Aquariums and fish keeping

[OneMountainAcres]

I noticed there weren't any threads for fish so I thought I'd start one. I'm not an experienced fish keeper and am learning as I go but I thought it would be nice to have a place where we can post pictures, all questions and learn new things about our fish.

Right now, we have a 55 gallon tank running with 3 red belly piranhas (about 4 inches), an albino tiger Oscar (about 8 inches), and a pleco (10 inches). They all live in harmony so far but I know they will definitely need a bigger tank before long. We have a nice 90 gallon out in the garage waiting to be refurbished for them.

Before getting our Oscar, I really had no idea that fish could have personalities. Oscar greets me every morning when I turn on the tank lights and expects to be hand fed his morning cube of blood worms before his pellets and again in the evening with a cube of brine shrimp. He'll go pout in a corner of we don't pay attention to him lol. He gives the piranhas a run for their money when it comes to hunting feeder fish too.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Hi to all, I use to have Aquariums for long time with very beautiful fish types , especially African Tilapia species.
The main problem for me was too keep the Aquatic plants alive. The problem have been solved when I have found that this house plant, wich is very common lives wonderfully in Aquariums!
Just take a branch and put it theaquarium water (fresh water!) It will live wonderfully there as long as it have light.
This is the plant the golden pothos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipremnum_aureum

 

[SillyChicken]

Hi gang! everyone has nice tanks! I have two salt tanks, a 30 gal "biocube" which is strictly coral and one fish (at the moment) and a 60 gal seahorse tank with 15 gal sump.

Fresh water are certainly easier and cheaper to manage.

The bigger the salt tank, the easier to maintain water perimeters. But, everything costs so much more! I try to get my set up to balance out them selves and only need top offs or partial changes. But, you have to take it super slow. Certain corals can't be near each other, and certain fish can't be near each other or certain corals, certain invertebrates can be with certain corals, fish or each other... careful planning is needed, along with size considerations for everything. And then ... there are the pests........ like I just realized in posting this that my asternia (tiny star fish) problem was in the works before I got the sea horses......... lol, little bugger is sitting right below the horse in the first photo.. (greenish blob)

Heres the 30 gal - the corals have grown since this last photo..

My coraline grows a little too well! (pink stuff) like a calcium based algae.

Seahorse tank is bare bottom for ease of cleaning - they have to have way more attention for care feeding and cleaning than a regular reef tank. I have 7 (4 male/3 female).

The pink light is to help encourage micro algae to grow in the sump. The sump has sand, rock and cleaning crews like the bristle worms I don't want in my small tank.

 

[Hackle Master]

my first saltwater tank was 55 gallon

 

[Hackle Master]

My old pond

 

[itsasmallfarm]

well just ordered 20 rainbow trout (10 normal and 10 albino) for a small aquaponic system. this is going to be fun

 

[OneMountainAcres]

that is awesome (how fast do the plants grow in your set up?) my set up will start this spring (as i pick my trout up mid April) but am going with the simple ibc tote aquaponics.   

I honestly don't know lol. When we started our first hydroponics setup, we didn't exactly know what we were doing and our seedlings grew quick but then died fast. The pepper we have in there now, we bought last spring at the local green house. It grew in the garden all summer. We dug it out, rinsed off the roots and tried again and it's been flourishing ever since. The plan is to relocate it back out to the garden this spring again and see how long we can keep it alive lol.

 

[The Phantom]

This is my 12 gallon nano reef tank. And some of my acan frags. They are in my 55 reef. I doesn't look very good right now. I am going to a larger tank 140 gallon. My Dad wants me to use our 600 gallon fresh water tank. But I don't have enough money for that. Plus it is not reef ready. And my Mom would kill me if we did that.

I want a 210 gallon-reef but my Mom says that is too big. She will only let me get a 140 gallon or smaller.
These are some of my corals to.

 

[Ayriad]

Your corals are gorgeous! I can't wait to get some after I put in the 40g. You are doing awesome!! If you are doing that well with a nano you will do awesome with a 150 or there about.
As for Turkeys, I would love one!!! I have to go slowly with hubs. If you knew all of the hobbies he lets me do to keep me busy you would know, I'm lucky to get some chickens. lol

 

[Col1948]

I have a 6 foot tank, not overcrowded with community tropical fish.
I experimented with my own version of aquaponics, I used a pond filter mounted over the top of the tank, this then poured the filtered water in a tub filled with alfagrog plus pot plants, the idea is the roots of the plants take out nitrates, then holes in the tub letting out the water in to the tank, it also reduces the amount of water changes.