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OK - so what does everyone have tankwise out there???? Gill Passman 11-10-2005
Posted by Gill Passman on November 10, 2005, 8:25 pm
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Let's really start sharing here.....

We have seven tanks in our house....

2 5 gall tanks that house Boris and Bob (plus Platy buddy) the
Bettas....they live in the kitchen and flirt everytime I go near them to
wash up or make tea or coffee

I then have a 15 gall tank in the kitchen as well - probably takes up
too much workspace...this houses 2 blue dwarf gouramis, one dutch ram, 5
rummy nose tetras and 4 Juhlii cories....nice tank....

In the office space I have my 47.5UK gall malawi tank....full of killer
cichlids and lots and lots of fry...very interesting to watch the
different communities depending on their size (ie. adult, juvs or
fry)...I've two alpha fish in there that have made an imaginary divide
across the tank - when they stand off against eachother it is like there
is a magnetic force field between them....the others just watch their
backs (or tails) - from time to time someone gets bumped off, which I
really hate :-(

In the living room I have my 7.5UK gall hex tank. This houses 4 Peacock
gobies and 5 panda cories - used to be 5 gobies but I lost one :-( The
gobies are what I would describe as "chill fish". They have great
personalities and don't seem to care about anyone or anything else other
than one another - also are very fussy eaters - won't take flake at all
- the nearest they come to is nibbling on the catfish pellets I put in
for the Pandas....

Upstairs we have my son's 30 gall tank...very pretty...contains 6
Rasboras, 6 Glowlights, 2 Pearl Gouramis, 4 homebred Mollies and one
solitary Yoyo - he didn't start off on his own but there have been
various local issues with the quality of Yoyos...great tank and the
plants do wonderfully up there but we do have a green hair algae problem
- like scooping out green candyfloss - lol

In the Conservatory we have what I describe as my main community tank -
heavily planted - so very green. At the moment it is 47.5UK gall but is
going to be upgraded very soon - as I think I've probably got too many
fish in there - and also because I want to :-) this tank at the moment has:-

3 Blue 3 Spot Gouramis
3 small Boesmani rainbows
2 small red rainbows
3 flying foxes
5 clown loaches
1 queen arabesque plec
5 platys - was two but they did the platy thing :-) and boy did those
fry grow quick
Some neons, guppies and otos - not sure how many as the tank is to
heavily planted to find them all - I know how may went in but I'm not
sure they are still there (pretty sure two guppies have vanished)

So these are my current tanks....what are yours?????

Please all share - make this a big post

Gill


Posted by Liz on November 10, 2005, 10:06 pm
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 I'm new - started at the beginning of October, so just three tanks <g>

First tank is a 10g with 3 neons and 3 rasboras. Long term plan is to
have 6 of each and a couple of bottom feeder types.

Second is a 2g quarantine tank that's presently empty except for some
sort of grass plant (the store didn't have a label and the clerk didn't
know what it was) in Flourite. I'm doing a fishless cycle on this with
ammonia and Bio-Spira.

Third is a 6g planted tank (again, not sure what the plants are) in a
bunch of Flourite and one betta. This tank also has Bio-Spira in it
(actually, all of them do now) .

All three tanks are on a 55-gallon tank stand / cabinet thing in the
family room (the room we use most).

Liz


Posted by Gill Passman on November 11, 2005, 5:44 am
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Liz wrote:
> I'm new - started at the beginning of October, so just three tanks <g>
>
> First tank is a 10g with 3 neons and 3 rasboras. Long term plan is to
> have 6 of each and a couple of bottom feeder types.
>
> Second is a 2g quarantine tank that's presently empty except for some
> sort of grass plant (the store didn't have a label and the clerk didn't
> know what it was) in Flourite. I'm doing a fishless cycle on this with
> ammonia and Bio-Spira.
>
> Third is a 6g planted tank (again, not sure what the plants are) in a
> bunch of Flourite and one betta. This tank also has Bio-Spira in it
> (actually, all of them do now) .
>
> All three tanks are on a 55-gallon tank stand / cabinet thing in the
> family room (the room we use most).
>
> Liz
>
Wow...you got hooked very quickly :-)

Never thought of putting my smaller tanks on the same stand - sounds
like a good idea and might clear some worksurface in the kitchen - lol

Gill

Posted by Liz on November 11, 2005, 2:07 pm
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> Wow...you got hooked very quickly :-)

:-) I've always been a sucker for animals. I have no desire at all to
keep birds (who should be free to fly) or rodents (hmm), but LIZards
are kinda cute <vbg> (I think I can resist them, though).

I didn't get hooked quickly, I reacted quickly after a long delay -
I've always liked watching fish in tanks, and after my husband and I
started frequenting this one Chinese place with a couple of tanks, my
resistance finally broke down...

I'll take a pic of the three tanks together and post it on my web site
- hopefully this weekend (am waiting for the sun to come back out so
there's enough light for a decent pic).

Liz


Posted by NetMax on November 10, 2005, 11:02 pm
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> Let's really start sharing here.....
>
> We have seven tanks in our house....


A very good number, me too, I think :o), but I'm mostly living
vicariously through everyone's tanks as I went from 108 tanks (running a
store) down to 2 running. In my 66g, I have a tribe of 11 Monodactylus
argenteus (getting crowded in there), bristlenose and a trio of loaches
(1 Yoyo and 2 CLs). They are moving into a 120g which is under
construction. In a 40g, I placed 6 Julidochromis regani and rocks to the
surface along the back. I don't know how many I have now (seems like
hundreds ;~), and they are being moved into the 66g as soon as it is
vacated (or into the 120g if I take too long). Besides that I have
several empty tanks lying around, mostly smaller except for a couple of
60g in the garage needing a pane change.
--
www.NetMax.tk

>
> So these are my current tanks....what are yours?????
>
> Please all share - make this a big post
>
> Gill
>




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