Show us yer tank! (DO NOT QUOTE PHOTOS)

Are fish tanks heavy on electric. Would love to have a fish tank some time.

not my own tank (obviously), but i saw this online and thought it was a really cool idea.

how the hell would you clean that thing

plus the chicks working there would spend most of the day in the loo

You'll need to leave it a bit longer before adding fish... read the "cycling a tank" sticky

Utterly beautiful but how on earth do you maintain a tank with a solid top?!

if you look at the top edge, it's curved in all the way around so that the water slightly overflows the top of the tank and runs down the outside, all the way around it into a gutter, also running right round the tank at the bottom, so when you look at the tank from the side, you are effectively looking through a thin film of water.

at least that's what it looks like to me, but i could be wrong.

I've gone up in the world


218L, 120cm x 38 x 48; custom built with cabinet and hood
Hydor Prime 20 external filter
300W heater
Airpump and lines
Full set of test kits
20+ fake plants and a giant bell

only the equiv of 180 euro

kylith wrote: »

I am insanely jealous. Can't wait to see it all stocked up.

no idea what's going in it yet (or even where in the house it's going)

But it'll be a sand base, probably black since that's the colour of the sand here and people seem perfectly happy to take beach sand, clean it and use it.

Lots of plants in this one, the fake plants will not be used, or may just fill some gaps in the early stages. so some form of under layer will be needed for proper root growth and stability.

I'm torn between getting a large shoal of tetras / corys or fewer larger fish. Decisions, decisions...

I found out that although the shops around here are great stockwise, one of the larger wholesale suppliers are based here so I should be able to get the shops to custom order for me without too much trouble *crosses fingers

Sleepy wrote: »

At 218l you can easily have a large shoal of tetras as well as a few larger fish. My community tank originally had 14 neon tetra a couple of clown loach, 4 dwarf gouramis, 4 guppies and a pleco.

I'd certainly recommend the dwarf gourami, they're beautiful fish and while they don't seem to take any guff from the other fish, I've not had any problems with fin-nipping / bullying.

I had honey gouramis before which I really liked, dwarf was just a little big for my previous tank. Was thinking of them too though.
I would be talking 20-25 tetras as a nice shoal, 10 or so cory, an apple snail or two.
Plenty of time to decide though, at least 8 weeks before I can stock between cycling and other stuff I need to do before I can look at it.

My tanks:

Cichlid tank:


Planted tank:


My Melanochromis auratus babies!!!


My convict babies!!!



ah, seems like was an imageshack problem, is fine with photobucket

here's a little video of the cleaner shrimp in the small marine tank now that I have everyone in it.



i just changed the ROM on my phone and didn't realise that by default it wasn't recording in HD, so the quality isn't great, but you get the idea.

the heavy breathing is due to me having just tried to wrestle some 25L drums of water almmost above my head to pour them into my freshwater tank for a water change.

i've named the shrimp Ozzie (as in aussie) as he spends almost as much time upside down as he does the right way up. :pac:

i also only just found out (by RTFM'ing) that i can turn down the flow rate on my external filter to better suit the tank and that i need to position it lower to get rid of the bubbles (which are bad for the ponies), so that'll keep me busy this evening.

i have a couple spare if interested....

fungun wrote: »

i have a couple spare if interested....

Thanks very much, I'll have a look at the finances over the weekend and see what kind of mood the other half is in before coming back to you!

Great tanks pete.

well, the poor seahorses both died within a couple of weeks.

everything else in the marine tank is thriving so i've no idea what happened to them, unless there is still something in there that i can't see (even after clearing out the two aiptasia anemone's that i found) that might have stung them.

in slightly happier news, i seem to be finding new things popping up in the tank almost daily at the moment.

here's some of what i've had appear in the marine tank that i didn't (knowingly) put there.

here's a red mushroomy thing that seems to be doing quite well.



some kind of centipede type thing that turned up the other day.



and what i assume is a sea cucumber, or possibly a radioactive cornish pasty. :pac:



here he is on the front glass, giving it stacks but not really getting anywhere!

you'll have to excuse the audio, i had to change it due to my wife's habit of constantly talking whenever i'm trying to make a video of something.


can anyone else see this vid? it's not displaying for me at all.
here's the link just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyXBmTiDWs

here's a black slug of some kind.



and a green/yellow slug/snail thing, that i seem to have two of.



and a pretty amazing video of my starfish asexually reproducing a clone of itself!



yes, it was news to me too!

incidentally, starfish are excellent at keeping the sand clean in the bottom of the tank as they are great burrowers.

it's pretty cool when they burrow into the sand, so i'm going to get a time lapse of him/her/it doing that and post that up the next time i catch him doing it.

Nice to see another white cloud keeper

Will that gravel be a bit harsh on the Sterbai?