My Two Tanks

[mediamonster]

Hello,
I am new here and would like to post picks of my two tanks and get peoples opinons as i am new to the hobby.
First is my Son's 46 gallon Marineland Bow Front. Rena XP3 filter running 30mm Foam (tray 1), bio stars (tray 2), 20mm foam & pillow badding (tray three), 28 inch bubble wond for a wall on the back. Fake plants and root.
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[Bristley]

Welcome to the AC, glad to have you aboard. :19:

BTW, for some reason I can't see your pics that you posted.

[mediamonster]

Second is my 150 gallon, 72" wide x 24" deep x 20" tall, 2x Cascade 700 (with a Cascade 1200 waiting to be installed if need be) 2x Rena 200 watt heaters acting as Intake. 2 x 24in spray bars both sides left and right intake in the middle. Filter material 30mm foam and pillow badding only. 2 x 24 inch bubble wond left and right (i have alot of H2o in there). only 1 fish 8 inch Dovii (wolf) cichlid and 7x 2-3 inch craw Dads.
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i made a home for the Dovii in the 150 gallon take with a 4inch PVC pipe extended "T"
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Please post questions and comments, Like i said i am new to the hobbie (less than a year) but i do a ton of reading and need input from you all to make this better.

[mediamonster]

sorry for the newbee mistake

[Bristley]

Now that's much better :18:

Those are some good looking tanks and that's a beautiful any happy looking fish you got there.thumbs2:

[EmmanuelJB]

Great looking tank! Nice pictures!

[rich311k]

Welcome to AC! One of the mods will help you with posting pictures.

[Wild Turkey]

To The Original Poster:

I fixed the images, the way you need to do it with your hosting site is this:

Go to the image in your photogallery, click it and select "link to"

Click the 600 Pixel Option

Take the url thats listed under "Direct Link"

Put that between the IMG and /IMG tags



Welcome to ac! thumbs2:

[Irish2539]

Welcome to the forum! yeah i see 1 of the tanks... lookin good!
btw what else is in the tank besides molly's, blackshirts, and dwarf gourami.? i think i see another fish but cant make it out.

[mediamonster]

3 black mollies
3 mickey mouse platies
2 black skirt tetras
2 albino tiger barbs
1 8 in plecostomus
4 albino 3-4 in plecostomus
1 neon (other 4 missing?)
2 small catfish (silver with black spots)
1 red gourami
2 glass fish
1 rainbow
2 sunburst platies
2 other platies can not remember the name
2 other small fish yellow blue in color long fan tale i think they are tetras but not sure.

Tank is stocked but XP3 with only foam and badding is doing the trick, i do 20% water changes 1 a week and clean filter when the flow slows. i also never change filter and water in the same week so when i clean filter i leave tank alone for a week to keep my bacteria.

[Lady Hobbs]

Since you had 4 threads, I merged a couple of them together and moved them all to the General Aquarium section. The introduction thread is just to introduce yourself and pictures and discussions go in other forums.

But, welcome to AC and nice tanks there.

[Irish2539]

Ahh just saw the other pics! I spotted a glass fish thats about it^^ there hiding from the camera!!

[Northernguy]

Welcome to the Fabulous AC!:22:
Nice tanks!
I like the mural too!lol
I shrink my pics down to 40% using MS Paint before trying to post them.This way you use the Manage attachments function to upload pics.

Also with that much fish changing about 50% of the water weekly wouldn't hurt. 20% isn't going to eliminate the toxins that much.

[i_am_511]

I thought that was alot of fish also but then again those fish arent that big either tho. But once babies start poppin out then it might get packed

[LurkingGrue]

How cool that your son has that bowfront tank in his room . You're developing a young aquatic hobbyist for life right there . :)

[mediamonster]

Here are two new pictures from my sons 46 gallon.

8 inch pleco (you can also see 3 albinos pleco's as well)
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Small 4 inch Catfish
My son 5 years old took this picture
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[mediamonster]

And a few more from my 150

This one is my 8 inch Dovii in his new 150 gallon (was in a 29 gallon Tall untill a few weeks ago).
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People say that nothing can live with a Dovii but i had to find something that was not afraid of him
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i have 7 of these in the 150 to help clean up the place alittle
here are a few more pics of the Craw dads
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As always comments or questions please.

[Bristley]

Just a quick question. Exactly what kind of pleco is that in your sons 46g? You say it's already 8in. If that's a common pleco, which I think it might be, it will outgrow that 46g. Those things can get over a foot long and produce a lot of waste.

[mediamonster]

I know he poops like a machine, i have noticed that on cucumber he only poops a little and on alge wafers he poops a ton. the plan is that when he out grows that tank he will then be large enough to be put in with the Dovii and defend him self! Although i have read mixed reviews about this working i dont mind a quick try if it does not work then damn i have to by another tank maybe over 300 gallon this time may also make my own acrylic as i have alot of experience working with plastic.