Aquarium photos

[fisheater]

My most expensive one in the tanks cost me 20.00.That about my limit unless i find a really good one for 40.00.Im wanting to set up another tank now but my wife says theres no room-or more like"Where we gonna put the Christmas tree"lol.Its kind of another addiction for me ,i always want to get another one to have something else to look at.Ive maxed out this one with 9 cichlids,2 clown loaches,2 eels,1 rainbow shark,1 asian catfish and 3 algea eaters.Ive got about another six months and ill be forced to get another tank or get rid of a couple-which i would hate to do.
I spend about 3 hours here and there a week on it,it can be a pain when i get busy but its nice to look at.Nothing wrong with those fancy tail guppys Don my fish love em mmmmmmmmmmmmm.lol.j/k

[JD7.62]

What size tank is it? The bigger the tank the easier to maintain. I use to keep fresh water stingrays which or one of the hardest fish to keep and I did maybe 30 minutes of work a week on the tank, not counting feeding. Hand feeding the rays was part of the fun!

[fisheater]

I hand feed my eels,i could hand feed all my fish im sure.I do two to three water changes a week on 2 different tanks,that where most my time goes.Then p.h,ammonia,nitrate and nitrites checks and adding chemicals and gravel cleanup.Now whether it really takes me exactly that long i dont know,feels like it.Maybe im just slow.lol

[JD7.62]

Actually its the gravel. Go bare bottem or sand tank. SO much easier. All you need to do is siphon out the water and refill, no need for "vacs". Do you have a python water changer? They help out a ton too and totally worth the money!

[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.