The video does a really good job of illustrating just how many tanks i've crammed into my 900 square foot apartment, but i'll try to convey the madness through text and photos!
Heres the tank list:
1x 55 gal planted aquarium Community Tank, about 17 gallons of this are sectioned off for a
mated pair of angelfish, the remaining portion of the thank hosts
3 mated pairs of German Blue Rams, 2x clown loaches, a gold ram, 1x pearl gourami, and three harlequin tetras. The idea here is that even though its a community tank, the german blue rams feel comfortable enough to breed. When they do I remove the eggs and put them in a nursery (a partially filled and heated ten gallon) The angelfish spawn about once a week, the GBRs a little less frequent than that. The angels have been spawning for a while now, but i cant get the eggs to hatch, they all die off due to some white fungus or bacteria, even when placed in metheylne blue. Any ideas on what might be going wrong or what i should do?
1x 55 gal with rocks and drift wood Semi Aggressive Cichild Tank, right now its filled with various types of juvenile Cichlids including;
6x Kribensis (2 male and 4 female),
6x Jack Dempseys (sex unknown yet),
1 mated pair Green Terrors, and
6 Convict Cichlids. My plan here is actually fairly similar to the plan for tank 1, in that i'm hoping the fish will spawn in the larger tank, and then i'll move the eggs to another tank when they are ready. No one in here has spawned yet, though the green terrors are starting to do their mating dance. I'm eventually hoping to breed each species in this tank.
Aside from these two large "semi-show" tanks I've then got my work bench of tanks, which consists of a stand designed to hold 2x 60 gallon tanks, which i'm using instead to hold 2x 30 gallons (1 long 1 tall) 2x 20 gal longs, 2x 20 gal talls, and 2x 10 gals, all sideways.
The two 30 gals are still cycling so they aren't holding anything yet.
1x 20 gal long is my holding tank for fish that have passed QT but i don't have plans to breed or display. Right now this consists of
5x juvenile blue gourami, 13+ x Endlers Livebearers, and a
pair of Ameca Splendens (Butterfly Goodeid) . These fish are all for sale or for trade so make me an offer if you are interested.
1x 20 gal long is my QT tank for fish that just came in. I take a lot of donations, and trades so this tank is sure to be a fairly happening place. Right now its holding
two Glo-fish tetras and a rather large
("6inch) pleco, species unknown. These guys were rescued last night.
1x 20 gal tall is a grow out tank filled with
a batch of 3 week old convict cichlid fry, they are growing out nicely and already showing signs of looking like their parents
1x 20 gal tall is another grow out tank filled with a
batch of 1 week old convict cichlid fry and their parents. The parents haven't turned hostile yet so i'm letting them hang out.
1x 10 gal is an Endler's Livebearer Colony consisting of about 30 fish. With this colony i'm trying to breed a strain of black bar endlers with black and red top fins, as well as very well pronounced tail fins. I'm calling them black sail/black bar endlers. I'm not seeing too many fry though, not sure if they are getting eaten, or what the deal is. Any Ideas guys? Don't mind the algae bloom!
1x 10 gal is a collection of Platy Fry and Guppy Fry that i am growing out. I would be happy to breed these guys eventually, but they are likely a few months away from reproduction age.
Finally, I have the nursery, which consists of a 10 gallon tank filled about 1/5 of the way, and dosed with methylene blue. I keep this tank heated to about 80 degrees, and have an airstone in there to help with water movement. This is where i move all spawnings from tank 1. Currently it hosts about 10 or so itzy bitzy GBR fry, but i'm hoping this is going to pick up quite a bit now that the nursery is finally established (just set up this weekend)
Other notes: Soon i will merge both batches of chiclid fry to free up tank space. I will soon need the 20 gallon talls to host more batches of eggs/fry from Tank 2 as i'm hoping the green terrors will be spawning some time in the next few days.
I'm just getting started so none of the tanks a really very integrated (they all have separate filtration) though i do try and use the two biggest tanks to culture water that i then transfer to other tanks when cleaning/doing water changes.
Your comments and ideas are most welcome! Thanks for looking!
~Beanie