Video Of My Tanks!

[Tommy Gunnz]

Hey everyone!

I finally figured out how to get the videos off of my camcorder and onto my computer. It is one of those cameras that saves to a hard drive and let me tell you, they are awesome but much much smarter than I am! Anyways, I got the camera for a wedding gift and started experimenting with it a little bit. Please forgive me for the really bad quility videography, like I said, it was my first time and very sunny out so there are some reflextions from my window on the glass.

Anyways, this is my 55 gallon "ship wreck" tank. Right now I have 6 bala sharks, two tinfoil barbs, one algea eater, a pleco (common), an apple snail, and two peacock eels in it. All of these fish are about to move to my brother's 900 gallon tank (the bastard got one of those island like tanks for 500 bucks from some guy who was getting divorced!) as soon as it is all cycled and ready. He has had it up now for about a month and a half, but it still has very cloudy water and he is struggling to get his nitrites down.

I hope you enjoy this tank as much as I do! It is always such a great tank to just sit and stare at. I often find myself getting distracted from doing my assignments for college because I am watching these busy fish. I have been planning on making this a cichlid tank for some time, but my local LFS is advertising for all the needed equipment to have a saltwater tank for $700 (US). Since I already have the tank, I think I could really save on that deal and might look at getting into a reef tank! So many options, so little time!

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qm6UdhCgiw

(If this link doesn't work, just copy and paste to your address bar!)

 

[timmystood]

Briliant!!

What type of snail is that??? It's HUGE!

 

[Tommy Gunnz]

Thanks! It is an apple snail that we have cleverly named bannana! (My daughter's idea!) I have also finished uploading another video of the same tank with more footage of the snail and some close ups of the other fish. Again, while this video may be a little bit better than the first, it is not so good, sorry!

Here it is!

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFMi5i-2GI

I am working on one more of my other tank. Unfortunately, while my wife and I were away for a weekend, our house was broken into and my smaller tank was pulled off its shelf and broke on the floor! The good news (if there is a bright side to this) is that there was only one fish in the tank at the time and the police actually caught the person who did it! Long story short, one of the neighborhood boys was able to get into a window because he wanted to look at the tanks he saw. He must have climbed up on the shelving the tank was on because the fish in the tank was hard to find (it was a very small piranha) and pulled the tank off. At least the kid wasnt hurt or even killed when the tank came down, but I can tell you with the heat wave that we are having here in Wisconsin, my living room smelled like a fish market! Thank God for renter's insurance though. They are replacing the tank (not the decorations or other items I spent a lot of money on though) and they had a carpet cleaner service over here the very next day. My advice to anyone who is keeping large amounts of water in tanks....INSURE YOUR INVESTMENTS!

 

[Tommy Gunnz]

Here is the last video I have taken so far. It is of my platty tank which is a 55 gallon tank we use for keeping potential breeding mates. We have been trying to breed them into a certain color pattern and usually take the fish we do not want to keep to our local LFS.

Breeding these fish are pretty easy and a lot of fun because we can only guess at what colors are going to come out next! We started with three platties and one molly and had fry almost right away. One must of been pregnant when we brought it home. Anyways, we started by trying to catch the fry in order to save them from being gobbled up by their parents and uncles, but now we have resorted to keeping them in this tank with a lot of hiding places like all the fake plants and rocks. We also have a few spaces in this tank that have more course gravel which gives the fry a lot of good places to hide. We also took some mesh that we found at WalMart and rubber banded it to our python to ensure that we dont suck up any of the little fry.

I have had so many ideas on what I wanted to do with this tank, but it still remains the 'platty tank'. I bought the tank from a friend after his apartment burned down for $100 (US). It came with a huge common pleco, three large silver dollars, and a really big fancy goldfish. All of these fish were way too big for this tank so I took them to a really great fish store where then now live in a huge 1600 gallon tank. If you are ever in Milwaukee, you have to go to aquatics unlimited (www.bestfish.com) and check out their tanks. This is the only place I have ever seen where they actually showcase the full sized fish that we can buy at most stores. This is a great feature because this way customers can see what fish will actuall fit into their tanks!

Anyways, here is the video!
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFtxLJY7Kd8