I am seriously jealous of your tank. Hopefully one day I can have a 300ish gallon tank that has discus, cardinals and pencilfish in it. I would have more plants but that is about it. Do you do large daily water changes? Do you have a thread on how you built a cement tank?? I am very interested in making my own tank.....
I have more plants, but have resisted the urge to add them yet because some of the plants in there will be huge once they are fully developed. I do small daily water changes of 5% right now. (may go up in the near future)
To build a cement tank you just need to frame it out using "casettes" (sic) and 2x4's. It is done just like a house foundation.
Hey, don't feel bad about your photography skills. The other night I took 307 pictures of a 15G community tank. I think MAYBE 20 of them were worth keeping! I have decided fish are simply hard to photograph as it is hard to convey to them what you are trying to accomplish and as a result the fish are normally very uncooperative. I did have one gravid female neon blue dwarf gourami who seemed fully aware of the fact I was taking pictures. I think she ended up in 70% of the pictures, whether I wanted her in them or not! The rest of the fish (gourami, algae eaters, swordtails, and barbs) seemed to consider the camera to be the epitome of everything that is evil. It wasn’t until I was almost finished that I realized what the fish were actually scared of was the screen on the back of my digital camera reflecting off my excessively pale face and back at them through the darkness. Needless to say, it was a long, only somewhat productive night. I must say your five out of 20 sure beats my 20 out of 307. Thanks for sharing the pics of your beautiful new fish!
Jeesh....Glad to know I'm not the ONLY nut who spends so much time taking pictures of my fish ! LOL....right now, I think I have more pics of my FISH than I have of my FAMILY !!!
