Anyone else have a fish tank???

[Cdn_Brdr]

Originally Posted by bassline!

I have a 33 gal tank with a giant angelfish (well he wasn't giant when I bought him but I spoil then a bit, an irrodescent (sp?) shark, a dwarf goraumi (sp?) and an aquatic frog. It's really peaceful and all my fish have different personalities which is great! The angel has to be 6 inches from top to bottom, my shark is supposed to grow a foot long, but with what I feed him and the tank size, i've kept him under 6 inches as well. And the frog, well I see him once a week. But it's still cool. My next project... the dreaded salt water tank!

Irridescent sharks don't usually grow that big... they're not real sharks. It's basically just the name given due to the way the dorsal fin is shaped and their body shape... that being said they are REAL nice fishies! I like the dwarf gouramis as well, they've got the nice powder blue and red coloration which is real nice!

[freekbeetz]

thats a nice aquarium!! my roommates and I have tanks, but no fish, snakes and lizards though...when I was younger my dad and I had a killer fish tank setup, it was a 75 gallon tank with tons of fish in it, then I came home from school one day and the glass had cracked under pressure I'm assuming, but all my fish were flopping around on the gravel..... one of the worst days of my life :(


does your parent's carry any reptiles at thier petstore? if so, where abouts is it, and can you hook me up with any deals(jk)????

[Cdn_Brdr]

^Unfortunately their store is in Vernon.... doesn't quite work for people down here! I get a lot of my hardware from them but all my fish stuff is usually picked up at Big Al's... that place rules.

[Ree Fresh]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Me and my new roommate might get an aquarium, but like Rhia what I really want is a kitty. Cats are the greatest.

And btw wellbelove, I'm not entirely sure what it sounds like when a coyote catches a cat, but I bet it isn't silent.

:(

ITS TERIBLE! It really quite in my neighbor hood too so we hear everything. Ill hear what sounds to bea cat fight and crazy cat scream "MEEEEOOO" and before the kitty can "OOOW" theres silence :(

[Leviathan]

Fish tanks are sweet, reef tanks can get pretty small. I'm on the upper end of a nano reef. I have a 20 gallon long tank with a 15 gallon sump. My stand and hood are both home made ghetto style but after seeing your oak stand, I'm going to get started on one of those.

I'm tossing around the idea of making myself a custom 30 gallon shallow tank out of acrylic. All in all though my tank has been money well spent, I sit there and stair at it all the time. a 5 - 10 gallon nano reef for soft corals can be set up relatively cheaply. I opted to be able to grow anything and went with a metal halide setup for the lighting and have thanked myself everyday for it :) The shimmer on the bottom of the tank is awesome. I'll see if I can get some pictures taken in the next day or two... unfortunatly I'm just getting over a hair algae outbreak.

as far as live stock goes I have.

1 black clown
1 true perc clown
1 royal gramma
1 fire fish
1 six line wrasse

about 20 hermit crabs of various sizes and colours
1 sand sifting star fish
1 conch
about 10 snails

1 Crocea Clam
1 colony of frogspawn coral
3 colonies of pulsing xenia coral (I'm starting to frag these and will be selling them soon)
1 sun coral
1 open brain coral
1 birds nest coral
1 bubble coral
1 mushroom coral colony
and a few others here and there that I can't remember

I'm writing this as I feed my sun coral right now :)

maybe we can keep updating this thread as our tanks change.

[Cdn_Brdr]

^Sounds really nice.... I'm a big fan of the coral tanks. My dad chose to go with live rock, which is nice, but not nearly as nice as a coral tank.

How much do you estimate that it costs to upkeep your tank?? I'd like to get a marine tank set up but I'm wary of the costs.

[Leviathan]

I haven't really kept track of the cost to maintain my tank but it isn't all that much, its more of a time investment really.

As far as costs go, I do a 20% water change every 3 weeks, I dose a bit of calcium for my hard corals and maybe some dkh buffer everynow and again. The rest is food, such as phytoplankton, mysis , brine etc. I'd say it costs me maybe 15 to 20 dollars a month on such a small tank.

With that said I also bought a RO/DI water filter for my tap water to top up my tank and that was about $150, but I consider that a setup cost.

My biggest problem was keeping a constant salinity due to high evaporation rates from my lighting but I solved that by building an auto top off bucket. I evaporate about a litre a day.


www.nano-reef.com

Thats where I did all my research, its a great forum.

[Leviathan]

This is one of my favorite tanks and its only 10 gallons.

[wum]

ant farming is mo' my thing