Fishtank Foto Fest! (DU warning)

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

i think i like the look of our 135g the best with the sand as substrate with the frontosas in it... but size wise... my 77g is my favorite. ;)

the 210g is most people's favorite - they love the way it's as long as the couch and how you can view it as you come up the stairs into the living room...

i think a tank which can hold a decent amount of fish, which IMO is no smaller than a 55 is best :) funny how the bigger the tank, the smaller the fish look!

ps i love your avatar!

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I agree with you; we did a little tweaking with this tank over the years. We had Mega-Fewd, the giant goldfish, in the 120g originally; she was being harassed too much by the livingstoni (the other blue cichlid wasn't in there then,) so we got her into the 55g, where she made a complete recovery.
I think the person (besides us) who loves our tanks the most, is my little 18 month old niece; she STARES at them, giggles, points, laughs; my sister had to setup a 10g tank at their house for her, and she is mesmerized by it. Glad I could start a new generation on this stuff :)
My avatar is Benny, our horned frog; if you wanna see more of her, I posted in the Amphibians section.

i had a pacman frog... but she's moved on to be a star! (adopted by the movie industry) her name is princess louifee!

i agree... a goldfish with cichlids would not be a healthy place for the goldfish!

cooooool!

Wow, your frog was seriously adopted to be in movies?! What films was she in? That's awesome!

none that i know of yet... but she's now living with someone who supplies critters of 'odd' nature to movies :) and he wanted her... so now she's a star as she knows she was born to be!!!!!!

I guess the easiest thing to do is link to my fish gallery:

http://i.ugtz.com/gallery/Jens-Fish-Stuff

you can click on subgalleries to expand them and there are page navigation tools on there for multiple page galleries.

I currently have a 180 Malawi hap tank
1 75g Tanganyika
1 75g Hi-tech plant tank with misc fish
1 75g lo-tech plant tank with angels
1 10g shelldweller tank
and I have a 30g, two 10's, and a 5g all empty/unused.

hoping to convert one plant tank to REEF next year, and convert one unused 10g to a terrarium setup this winter.

what's hi-tech and lo-tech?

Sweet fish tanks, I love your setups on the big tanks. I plan to setup a bigger Tanganyikan tank sometime this year, as well as setting up a few racks full of 10s and 20s for breeding some of my dwarf cichlids. I like your Apisto cacatuoides male pictures, very beautiful! I loves me some soft water dwarves, both SA and West Africans. :)

I currently have:
1 pair Pelvicachromis pulcher (Kribensis)
2 pair Pelvicachromis sp. blue/green dorsal (kolente river)(very rare)
2 pair Anamalochromis thomasi (African Butterfly Cichlid)
2 pair Apistogramma viejita red/gold
1 pair Apistogramma hoignei tucupita

I plan on picking up:
2 pair Apistogramma hongsloi (super red stroke)
1 pair Apistogramma borelli (blue)
1 pair Apistogramma sp. papagallo
1 pair Apistogramma viejita (rio meta)
2 pair Laetecara dorsigera
1 pair Hemichromis lifalili
1 pair Nanochromis transvestitus
1 pair Pelvicachromis rubrolabiatus
and a few more along the way. :P

I'll probably setup a 20 gallon shellie tank just for giggles w/ a trio of julidochromis transcriptus and a pair or two of Neolamprologous multifasciatus.

I should just change my name to aquarium_obsessed or aquanut.:cool:

-Jason

Beautiful tanks, guys! I always find fish keeping impressive, they just seem so delicate and high maintenance... but beautiful!

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

what's hi-tech and lo-tech?

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Hi tech means very high wattage lighting, CO2 injection continuously regulated by a PH controller, substrate heating, and continuous metered dosing of fertilizers.

Lo tech means medium wattage lighting with fertilizer dosing - no CO2 or substrate heating.