I have been asked off and on about full tank shots. Interestingly enough mostly on foreign fish forums. I thought I would take a couple cover shots.
Any tanks I have set aside for show fish have almost no decorations. This 75 gallon tank holds the Escondido. I have a Magnum 350 canister, a hot magnum, sponge filter and three bubblers. All of the intake valves are padded. Usually I leave out the gravel. This tank is the exception. Pretty sterile environment.
This is the 300 gallon Green Umbee tank. Just tonight I went into the pond and took out two more of the Umbee to add to this tank. I am hoping to get two pair...we'll see. I have one Titanium Heater 350 Watt and one 300 watt Ebo Jager heater on the tank. It is filtered by an Eheim 2260, a Magnum 350, two sponge filters and an Power head with sponge filter attached. I hate the fact that one half of the tank doesn't have a background. Makes it hard to photograph. I plan on painting the back with black paint.
200 gallon tank with one male Managuense (not Jumbo) and a very small (bite sized) female. I have two 300 watt heaters, two sponge filters, an Eheim 2260 filter and two hot magnum canister filters on the tank. You can see the divider...but what you can't see is that there are four "escape holes" for the female (lunch).
150 gallon tank with the Pearsei (one adult/three sub adults). You can see that the majority of the tanks have only a few fish in each. I have a Fluval canister, and a Marineland Emperor 400 filter as well as a large sponge filter and a powerhead with sponge filter on this tank. Whenever I add pots for potential breeding areas, I try and arrange them so that the openings face different directions. IME the fish seem to choose breeding areas quicker when they are not facing other fish in pots. The coral decoration is actually a bubbler.
This 75 gallon tank has several juvenile Synspilum (including the dark morph) as well as three juvenile Minkleyi and a couple small Pleco. Most of the larger tanks have at least one Pleco (larger 12" Pleco) I have mixed feelings about having them in breeding tanks. They are great dither fish always keeping the breeding fish protecting their area...however I think they are responsible for raiding and eating the eggs off some of the breeding areas. Some of the fish are better than others at protecting. But others seem to loose out to the often much larger Pleco. As you can see...everything goes into the growout tanks. Coffee mugs, planters and vases, broken pots and even ceramic skulls. I love shopping at the flea market for odds and ends to add. If you have a TJ Max anywhere nearby, check out their pottery sections. They have some great stuff...colorful.
And finally some of the breeding Synspilum shots. These are fast becoming one of my favorites. All this color. These are larger than the ones in the tank above...but still only four inches. The breeding pair are in a 150 gallon tank with three Metynsis added purely as dithers.
They picked one of my "custom busted" pots for their breeding site.
Any tanks I have set aside for show fish have almost no decorations. This 75 gallon tank holds the Escondido. I have a Magnum 350 canister, a hot magnum, sponge filter and three bubblers. All of the intake valves are padded. Usually I leave out the gravel. This tank is the exception. Pretty sterile environment.
This is the 300 gallon Green Umbee tank. Just tonight I went into the pond and took out two more of the Umbee to add to this tank. I am hoping to get two pair...we'll see. I have one Titanium Heater 350 Watt and one 300 watt Ebo Jager heater on the tank. It is filtered by an Eheim 2260, a Magnum 350, two sponge filters and an Power head with sponge filter attached. I hate the fact that one half of the tank doesn't have a background. Makes it hard to photograph. I plan on painting the back with black paint.
200 gallon tank with one male Managuense (not Jumbo) and a very small (bite sized) female. I have two 300 watt heaters, two sponge filters, an Eheim 2260 filter and two hot magnum canister filters on the tank. You can see the divider...but what you can't see is that there are four "escape holes" for the female (lunch).
150 gallon tank with the Pearsei (one adult/three sub adults). You can see that the majority of the tanks have only a few fish in each. I have a Fluval canister, and a Marineland Emperor 400 filter as well as a large sponge filter and a powerhead with sponge filter on this tank. Whenever I add pots for potential breeding areas, I try and arrange them so that the openings face different directions. IME the fish seem to choose breeding areas quicker when they are not facing other fish in pots. The coral decoration is actually a bubbler.
This 75 gallon tank has several juvenile Synspilum (including the dark morph) as well as three juvenile Minkleyi and a couple small Pleco. Most of the larger tanks have at least one Pleco (larger 12" Pleco) I have mixed feelings about having them in breeding tanks. They are great dither fish always keeping the breeding fish protecting their area...however I think they are responsible for raiding and eating the eggs off some of the breeding areas. Some of the fish are better than others at protecting. But others seem to loose out to the often much larger Pleco. As you can see...everything goes into the growout tanks. Coffee mugs, planters and vases, broken pots and even ceramic skulls. I love shopping at the flea market for odds and ends to add. If you have a TJ Max anywhere nearby, check out their pottery sections. They have some great stuff...colorful.
And finally some of the breeding Synspilum shots. These are fast becoming one of my favorites. All this color. These are larger than the ones in the tank above...but still only four inches. The breeding pair are in a 150 gallon tank with three Metynsis added purely as dithers.
They picked one of my "custom busted" pots for their breeding site.
