At the moment, my 75 gallon just seems rather messy. I've got a lot of pieces of wood and rock that I like, but I just don't know what to do with them. Here's a picture of the tank as it sits:
The piece I'm thinking of removing or replacing is that really big freaking log of very little usefulness next to the internal filter on top of the slate stone. It's big, heavy, pretty looking, but doesn't seem to have any functionality otherwise.
At total, I've got 5 pieces of slate and 4 pieces of driftwood, and a bunch of river rocks which just like to get buried.
The stock goes as such:
1 green terror
1 green severum
1 firemouth
1 convict
7 silver dollars
7 giant danios
3 raphael catfish
1 featherfin catfish
1 bristlenose pleco
Really doesn't seem like much when getting the fish slowly over time, but looking at the stock it just seems like a bunch of rather large fish in a pretty small space. I'm not sure if the tank is way overstocked or not. Most of these guys I just picked up from the petsmart I work at under the mentality that nobody else is gonna give them adequate homes, but at the same time, I may be providing inadequacy myself with having them all in there. Working there, I've had more than a fair share of people coming in and telling me their stock, usually having like 5 giant cichlids in a 55 gallon tank, looking to only add more, or wanting to put large fish in a little 30 gallon or so, getting angry at me when I refuse sale.
The tank seemed empty before adding the giant danios, and now it just seems really full, as the danios seem to act as dithers for the shy silver dollars who I had rarely seen before hand. I think adding them is what really made me realize "holy crap, there are a lot of fish in here."
In regards to my filtration and such, I'm running a fluval 406 canister and the fluval u4 internal, which may be removed and replace with a hang on back of sorts as the dang thing is just so huge.
I'd like some second opinions on the stock and such, though. The ones I'm most attached to are the raphael catfish and the green terror. The rest I could rehome if necessary.
The piece I'm thinking of removing or replacing is that really big freaking log of very little usefulness next to the internal filter on top of the slate stone. It's big, heavy, pretty looking, but doesn't seem to have any functionality otherwise.
At total, I've got 5 pieces of slate and 4 pieces of driftwood, and a bunch of river rocks which just like to get buried.
The stock goes as such:
1 green terror
1 green severum
1 firemouth
1 convict
7 silver dollars
7 giant danios
3 raphael catfish
1 featherfin catfish
1 bristlenose pleco
Really doesn't seem like much when getting the fish slowly over time, but looking at the stock it just seems like a bunch of rather large fish in a pretty small space. I'm not sure if the tank is way overstocked or not. Most of these guys I just picked up from the petsmart I work at under the mentality that nobody else is gonna give them adequate homes, but at the same time, I may be providing inadequacy myself with having them all in there. Working there, I've had more than a fair share of people coming in and telling me their stock, usually having like 5 giant cichlids in a 55 gallon tank, looking to only add more, or wanting to put large fish in a little 30 gallon or so, getting angry at me when I refuse sale.
The tank seemed empty before adding the giant danios, and now it just seems really full, as the danios seem to act as dithers for the shy silver dollars who I had rarely seen before hand. I think adding them is what really made me realize "holy crap, there are a lot of fish in here."
In regards to my filtration and such, I'm running a fluval 406 canister and the fluval u4 internal, which may be removed and replace with a hang on back of sorts as the dang thing is just so huge.
I'd like some second opinions on the stock and such, though. The ones I'm most attached to are the raphael catfish and the green terror. The rest I could rehome if necessary.
