, I'm back with bad news. In deed, they could be worst if I had notice the leak in the frontal glass of the tank later... I saw it when "only" about 20% of the tank water was already at the floor! I had to urgently buy a childreen pool and pass the water left, fishes and woodrift.
Meanwhile the tank is recovered and with half the fishes back. I've made a terrible mistake - covered the pool the first day! When I noticed the deaths I took it off, but it was too late for half of them! I lost a couple of H. pearsey F1, 2 V. synspillum F2, 1 V. argentea F1, 1 Ancistrus sp and 3 Botias...
Here is a vídeo: "Do sonho ao pesadelo" = "From dream to nightmare"
[video=youtube;cee_67bdnu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cee_67bdnu0[/video]
Now I'm back, stronger then ever!
Great song choice for the leaky part of the video!! 
That is a stunning tank, glad to see it back running again. Heart breaking seeing those big loaches in your hands though!
That is a stunning tank, glad to see it back running again. Heart breaking seeing those big loaches in your hands though!
Great song choice for the leaky part of the video!!
That is a stunning tank, glad to see it back running again. Heart breaking seeing those big loaches in your hands though!
That 3 big loaches were my daughters favorite fish...
the older one should be 10 years old...I'm trying to get a new group (10) of them, smaller...
I'm also considering the chance of maintaining only the V. Synspillum group (may be add some 3 or 5 more to the existing group) and the Midevil couple (may be add 3 or 5 more to the existing group) and keep only big hump central- American cichlids... What do you think about that?
After the water leak nightmare, here are the first news!!! 
Some of the "old" ones:
Midevil (female):
Midevil (male):
Vieja synspillum:
Vieja maculicauda:
And...
...the big, big, biiiiiig new:
Arowana Silver:
Some videos soon!
Cheers mates!
Some of the "old" ones:
Midevil (female):
Midevil (male):
Vieja synspillum:
Vieja maculicauda:
And...
...the big, big, biiiiiig new:
Arowana Silver:
Some videos soon!
Cheers mates!
Wow so sorry for the loss of your fish... They were some beauties!!! Awesome tank and nice set up, keep up the good work...
