250g peacock tank setup/pics

Nathane959

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Well check it out guys.Here is some pics of a few of my tanks.
Hope you like. There not the best pics, but youll get the idea.
I thought you cichlid guys might like to check this out.


My 250g Oceanic.
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A few of the caves on the left.
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The middle of the 250g.
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Some caves on the right.
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The Eheim 2260 intake and a Rio powerhead hiding behind the driftwood.
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2-20g tanks underneath the 250g.
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My 55g to the right of the 250g.I took the doors off of the closet, this worked out nicely with the shelving above it. It sits on a duplex wrought inron stand.Another 55g will sit below it soon.
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A 37g oceanic cube that sits to the right of the 55g, and my recliner to the right of the 37g. I spend alot of time in this chair.
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250g equipment :
1-2260 Eheim canister filter.
3-Rio 2500 powerheads with custom sponge filters
2-Emperor 400's for surface filtration
1-Coralife 12X36 Watt UV sterilizer
1-System 1 Diatom filter i use once a week.
6-250 watt Visitherm stealth heaters
2-Marineland 660r powerheads.
2-36" Coralife Colormax bulbs and fixtures.
1-36" Coralife Actinic bulb for looks.
1-18" Blue actinic for looks.

Fish:
All of my fish are at least F1 if not wild.

Aulonocara jacobfreibergi "Domwe island"
Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi "mamela" "lemon jake"
Aulonocara Jacobfriebergi "Eureka Red"
Aulonocara Jacobfriebergi "Eureka Albino"
Aulonocara sp. "Swallowtail"
Aulonocara stuartgranti "Ngara"
Aulonocara stuartgranti "Cobue"
Aulonocara stuartgranti "malerie island"
Aulonocara stuartgranti "red shoulder"
Aulonocara mylandi mylandi
Aulonocara mylandi kandeensis
Protomales steveni "taiwan reef"
Placidochromis electra
Otopharynx Lithobates "Domwe"
Copadichromis Mloto "Ivory Head"
Copadichromis azureus
Capadichromis "Virginalis Gold"
Copadichromis mloto
 
wow, that looks awsome, i really like the aquascaping. What type of rock is that your using in there, it looks really good, and i like how the one cave shot looks, do you have any closeups of your fish, I want to setup a Peacock tank myself.
Thanks
Derek
 
Its a ****load of lace rock. Ill get some better pics of my fish sometime soon. I just kinda quickly whipped the pics together last night.
 
Very nice, im thinking about using the dark gravel or sand in my next setup. What is the gravel that you are using?

Once again, nice tank!
 
Thank you grayfish. It is just black Topfin gravel. I mixed some black sand with this gravel in another tank, and it looks even better. I havent done that to this tank becuase its easier to gravel vac with out the sand.The combination of that, the black background, and lighting really makes the color of the fish pop out. I used Aroganite in this tank wich looked cool, but in my opinion it didnt look as good as black.
 
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