Used 125 gal

[duanes]

Along the same lines, I have an Amazon Sword plant that has survived in the 180,

but its growth has been slow, possibly due to competition from the aggressive growing Vallisneria, or lack of enough sun, so it was moved late yesterday afternoon to the125in hope that the better and longer sun exposure will cause a growth spurt.

 

[duanes]

After the boat trip, I hired 4 local guys to unload the tank and walk it from the beach to my house about a block away, having 4 made it easy and avoided twisting that could cause stress cracks. Click on the number below.
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[deeda]

Your link wants me to sign into Google to view?

 

[Milingu]

This happens when the link is copied directly from youtubestudio instead of beeing copied from the normal channel view.
It should look like this to work.

It looks easy with 4 guys carrying and none of them is youself.

 

[KATALEKEEPER]

do you still have that awesome beard?

 

[Galactik]

This definitely puts into perspective what I thought was the "hassle" of bringing home a big tank from the store.

 

[duanes]

Free water top off today during an afternoon rain event.
Not quite enough for an overflow, and free water change.

 

[Niki_up]

Wow! They make it look like a breeze moving that tank!

 

[Rafini]

Looks great Duanes!
Have you considered a brackish setup? might be interesting!

 

[duanes]

Because the selection of species available in LFSs is very, "very" limited here, and shipping of non-native fish to Panama even less available, brackish probably wouldn't be much of an option ( although a local mangrove biotope is a possibility) .
My primary interest in types of tanks to keep, are geographically correct biotopes, mixing species that coexist in nature.
The most interesting fish to collect here in Panama, (to me), are some of the rare local cichlids, and gobies of the Darian.
Even when in the states, I kept separate biotopes, like a Lake Barumbi mbo tank, with only species from that lake

Above Saratherodon linnellii and Stomatepia pindu, below Stomatepia mariae, and Konia eisentradti, all from Barumbi mbo

or, a Madagascan tank below with Paretroplus maculatus and Paratilapia

Or the Uruguayan cool water community tank below with Crenicichla and Australoheros.

or below, also in the same Uruguayan tank, Gymnogeophagus quillero.

I have seldom found a hodgepodge species not found together in nature, vey interesting.
Just one of my quirks

Above a northern South American biotope