Pics from my fishroom

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

This is only my second time posting pics here, the first time I had help! I'm on my own this time, so cross your fingers and wish me luck.

I grabbed my son's camera and took some pics out in the fishroom to send to family and post for you folks, hope you enjoy....the first pic is of my 125 fish only with live rock tank, my sig has info on what it contains.

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

This picture is in the same room as the 125, but across the room from it. There is a 29 gallon (starting from left) that used to contain a pair of angels but now contains angel fry. Next to that is a 15 gal. fancy guppy growout tank. At the far end is another 29 with my bumblebee cichlids, who gave me 6 fry a couple months ago.

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

That was it for that room, this room adjoins the other. This is a view of the left side of this room, I keep a rack of 10 gallons here. My breeder fish go here, the best guppies, corys, platys, gouramis, and other small fish that I hope to breed. Also my baby bumblebees, some baby brichardis I hope to breed someday, the different types of badis that I just think are cool, and my crayfish. Any tanks with fry are sponge filtered, others have the air powered box filters, kinda old fashioned but they do a good job, keep the electrical bill down, and with the water changes that I do are more than adequate.

FloridaFishGuy · Jun 27, 2004

Thats REALLY cool. Im hoping to do that one day once I move out of my parents house and get my own place.

FloridaFishGuy · Jun 27, 2004

Thats REALLY cool. Im hoping to do that one day once I move out of my parents house and get my own place.

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

This is a view of the back wall of the same room. The 55 gallon has the two angelfish that I transferred from the 29 gallon in the first pic, also Crum (Salacious Crum, from Star Wars) a 13 or 14 inch plec that is at least 10 years old. My 29 gallon mini reef and 29 gallon fish only tank are to the right of the 55. In the foreground is a 29 with my synodontis cats ( 2 eupterus and a decorus), a candy stripe plec, and a baby black ghost knife. Eventually I will be adding another rack of tanks where this 29 is at (work in progress)

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

Thanks, FishNewbie! It took me about 35 years of fishkeeping to get to this point, and then in the last two years everything has kind of fallen into place for me. I got a lot of support from my mom when I was a kid, she drove me around, sometimes 40 miles just to go to a fish store. I raised and showed fancy guppies and bred bettas before I could even drive a car. My wife has kind of "turned me loose" out here in the fishroom, it's kind of my personal sanctuary. The rest of the family comes out regularly to see what I'm doing, but they don't have the "fever" like I do. I know a lot of spouses wouldn't be as understanding, and I let her know how much I appreciate her whenever I get the chance.

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

This is a more direct view of the two salt tanks from the previous pic

cutechic · Jun 27, 2004

Looks AWESOME! *jaw drops* :wub:

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

With my back to the tanks that I just showed in the previous pic, this would be the right side of the room(as you enter). Starting from the left is a 20 gallon with a ton of fancy guppy fry (red blond deltas), then a 10 gallon salt tank with 2 yellow gobies, a 29 gallon with my convict cichlids, and another 29 with my red moon platies. The ten straight ahead is my hifin blue variatus.

Nix · Jun 27, 2004

daaaang you got it bad

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

Thanks,cutechic!!! I'm proud of them, hard to find people who appreciate them as much as I do (the "just fish?" folks), it's nice to be able to show them off!!!!!

This is a close-up (sorry about quality) of one of my favs, my tasseled filefish. The saltwater fish store that I worked in at one time had got one of these in and I absolutely loved it, however had no place to put one so I passed it up. Now that I have room, I snagged this one up as soon as I saw it! He lives in my 125, when he swims against a current the little "tassels" flutter like they're in a windstorm. He's quite the hunter/stalker, and enjoys my guppy culls whenever one comes along, also loves mussels--I just pry the shell open and let it fall to bottom of the tank, he feasts!

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

This is a close-up of the clowns in my mini-reef, cladiella and cabbage leather in background

fishdudein · Jun 27, 2004

Little different angle......

Aussie · Jun 27, 2004

how hard is it for u keeping some many tanks clean and in right shape. i wish to do that some day but most people say that marine tanks are hard to keep is this correct from ur experiences.

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