Anita_ozfish

About time you found your way over here Phillip Welcome as well

I have a pair of Petenia splendida and a pair each of the synspilum and black belts housed in a 5x3x2 tank and a pair of festae in a 4x2x2. But my stroppiest fish would be a toss up between my Chinyankwazi fire blue and my fuscotaeniatus boys. So much for aggro Americans...... LOLOL ............touch wood

Hi Goldie, Thanks all again for that warm welcome. Goldie, the tank is actually made out of glass :lol: :lol: The stand is timber. Most people here use ordinary pine. I have all mine clear lacquered to go with my old cupboards I have my cameraman coming over on the weekend so will post up some pics of my other tanks and fish next week. Have a good weekend everyone.

Thanks Andrew. You see, that's my problem. I love the big Haps so I can't have small tanks except for my fry tanks oh well :-? :-? Will look forward to you coming over next year Andrew as CID said. Hope you will be in Sydney long enough to see a few setups. Anita

Thanks Bill and Caryl. What lovely welcomes from all of you and Rob too - thank you. Actually Caryl, we ended up having to put in a carport to keep our cars under cover as the weather was so rough on the paintwork and there was no way the fish were going anywhere. It's amazing what you can reshuffle in the house or get rid of altogether to fit in more tanks and you also save on clutter as well :lol: :lol:

Hi all, The story I always heard (here comes another one ) is that the fat content was too high for the fish to cope with if fed consistantly with bloodworms. I keep heaps of Malawi and some Tangs too and they get bloodworms once a week (all except my Tropheus). Have been doing this for ages now with no detrimental effects. Mind you, I used to be an almost exclusive bloodworm feeder once upon a time and wiped out heaps of fish but I think I have found a good balance now

Hi Rob, thanks for the welcome and the comments - I like it too It was great to see 13 guys decide how they were all going to get this together :lol: :lol: It runs on side drop filters at each end which are now hidden behind timber surrounds which finished the tank off nicely. They are purely air driven and actually siphon from the bottom of the tank (not through the gravel) and release water back through the top. I guess they are like a giant box filter. I have 2 gold Hiblow air pumps which run all the tanks in the garage and this tank as well. The side drops work really well and I have almost converted all my garage tanks off the reef system and onto this. Anita

Hi everyone. My name is Anita doohhhhh :roll: I have been keeping fish for over 20 years and currently have about 53 tanks. I mostly keep Malawis with my favourites being the large Haps but I also keep fronts (6 and 7 bar) and also K2 tropheus moorii as well as anything new I can get my hands on that takes my fancy :lol: I have a few large tanks with Americans also but how I got Americans into my garage is a long story. I was introduced to your forum last weekend by CID in Oz who has been a dear friend since I first started in fish. I will be visiting on a regular basis now as I think sites like these are great for us fishaholics :lol: If anyone is interested, here is a link to the installation of my latest tank, a 10x2x2 which now houses my group of 14 adult Kigoma fronts. http://au.photos.yahoo.com/bc/anita_ozf ... on&.view=t I hope you enjoy them and look forward to chatting with you all soon.