dogofwar
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Got the thumbs up to move my 180g from the fishroom to the basement under one condition: that it looks nice.
That means no brown fish that hide all of the time. Or bichirs. Or other hobbyist fish.
I was down the mental road of setting it up as a Lake Malawi tank...haven't done one of those in awhile...
Then I realized that I had bought the greatest piece of driftwood (ever) at the CCY meeting a couple of months ago...and it would be apostasy to put it into an African cichlid tank.
Then it dawned on me: I have always wanted to set up a large tank with hundreds and hundreds of tetras...and I've never done it. Think 100 cardinal tetras. a couple of dozen each bleeding hearts, red-tail Hemiodus and Diamond tetras. Maybe some Triportheus. And a couple of dozen Cory cats. And because it's my tank and I can do what I want: a couple of dozen Congo tetras and a group of bosemani rainbows. I'd really like to add the group of yellow Gymnogeophagus balzanii that I brought back from Uruguay, but I'll play that by ear (think they'd eat the tetras? They're not exactly shaped like arch-predators...)
The journey started a this afternoon when I moved the assemblage of cool but mostly, uh, earth-tone-colored new world cichlids from the 180g into a recently vacated 150g (still in the fishroom). This involved mostly draining the 180g.
Wasn't planning to do it, but what the heck - tank was mostly drained, empty of decor and unplugged: I drained the 180g the rest of the way, swung it around on the stand to angle it out the door, lifted the front enough to slide a piece of cardboard under it and pushed it out of the fishroom and into the (finished) basement. #oneman180move
This is the first time since we've lived on the east coast that I've had a tank in the house proper. And I have ~7 feet of free wall in the fishroom for a new rack of tanks.
I've got the piece of driftwood in it and started cleaning up some hard water stains and gunk...but there's a way to go.
I'll try to get some pictures but that's really not my forte!
Matt
That means no brown fish that hide all of the time. Or bichirs. Or other hobbyist fish.
I was down the mental road of setting it up as a Lake Malawi tank...haven't done one of those in awhile...
Then I realized that I had bought the greatest piece of driftwood (ever) at the CCY meeting a couple of months ago...and it would be apostasy to put it into an African cichlid tank.
Then it dawned on me: I have always wanted to set up a large tank with hundreds and hundreds of tetras...and I've never done it. Think 100 cardinal tetras. a couple of dozen each bleeding hearts, red-tail Hemiodus and Diamond tetras. Maybe some Triportheus. And a couple of dozen Cory cats. And because it's my tank and I can do what I want: a couple of dozen Congo tetras and a group of bosemani rainbows. I'd really like to add the group of yellow Gymnogeophagus balzanii that I brought back from Uruguay, but I'll play that by ear (think they'd eat the tetras? They're not exactly shaped like arch-predators...)
The journey started a this afternoon when I moved the assemblage of cool but mostly, uh, earth-tone-colored new world cichlids from the 180g into a recently vacated 150g (still in the fishroom). This involved mostly draining the 180g.
Wasn't planning to do it, but what the heck - tank was mostly drained, empty of decor and unplugged: I drained the 180g the rest of the way, swung it around on the stand to angle it out the door, lifted the front enough to slide a piece of cardboard under it and pushed it out of the fishroom and into the (finished) basement. #oneman180move
This is the first time since we've lived on the east coast that I've had a tank in the house proper. And I have ~7 feet of free wall in the fishroom for a new rack of tanks.
I've got the piece of driftwood in it and started cleaning up some hard water stains and gunk...but there's a way to go.
I'll try to get some pictures but that's really not my forte!
Matt
