Today From The Fish Room

[Mako Man111]

Awsome fish CFC!! I'm really interested in doing a large oddball tank

One question though, there are a lot of awfully big and messy fish in those tanks, how do you keep the tanks clean? I know some people (not trying to start anything here ) would say that the large tank is overstocked. (I bet if you had three or four oscars in there they would). I take it your a little more leanient in your stocking levels?

 

[CAC]

Im pretty sure CFC uses a pond filter on his tank, hence higher stocking levels

Mikey

 

[vancouver]

How long have you had that ID shark and how big is it now?

 

[CFC]

The big tank is over stocked, ideally i would like to lose the pangasius cat and the severum from there as they were never intended to be there in the first place, that would bring the stocking down to 5 rays, the big catfish, flag tail, arowana, 2 peacock bass and the fire eel, 11 fish in 205 gallons of water isnt so bad. The tank is filtered with two Eheim 2217's filled with efi substrat pro and a 30 gallon pond filter box filled with plastic rings situated above the tank served by a 1500 LPH pond pump, the return then flows into a home made trickle tower with floss and sponges before it drops into the tank, the pond filter alone is rated for a 600 gallon pond and the Eheims will do 150 gallons each so there is LOTS of biological filtration going on. Weekly 40% water changes take care of the nitrate and dissolved organics.
Hopefully soon i will be able to afford the 400 gallon tank ive been promising myself for the last year which will give them all pleanty of room.

Vancouver, the ID shark (pangasius cat) belongs to a friend of mine who has had it a couple of years, it outgrew their old tank and needed a temporary home until they got their new larger tank installed. They have the new tank now but decided they didnt want the catfish back although they have now said they will take it back if i cant find another suitable home for it. Its about 13-14 inches at the moment.

 

[CAC]

What will the diamensions for the 400g be, and what else are you going to add to your stocking?
That will be one amazing tank!!!
Will have to put some cool cats in there

Mikey

 

[CFC]

I'm aiming for a 9 foot long 40 inch wide and 24 inch high tank, i cant go any higher as the tank will eventually have to be moved down to the fish house when its renovated and anything more wont go through the kitchen door.

As for stocking theres nothing planned yet, i may get a couple more rays and an oddball or two but that will be about it.

 

[CAC]

My god that will be amazing!!!
Are you just gonna let some of the smaller fish have to 205, or have you got plans for that aswell?
Will that one not be in the fishroom??? (the 400g)
When do you plan to set all this up?

Mikey

 

[vancouver]

That ID shark is wicked..

I just checked on mine, and the 6'' one was dead

Damn power outages!

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

Can you take pictures of your filtration?
I would like to see that pond one with the trickle tower.

 

[CFC]

My god that will be amazing!!!
Are you just gonna let some of the smaller fish have to 205, or have you got plans for that aswell?
Will that one not be in the fishroom??? (the 400g)
When do you plan to set all this up?

Mikey

I cant see the new tank being bought until at least half way into next year to be honest, there are just so many other things that need doing to the house which take priority over fish, at least thats what Mrs CFC tells me.
The 400g will be going in the fishroom but the fishroom is only temporary until i can afford to renovate the 220 square foot workshop at the end of my garden into a fish house, it needs a new roof, concrete floor, new electrics and insulating before it can be used and again we're talking about some quite serious money so its a long way off, but any tanks in the fish room must be able to fit through the door to be taken out and down to the fish house when its done eventually.
When i get the new tank everyone gets an upgrade, the fish in the 180 move to the 200 and the fish in the 80 move up to the 180 and so on so forth.


Space the filtration is nothing special to look at, just a black box with some pipes going in and water coming back out at the other end which drops into a stack of old filter baskets filled with foam and floss, crude but simple and effective.

 

[blue acara]

very nice collection cfc!. big fish are cool, no doubt about it-

edit: what is the stripy fish from the asian tank, hes a stunner!

 

[pacuboy]

Very nice pics. 8) I love the aros,dats,pbass,royalck, and all of the fish!!I am interested in getting a peacock bass to go in my 75 at school.

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

Very nice pics. good.gif cool1.gif I love the aros,dats,pbass,royalck, and all of the fish!!I am interested in getting a peacock bass to go in my 75 at school.

.... I wonder how long that will last!

You gave my hopes up, i thought CFC may have updated it but you just brought this thread back from the dead.

 

[rixy]

when you've got the time cfc,it would be good to see piccies of all your fish.i,for one,would be very interested to see them

 

[cane76]

very nice collection cfc!. big fish are cool, no doubt about it-

edit: what is the stripy fish from the asian tank, hes a stunner!

that is a siamese tiger fish/datnoids pulcher if im not mistaken,great looking fish aint they