Peter C
Fish Crazy
Thought I'd done one of these already but obviously not lol
Started with my mate up town, he's got a tank so went looking round shops in town at fish, I'd just sold my car an decided I wanted a fish tank. Wanted one or a while but finally had the funds to comfortably get 1 fully set up
My dad told me to get a bow fronted tank as they look nicer, glad I listened (that's not a hole in my sock, it's just the light lol)
Went for black gravel and a black background not because other people said, I just thought the fish would look better with their colours against a black background, and the gravel just looked smart. Anyway tank was from www.seapets.co.uk incase anyone else wants one. I'd deffo recommend them, customer service was excellent, they even rang me to see which day was best for me to accept next day delivery! Tank was around £100 delivered for a 90 litre. Comes with the heater (75w), built in light into the hood, and an internal filter / pump (450 L/h) .
Next was the impossible task of trying to find a stand that was suitable to hold approx 120kg, my dad suggested I make one. My friends is a fabricator / weldor so I sent him some measurements
Expertly drawn on the iPhone app draw something! Needless to say my girlfriend asked me what the hell a stand with measurements had to do with a wig lol. But cut a long story short, he couldn't build it due to him not having any spare materials in his work
So i had to find one that looked nice, didn't cost a fortune and also matched the existing furniture in the conservatory. So after a few trips to shops round town
I came up with this, maidenhead aquatics in Carlisle, ex display model (discounted of course!) £130 and I got it for £80, bargain I reckon!
Bought some plants at MA aswell. What they were / are I don't have a clue but they are doing ok
Bought some caves off eBay, didn't wanna go too tacky and luckily they matched the colour of my plants almost perfectly
Bought myself 2 plecs and 6 guppies, 4 females and 2 males, had those a few weeks then bought 6 harlequins. One of the plecs died unfortunately after only a day, shock maybe?
Then after another couple of weeks I bought 6 endlers guppies
Finally after a week or so more I finished my tank off with 6 tetras
I got a couple more plants from dobbies garden centre, 1 large plant on a log and a couple of smaller ones. What a mistake the log was, absolutely riddled with snails!
Here are some pics of the tank with the caves and the new plants. You'll note how much the plants have grown!
Then came the "bad" weather. Extreme heat which killed a lot of my fish. Lost all but 3 tetras, all but 1 harlequin and all the endlers
Weather went and my tank got back to normal. Gave some plant clippings to almost awesome on here as she's local to me.
Fish have been fat for a while now, I suspected they were pregnant for ages but when nothing showed for weeks and weeks on end, I just started to think they were fat!
Anyway one morning I come in o find 6 baby fry
Well my tank was pretty minging with algae etc. my dads oldskool and they didn't do a fraction of the amount of water changes we do today, he kept saying leave it, ont mess etc
As sons and daughters do I completely ignored him and decided on a full clean out, not just a 70% water change, but gravel, plants, tank etc
Whilst doing this I found a good 10-15 more fry!
So yeah
Next stage
My new toy
My snail that's been munching on the other snails!
My secondary tank
I'm needing a filter that can sit inside that tank
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Tret the fish last night, bloodworm
My fat guppy. Still don't know which one is the mother to my fry!
Been like this for weeks now!
He's quite shy so not a bad pic considering
My shy plec
Just bought some new additions to my tank
7 bronze Cory's
13 cardinal tetras
And 6 Hengeli rasboras from almost awesome on here
Started with my mate up town, he's got a tank so went looking round shops in town at fish, I'd just sold my car an decided I wanted a fish tank. Wanted one or a while but finally had the funds to comfortably get 1 fully set up
My dad told me to get a bow fronted tank as they look nicer, glad I listened (that's not a hole in my sock, it's just the light lol)
Went for black gravel and a black background not because other people said, I just thought the fish would look better with their colours against a black background, and the gravel just looked smart. Anyway tank was from www.seapets.co.uk incase anyone else wants one. I'd deffo recommend them, customer service was excellent, they even rang me to see which day was best for me to accept next day delivery! Tank was around £100 delivered for a 90 litre. Comes with the heater (75w), built in light into the hood, and an internal filter / pump (450 L/h) .
Next was the impossible task of trying to find a stand that was suitable to hold approx 120kg, my dad suggested I make one. My friends is a fabricator / weldor so I sent him some measurements
Expertly drawn on the iPhone app draw something! Needless to say my girlfriend asked me what the hell a stand with measurements had to do with a wig lol. But cut a long story short, he couldn't build it due to him not having any spare materials in his work
So i had to find one that looked nice, didn't cost a fortune and also matched the existing furniture in the conservatory. So after a few trips to shops round town
I came up with this, maidenhead aquatics in Carlisle, ex display model (discounted of course!) £130 and I got it for £80, bargain I reckon!
Bought some plants at MA aswell. What they were / are I don't have a clue but they are doing ok
Bought some caves off eBay, didn't wanna go too tacky and luckily they matched the colour of my plants almost perfectly
Bought myself 2 plecs and 6 guppies, 4 females and 2 males, had those a few weeks then bought 6 harlequins. One of the plecs died unfortunately after only a day, shock maybe?
Then after another couple of weeks I bought 6 endlers guppies
Finally after a week or so more I finished my tank off with 6 tetras
I got a couple more plants from dobbies garden centre, 1 large plant on a log and a couple of smaller ones. What a mistake the log was, absolutely riddled with snails!
Here are some pics of the tank with the caves and the new plants. You'll note how much the plants have grown!
Then came the "bad" weather. Extreme heat which killed a lot of my fish. Lost all but 3 tetras, all but 1 harlequin and all the endlers
Weather went and my tank got back to normal. Gave some plant clippings to almost awesome on here as she's local to me.
Fish have been fat for a while now, I suspected they were pregnant for ages but when nothing showed for weeks and weeks on end, I just started to think they were fat!
Anyway one morning I come in o find 6 baby fry
Well my tank was pretty minging with algae etc. my dads oldskool and they didn't do a fraction of the amount of water changes we do today, he kept saying leave it, ont mess etc
As sons and daughters do I completely ignored him and decided on a full clean out, not just a 70% water change, but gravel, plants, tank etc
Whilst doing this I found a good 10-15 more fry!
So yeah
Next stage
My new toy
My snail that's been munching on the other snails!
My secondary tank
I'm needing a filter that can sit inside that tank
sTret the fish last night, bloodworm
My fat guppy. Still don't know which one is the mother to my fry!
Been like this for weeks now!
He's quite shy so not a bad pic considering
My shy plec
Just bought some new additions to my tank
7 bronze Cory's
13 cardinal tetras
And 6 Hengeli rasboras from almost awesome on here
Bit disappointed really.
