300 gallon glass lobster tank (or that is what i was told it once was). the tank must be almost inch thick glass with strong glass corner inserts in each corner and a two by two foot glass pannel in the middle, i assume for support, though this tank I'm certain could make it through a bombing.
Filtration is taken care of mainly by the new fluval fx5, supplemented with periodic diatom cleaning and continuous uv filtration.
In the tank:
1 painted turtle, 5"
2 diamond back terrapins, 6" each
1 Blue Jack Dempsey, 6+"
1 redtail black shark, 4"
2 Bala sharks, 4"
3 Clown Loaches, 3+"
3 Plecostimus, 7"
1 (new) albino tiger oscar, 2"
1 (new) red finned pacu, 2"
I decorated the tank with a forest of cypress driftwood knees held down by a slate roof tile floor. There are a number of tunnels under my main drift castle and a valley of plants and gravel on the other side of tunnel bay.
Eventually the central 2 by 2 glass support will become a turtle basking platform, they spend i
d say 85% of their time under water, sometimes even sleep there, but they love a good basking spot. The two diamondbacks are also acting like they want to mate and a basking platform with four inches of sand is necessary for them to bury their eggs.
every new fish addition has met with fear from pet store people, but I honestly feel the turtles allow me to keep pretty aggressive fish together with more docile ones, since the turtles keep everyone on their toes. the painted turtle and dempsey are rivals even though the dempsey is now much bigger than the turtle, and have regular head to head confrontations, though no true fighting.
The turtles force me to be on top of my ammonia scene and solid waste control, but i am now trying a crawfish for waste and the fx5 does a sick job at filtering the massive tank and keeping ammonia at bay.
Moving from a 65 gallon (all except the oscar and pacu whom are new), I still feel like id really like a good sized school of silvery shiny fish, maybe redtail silver barbs, and a few more colorful trophy fish like parrots. More than anything I'd really like a bichir and eel. It honestly feels pretty empty in there and though I know the reason was to give everyone the room they need to grow, I still feel I have the opportunity to do more.
thanks for reading
adam
Filtration is taken care of mainly by the new fluval fx5, supplemented with periodic diatom cleaning and continuous uv filtration.
In the tank:
1 painted turtle, 5"
2 diamond back terrapins, 6" each
1 Blue Jack Dempsey, 6+"
1 redtail black shark, 4"
2 Bala sharks, 4"
3 Clown Loaches, 3+"
3 Plecostimus, 7"
1 (new) albino tiger oscar, 2"
1 (new) red finned pacu, 2"
I decorated the tank with a forest of cypress driftwood knees held down by a slate roof tile floor. There are a number of tunnels under my main drift castle and a valley of plants and gravel on the other side of tunnel bay.
Eventually the central 2 by 2 glass support will become a turtle basking platform, they spend i
d say 85% of their time under water, sometimes even sleep there, but they love a good basking spot. The two diamondbacks are also acting like they want to mate and a basking platform with four inches of sand is necessary for them to bury their eggs.
every new fish addition has met with fear from pet store people, but I honestly feel the turtles allow me to keep pretty aggressive fish together with more docile ones, since the turtles keep everyone on their toes. the painted turtle and dempsey are rivals even though the dempsey is now much bigger than the turtle, and have regular head to head confrontations, though no true fighting.
The turtles force me to be on top of my ammonia scene and solid waste control, but i am now trying a crawfish for waste and the fx5 does a sick job at filtering the massive tank and keeping ammonia at bay.
Moving from a 65 gallon (all except the oscar and pacu whom are new), I still feel like id really like a good sized school of silvery shiny fish, maybe redtail silver barbs, and a few more colorful trophy fish like parrots. More than anything I'd really like a bichir and eel. It honestly feels pretty empty in there and though I know the reason was to give everyone the room they need to grow, I still feel I have the opportunity to do more.
thanks for reading
adam