| Author | Message | ||
     Slowride |
Aquariums? During my high school years, I had 55 gallon rectangle that was a community habitat. I had everything from (Platty's, Tiger Barbs, Neons, Blood fin's to Betta's). I had a good long run with that tank, but alas I joined that Marines and left home. I think my mother sold the aquarium while I was away. Anyway, I was walking through Petco on Saturday and came across a hexagon tank for fairly cheap and a Betta I guess I couldn't live without and setup an aquarium last night. It has been 18 years roughly since I last kept an aquarium, so last night I did some research on the web and WoW!!! Things have really uhh... changed. Say hello to Aquascaping  Check out this gallery... http://www.greenleafaquariums.com/planted-aquarium -gallery.html | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
yeah the sky ironically enough is the limit both is shape and size as well as what you can put in life wise pretty awesome stuffs | ||
| Vampress |
That looks really cool! I wonder just how much maintenence it would require though? We have a tank, just a small 4 foot one. We have had to split it, as one of our cichlids has gone rogue and started guarding his crashed bomber plane aggressively. My father used to breed freshwater cichlids, (started out with a tank of goldfish and ended up with a hundred tanks of everything!) so I know how much work it can be keeping everything clean and fed. I have limited us to one tank only! They can look great though and provide heaps of entertainment. | ||
| No_rice |
ive had a few tanks over the years. i have a really nice curved glass 46 gallon sitting in storage for a few years now. just havent had room in any of my places to put it up. i am hoping to get the new house situated enough at some point to be able to set it back up. i had some gigantic oscars in it, and a 23" plecostomus. also had a little smaller tank with an eel in it. that was cool. my pride and joy was a 800 gallon acrylic i picked up for 500 bucks though from a local business owner when they closed their doors. i had to take the bay window out of my house to get it inside there, and braced up the floor where it was going to be sitting. it had a jacuzzi pump for circulation and heating element. i could lay down inside the thing. had a shark in it. major, major up keep. after awhile it just got to be to expensive and time consuming for me to keep. | ||
| Fahren |
No more day-glo pebbles and sunken pirate chests, castles, etc? Darn! Funny timing - I am just researching what I need to get for a 55 ga. tank that I installed as a built-in, see-through, between-two-rooms tank. Tank is in place, all the infrastructure is there for the tubing and a canister filter in the cabinet below the tank; just got to put a parts list together, then get with some aqua-heads about types of fish to start with. | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
800gal!! man that is a big ol tank there i can imagine the work load that would be | ||
| Piotr12 |
I am. I have a maintenance free version. No need to clean it and it automatically feeds the fish.    | ||
| 86129squids |
Good luck, Micah- I miss my aquariums. Had a 40gal and a 30gal once upon a time, not enough room in my little shoebox house for one now... 1st rule of successful fishkeeping: Underpopulate and overfilter. I had 2 powerheads and a canister on my 40, worked like a charm. Once had a 5yo peach severum and a 6yo chocolate cichlid- when you keep them that long they get BIG and GORGEOUS! There's a really good fish shop in town that stocks all sorts of fresh and saltwater fish- they had some plecos (NOT the common pleco) that were about the size of a half-dollar that cost close to a hunnert! Super fun to look at... One of my favorite experiments was with crawdads. This fish store had a $12 freshwater shrimp, a "waterfall shrimp". I wanted to get it, but thought it'd suck to spend $12 and take it home just to see it croak. To prove my tank would support an arthropod, I decided to buy a $1 crawdad and see how long it lived. Well, the crawdad did fine, so I went back and bought the $12 shrimp. It lived about 6-8 months, seemed like I got my $$$ worth I guess- but the REAL surprise was the crawdad! It thrived, and began growing/moulting- when I got it, the thing was your basic brown, as you'd expect any respectable crawdad to be- one day it moulted, and started turning from brown to BLUE- after about a year and several moultings, the damn thing was a brilliant COBALT blue! I wondered what the heck caused this. Well, even though it flourished in my tank, blue as heck, it finally died- so I thought I'd repeat the experiment. Got another mudbug, it too thrived in my tank, and also turned cobalt blue! I finally theorized that the food I was feeding the fish caused the color change- it was a house-brand (Superpets) Spirulina algae flake food. I'm pretty sure the crawdads didn't eat such good stuff before I got them. Now I've got both dead crawdads frozen in my freezer, waiting to find someone who can "taxidermize" them and turn them into funky Lucite paperweights. Also- each time they moulted, I'd fish out the casting and lay it out to dry. Over time I had a succession of 6-7 progressively bigger and bluer crawdad exoskeletons! Funky but fragile...  (Message edited by 86129squids on April 19, 2010) (Message edited by 86129squids on April 19, 2010) | ||
| Preybird1 |
Me and my girlfriend had 6 tanks and 150 cichlids. it was way to much work, now i have one 75 gallon tank and i have a yellow belly slider turtle named the "BEAST" because it is so huge. |
