My fish room (pictures)

[Oscar_Wild]

Moved into our new house, and got the fish room running. My 6yr old son decided to take some pics tonight so I could share them with my "fish friends". That's you guys, so here are some of his pics...

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Oscar_Wild and Isaiah

[750t]

Im not worthy...... That is my dream. Your soo very lucky. Im green with envy. Tim:D :sick: And your plumbing good work.

[SayersWeb]

Wow! So, did you buy these tanks used from a fish store? Will you use gravel in the tanks? How many tanks do you have? Is this setup mostly geared toward breeding?

Can you tell I'm intrigued??? :cool:

[jeffro426]

Pretty cool, wish my wife would let me have than many tanks!! :o

[Oscar_Wild]

Originally posted by SayersWeb
Wow! So, did you buy these tanks used from a fish store? Will you use gravel in the tanks? How many tanks do you have? Is this setup mostly geared toward breeding?

Can you tell I'm intrigued??? :cool:


SayersWeb,

The tanks came out of a petsmart when they remodeled. I didn't get them directly from petsmart though. I bought 14 of them on ebay for $300. That's just under $21.50 each. These tanks are for growout. All of the breeding takes place in other tanks, except for my 2 breeding pairs of cons. They are producing feeders like crazy for me. No substrate, it's easier to vacuum the bottom. The plumbing runs into a 5 gallon bucket that is half filled with bioballs, and covered by about 6 inches of poly fiber. I buy the pillow stuffing poly fiber at walmart. It's only $1 a bag. The bucket drains into a 30 gallon aquarium. A 1500 GPH pond pump returns the water to the tanks.

In addition to the tanks pictured, I also have 3 55's, 3 30's, 2 120's, and 3 10's.

I live in north central KS, and the fish stores around here have very limited cichlid stock, so I am getting different species and breeding them with about 15 small town mom and pop lfs purchasing juvie fish.


Oscar_Wild

[Oscar_Wild]

Originally posted by jeffro426
Pretty cool, wish my wife would let me have than many tanks!! :o



My wife and I just bought our house the week before thanksgiving and we both had requirements for the new house. Her's being main floor laundry, and mine a finished basement with at least one unfinished room for fish. We both got our requirements and them some.


Oscar_Wild

[SayersWeb]

Great deal on those tanks!! I took over the unfinished portion of my basement to build my music studio, so my tanks don't get a nice dedicated room like you have.

Have you checked Tangled Up In Cichlids (http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/) for breeding stock? You can get some really nice (and more expensive) varieties to spawn.

[wantsome48091]

nice work! my buddie has about 50 tanks in his basement. i m about to start my own project with about 10-15