prairiefire86
Mostly New Member
Hello,
I am new here although not new to fish keeping. I have a 180 gallon tank, it is 8 ft long. I have it decently planted mostly with some type of amazon sword. To be honest have been meaning to look them up after I killed 1/3 of my tank off by doing a partial water change last spring. Don't know why everything reacted so badly when every test I ran three times a day never showed anything. Think it was due to flushing of the lines at the water department. After that fustraton I am moving on. My survivors seem to be flourishing again. The tank is stable again (yes!). My lone twig of a amazon sward has grown and reproduced in the last two months to what you see in my photo. Most of my fish are pretty old... for example my emerald green cory cats are over ten years. I took them in 10 years ago from a cichlid owner... they had been blinded. Any how I am slowly adding back in my fish. Removing baby plecos as my commons won't stop breeding and hoping things stay pretty solid from here on out. For filtration I like a lot of flow for this tank. I run 2 G6s, for the carbon and particle;, as well as two other canister filters for biological. I hope to make one canister filter a infuser for Co2 but well see. Above my tank have a enclosure built with my water dragon. The enclosure allows access to the tank. She doesn't eat the fish so it works out well.
I have my degree in natural resources so I've taken many ecology courses as well as itchology and herpotology as well as ecology so my tank is like my playground lol. I have spent several years working in pet stores and fish stores although I took a different route for a career.... which is a job with some downtime.... so I am typing this on my phone so I apologize for any missed grammar because I this is a lot tiny screen. I will have a computer very soon. I am excited to meet you all!
I am new here although not new to fish keeping. I have a 180 gallon tank, it is 8 ft long. I have it decently planted mostly with some type of amazon sword. To be honest have been meaning to look them up after I killed 1/3 of my tank off by doing a partial water change last spring. Don't know why everything reacted so badly when every test I ran three times a day never showed anything. Think it was due to flushing of the lines at the water department. After that fustraton I am moving on. My survivors seem to be flourishing again. The tank is stable again (yes!). My lone twig of a amazon sward has grown and reproduced in the last two months to what you see in my photo. Most of my fish are pretty old... for example my emerald green cory cats are over ten years. I took them in 10 years ago from a cichlid owner... they had been blinded. Any how I am slowly adding back in my fish. Removing baby plecos as my commons won't stop breeding and hoping things stay pretty solid from here on out. For filtration I like a lot of flow for this tank. I run 2 G6s, for the carbon and particle;, as well as two other canister filters for biological. I hope to make one canister filter a infuser for Co2 but well see. Above my tank have a enclosure built with my water dragon. The enclosure allows access to the tank. She doesn't eat the fish so it works out well.
I have my degree in natural resources so I've taken many ecology courses as well as itchology and herpotology as well as ecology so my tank is like my playground lol. I have spent several years working in pet stores and fish stores although I took a different route for a career.... which is a job with some downtime.... so I am typing this on my phone so I apologize for any missed grammar because I this is a lot tiny screen. I will have a computer very soon. I am excited to meet you all!
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