outdoors Aquarium Fish Hobby

[dragonsfire]

I thought their was a thread allready, did several searches and nothing came up, so making one
 
New tank doing well and all nicely integrated. I like a natural tank, found my fish last three times longer then others I know.
Used to have 55 and 20gal tanks, my 55 frame broke, was a bit of a scare, glass bulging but did not break, so im down to my 20 gall and keeping it that way, ne place cant handle a bigger one, well one or the other but not both.
Corydora are my faves, very affectionate with each other and do a dance with each other at times. Rosy Barbs Fancy are another ones that are great in the tank but their no longer available so the last died out several years ago.
 
 

 
 

 

[hogleg]

Cool thread. 
 
I know D3 was pretty serious about his tanks, not sure if he still does it though?
 
And I know GIP keeps some really cool crawdads.
 
hopefully they'll contribute some cool pics here 

 

[dragonsfire]

Some old pics from years ago.
 
Fancy Rosy Barb

 
Farlowella

 
Flying Fox, a bit of an attitude.

 

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

very nice looking tank. i like the live plants. i had tanks years ago and moved up from 10 and 20 gal. tanks to a 70 gal.. all we have now is a betta in a bowl. those corydora`s are great for helping to keep the tank clean so i used to keep them also. 

 

[dragonsfire]

Thanks!
Hate those tanks that are all plastic plants, people complain the fish eating the plants  its what they do lol they need fresh stuff, not to mention live plants consume the fish waste and keep the tank oxygenated, then theirs those tanks that look like neon signs.
Always wanted salt water tank, but too expensive.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Used to keep large SA cichlids.Had damn near the mental capacity of a dog. Some were downright nasty too.

 

[Groundmagnet]

Looks Great!!!  We have a 150 gallon tank with now only Black Mollies.  They had babies, and babies, and babies.  Now I have to find homes for like 50 babies to get the tank back to what I wanted.
 

 

[dragonsfire]

Discovered my Tiger Barb's had some fry's, their about 1cm, three of them so far.
 

 

[D3monic]

I have a 28gal planted tank with two spawning koi angel fish, coral red pencil fish, galaxy rasbora, pygmy corys, dario dario and lambchop rasbora. Oh and some amano shrimp, then I got a tank for cystal shrimp and a 5 gal in kitchen with my dwarf clawed frog

 

[Crazy Monkey]

220 gallon with misc. African cichlids and a huge common pleco (poop machine). (no pics because tank is a mess at the moment  )
Years ago before the Africans the 220 had Oscars and a monster pacu.
Had a planted 55 gallon with guppies, platys , corys, & dwarf gouramis.

 

[Uncle Eckley]

I used to keep Victorians years ago.  No good place for a big tank in this house.     I had over 600 gallons of Vics at one point.  Breeding them, shipping them..  Good times.
 

75G mix.  It had Astatotilapia latifasciata, Pundamilia sp. "Red Flank," and Pundamilia macrocephala.  Three species, no mixing, pretty cool.  This tank used to be a lot prettier, couldn't find pictures of it then.
 

Here's the dom Red Flank and a female.
 

Haplochromis sp. "Blue obliquidens" tank - 33L
 

Here's the Blue obliquidens dom.
 

Pundamilia macrocephala dom
 

And a crappy pic of that same P.mac dom displaying.  Love those long pelvics!
 
 
 Found some more:

You can really see the big head in this one.  A little rough around the edges from feuding with the next male over.
 

This is a grow out tank in the fish room.  Pretty sure this was Xystichromis phytophagus.  Man, I miss doing this..
 

 

[dragonsfire]

Nice

 

[dragonsfire]

Cleaned out a bunch of Java Moss, sure does grow fast in my tank, stuf is expensive in the store, $10 for a little cups worth. Fish happier they can swim better lol.
 
 

 

[dragonsfire]

Sweet Potato Betta Tank
https://youtu.be/LUp2-DqEfOE

 

[cdubb2010]

Great thread!

Good timing too I very recently got back into the hobby myself. I have a 55 gallon freshwater tank I started 48 hours ago on its first cycle (fishless). I plan to make it a peaceful community tank but I don't have my planned stocking list set in stone. Neon tetras have always been a favorite and I had a nice school of them years ago when I was a kid. It's not a planted tank but I have the light to support plants, I'm thinking of doing some rootless ones to help out the water and appearance.

Edit: No clue why the pic is sideways lol

 

[dragonsfire]

Those are plastic plants ?

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Those are plastic plants ?

 
Looks like clown puke, too.  Those tanks can be really cool if done right.  I've seen some pretty psychedelic ones.

 

[cdubb2010]

Those are plastic plants ?

Yes indeed they are.

 
Looks like clown puke, too.  Those tanks can be really cool if done right.  I've seen some pretty psychedelic ones.

Clown puke huh? To each their own but I'm wondering what one done right looks like?

 

[dragonsfire]

Very affectionate and great to watch the Coryadors, lots of Tiger Barbs now they have produced 10 offspring, need to try and get a group shot of them.
 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Clown puke huh? To each their own but I'm wondering what one done right looks like?

Only just found this today. Sorry, I didn't mean to seem disparaging. We used to call the colored gravel "clown puke." An image search for "glofish tank" will turn up some good ones and some bad ones.