My First Big Boy Tank!

[xraycer]

Took an hour+ ride down to Uncle Ned's fish factory in Millis, Mass. Saturday evening. Picked up 2 Hartwegis, 2 Bocourtis, 2 Fenestratus, 2 Argenteas, 1 Regani, 3 rainbow cichlids, and a green Texas. Was hoping for bifasciatus and black belts as well but they didn't have any. Everybody is doing great in the 180. Colors are showing and already figured out I'm the food guy. So far everybody is being very civil.

 

[Big Dave]

pics man!! You are so LUCKY it is only a 1 hour+ drive to pick up those type of fish!

 

[anibalvti]

Pics of the new habitants

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[xraycer]

None of my cameras are any good for fish pics, so I'll try for a vid this weekend. Just know that these guys I just bought are babies 2"-3" so don't expect any crazy colors, finnages or humps lol

 

[xraycer]

Its not very good, but here's a little vid off the phone.
[video=youtube;voalQFNGP-A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voalQFNGP-A[/video]

 

[Grishtargan]

Nice looking fish!!


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[Jc1119]

Very nicely done! Congrats on getting it stocked up too. Great job and a very cool stand design.

 

[Dan F]

Looks great, very nice work!

 

[xraycer]

Thank you all!

Gonna leave it bare bottom for another month or so, until 2nd canister is fully established and ammonia is down to 0. This way I can make sure the tank will be super clean, then the pool filter sand will be going in. Grabbed a bunch of decent size rocks last weekend. They're being bleached/sanitized right now, probably will go in this weekend. Branch in tank will be coming out this weekend, and I'll check with lfs to see if I can find some nice driftwood as well this weekend.

 

[administrator]

Great job on the tank, stand and a very impressive draw up for the stand with Paintbrush. Never seen a draw up using Paintbrush that looked so nice.

Here's the plan for the stand I whipped up on Windows Paintbrush
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