My New Fish Tank Is Finally Set Up(Pics)

[Benny]

As per request from another thread, my new tank is up and running.

Thanks to the advice I received, all of the fish survived the move and seem to be very healthy.

I thought my memory card was working, but I guess I was wrong. I will replace these crappy iPhone pictures with good ones once Kara gets home.

The tank.

Most of the rocks came with it, but I added a few myself and will keep picking up rocks here and there until I have one large structure.

I have 2-350 gallons per hour filters and a TopFin 4000 air pump.

The only male flametail peacock that has most of his coloring back.

Green Terror Cichlid

Keyhole Cichlid.

I'd say I got a pretty good deal for $150.

 

[redneckmedic]

NICE.... reminds me do Deuce Bigalow

 

[Naptown]

Look great. $150 huh?

 

[RichardR]

Looks great Joe!

 

[tyler34]

any particular reason your running air?

 

[Benny]

any particular reason your running air?

Mainly aesthetics...I think it will look a lot better once I get the bubble tubes completely buried in all spots.

I have better pictures now and they are uploading to photobucket.

 

[Gabriel]

Very cool. That looks great.


I used to have a lot of tanks, but after moving from apartment to apartment for years I finally gave up on them (moving tanks from home to home sucks!). Mine were mostly salt water as I always found them easier to maintain for some odd reason.

 

[theweakerbrother]

Dang son, that's baller status!

 

[Benny]

There, I updated the pictures...They aren't the greatest, but I haven't trained them to sit still for pictures yet.

Dang son, that's baller status!

Haha, thanks man. I'm definitely impressed with how it turned out.

 

[Benny]

I forgot to ask...

My tank stinks. The water is crystal clear and I don't think the original filter is ready to be changed yet, but I can smell the tank several yards before I get to it.

What can I do to fix this?

 

[Rookie]

Douche.

Oh wait. You said TANK not TAINT. My bad...

 

[vitamink]

The jack dempsey and the blue cichlid are sweet. Do you have a heater? tropical fish won't last long without one, you can get away with it in saltwater but any temp fluctuations by a degree or two can screw everything up. If you turn off the bubbles the tank won't stink as bad since you're not circulating the stench. Also until bacteria forms on your filter media, you're tank will stink. The bacteria eat the crap.

 

[360]

Where are the plants?

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

As soon as I saw the first picture, I thought "That'd be a great set-up for a cichlid tank!"

I love it when I'm right.

Looks good, man!

 

[samot]

Nice !!

 

[woundedyak]

That flametail looks like he is in the process of coloring up. By the pic, I can't tell if he is a Usisya-Flavescent or Ngara. It also looks like you have a few females. Either a Aulonocara kandeensis or Aulonocara maylandi. They are so close it's impossible for me to tell. Anywho, congrats on the new setup!

 

[Benny]

The jack dempsey and the blue cichlid are sweet. Do you have a heater? tropical fish won't last long without one, you can get away with it in saltwater but any temp fluctuations by a degree or two can screw everything up. If you turn off the bubbles the tank won't stink as bad since you're not circulating the stench. Also until bacteria forms on your filter media, you're tank will stink. The bacteria eat the crap.

Yes, I have a heater...It is directly under the left filter. You can see the tip of it through the rock structure second from the left.

BTW, there is plenty of bacteria formed on the left filter; that one came with the tank...I'd really hate to turn off the bubbles, because I like the way they look.

Where are the plants?

I'm working on that...I actually bought a bunch of drop in seeds, but I'm going to get some tall background plants here soon.

As soon as I saw the first picture, I thought "That'd be a great set-up for a cichlid tank!"

I love it when I'm right.

Looks good, man!

Haha thanks. Yeah I like the set up so far, but I'll like it better once I find enough rocks(puzzle pieces) to create one large structure in the center.

That flametail looks like he is in the process of coloring up. By the pic, I can't tell if he is a Usisya-Flavescent or Ngara. It also looks like you have a few females. Either a Aulonocara kandeensis or Aulonocara maylandi. They are so close it's impossible for me to tell. Anywho, congrats on the new setup!

Ngara.

Yeah, there are a few females in there that I can tell, but the small ones are impossible to tell for me(and almost anyone) to tell...I could take better pictures of them, but I didn't because they are so plain looking and if you've seen one of them, you've seen them all.

 

[RichardR]

GRRRR now you've got me wanting to setup another cichlid tank, thanks a lot Joe!

It does look like a great start man, congrats again on the new tank, what's the stand/cabinet look like? are you considering slapping on some sort of background to the backside of the tank in order to hide the wires and stuff?

 

[femurphy77]

Tank looks good! I wish I had the patience for a marine tank but here lately it's all I can do to remember to feed daily!!!


Doh! Just looked at the actual fish! Not marine but still sweet!!!

 

[U.S. Patriot]

Looks good. I'm debating, buying a biger tank and going with Chilids.