tomuhs

Hi Harold!

Will you be bringing in any rays anytime soon?

Hi!

Picked a pink tube from Gold's just last week. Give them a shout.

Curtis that is an AMAZING L25. I can't believe how red the tail is. Make sure to pump him up for me. Will look amazing once it gets to monster size. Surprised you dont have a nice L600 in the mix!

Beautiful tank and exodons! Looks like you're doing everything right: having them in a group and then putting them in a planted tank. Perfect biotope with the sand and planted tank. Looks like your filtration is sufficient and I believe these guys don't require crazy flow like african tigers fish, a larger characidae. How many did you end up getting?

Welcome and very nice setup. You have a very keen eye on aquascaping. Can't go wrong with cichlids! What's your favorite fish?

Mind sharing your filtration on the bad boy? Any plans to upgrade later down the line? I for one can't stand the look of cloudy water.

Thanks tomuhs

Ya I had a chance to speak with Norm when I was in pickin up some more soil. And mentione to him my plan. Really I'm hoping to split a big bag between 2 tanks. Both have been going since the beginning of Xmas and well established. The one with breeding crs sss and the other with a few Amano till the new shipment arrives.

So the plan is to add a small amount each week to prevent any spikes and hopefully have a chance to adapt. Ill have to keep a close eye on the parameters and if anything is noticed ill have to move the crs group for the time being. Thanks again

Cool keep us posted! Shrimps look so good with this substrate.

you might want to scrub your algae off. water so cloudy.

I'm impressed. How many gallons is that bad boy?

Thanks! It's gonna be 600 gals total.

Wow! That's incredible. My wife gives me dirty looks when I talk about a 120

Haha ty again. Can't wait to get it up and running.

Keep on trying! You never know!

I'm impressed. How many gallons is that bad boy?

Thanks! It's gonna be 600 gals total.

Hi guys,

Just wanted to share some photos of my soon to be L shape tank. Took a while to get this up, but i'm finally almost done with it. Not really good at DIY posts or anything so i'm doing an relatively late update.

The tank will be filtered using a large bio reactor, Ultima II 4k, on a 8500 gph pump. Not sure what I will be stocking the tank with but I'm hoping some stingrays down the road. I'd love to hear any suggestions.

Anyways here she is; sorry about the mess was doing my pre-plumbing. Hope to have water in it by the end of the month.

I've dumped in some my ADA aquasoil in my Discus tank after getting advice from Norm (Pisces) that he's done it many times. Many ppl have commented on the release of ammonia when adding ADA to atank. I did indeed have a huge spike in Ammonia and a very cloudy tank for days but I didn't loose any fish. Water cleared up real nice and it's doing great now.

With that being said, I'm not too sure I would recommend just adding ADA with inverts as they are super sensitive. I would recommend either cycling the soil in a seperate tank/bucket or taking out the little fellas into a qt tank and doing a dry start. If i had time I would do a dry restart because you'll be able to plant a lot easier and you wont cloud up your water.

Best of luck!

Please keep us updated!

Hey Jeff!

Fronts will sometimes angle themselves when confronted with another aggressive tank mate as a sign of submission. You did mention that they have been a little aggressive towards each other so i'm only basing it on that. You can try to diffuse the aggression by creating more caves/territory or by adding more females so that the alpha isn't always picking on the female.

Personally,I would also monitor for float illness; I do know that some people say that 'pims are more predisposed for this illness. Haha that means no more floating pellets! Unfortunately if there is a onset of float, there isn't much you can do unless you want to try to draw the air out with a syringe.

Looks like you got everything down and it's great that you're taking some precautions before things get bad. Also, I'd check to see if if they are "regular" to rule out bloat and parasites. Atleast everyone is eating so I usually take that as a good sign!

Lastly, for the bumps and bruises, I know lots of hobbyist use melafix; I use mine on my discus when the get spooked and scrapped up.

-4 Kelberi Pbass

-9 Discus

Nice catch! Never kept angels but certainly tempted to now. What are you planning to feed them?

Love your tank setups! The decor so pro.

Care to share what type of filtration and WC regiment you go through ?

Love the Green phantoms (for some reason i always call em rangers) with your leos; surprised they get along so well.

Congrats!!

I'd let them hold for 2 weeks then strip them and put them in a egg tumbler. Or you could go aux natural.

Best of luck

Wow the color is so nice on those! Hopefully they start holding eggs! Those tears dont look like ich; I usually use melafix for fin tears but you'rs don't seem to be in too bad of condition. I'm sure with lots of TLC and WC you'll be fine.

Love the aquascape btw.

What are your plans for future stock or will you keep just fronts?

Wow buddy! Can't believe its finally up and running; congrats! I know we've been chatting about this setup for quite some time, so glad it finally came through for you. What you think of the sump setup now that you got it up and running?

Fronts look great. Nice size and color! Do you know what variant they are?

Has your tank cleared up yet?

Wow never thot i'd see the day when someone had problems feeding their RTC haha.

Did you just pick him up? If so, allow him to settle in; keep up with water quality and he should be eating anything in no time.

Picked up a pair of P-14's a few weeks ago from Monster fish bowl. Spots are popping up all over so they should turn out to be a nice pair of galaxy's. Eating everything so they should grow fast.

Nice pickup Trevs! Congrats! You have all the coolest rays now. What are you plans with them? Keeping them with ur Bds?

Was just checking out there webpage and they dont have a location of where there based out of...not much info at all available about this Monster Fish Bowl place.....?

By the looks of the rays you got from them they seem good to deal with for quality of there stuff but how is one to get a hold of them or find more info and testimonials??

Thanks

Just received a high quality Leo from Monsterfishbowl; interesting name, great service. I'm happy that we got someone locally to hook us up with nice fish at a good price.

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Welcome man! What inspired you to get into planted? For me it was Ada. Such a steep learning curve tho haha.

Be sure to share photos of your tank!

Most of the time if they loose them they will pick them up again whether they eat them or not depends on if she feels here eggs are threatened and she will just eat them due to her feeling its the best for them........

This is where a Egg Tumbler come in great use lol Hint Hint.......Just saying.....

Good luck!

I'm inclined to agree with the egg tumbler. I've kept some tropheus moori and they spawned quite frequently and also ate the eggs too. What I did was wait 2 weeks from the day they spawned, then grabbed the female early in the morning when she least expected it and gently emptied the eggs out of her mouth. I built my own tumbler using pantyhose wrapped over a pop bottle cut in half and adding an airstone.

With luck yours will most likely spawn again in a few days. Gluck!

Very nice! I'd love to setup a shrimp tank like yours someday; maybe when i finish moving.

Got a fav type shrimp??

Fronts are awesome! I kept a colony of 11 Mpimbwe. Loved how they swam so gracefully and how the big male always had it's main hiding spot. Mine pretty much ate everything including floating pellets but their favorites were market prawn. Unfortunately, I'm moving pretty soon so I had to let them go but at least they are in a good home now. Would love to one day own a 6 foot tank with blue zaires and some syno cats.

What do you plan to keep in yours?