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Wanted to throw out my situation and see what everyone comes up with... maybe something I haven't thought about.
I'm picking up what a person told me was a 300 gallon tank. However, I took the measurements they gave me and looks up at a 220 gallon tank. Either way, it's going to be big. I want to bring it in and set it up, obviously - at minimal cost and without purchasing new fish.
Here's what I have currently:
75 gallon Tanganyikan tank with:
12 Xenotilapia Ochrogenys Ndole Bay - spawning regularly
6 Lamprologus Ocellatus Gold
9 Cyprichromis microlepidotus caramba
2 Julidochromis Marlieri
1 eretmodus cyanostictus Congo Orange
3 Callochromis Stappersii Raspberry Head
I also have 2 Figure Eight Puffers who have been together forever and are very good boys or girls in a 30 gallon with a pair of knight gobies who spawn like once a week, but I just can't seem to raise the fry, so they are eaten each week and they do it again. Ugh.
A pair of bumble bee gobies.
3 Peacock Gobies/Gudgeons
In a 55 gallon, I have several little gobies (rhinogobius, stiphodon, sicyopus, sicyopterus, etc.) and 10 pseudomugil gertrudae Aru II
I have 4 Enantiopus Melanogenys in a 55 gallon tank separate from the Ochrogenys Tang Tank. They are young, but are now spawning since moving them. They were just being pushed into the corner by Capone - the dominant Ochrogenys. I finally got 5 fry (4 saved) and they just spawned again today and are holding. 1 male - 3 females. They are in a tank with fry growing out. They seem to leave the fry alone and carry on with their mating habits. I am currently growing out Callochromis Stappersii and Xenotilapia Ochrogenys Ndole Bay fry as well as the Enantiopus Melanogenys fry.
I have a 10 gallon shrimp tank.
1 have 3 gallon tank with fry in it where I let mom's spit.
I love my tanks, but I get tired and sore. I have Celiac and Fibro and sometimes I can't lift my buckets anymore. I'm tired after about 3 water changes. I'd really like to just keep a couple big tanks and forget the rest, but not sure how that would work out having to keep grow out tanks and tank's for quarantines or females to spit and the shrimp, etc.
If you had a 220, 75, 55....How would you rearrange this? I was thinking of getting all the tangs together since the tank would be big enough now. Moving the gobies to the 75 and moving the brackish to the 55. but then what? I keep the 30 for grow out and the 10 gallon shrimp tank and the 3 gallon or quarantine and females to spit. I only lose 1 55 gallon tank. Maybe a refugium in the 220 where the shrimp live? Can that work? I hate that 10 gallon. It bows and the light sucks. Any advice? I'm picking up the monster tank this week. I love my Tangs, Love my gobies, Love my figure 8s.
I'm picking up what a person told me was a 300 gallon tank. However, I took the measurements they gave me and looks up at a 220 gallon tank. Either way, it's going to be big. I want to bring it in and set it up, obviously - at minimal cost and without purchasing new fish.
Here's what I have currently:
75 gallon Tanganyikan tank with:
12 Xenotilapia Ochrogenys Ndole Bay - spawning regularly
6 Lamprologus Ocellatus Gold
9 Cyprichromis microlepidotus caramba
2 Julidochromis Marlieri
1 eretmodus cyanostictus Congo Orange
3 Callochromis Stappersii Raspberry Head
I also have 2 Figure Eight Puffers who have been together forever and are very good boys or girls in a 30 gallon with a pair of knight gobies who spawn like once a week, but I just can't seem to raise the fry, so they are eaten each week and they do it again. Ugh.
A pair of bumble bee gobies.
3 Peacock Gobies/Gudgeons
In a 55 gallon, I have several little gobies (rhinogobius, stiphodon, sicyopus, sicyopterus, etc.) and 10 pseudomugil gertrudae Aru II
I have 4 Enantiopus Melanogenys in a 55 gallon tank separate from the Ochrogenys Tang Tank. They are young, but are now spawning since moving them. They were just being pushed into the corner by Capone - the dominant Ochrogenys. I finally got 5 fry (4 saved) and they just spawned again today and are holding. 1 male - 3 females. They are in a tank with fry growing out. They seem to leave the fry alone and carry on with their mating habits. I am currently growing out Callochromis Stappersii and Xenotilapia Ochrogenys Ndole Bay fry as well as the Enantiopus Melanogenys fry.
I have a 10 gallon shrimp tank.
1 have 3 gallon tank with fry in it where I let mom's spit.
I love my tanks, but I get tired and sore. I have Celiac and Fibro and sometimes I can't lift my buckets anymore. I'm tired after about 3 water changes. I'd really like to just keep a couple big tanks and forget the rest, but not sure how that would work out having to keep grow out tanks and tank's for quarantines or females to spit and the shrimp, etc.
If you had a 220, 75, 55....How would you rearrange this? I was thinking of getting all the tangs together since the tank would be big enough now. Moving the gobies to the 75 and moving the brackish to the 55. but then what? I keep the 30 for grow out and the 10 gallon shrimp tank and the 3 gallon or quarantine and females to spit. I only lose 1 55 gallon tank. Maybe a refugium in the 220 where the shrimp live? Can that work? I hate that 10 gallon. It bows and the light sucks. Any advice? I'm picking up the monster tank this week. I love my Tangs, Love my gobies, Love my figure 8s.