Aquarium photos

[fisheater]

I like the look of gravel thats why i keep it.I still have all the basic stuff right now that require a little more work but ill look in to what can make it easier for sure.

[JD7.62]

I will upload photos later but here are some vids of some of my more recent fish. All are gone now sadly...life always finds a way to get in the way of things sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...ype=&aq=-1&oq=

[fisheater]

Wow!!Now those are some tanks!!!Im just and amature at best to this.You are definutely out of my league.What happen to all your fish?
What kind of lights do you use?Are those freshwater rays even available around here and if so i wonder how much are they?What size tank is that and how many tanks do you have?
Man that was a bombardment of questions wasnt it.
Nice stuff man.

[JD7.62]

Well I fell asleep at the wheel that resulted $3k of body damage on my car so I had to sell some fish to pay for it.

The tank is a 125gallon tank...WAY too small for most of the fish Ive owned. I just use normal single tube fluro lights.

The rays I had I had to special order, Ive never seen any of that quality around here. The only ones you see are called "tea cup" rays and they run about $50. They are one of the smallest ray species "only" getting up to 18" in diameter but they are the most difficult to keep alive. All rays are difficult but motoros are the best for beginners. They are pretty hardy and reasonably prices at $75-150 for small ones in the 6-8" range. I had 'marble' motoros which have a much better pattern. I sold my trio for $2,000 but that included nearly $300 for freight. Some rays cant cost over $30,000 for a breeding pair. Motoros get up to 36" in diameter and require a very large tank. Most breeder use the plastic stock tanks commonly available at store such as tractor supply co as they are cheap, have large floor area (important for rays) and can be drilled for filtration very easily.

Check out www.monsterfishkeepers.com. The site is mostly dedicated to large, rare, predatory fish but there are sections for all types of fish keeping. Its a great site! There is at least one member besides me here that is also a member there...my name is the same, JD7.62

[JD7.62]

Datnoids. RARE! The large one is one of the biggest of its kind in N.America. I sold him too and had a fellow drive over 1600mi to get him!

[JD7.62]

Peacock bass (a cichlid NOT related to native bass who are centracids).

There are over 20 species of peacock bass these two are Cichla orinocensis.

[JD7.62]

Hydrolycus armatus, this was my favorite fish ever. He was so mean and had the dental work to back it up! When I purchased him, at the time, there were less then 50 in the U.S. I was also one of the first person in the world to get this fish off of live food and onto to prepared food (shrimp from the grocery store) and probably the first to have hand fed this animal! This fish now resides alone in 10ftx5ftx5ft aquarium in Columbus, OH.

[JD7.62]

A shot of his dental work and an adult.

[fisheater]

Some new pics and new tank.

[fisheater]

Couple more.

[fisheater]

All for now.My camera stinks.

[JD7.62]

Couple more.

Looking good, those peacocks have some great color What are you feeding?

A suggestion, take out the gravel, throw in some black sand and white Texas Holey Rock, it will look **** good with cichlids like yours! And with that surfline tank itd be a show winner at the fair for sure!

Here is a little planted project I have going on...
grrr...I cant get the pics to load!