Hi all, for a few years now I have been going on about how I will be setting up a big tank in a fish house 'as soon as we move'. Well turns out that with one thing an another, that move ended up taking just over 3 years. 18 months of that nearly was looking for the right place. As in a few of my other posts, you'll see, I was promised a double garage in the new house for this project. Well, we finally found it and moved in a couple of months ago. Now although I dont actually have the new big tank up just yet, I do now know the specifics of it. I sent off for a quote on a 12 x 4 x 2 foot tank from ND a few weeks ago and wasn't too disheartened by the price. So it seems this will beup in a few months now, which is good as my Clown Knife alone has quickly outgrown the 200 Gallon as you will see in the video below. He currently stands at around 20-22" I'd say, which isn't bad considering less than 2 years ago I bought him at around 2-3"
Below is a video of what I have done so far, unfortunately I've been let down ( by my dad) for it being fully insulated so I have had to run all heaters quite high so far, I'm assured he can get up in next few weeks to do it though. The carpet on the floor is what was in the house when we moved in, as we were obviously replacing it all I decided that a good short term plan until its all insulated would be to have the old Carpet an underlay down, just to combat a bit of the cold weather.
Currently I have 5 Tanks with fish in them in there;
200 Gallon Oddball; 1x Clown Knife, 2 x Ornate Bichir, 1 x Endi Bichir, 1 x Delhezi Bichir, 1 x Datnoide Microlepis, 1 x Tucan, 1 x Sailfin Plec, 1 x Florida Gar, 1 x Gold Saum ........Just ordered a Thin Bar Dat and a Four barred Dat
100 Gallon; 10 x Tiger Barbs, 6 x Tiger Moss Barbs, 6 x Gold Tiger Barbs, 6 x Checkers Barbs, 1 x Bristlenose, 1 x SAE.
To this tank I have just ordered; 1 Royal Twig Catfish, 2 x Twig Catfish, 1 x Crying Whiptail, and 1 Banjo Catfish........I will then be adding between 6-8 Peters Elephant Noses in the near future and 6 Albino Tiger Barbs....... I'm still playing with the idea of adding a group of Hatchet fish too
55 Gallon Long; 1 x Hoplo Cat, 1 x Black banded leporinus, 1 x Bristlenose Plec........ I have no real plans for this tank just yet, maybe used as a growout for the Dats, but recently lost nearly every fish in it down to some dodgey Clown Loaches. Wiped everything out in 2 days, including my 8 Geophagus which had just shown signs of being ready to breed, besides the above 2, really bizare. It is currently being treated with Melafix and is somewhat spare at the minute.
55 Gallon Cubed; 1 Gold Saum, 2 x Bristlenose Plecs. I never intended to keep the Gold Saum in here, he will likely go to the 12 foot once it's built, but can't go in the 200 Gall as the 2 male Gold Saums will just kill each other. This will also then be a feww tank really
40 Gallon Long; Bristlenose Pair, Loads of BN Babies. This will likely stay as it is, I may add a few Cory species or something but nothing to interfer with the BN breeding
15 Gallon; Not fully set up, but is intended to be a quarantine tank, just a bit late after what happened last week.
Tour of the Garage/Fishhouse
https
/youtu.be/pXD-9P2R798
The new 12foot tank will be housing everything from the 200 Gallon, p[lus I will hopefully be adding a lot more Bichirs, and datnoides, maybe a couple of Peacock Bass and then a few Catfish that dont get about 2ft, maybe even just a group of 8 or so Lima Shovelnose actually, but all this is still to be decided. The only certain things are Datnoides and Bichirs, I dont really like the idea of Arowanas an monster catfish so all them are a no at the minute, also not keen on Rays.
I plan to keep this updated, as much for me as anyone else really, not sure how interested people will be. But any suggestions/comments are all welcome. I will likely give a post with a run down on filtration/lighting etc for the tanks soon too. But until then thanks for reading this very long post and hope you enjoy some of the updates I keep posting (I will upload a vid of my Knife Fish not long after I bought him in a sec, you can see the difference in a couple of years with him and the Dat, it's immense difference), and also give plenty of suggestions.
Vinny
This is a Video of the Dat and Clown Knife a few months after I bought them, look at the size comparison, it's insane, The Bichirs are still the same ones too, not too much difference there you don't notice
https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIn47kcwrM
Below is a video of what I have done so far, unfortunately I've been let down ( by my dad) for it being fully insulated so I have had to run all heaters quite high so far, I'm assured he can get up in next few weeks to do it though. The carpet on the floor is what was in the house when we moved in, as we were obviously replacing it all I decided that a good short term plan until its all insulated would be to have the old Carpet an underlay down, just to combat a bit of the cold weather.
Currently I have 5 Tanks with fish in them in there;
200 Gallon Oddball; 1x Clown Knife, 2 x Ornate Bichir, 1 x Endi Bichir, 1 x Delhezi Bichir, 1 x Datnoide Microlepis, 1 x Tucan, 1 x Sailfin Plec, 1 x Florida Gar, 1 x Gold Saum ........Just ordered a Thin Bar Dat and a Four barred Dat
100 Gallon; 10 x Tiger Barbs, 6 x Tiger Moss Barbs, 6 x Gold Tiger Barbs, 6 x Checkers Barbs, 1 x Bristlenose, 1 x SAE.
To this tank I have just ordered; 1 Royal Twig Catfish, 2 x Twig Catfish, 1 x Crying Whiptail, and 1 Banjo Catfish........I will then be adding between 6-8 Peters Elephant Noses in the near future and 6 Albino Tiger Barbs....... I'm still playing with the idea of adding a group of Hatchet fish too
55 Gallon Long; 1 x Hoplo Cat, 1 x Black banded leporinus, 1 x Bristlenose Plec........ I have no real plans for this tank just yet, maybe used as a growout for the Dats, but recently lost nearly every fish in it down to some dodgey Clown Loaches. Wiped everything out in 2 days, including my 8 Geophagus which had just shown signs of being ready to breed, besides the above 2, really bizare. It is currently being treated with Melafix and is somewhat spare at the minute.
55 Gallon Cubed; 1 Gold Saum, 2 x Bristlenose Plecs. I never intended to keep the Gold Saum in here, he will likely go to the 12 foot once it's built, but can't go in the 200 Gall as the 2 male Gold Saums will just kill each other. This will also then be a feww tank really
40 Gallon Long; Bristlenose Pair, Loads of BN Babies. This will likely stay as it is, I may add a few Cory species or something but nothing to interfer with the BN breeding
15 Gallon; Not fully set up, but is intended to be a quarantine tank, just a bit late after what happened last week.
Tour of the Garage/Fishhouse
https
/youtu.be/pXD-9P2R798The new 12foot tank will be housing everything from the 200 Gallon, p[lus I will hopefully be adding a lot more Bichirs, and datnoides, maybe a couple of Peacock Bass and then a few Catfish that dont get about 2ft, maybe even just a group of 8 or so Lima Shovelnose actually, but all this is still to be decided. The only certain things are Datnoides and Bichirs, I dont really like the idea of Arowanas an monster catfish so all them are a no at the minute, also not keen on Rays.
I plan to keep this updated, as much for me as anyone else really, not sure how interested people will be. But any suggestions/comments are all welcome. I will likely give a post with a run down on filtration/lighting etc for the tanks soon too. But until then thanks for reading this very long post and hope you enjoy some of the updates I keep posting (I will upload a vid of my Knife Fish not long after I bought him in a sec, you can see the difference in a couple of years with him and the Dat, it's immense difference), and also give plenty of suggestions.
Vinny
This is a Video of the Dat and Clown Knife a few months after I bought them, look at the size comparison, it's insane, The Bichirs are still the same ones too, not too much difference there you don't notice
https
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIn47kcwrM
