My SA community

[Sinister-Kisses]

I've had an angelfish tank on the go for about 2 years now, started as a 55gal and then moved into a 75gal, and then I recently decided that while I love my big angry solo monsters, I seem to be in a much more "community" type phase right now - preferring an active community tank over my solo monsters and that I particularly was obsessed with my SA gang, so I shuffled things around and gave them my 6ft 125gal community. My current preference for angelfish is the solid and panda platinums, which look really sharp against the black back and black gravel. I do have one red devil angel in there who I'm quite obsessed with as well. There's also german and bolivian rams, a couple bristlenose plecos, and a group of diamond tetras in here. Makes for a active but fairly peaceful community.

 

[duanes]

I have always envied those of you who could keep, a sustainable soft water S American community.
One of my holy grail tanks would house Uaru fernandezypezi and Altum Angels, but these fishes preferance for a pH of around 4, with with hardly any measurable hardness, has aklways conflicted with my 8.2 pH, and liquid rock water.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

Oh man my water is SO soft. Keeping my centrals in decent conditions requires filters full of crushed coral. It's part of the reason I decided to go bigger with the SA tank. And I think if I can find some "inexpensive" juvenile discus to test, I'm going to give them a try. My water from the tap is damn near perfect for them...

 

[tlindsey]

My water from the tap is damn near perfect for them...

I would love to have water like that from the tap.

 

[neutrino]

Sharp looking tank.

 

[DawnMichele]

Beautiful tank.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

Thanks! I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

 

[Midwater]

I like the red fishy wallpaper.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

Haha those are decals. When we bought the house, that one wall in that room was painted that crazy orange colour. It was a kid's bedroom before we owned it. I don't mind crazy colours so I've left it alone. Years ago when I was breeding bettas, my hubby mounted ton of shelving along that wall to hold all the jars when the juveniles needed to be separated. Then I stopped breeding bettas and moved the big tanks in. I tried for MONTHS go find the right colour orange to paint the patched holes in the wall from all the shelves, and never could get the right shade. So eventually I found a couple photos online of midas cichlids with a profile shot I liked, sent it to a local print shop and had them make me wall decals that I slapped over all the patched holes. Voila!

 

[jjohnwm]

I have always envied those of you who could keep, a sustainable soft water S American community... has aklways conflicted with my 8.2 pH, and liquid rock water.

Oh man my water is SO soft. Keeping my centrals in decent conditions requires filters full of crushed coral.

I would love to have water like that from the tap.

Lol, the water is always better somewhere else. I have at various times in my life had both extremes of water types coming out of my tap; trust me, it doesn't matter what kind of water we have, somehow we always begin to covet the other guy and his water and the fish that he can keep. Human nature.

I love that tank, and also your innovative solution to a scarred wall.