My setup...55G SA, and 37G Hybrid SA

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SyncereOne

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Well...I've lurked on this site long enough now without posting pics of my setup, so I guess I will put a few up here. I do have to give credit to all of you guys on here, because 95% of my information came from this forum.

My first tank is a 55G SA setup, which has been running for a little over a year now. I run a low pH (6.2) in this tank, which has gravel bottom, and is filtered with an XP3, and a AC70. XP3 is setup with sponges/efihiemsubstrat pro/carbon, and the AC70 is setup with sponge/carbon/sponge. I use a Stealth heater in it, and it's been running for about a year with no major issues. Currently it is stocked with 2 JD's 6" and 4", 2 FM's about 4-5" each, and one con. I know it's a little heavy on stocking right now, but I had to take one JD and the con from my brothers tank a few days ago. I am in the process of finding new homes for them. Agreesion in my tank is pretty minimal, the only time I had an issue was when I pair of breeding cons in there, and after one breeding period, I got rid of them.

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My 2nd setup is only a few days old, and it is a 37G SA hybrid tank. It is filtered with an AC70 sponge/carbon/sponge, and an AC50 filled with efhiemsubstrat pro. Again, I used a Stealth heater. This is my first attempt at a sand substrate, and so far I love it. The inhabitants are 2 platinum convicts, and 2 electric blue jack dempseys, which I stumbled upon in a visit to my LFS this week. Tank is a tad cloudy due to the sand I just put in there. Sorry about the blurry pics....these were the best of the worst.


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The fish in the 37 wont fit forever though.
 
Thanks.

Yeah...I know about the 37. It was one of the impulse buys i'm imfamous for. When they grow out, I am going to just keep the platinum cons in there, and pray I have 2 males or 2 females. The electric cons will go to another tank, hopefully when I find a new house. I have a 125G tank sitting in storage right now that I got on craigslist for an unbelieveable deal. I don't have the room in my house right now for it though.
 
The platinum con is a HRP x Pink Con, and the Electric Cons are supposedly a EBJD x Con. Hybrid in the sense that they are the not the traditonal SA cichlids.
 
i've never seen an eb con

nice tanks though, and i LOVE sand except when it is first put in and it makes your water cloudy, but that goes away eventually.

nice setups, i wish i would have started out more like that then what i did!
 
The jury is still out on the EB con. As it grows, I'll see what it looks like. Someone in another thread mentioned it looks like a HRP, but we will see. I think everyone on here went through the aquascaping pains with thier first few tanks. It takes a while to find out what your taste is. I started out with a 20G tank with dinosaur skulls and multicolored gravel. Back then, you could not tell me that my tank looked bad. Now that I look back on it, it was hideous. I always set a tank up, and then came on here or saw another tank that I liked and wanted to redo mines. These days, I'm a huge fan of driftwood, lava rock and slate. Now that I've tried sand, I will most likely set up the 125 with sand when put it up.
 
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