chrgerondavins
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Hello all, My name is Jason. I am very familiar with freshwater (not all that complicated) and only about 3 months into the hobby of saltwater. I have already purchased 2 saltwater tanks. I am familiar with forums, but do not yet know the "gist" of this one. I am a member of Chargerforums.I would like to let you all know ahead of time that I have overstocked every aquarium I've owned for years, and realize with marine fish you can't necessarily do that. So spare the overstocking comments.
I currently have a 125 gallon cichlid/everything tank
(2 oscars, 3 clown loaches, 2 yoyo loaches, many mixed african/south american cichlids, large bala shark, 1 HUGE silver dollar, 2 small silverdollars, school of medium-sized tiger barbs, 2 rosy barbs, 1 huge feeder goldfish, 7 giant danios, 2 jack dempseys, 1 pictus catfish, 2 large blood parrot cichlids, other various catfish, 4 cory catfish (huge fat things that somehow survived) and more. I am probably breaking every rule in the book with this tank, but have experimented for several years and this tank has been stable with all of its inhabitants for over a year. I have dual fluval 405's and a marineland biowheel filter rated at 60 gallons.
A 42 Bowfront tank
(1 black belt cichlid I CAUGHT in a pond locally here in Indiana, he's about a foot long. Shy but beautiful, pics are horrible. Also 2 giant danios, 2 catfish, and other various cichlid species including a jack dempsey This tank hasbeen stable for just under a year.)
A 20 Gallon community tank
(everything imaginable haha)
NOW to saltwater
75 Gallon Reef Tank
(Sailfin tang, Purple Wrasse, one 4 spot damsel, 2 electric blue damsels, 1 lawn mower blenny, a javanese damsel, 1 royal gramma, 1 TR percula, and 1 ocellaris clown. Used to have all kinds of coral and anemone, but when my fish got ich real bad from ***** fish, I removed them and my heater didn't work in QT tank and they died when I left for 3 days. (I treated tank with copper, and removed coral and inverts. I also replaced 75 gallon tank and the rocks inside once done w/ copper treatment, as the original tank had scratches anyway) Anyway now all I have is about 4 mushroom frags.)
90 Gal LR & FO tank.
(Niger Trigger, Maroon Clown pair, Powder Blue Tang, Dogface Puffer, Flame Hawkfish, Hardwicki Wrasse, 2 Electric Blue Damsels, 3 Yellowtail damsels, Bicolor Angel, A Whitetail trigger (chocolate w/ white tail?) and a snowflake eel.)
Equipment is bioball filters on both w/ overflow, and the 90 gal has a 350gph canister filter on it as well.
Anyway nice to meet all of you, here are some pictures of my various tanks and tank setups. I buy them all of craigslist already setup w/ water and everything, have spent less than 1000 on all 3 large tanks (125, 90 and 75 gal including all media) I work at petland so my fish cost is really cheap.
125
20 gallon community full of fish i know
View of our "fishery" from the stairs
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42 bow
Blackbelt cichlid
75 gal "reef" empty now, really
Side view
90 gal LR & FO tank
I currently have a 125 gallon cichlid/everything tank
(2 oscars, 3 clown loaches, 2 yoyo loaches, many mixed african/south american cichlids, large bala shark, 1 HUGE silver dollar, 2 small silverdollars, school of medium-sized tiger barbs, 2 rosy barbs, 1 huge feeder goldfish, 7 giant danios, 2 jack dempseys, 1 pictus catfish, 2 large blood parrot cichlids, other various catfish, 4 cory catfish (huge fat things that somehow survived) and more. I am probably breaking every rule in the book with this tank, but have experimented for several years and this tank has been stable with all of its inhabitants for over a year. I have dual fluval 405's and a marineland biowheel filter rated at 60 gallons.
A 42 Bowfront tank
(1 black belt cichlid I CAUGHT in a pond locally here in Indiana, he's about a foot long. Shy but beautiful, pics are horrible. Also 2 giant danios, 2 catfish, and other various cichlid species including a jack dempsey This tank hasbeen stable for just under a year.)
A 20 Gallon community tank
(everything imaginable haha)
NOW to saltwater
75 Gallon Reef Tank
(Sailfin tang, Purple Wrasse, one 4 spot damsel, 2 electric blue damsels, 1 lawn mower blenny, a javanese damsel, 1 royal gramma, 1 TR percula, and 1 ocellaris clown. Used to have all kinds of coral and anemone, but when my fish got ich real bad from ***** fish, I removed them and my heater didn't work in QT tank and they died when I left for 3 days. (I treated tank with copper, and removed coral and inverts. I also replaced 75 gallon tank and the rocks inside once done w/ copper treatment, as the original tank had scratches anyway) Anyway now all I have is about 4 mushroom frags.)
90 Gal LR & FO tank.
(Niger Trigger, Maroon Clown pair, Powder Blue Tang, Dogface Puffer, Flame Hawkfish, Hardwicki Wrasse, 2 Electric Blue Damsels, 3 Yellowtail damsels, Bicolor Angel, A Whitetail trigger (chocolate w/ white tail?) and a snowflake eel.)
Equipment is bioball filters on both w/ overflow, and the 90 gal has a 350gph canister filter on it as well.
Anyway nice to meet all of you, here are some pictures of my various tanks and tank setups. I buy them all of craigslist already setup w/ water and everything, have spent less than 1000 on all 3 large tanks (125, 90 and 75 gal including all media) I work at petland so my fish cost is really cheap.
125
20 gallon community full of fish i know
View of our "fishery" from the stairs
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42 bow
Blackbelt cichlid
75 gal "reef" empty now, really
Side view
90 gal LR & FO tank
