critter_crazy Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I figure I may as well finally start this thread, it's been a long time in the making. About a month ago my 750L tank (180x60x70cm) finally arrived! It's now set up and slowly being filled with juvie cichlids etc. :happy1: I've kept the look very basic, brightwater gravel, driftwood (still a couple of floaters waiting to sink) and a couple of fake plants for cover. Heater is a 300W Jager. I have 2 x twin bulb Ocean 6ft light hoods and filter is an Aqua One Nautilus 2700 and a Aquius 1020 (which will be replaced with a second Nautilus in a couple of months.) Current stocking as I say is just babies, as they grow I plan on either a) Upgrading to a bigger tank :nilly: b) Upgrading to more large tanks (probably more viable so I can split up the ones that aren't compatible as they reach maturity) or c) Selling them on and keep my favs (Doubtful I'll ever have the heart to do this haha) So far stocking is as follows (a portion of these are currently in grow out tanks for easy heavy feeding/waterchanges) Red Tiger Oscar 6x Surinamensis Golden Severum Green Severum Midas/Flowerhorn type fish Texas Black Ghost Knife Choc Ghost Khife Fire Eel Royal Plec Senegalis Bichir Convict Red Parrot Silver Shark Rainbow Shark Golden Rainbow Shark Borneo Tiger Electric Blue Jack Dempsey Green Terror Golden Algae eater Jap. Algae eater Featherfin Syno Pictus I think that's it so far :lol: I havn't yet got my head around how to take a decent photo of such a large tank so this will have to do for now: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Godly3vil Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Nice fish list. Seems like a lot of soon to be large very messy fish for a 750 ltr tank though? :spop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieFish Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 woah, have fun buying a bigger tank in 5 months!! :cofn: :spop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 yea seems like trouble but hey i'd do exactly the same thing if i had the cash.. look forward to seeing pics and hearing stories as they grow... it's gonna be a very fun tank to watch that's for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 oh and you forgot a school of tinfoil barbs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snookie Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 school silver dollars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critter_crazy Posted January 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Like I say, the list is not permanent. This is the first time I've been able to keep these types of fish so the plan is too see who I like, who gets along, and go from there. A few are just random fish that have been surrendered at work also - once everything grows a wee bit they'll be rehomed. I'm too impatient to wait for them all to grow to have a full tank :lol: It's been a really interesting experiment so far though growing them all out together - so far no issues but so fun to watch them all interact! Couch now faces the tank as opposed to the TV! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 can i put dibs on the GT and the texas when/if you get rid of them please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Keep an eye on the more aggressive cichlids (texas/flowerhorn/gt) with the less aggressive ones, particularly the earth eaters. Large Central American cichlids have robust mouths with teeth designed for hunting and lip locking, and they will do damage to the eartheaters fragile mouths that are built for sifting sand (on the topic of which, the brightwater gravel is far from ideal for them). I think you need to decide if you're going to keep more of a peaceful community type tank with the eartheaters and more mellow tankmates or more of a rogue tank with the CA cichlids etc and separate them sooner rather than later. That aside, the tank looks cool, and I'm sure it will look even better when the wood has sunk! Is it 700 high or wide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critter_crazy Posted January 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Thanks David, that's looking like the way to go I think Josh is wanting me to squeeze his 5ft into the room which is getting more and more tempting by the day! 70 high - it looked so big when it first arrived but as I get used to it it's looking smaller and smaller which I'm sure is an issue lots of fish keepers have. I'm suffering quite bad with MTS! I'm living in my mums internal double garage at the moment and with all the tanks I have very little use for lights at night time :facepalm: Sorry guys, the Texas and GT are quickly becoming my favs so doubt I'll be moving them on any time soon :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarletmonuka Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 awww its such a shame you need monster tanks to keep monster fish.. funny that huh? would love a few of those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critter_crazy Posted February 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 This tank has changed quite a lot, figured out which fish I really liked and kept those and moved on the rest. Also coming soon... dun dun dun... My first Aro :happy2: Will be sure to update with pictures once he arrives! :love: Still waiting for that damn wood to sink!! :an!gry Also looking at a wee cichlid breeding venture in one of my smaller tanks so more on that when I've done it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabid Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 which fish did you end up keeping out of the original lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 What arowana are you getting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critter_crazy Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Will cut down more as they grow but currently have an Oscar, Jag, 3 different colour Parrot fish, 3 different Severums (Gold, Green and Red Shoulder, Blue Gene JD, Texas, Ghost Knife, Fire Eel, and Convict. Then for bottom dwellers I have 3 Polypeturus (Delhzi, Ornate & Senegalas), Featherfin, Decorus, Talking Choc Cat. I think that's all, It doesn't look like that much in the tank as they're all small but I guess it's still a lot :nilly: Getting a Pearl Jardini, was looking at the silver but the body shape is so much nicer in the pearl and I've heard they're much slower growing. SO excited! Also added a second Aqua one Natilus (2700l/h) last month so the tank is running on 2 of those with 1 or 2 50% water changes a week. I'm enjoying it so much! Got a bad case of BBA but it's a really bright green so I don't mind it as it adds colour - the fish started eating the fake plants so they had to go :sml2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dattofish Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 cool.. see you say you have 3 diffrent colour parrot fish? what are they i didnt know you could get diffrent colour?(im not up with the play) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Will cut down more as they grow but currently have an Oscar, Jag, 3 different colour Parrot fish, 3 different Severums (Gold, Green and Red Shoulder, Blue Gene JD, Texas, Ghost Knife, Fire Eel, and Convict. Then for bottom dwellers I have 3 Polypeturus (Delhzi, Ornate & Senegalas), Featherfin, Decorus, Talking Choc Cat. I think that's all, It doesn't look like that much in the tank as they're all small but I guess it's still a lot :nilly: Getting a Pearl Jardini, was looking at the silver but the body shape is so much nicer in the pearl and I've heard they're much slower growing. SO excited! Also added a second Aqua one Natilus (2700l/h) last month so the tank is running on 2 of those with 1 or 2 50% water changes a week. I'm enjoying it so much! Got a bad case of BBA but it's a really bright green so I don't mind it as it adds colour - the fish started eating the fake plants so they had to go :sml2: If your interested in getting and rtg arowana i could get you one later on this year if your interest pm me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 You are gonna have so many deaths I think. Not trying to be negative, but that's what I think will go down. Might want to re-plan the stocking? And Jardini are NOT slow growing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critter_crazy Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 No deaths so far and I'm keeping a close eye on it. A lot of people are telling me it's going to be a disaster but to be fair I could be doing a hell of a lot worse!! Slow growing compared to the silvers I mean! My idea of slow growing and yours are probably very different - anything not full size in two years is slow to me! I'm happy with the pearl, don't want to spend too much. If I don't upgrade in a couple of years (which I probably will if not sooner!) then I'll rehome him/her. I wouldn't be comfortable with housing one larger than 40cm in this tank. I hate seeing those 50cm silvers on trademe in 300L tanks, so sad! According to my research 750L should do me fine for awhile. As I say, as fish get larger and more aggressive then I'll thin them out - so far lots of hiding places and everyones getting along great. Have even had JD's successfully raise fry in there until I took the female out which supprised me! Texas got a bit of a nip on the forehead by mum when he got a bit nosy and healed in a couple of days. I have the usual Red Parrot, a Yellow Parrot and a Green Fire Parrot - last two I stumbled apon on a round of fish shopping and snapped them up for an awesome price - I've never seen them before either. Will upload photos when I can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 keep a close eye on that oscar then... they can be rascals at the best of times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 But then again aros grow larger than the rest of what we get here, henwards jardini was at a foot in about 4 months I'd say, and agro as. I sold my jardini as he was far too aggressive to keep with any other fish apart from bichirs. Jardini would be fine getting large in that tank, it's just with a full grown oscar/texas/JD/Jag/bichir/parrots etc you need to watch stocking density vs waste output. And a heads up, larger aros are hard to move on. Even Jars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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