2 New tanks today

[colen]

Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well.

Today I was visiting a friend (he is moving soon) and he was looking to get rid of his tanks. I paid very little for these, but this is what I ended up with:

Two tanks, they are exactly the same, these are the specs:

Exact volume:
42.0779 US gallons
34.9247 UK gallons
159.2817 liters

Tanks dimensions:
Length: 76.2 cm.
Width: 45.72 cm.
Height: 45.72 cm.

Length: 30 in.
Width: 18 in.
Height: 18 in.

Approx. Surface Area:
540 in2
3483.864 cm2

The back, bottom, and both sides are painted black (not sure if its paint, but its on there for good, but looks very nice).

I set both tanks up on one stand, one on top, and one on the bottom is 5 inches off teh ground, and there is half a foot clearance between the two tanks (so there is room for lights, filters, etc on the bottom tank.

The setup looks very nice, everything is completely black and I have put white silica sand in the bottom of each tank, looks very sharp.

Now for the fish, I had no plans on getting more tanks, but now that I have them I HAVE to use them (mts anyone?). I was thinking of doing a species tank of some sort, a different one in each tank. I woudlnt want them to be the same though, and the colours etc would have to go together as you cant look at one tank without see both.

If you had these two odd sized tanks, setup on top each other, what would you stock them with? Hoping to get lots of ideas!

Thanks,
Colen.

 

[-*-MicHAeL-*-]

good find, i could do with another tank LOL, got any pics

 

[colen]

I have not taken any pictures yet, but I will post some shortly.

I paid $100 canadian, got the 2 tanks, an old heater that I'm scared to plug in, 2 aqua clear 200's, and some little odds and ends. The stand was mine from a previous tank. The stand appears to be sturdy enough, its a black metal stand I bought years ago at a garage sale. It looks like it is made to hold a 30-40 gallon tank, hopefully it'll support these 2 tanks fine.

Anyhow, I would be interested in what to stock these tanks with, the only fish I really wanted were african cichlids and I just recently setup a 75 gallon tank just for that... so i'll have to do something different with this one.

 

[puffermama]

Anglefish in one and a figure 8 puffer in the other!

 

[Fish_Mike]

Why not do a Rainbowfish Species in One, some of the dwarf ones though because they need lots of space to swim. Get a group of 10 dwarfs of some type of Rainbowfish and that'd look real nice As for the other, why not just do a Barb community rather than a species tank?

 

[colen]

I have been considering an getting an Anglefish for a while now, but I'm not sure if thats the route I want to go.

Fish_Mike, I like the idea of a barb community, I use to keep barbs for years but I no longer have any.

Hmm.. I'm not to good at stocking a tank, but how does this sound?

6 Tiger barbs
6 golden barbs
3 cherry barbs
...and...?

Not sure of there name, but I recently saw them for the first time in my LFS, they look like some sort of barb, they are very bright red/orange, look similar body shape to a gold barb, does anyone know what these are?

Thanks,

 

[rixy]

what about odessa barbs.i have some and they are lovely.

 

[Fish_Mike]

Ya, that stocking sounds good.

Maybe the fish you saw were Rosy Barbs, Puntius conchonius?

Edit: Or Clown Barb, Puntius everetti?

If niether of those: got to this website;

Mongabay Barbs

 

[simonbrown403]

what about a pair of rams or apistogrammas with some corys and tetras in a planted tank

And a comunity in the other

 

[jkrekord]

what about a pair of rams or apistogrammas with some corys and tetras in a planted tank

And a comunity in the other

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why not do somethin completly out of the ordinary im talkin one tank as an african dwarf frog tank(i love those lil fellas )an an maybe khuli loaches or dwarf puffers in the other you are sooo luky to have 2 new tanks

 

[itZme]

Not sure of there name, but I recently saw them for the first time in my LFS, they look like some sort of barb, they are very bright red/orange, look similar body shape to a gold barb, does anyone know what these are?

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Sounds like a Serpae Tetra to me. I have a school of 6 in a tank with 6 Tiger Barbs and they get along fine and sometimes actually school together. The Serpaes are nippy toward each other but so are Tigers so they seem to be good companions.

Here's a pic of a Serpae Tetra:

Good luck with the new tanks!

-- itZme