Magic mike
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hey everybody.
My names mike, from florida.
Ive been into this hobby for 8 years or so, but never had the time or spare cash to have a "big" tank, big to me atleast. i had (have) a 40 gallon that ive had cichlids and otherfish, and a few fish were getting too big for the tank.
found a nice deal for a 125gal with a sump (that was cracked) for $150 on CL and started putting this tank together.
I welded up the tall stand, picked up a cascade 1500, fixed the sump and got it all working with a new overflow box. Also picked up a used coralife 36 UV off ebay for a good price.
im still in the process of making the hood, and the magnetic panels for the stand, so its got along way to go. Im still also building more and more slate rock caves for the fish. a few of these pics are a few weeks old.
Like i said im still tweaking everything and building everything.
since these pics ive added the rest of my cichlids (like 16 so far), 2 5in raph catfishes, and a 12in+ pleco. They crap like mad (and move my sand like crazy), so I'm still fine tuning water flow and etc. Still a lot more to do.
Here's the new "tube" tank. This will be my new community tank. I'll prob be moving all my fish from my 20gal planted tank to this one. And put my betta fish in my planted tank. Dunno what I'll be doing with my 40gal tank. I just have some baby Molly's in there now.
I'll get pics of everything else later. Lots more to do.
My names mike, from florida.
Ive been into this hobby for 8 years or so, but never had the time or spare cash to have a "big" tank, big to me atleast. i had (have) a 40 gallon that ive had cichlids and otherfish, and a few fish were getting too big for the tank.
found a nice deal for a 125gal with a sump (that was cracked) for $150 on CL and started putting this tank together.
I welded up the tall stand, picked up a cascade 1500, fixed the sump and got it all working with a new overflow box. Also picked up a used coralife 36 UV off ebay for a good price.
im still in the process of making the hood, and the magnetic panels for the stand, so its got along way to go. Im still also building more and more slate rock caves for the fish. a few of these pics are a few weeks old.
Like i said im still tweaking everything and building everything.
since these pics ive added the rest of my cichlids (like 16 so far), 2 5in raph catfishes, and a 12in+ pleco. They crap like mad (and move my sand like crazy), so I'm still fine tuning water flow and etc. Still a lot more to do.
Here's the new "tube" tank. This will be my new community tank. I'll prob be moving all my fish from my 20gal planted tank to this one. And put my betta fish in my planted tank. Dunno what I'll be doing with my 40gal tank. I just have some baby Molly's in there now.
I'll get pics of everything else later. Lots more to do.