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Post pics of your tanks

Sorry shitty pic its in my foyer so it doesn't allow room for proper picture
(In teh middle of water change hence low levels

75 gal tropical community
Topfin 60 gal filter and an aqua clear 110
All glass aquarium 48 light with color enhancing bulb
2 rena air 300's with switching valves for back wal bubbles and front bubble pillars
Currently in begining stages with giant danios pearl danios green sword molly's (who had successful babies) and some random tetras and a gold nugget pleco
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Wish i had a camera with me so i could take a more recent picture.

20 gallon. Had only a few plants in it here. Since then, i've added java moss, some more of that tall grass in the back, duckweed, and some beautiful ferns.
Live plants > Plastic.

Got a breeding pair of Kribensis, a handful of Danios, some Otos and a hugeass Apple Snail.
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Another angle.
Both of these were taken in early August.
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>>324878
dohohoho
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>>324878
that tank is amzn
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39 gal cold water fishes.
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posted before but here it is. 210g x2 fluval fx5 and shitty lights from a 50g tank. WOOOOO, adding black sand pretty soon.
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>>325417

Good sir your tank is over stocked. The rule of thumb for goldfish is 20 gallons per fully grown fish. Your little fishies in there are going to get HUEG is you feed them right and keep the water clean. Those two you got there with the little barbs/whiskers would be better off in a HUGE tank, or a pond.
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Come on guys.... we need my African Cichlids...
here, have some psudotropheus....

Sadly I don't have these guys anymore... now i have Tangynikans.
as for the tank:
20 Long
Undergravel Filter w/ 1200 L/h powerhead
Cascade 1500 Canister Filter

23 fish in a 20 gallon tank think I'm full?
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Very Old Pic of my 75gal reef tank.
Currently has about 80lbs of fiji live rock.
29gal Refugium underneath.
Livestock includes:
1 Green Chromis
1 Ebli's Angelfish
1 Cherub Angelfish
1 Female Square Anthias
1 Male Square Anthias

Not to mention 3 Frogspawn Corals, a Deresa Clam, a brown Acropora formosa colony. and a couple green starpolyp rocks grown from chunks from a friend's tank.
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>>325511
Really, the people at the fish store said two gallons per fish inch. That said the two kois and the black goldfish are going back in our pond out back come spring, I thought they were a bit young to overwinter this year.
If they get too big before then I'll get a separate tank for the ryukins.
>> Anonymous
>>325857
Not sure if you realized this, but:
Math:
Full grown fancy: 10 inches
Gallons per inch: 2 gallons
10 inches * 2 gallons = 20 gallons per fish

But, I'm really glad you actually have a plan for those goldies and koi when they get older. It's cool when people actually handle goldfish intelligently. I'm pining for a tank of them, myself, but I should hold off.

I wish I had pictures of my tanks, but I guess right now they look a little shabby. I'm waiting for a big plant shipment to come in, so they all look a little bare in anticipation. I have a 10g with 3 otos and a dwarf gourami, 20g with 6 emerald cories, a betta and a female guppy, 2.5 with a female betta, 5 gallons total of individual betta tanks for 4 bettas (going to pick up some breeder nets for the winter and hold them in my bigger tanks), 5g with 4 pristella tetras (holding a spot for a pygmy freshwater puffer), and a currently empty 55 gallon anticipating an array of southwater fishes, including apistogrammas, angelfish, rummynose tetras and raphael catfish (in my opinion, a really underrated bottom dweller).

Next year I'm setting up a 5.5 nano reef. Because, you know, I really need more fishtanks.
>> Anonymous
Give you guys some pictures tomorrow. but i have

55 with 2 JD and a convict
75 with a Severum African Knife fish and 2 firemouths (needs more)
10 with drow cicilds
10 with 2 pea puffers
45 with one datnoid

and a 20 salt water with 8 crabs and a bunch of live rock about 6 weeks old now.

pictures tomorrow
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29g.
my tank looks like crap, but I like it nevertheless.
I wish I had more money and space for bigger tank, though.
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25 gallon tank with 4 red bellied piranhas. Tank is bare no substrate or anything else but the heater. Shit is so boss dude. They like flip the fuck out when the light is on and go bonkers all over the tank. I like to feed them huge feeders that they can't finish and watch the feeder half hour later still wriggle around with less than half a body.
>> Anonymous
>>326419
hahaha if that's not a troll then you are the saddest induhvidual evar.

Protip: they get a foot long

Maybe you should add some irridecent sharks, tinfoil barbs, some pacus, and a few bala sharks, don't worry dude your tank can handle it and they only get as big as your tank will let them.

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>>325411
Top five /an/ tanks after lurking for almost 2 years. I would go with more exotic fish choices personally but still looks good. To round out the top five was a nano reef, a larger reef, and then all my tanks lol.
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Just did my first planting so it looks like crap still. A few more months and it's going to be amazing though. I've got rotalas and HC in there. I had to get a bunch of oto's already because of the algae. It grew faster than I expected.
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>>324878
GORGEOUS
most dont appreciate a tank this subtle, how long has it been up?
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Greetings from /k/.
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>>326488
Lurk moar, its a photo from ADA 2007, this tank got 8 place IIRC.
<<<<<< this one is from 2006
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Not my tank, but I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. If I ever would get cichlid tank I would try to aim for something simmilar.
>> Anonymous
>>326488
newfag spotted

that tank was an entry into an AGA contest like 2 years ago by some portuguese guy, it gets posted here every week with text like "lol how can I has tree underwater."
here is his site
http://faao.blogspot.com/

here 7 years worth of awesome contest entries, newfag, I'm surprised you have the aesthetic to appreciate it, yet do not recognise it
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2008.cgi

in b4 underwater waterfall made out of sand or bubbles or whateever
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>>326515
AGA
>> Anonymous
>>326517
And you sound like a giant asshole, or a newfag trying to assert your own insecurity.
>> Anonymous
>>326518
Nope, I positively remember it was in Aquatic Design Amano competition in 2007.
http://www.aquatic-eden.com/2007/10/ada-2007-aquascaping-contest-top-10.html
10th place.
>> Anonymous
Looks like he submitted his tank in both contests lol
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=0&id=20

It got 1st place small in the AGA contest, 10th in the ADA, we can both still keep our pride, sorry for the confusion good /an/on

>>326519
I am a gaint asshole, I also know more about anything pertaining to aquariums than you. Unless you are the guy I just apologized too, in which case sorry I'm an asshole again.

PS: Don't let the intertubes get you butthurt
>> Anonymous
>>326516
that's a beautiful cichlid. What cichlid is that?
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>>326552
Asshole here

It is an albino Aulonocara stuartgranti
Known as Albino Ruby Red or Albino Rubin Red, also known as Flavescent Peacock, there is a hybrid/strain called the 'Red Shoulder" which that fish could be as well. You do not often see them with that much red concentrated around the head like that and so clean on the back, must be a pretty good line...or it makes me think an albino 'red shoulder' line

There is also the zacobfreibergi, eureka red, but they usually have much much more red all over the body, that one in the pic would be pretty aberrant.

tl;dr: An albino Aulonocara, or peacock cichlid
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75g in it's current state. yay crappy cellphone camera!
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30g oceanic cube
6 cardinals, pair of german blue rams, pair of scarlet badis, badis badis, threadfin rainbow trio, cory trio, oto trio, millions of cherry shrimp, pair of dwarf honey gouramis, licorice gourami, pair of sparkling gouramis, 5 galaxy rasboras. I suck at pics with an old borrowed camera. Just dosed some flourish excel and wanted some pics before it kills all my vals.
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2 months old I think
>> Anonymous
>>326778
looks like shit dude, learn how to aquascape
>> Anonymous
well now that's just rude.
>> Anonymous
>>327175
sorry, but I hate tanks that look like someone just said, "hey, i've got a bunch of LR lets throw all this shit in there and call it a day"
>> Anonymous
>>327147
Carefull with Excel, I think it killed more of my fish than the rest of my fuck ups combined.
BTW, what do you feed your scarlet badis (AKA dario dario IIRC)? Do you grow your own microfood? Mine refused to eat anything, including rotifers and cyclops. Out of trio I have only one left, and even though he is beign alive for a month, I havent seen him eating anything. Also, threadfins - what do you feed them as well?
And yeah, val can be a bitch. I got tired of pulling meter-long leaves every other day, so I got rid of mine.
>> Anonymous
>>327196
what exactly do you do with a pile of rocks other than
have a pile of rocks.
As long as my livestock is healthy I could care less how the rocks look.
>> Anonymous
>>327196
Well, people learn. At first you simply try to keep your fish and inverts alive, aquascaping comes later.
>> Anonymous
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>what exactly do you do with a pile of rocks other than have a pile of rocks.
You make it purrrity. I am not a>>327173asshole, but your tank does look a litle plain. Perhaps, its a falt of bad lighting, camera, or your reef simply has not grown yet, but your LR indeed looks just like a pile of rocks. Learn to aquascape, you have all the tools already.
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>>327217
While the system itself is over a year old most of the rock is only 3 months old. I've been spending most of my money on rock and maintaining current livestock instead of purchasing corals.
>> Anonymous
>>327218
Well, then dont forget to post pics in another year from now.
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Does Excel work well? How do I keep it from killing my fish? I just ordered some for the planted tank I started, and most of the information I found online said it was the best alternative if you can't do co2 injection. But of course I would prefer not to kill my fish with it.
>> Anonymous
It will not kill fish or inverts, no doubt about it, will not, even at 3 or 4 times the recommended does. It does kill the fuck out of ALL types of algae, within a day or two. This is what I needed it for, getting some black brush on my anubis.

The only downside is that it will kill all types of vallisneria. Which sucks, but it can grow back after I kill my algae, or I can get more, it is cheap.

The general consensus is that Excel works about 50-70% as well as injecting your tank with moderate dose of CO2 for your tank size and planting density.
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Sorry, missed your post.
Really? I have used and seen, and heard of Excel used in tanks with pretty sensitive fish without any deaths other than algae and vals. I have heard of problms when people use straight gluteraldyhyde (the active ingredient). Killies, loaches, baby whales, elephant noses, microrasboras/danios etc...all seem to tolerate it. The increased photosynthisis could cuase a problem when the lights go off if adequate circulation is not maintained though, fish suffocating and what not.

My Dario darios and my lone Badis badis all eat a little frozen cyclop-eeze (gotta float right past and kinda hang out a bit). I also see them eat tiny tiny tiny cherry shrimp (which I have a ton of) and amphipods/copepods, watching them (when I can see them lol) is a lot like watching my mandarin goby in my reef tank. I know I am lucky in this respect, but I already had a grindal worm culture for my killies so I was prepared for the worst. My werneri trio eat flake well but love cyclop-eeze too. I've never known one to starve to death, or rarely die for that matter, we have about 30 at the store in a dense 75 that only gets flake food, they breed like nuts, though they lay their eggs in the java then the damn corys go and eat the eggs, that tank has 5 of the fucking fattest corys I've ever seen.

yes, val can be weird, I used the jungle so it could get lush and lay over the top. I just cut it to keep it the right lenght. Believe it or not that is contortion val not corkscrew there too, but it has not gotten nearly as tall as my culture in my other tank, where my jungle is growing lower and bushier, the joys of the hobby I guess. I haven't looked at my tanks yet but I'm sure it is half dead anyway by now lol.

A blessed day to you good /an/on.
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Well, I just dont know what to blame except Excell. So far I have lost couple danio, a rainbow shark, and a barb. I have dechlorinated the water and let it stand for a while, yet when I add Excell all my fish becomed very passive. I dunno, maybe its just my water or something... Also, I lost all of my cherry shrimps after water change with Excell. Nowaday I am VERY cautious about any chemicals in the tank.
And excel does not deal with algae, it just makes them to go away for a while. If the problem, chemical unbalance, remains, algae will come back as soon as you stop adding Excel. I, for example, can never get rid of brush algae.

Nevertheless, you sound like a very experienced dude. Lucky you, all I can afford is to not let 50% of my fish die, I dont even try to breed as I know I will terribly fail somehow.
>> Anonymous
Semi-on topic: My largest tank (33g) is sitting semi-empty now, as the breeding pair of kribs bullied my bloodfin tetras to the point where I had to move them to my 29g. So, right now, there's only the two kribs, two otocinclus, and around 15 baby kribs(which I'm hoping to sell to a LFS). What's a good fish(or school of fishes) to keep with them? I was pondering either five gold barbs or a jewel cichlid, but I"m going to wait until I can re-arranged the plants to separate the tank more. Right now there's only really one open place and the male krib(Xenu) chases off anything he sees in it when the fry are out.
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>>327631
I have no idea about kribs (mine is too small to spawn), but I would recomend to keep more than 5 barbs, preferably 8+ to avoid harassing issues.