KhaosInc
Fish Crazy
I had been going back and forth, planning an african ciclid tank after my clown knife and giant gouramis died (after about 10 years).
I had slowly been collecting stuff and getting the PH up for the 2 remaining fish, but didn't have any solid plans.
Fast forward to earlier this afternoon. I get a call from a friend of a friend. Bottom line, his new tank broke, his land lord is pissed, and he needs a new home for a whole mess of fish, and here I am with an almost empty tank.
So... 4 hours of salvage, and 18 fish later, everything appears happy in their new home. I have another 80 pounds of rock on order still and alot more landscaping and getting the various plastic things out of there (not to mention cleaning the walls etc... )My intention was to have a huge rock wall full of all sorts of nooks and crannies when I got fish.. but well, it was here or the local river.. (at 50F I don't think they would have made if 5 mins.)
PS, they were all in a 29 gallon aquarium, they are now in a 300 gallon, filtration is 2 fluval 404's and one fluval fx5
Here's my new tank... comments, concerns, questions... ?
4 - pretty sure they are yellow labs,
4 - Cynotilapia afra 2 blue.. two yellow (Id'd from another sight?) either yellow or blueish with vertical stripes
4 - cute yellow ones with horizintal stripes
4 - blue ones with a yellow top fin
2 poka doted catfish of some sort.
they are now in with an old grumpy black shark (if I could find him a home I would) about 14" and a crippled albino pleco (best guess broken back in shipping) been that way all his (or her) life (again about 10 years) swims sorta... eats fine... never really worried about him, he wasa free bee from the LFS when I was first setting up another tank. Theres also a community of commen guppies... not really sure where they came from, but have been breeding in that tank for a couple years. (again best guess is that I got a pregent female in a batch of feeder fish at some point...
Currently the tank is at 7.8 PH.. everythign else zero... sitting at 78 degrees, and has been up for about 10 years. any and all advice welcomed. I wasn't really planning on jumping in this soon. As far as I know, he only had his tank a couple weeks, so I suspect they are all juviniles..
Anyway... on with the pics..
yellow labs?
blue vertical striped and yellow horizontal striped..
yellow finned blue fish...
best pic I got of the 'spotted' catfish..
heres the grumpy old shark...
and the pleco.. I've had both these guys since sometime in the late 90's.
heres a pic of the 'yellow' vertical striped ciclid..
I had slowly been collecting stuff and getting the PH up for the 2 remaining fish, but didn't have any solid plans.
Fast forward to earlier this afternoon. I get a call from a friend of a friend. Bottom line, his new tank broke, his land lord is pissed, and he needs a new home for a whole mess of fish, and here I am with an almost empty tank.
So... 4 hours of salvage, and 18 fish later, everything appears happy in their new home. I have another 80 pounds of rock on order still and alot more landscaping and getting the various plastic things out of there (not to mention cleaning the walls etc... )My intention was to have a huge rock wall full of all sorts of nooks and crannies when I got fish.. but well, it was here or the local river.. (at 50F I don't think they would have made if 5 mins.)
PS, they were all in a 29 gallon aquarium, they are now in a 300 gallon, filtration is 2 fluval 404's and one fluval fx5
Here's my new tank... comments, concerns, questions... ?
4 - pretty sure they are yellow labs,
4 - Cynotilapia afra 2 blue.. two yellow (Id'd from another sight?) either yellow or blueish with vertical stripes
4 - cute yellow ones with horizintal stripes
4 - blue ones with a yellow top fin
2 poka doted catfish of some sort.
they are now in with an old grumpy black shark (if I could find him a home I would) about 14" and a crippled albino pleco (best guess broken back in shipping) been that way all his (or her) life (again about 10 years) swims sorta... eats fine... never really worried about him, he wasa free bee from the LFS when I was first setting up another tank. Theres also a community of commen guppies... not really sure where they came from, but have been breeding in that tank for a couple years. (again best guess is that I got a pregent female in a batch of feeder fish at some point...
Currently the tank is at 7.8 PH.. everythign else zero... sitting at 78 degrees, and has been up for about 10 years. any and all advice welcomed. I wasn't really planning on jumping in this soon. As far as I know, he only had his tank a couple weeks, so I suspect they are all juviniles..
Anyway... on with the pics..
yellow labs?
blue vertical striped and yellow horizontal striped..
yellow finned blue fish...
best pic I got of the 'spotted' catfish..
heres the grumpy old shark...
and the pleco.. I've had both these guys since sometime in the late 90's.
heres a pic of the 'yellow' vertical striped ciclid..
its really weird.
