Des's 60 Gallon Aquarium of Awesomeness

[The_Desacrator]

I still havent cleaned the sand yet (went out of town and it is still raining haha), but I may be switching from barbs to discus.

 

[Freakgecko91]

I always used a pillowcase. Fill the pillow case with sand, put in a hose, and rubber band or zip tie the end of the pillow case around the hose. Always worked well for me


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[The_Desacrator]

Finally I have the tank where I want it. Had to get help from friends to move a massive tv that was sucking up too much space and I kept bumping into the corner of the tank while entering the room. Tank is filled, sand is clean, and everything is a gogo.

I LOVE MY LIGHTING!!! There is a thunderstorm button! I added a video too!

 

[The_Desacrator]

Okay updated photos and I started the fishless cycle today! Bought some plants but I will add them in a few days as I just added the ammonia and bacteria.




My dad got this in the Bahamas a few weeks ago :3



My dad picked this up in Hawaii like 20+ years ago and my grandma had it the whole time.



This rock is from a local river.



This is the whole tank. I am considering adding a row of Amazon Swords to line the back of the tank when I can afford/want to, but I like how simple it looks. Thoughts?

 

[lunch]

Giant val's across the back??

 

[Alan79]

It looks like a nice big tank. I look forward to seeing how it comes along.

 

[The_Desacrator]

Cycle finally started today! Ammonia is finally down to zero! Its been at like 2ppm for like over a week. Just added 3ppm more.

 

[The_Desacrator]

Finished cycling! Got my first guys: 3 dension barbs.

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[lunch]

Great fish, expensive as in Australia, I paid $49 each for mine when they were only about 4 cm, I've seen them around the same size for $100

 

[The_Desacrator]

I got mine for like 14.99 each. The same store is having their anniversary and a sale for buy one get one half off. Buying the other five guys I want during the sale


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[The_Desacrator]

Got the rest of my school of denison barbs! Picked up the last 5 today!

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[TMaier]

I have 3 Denison's they are such lovely fish.

 

[The_Desacrator]

Yeah I love them. They move around so much it's great. I have always kept slower moving fish so this is really cool.

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[TMaier]

I added a pump to improve my water movement and they really enjoy swimming into the flow.

 

[The_Desacrator]

Yeah I have a Powerhead set up in mine

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[stevenht]

I.... must.... have....

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[lunch]

Here u go, I just swung past the lfs where I got my Denison barbs from and for only the 2nd time since I've been keeping fish, they had some, maybe 2cm, were just starting to colour up, I asked how much..... He said $39 per fish but if I wanted to buy multiple he would do me a deal, I hesitantly ask about the deal, he offered me $2 off per fish if I bought 6, so instead of $234 he generously offered $222..... I pretty much gave him the bird and walked out

 

[TMaier]

That is just crazy money.


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[Snowdr]

Careful with the seashells, had more than one fish get stuck and injured or died in one of these. It now it just decoration on the shelf.

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[Potluck]

Yeah the denison barbs are on the endangered species list that's why they are expensive like the zebra pleco, only difference is the zebra pleco has bee reproduced in captivity where the denison barbs haven't.

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