African rift lake

[Andrew McFadden]

I don't care what people have to say about my tank, I'm in love. I have never had a freshwater tank that looked like this and I'm happy with it. Plus about half is all DIY that makes it even more personal just saying had to share

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[Andrew McFadden]

Some more it made doubles of some and didn't put these pics

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[Mogurako]

Looks great what's all in there? How hard is that to clean?

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Right now all I have is the red zebra, bumble bee, yellow lab... I think I know the bee is a bee the other two not so sure about and an stinkpot musk turtle that cleans up after the three Cichlids and I clean up after him. Lol in the next couple a weeks I'm going to order 10-15 more Cichlids. In all in all they keep it pretty clean

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Plus about every other day I run a sump filter and I know for sure its pushing over 1300. All the fish go and hide in the rocks and the turtle gets out. I'm going to add a shut off so I can control some of the output. This part is all DIY

 

[herp_mommy]

you have a stinkpot! <3 I have a little mean stinkpot too

 

[Andrew McFadden]

There some pics of the back side.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Lol @ herp I wouldn't say that about mine but then again it is a 180 gal. With only 3 fish so will see if he changes his mind when I get more

 

[Sharkbait54]

That looks great when I buy my house I'm gonna do that what size tank?

 

[rav]

looks great- I like all the rock decor- but hey you don't care what people say anyway!! LOL

 

[Gboy66]

Ya, why dont you care what we have to say? Even if your tank WAS terrible, nobody would say so!

Your tank is so cool, so creative and realistic. Props to you!

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Sharkbait its a 180gal. This is how its set up
The tank itself has one rena canister that runs all the time.
Two heaters one 300 watt and one 350
It has an over flow that runs down thru a trickle filter and then thru a uv then into a 29 gal with an fbf then snails plants driftwood is in there and pumped up with a utility pump with a valve to adjust some flow and a check valve. Works great

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Thanks for all the positive feedback all. And the rock are fake I made them too

 

[Andrew McFadden]

I did forget some stuff I do have a rena that runs all the time in the 29 gal. And then in the 10 gal hospital tank is a deep blue pro sponge filter. And I run 2 2xt5ho lights one is on is on for ten hours and the other is on for 3

 

[rav]

what did you use to make the rock?

 

[Sharkbait54]

It's fake wow even better!

 

[TheCrazyFishLady]

You made your rocks? That is so cool! I have read over lots of different ways to make them for reptile set ups, but never for fish. I'm curious what process/materials you used, too!

 

[Andrew McFadden]

I just googled DIY 3d aquarium background and all that comes up is almost all about the same.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

I would personally not try it for a saltwater tank just an FYI I used styrofoam, quickrete, and that brands colors and like 8 tubes of ge silcone 1 for Windows and doors ,paint brushes and I used a multi tool for cutting everything it was a nicer then trying to use a razor blade of any assortment. This is not mine but here ya go for diy 3d aquarium backgrounds

DIY Aquarium Background - YouTube

 

[TheCrazyFishLady]

Oh okay. Styrofoan and quickrete, I have heard of doing this.

They still look great. Good job on getting creative!