Hello everyone,
I just found this board through Google, and I thought as an introduction I'd post a few pics of my tanks. Here's some info on the 55 first:
Technical:
55 gallon glass tank (48" x 12.5" x 20")
Penguin 350 & Aqua-Tech 30-60 HOB filters.
Modified light hoods (2) with a 15W Aqua-Glow bulb and a 10W CF aquarium bulb in each.
Custom-made LED moonlights
100W heater, visible in this pic but is now hiding in the left filter, after slight modification of the filter housing
Flora:
12x Java fern
~15x Anarchis
1x Red sword, unknown species
1x Thai onion
Fauna:
1x Common Pleco
1x Hillstream Loach
1x Skunk Loach
1x Neon Tetra
2x Gold/Honey Gourami
2x Peacock Eel
2x Violet Gobi
2x Senegal? Bichir
2x African Dwarf Frog
5x Dwarf Blue Gourami
5x Red Eye Tetra
5x Red Minor Tetra
I also have a Figure-eight Puffer in a 20 gallon, a 150 gallon outdoor pond with 3 Koi, and the seemingly requisite Betta in a planted 3/4 gallon tank. Here's a pic of the puffer
Here's Munch the puffer's full tank. It's a salvage tank and very scratched as you can see. My eventual plan is to convert this into a full marine tank as he ages, and make the back into a rock wall using foam. The cocohuts were made when I saw coconuts on sale for $1!
Here's one of my two ADF.
Here is my big violet gobi, hanging out in his favorite "cave" with his buddy the upside-down catfish. I think I forgot to mention the two of those in the list above. You can also see a blurry ADF, and between the tube and rock there is a blurry bit of my skunk loach. That's a 2 3/4" OD piece of PVC.
Here's the smaller gobi, with one of the red tetras in the background. I'm really upset about the smear on the glass, I had just windexed the tank before I started taking pics
Here's my java fern "tree". It started out as some wild driftwood, and was boiled and soaked until it stopped leaching tannins. There's a piece of slate that I drilled and screwed to the bottom holding it down. The big rock in the background is wild slate, boiled & bleached.
This is my one of my unidentified bichir. I'm pretty sure they are both senegal's, does anyone else think so too? The fuzzy triangle at the bottom left of this pic is one of my peacock eels, hiding in the gravel.
Here's another pic of him.
Here's my little hillstream loach. This is one of the few pics I've been able to get of the back of him, usually he's on the front glass.
This is my skunk loach, sitting in the cave under the big slate.
Here's my oldtimer pleco. He's my oldest fish, I've had him for over six years. He was just a little fry guy when I got him, less than 2". He's over 9" now.
Here's one of the peacocks deciding to get up for a while.
And here he goes swimming away.
What do you guys think?
I just found this board through Google, and I thought as an introduction I'd post a few pics of my tanks. Here's some info on the 55 first:
Technical:
55 gallon glass tank (48" x 12.5" x 20")
Penguin 350 & Aqua-Tech 30-60 HOB filters.
Modified light hoods (2) with a 15W Aqua-Glow bulb and a 10W CF aquarium bulb in each.
Custom-made LED moonlights
100W heater, visible in this pic but is now hiding in the left filter, after slight modification of the filter housing
Flora:
12x Java fern
~15x Anarchis
1x Red sword, unknown species
1x Thai onion
Fauna:
1x Common Pleco
1x Hillstream Loach
1x Skunk Loach
1x Neon Tetra
2x Gold/Honey Gourami
2x Peacock Eel
2x Violet Gobi
2x Senegal? Bichir
2x African Dwarf Frog
5x Dwarf Blue Gourami
5x Red Eye Tetra
5x Red Minor Tetra
I also have a Figure-eight Puffer in a 20 gallon, a 150 gallon outdoor pond with 3 Koi, and the seemingly requisite Betta in a planted 3/4 gallon tank. Here's a pic of the puffer
Here's Munch the puffer's full tank. It's a salvage tank and very scratched as you can see. My eventual plan is to convert this into a full marine tank as he ages, and make the back into a rock wall using foam. The cocohuts were made when I saw coconuts on sale for $1!
Here's one of my two ADF.
Here is my big violet gobi, hanging out in his favorite "cave" with his buddy the upside-down catfish. I think I forgot to mention the two of those in the list above. You can also see a blurry ADF, and between the tube and rock there is a blurry bit of my skunk loach. That's a 2 3/4" OD piece of PVC.
Here's the smaller gobi, with one of the red tetras in the background. I'm really upset about the smear on the glass, I had just windexed the tank before I started taking pics
Here's my java fern "tree". It started out as some wild driftwood, and was boiled and soaked until it stopped leaching tannins. There's a piece of slate that I drilled and screwed to the bottom holding it down. The big rock in the background is wild slate, boiled & bleached.
This is my one of my unidentified bichir. I'm pretty sure they are both senegal's, does anyone else think so too? The fuzzy triangle at the bottom left of this pic is one of my peacock eels, hiding in the gravel.
Here's another pic of him.
Here's my little hillstream loach. This is one of the few pics I've been able to get of the back of him, usually he's on the front glass.
This is my skunk loach, sitting in the cave under the big slate.
Here's my oldtimer pleco. He's my oldest fish, I've had him for over six years. He was just a little fry guy when I got him, less than 2". He's over 9" now.
Here's one of the peacocks deciding to get up for a while.
And here he goes swimming away.
What do you guys think?
