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| Hypo Contributer | Very good thread, thanks Moontanman for leading me to it. I think everyone who has or had a tank, well have a leak or malfunction or end up kill a tank full of fish. I have a 125 gal tank and a small pond, the pond was doing real good with a small waterfall and a bio filter the only thing I Had to do was remove some the leaves in the fall, all was good till the sandhill cranes found my fish! my tank well in 2004 we had four hurricanes lost power for two weeks and the fishes didn't make it, but plan to set up this time with some coral. Storm 2004 Hurricane Season: Summer of Storms ---------------- "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing." Albert Einstein | |
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| Explaining | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological Quote:
LOL! i hate that! i remember when i worked at a conservation center back in canada when i was in school. we were doing a water change on one to the big cichlid ponds (in a lemur cage). end of the day, saturday night...you know how rushed things get. anyway, turns out we forgot to turn off the tap when we were filling it. next morning we get in and the African section is a few inches deep with water and the lemur cage has a new waterfall addition ![]() being incredibly rare cichlids, extinct in the wild (the latin name escapes me right now) me and the other keeper were basically sh*tting ourselves. boss comes in later to see what all the chaos was about, and start laughing and congratulating us....the flood triggered them to spawn, and there were thousands of babies a few weeks later!!! pretty sweet. anyway. right now i only have one running tank, a 90 gallon. just small things like cories and tetras. common pet store style. i use a bio filter i made. pumps water to top where it runs though stacked boxes, first 2 are mechanical. the last layer is lava rock for the little buddies to eat up all them nitrates (or is it nitrites??). i also have a couple vines growing in the lava rock to help take out stuff, and add some greenery to it. Because my tank is kind of high (2') i only have low light loving plants i would love to see your pics of the trees moon, whenever possible!!!!! ---------------- Stephen Robert Irwin: 22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006. Rest In Peace. Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived. -Kierkegaard | ||
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| Astounding Vision | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological Quote:
---------------- Michael Life is the poetry of the universe. Love is the poetry of life. Nuclear is the only real option! http://www.nuclearspace.com/Liberty_ship_menupg.aspx Check this out http://www.conservationfisheries.org...ream_lines.htm Over heard from a three year old, "Daddy why do my toes get sticky when I eat strawberry jam?" Never wrestle a troll. You both get dirty and the troll likes it ![]() | ||
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| Explaining | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological its a great rock, that is for sure!!!! i too love to see animals in large tanks! i loved keeping dart frogs the same....i dont want to look at one big aniaml that cant move....i enjoy searching for them and "spying" on them.....nto look face to face. our tank is in our ESL school, so i cant do much cool stuff like having trees growing out of it (have to think about safety and kids being stupid). but i love the idea. one thing i think of though. because plant roots use up oxygen, will that affect the fish in the water? i assume its not enough to make a differnece, especially if the surface is always being disturbed...but i always wondered about it. i used to grow Pothos in the aquarium and have them grow around outside of it...but took them out cause i wasn't sure if they would screw up the fish with O2 levels???? i used to have shimp, btu they have since died and were not replaced (3 years old ---------------- Stephen Robert Irwin: 22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006. Rest In Peace. Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived. -Kierkegaard | |
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| Disturbingly Different | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological Quote:
Cichlids! I's got em! To be more specific Astronotus ocellatus ![]() Mine are 9" (Butthead) and 12" (Lenny) long. I also have 6 of their babies from their last spawn which range from 4" to 7". (Taz, Mug, $#!+head, Futhermucker, booger, Scardcat) But I really want a pair of Cichlasoma facetum! ![]() ---------------- I'm not "mad" just slightly deranged! ![]() | ||
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| Astounding Vision | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological Quote:
---------------- Michael Life is the poetry of the universe. Love is the poetry of life. Nuclear is the only real option! http://www.nuclearspace.com/Liberty_ship_menupg.aspx Check this out http://www.conservationfisheries.org...ream_lines.htm Over heard from a three year old, "Daddy why do my toes get sticky when I eat strawberry jam?" Never wrestle a troll. You both get dirty and the troll likes it ![]() | ||
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| Thinking | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological I'm jumping in mid-thread... Great to see some fish chat.. I do some part time work for a friend of mine and help him out in the fish room of the LFS he runs. It's nice to play on their dime. I have set-up and run a 250g reef, a 95g reef, and a 250g discus currently for him, but have done this all my life pretty much, I started when under gravel filters and hair algae were "good" for a marine tank.. Unfortunately I have not settled into a long term residence (too many apartments...) to have set up anything big at home in a very long time. Right now I just have a small 20g plant tank with some killies. I prefer to run "natural" style tanks with minimal "gadgets." I ran my last home reef as a Jaumbert system basically only ran it with rock sand and a sponge filter. My current plant tank only has a powerhead in it for circulation. I have to prune the plants on an almost weekly schedule and the chemistry is perfect. (And as an experiment I'm just topping off evaporation, no water changes. 1.5 years down the line and only a small bump up in the hardness). The discus tank is a DAS tank with basically sponge filters on it and I have had great success with it. The 90g reef runs a Berlin. Not my favorite tank, but I get to play with some varied systems. it does have LED lights though. IMO not quite there yet (great on heat production, good on color rendition, but just not powerful enough, SPS grew at annoyingly slow rates). the 250g reef is a Jaumbert system with a skimmer (the owner wanted a showplace for a bigger skimmer). It runs great, I have to prune the SPS about once a month to keep things from over crowding. The cleaner shrimp have spawned and the pair of maroon clowns have paired up. I have had the best luck on "low tech" approaches. Balanced stocking, letting your inhabitants do their job and letting them be. Last edited by Not half, but whole!; 04-29-2008 at 07:12 PM. | |
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| Astounding Vision | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological Quote:
Simple as possible is always better than complex, complex is more likely to fail and kill everyting. Slow is also better than fast. Setting up an aquarium and slowly adding fish over the course of weeks or monhts will alwasy work better than a fast start up. ---------------- Michael Life is the poetry of the universe. Love is the poetry of life. Nuclear is the only real option! http://www.nuclearspace.com/Liberty_ship_menupg.aspx Check this out http://www.conservationfisheries.org...ream_lines.htm Over heard from a three year old, "Daddy why do my toes get sticky when I eat strawberry jam?" Never wrestle a troll. You both get dirty and the troll likes it ![]() | ||
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| Explaining | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological personally, i am a fan of fishless cycle! i always use gravel from healthy tanks instead of fish. ---------------- Stephen Robert Irwin: 22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006. Rest In Peace. Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived. -Kierkegaard | |
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| Thinking | Re: Aquarium keeping natural/tecnological I read a lot of this thread but not all, sorry. I am impressed with the eco systems some of you have. I have a 45 gallon tank and I found, about 3 years ago, this incredible stuff to help maintain it. It is called Freshwater Biozyme. It's in powder form. It looks like yeast. From what I understand it converts ammonia and nitrite to nitrate and helps break down fish waste. I found where I used to have to clean the tand and replace 1/2 the water once a month now only needs to be done every 6 months. It's great stuff. | |
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