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May 15th, 2009
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| pics of my tank
a few pics of some of my fish | 
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May 15th, 2009
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| wowsers!!!!!! great looking fish!! and you have broken most rules about the species mixing LOL crazy tank I bet....and hope you are upgrading to at least a 200 gal tank if you plan on keeping them all!! | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| thank you and yeah when i got them about a year ago i didnt know about the species mixxing but i make plenty of caves and the only ones that fight are the oscars and that is with my severums but not to bad of fighting they just move towrds eachother and the other swims away. yes i do plan on getting a bigger tank at the end of summer i wont give up my fish =p i got attached. | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| Beautiful...be sure and enter the photo contest! | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| holy cow im still shocked LOL
I had to give my loving oscars away as I couldnt upgrade  I miss them muchly!! I just read your info again and wowsers again hahaah...the oscars alone need 200 gals..and the bala's will need that also....your water changes must be crazy!!!!!! I had to do every other day 50% changes on my 75 gal with just the 2 oscars to keep it clean and no cloudyness....how do you keep yours maintained with twice as much in a smaller tank? | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| lots of filters but i still get a slight brown clowdyness but i think its mostly the green wall behind my tank that makes it look clowdy and i normali do monthly 75% water changes ill put more pics of more of the fish up =p | |
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May 15th, 2009
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Originally Posted by untitled1209  lots of filters but i still get a slight brown clowdyness but i think its mostly the green wall behind my tank that makes it look clowdy and i normali do monthly 75% water changes ill put more pics of more of the fish up =p |  once a month? how the heck do you keep nitrates down ...even with extra filtration ...I was running a penn plax 1500 which is 350gph and could barely keep my nitrates under 30 with every other day water changes...im so very shocked you havent had major issues.... | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| few more pics | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| forgot one lol | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| then im surprised myself ive had this tank for a year like this and i didnt know about nitrates being an issue till last night so i must have some hardy fish. | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| amazed still!! some great looking fish ...but i can see from the pics that your angel, and your plec have some fin damage which is likely from the overstocked..and your oscar has the scrapes along his body from probably the rocks or something sharp in the tank...the bigger those oscars get, the more they do somersaults and floudnering around and will get hurt....I think you have been lucky to have them this long in a 55 gal without issues...im shocked for sure ..have you had all those fish for a year in there? my jaw is still dropped LOL | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| i havnt had all of them for a year ive been adding and adding but ive had at leat 15 in it for a year the angel fish in the pic it dose look like fin damage but that is how the fins were when i got it. then the pleco like to go in to he convicts cave and my convicts are very teretoryal | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| They are pretty fish.
The pH you have in your info (6.0) is too low for the africans to thrive. They are a high ph/hard water fish and should be kept in a tank to themselves. The also require a different diet (a diet of low protien mostly veggie foods). | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| yeah i started this tank knowing nothing about fish besides how to clean the tank how to feed them. so pretty much i bought a bunch of fish that i thought looked cool now i have a crowded tank with fish that im attached to ........ talk about a delema. | |
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May 15th, 2009
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Originally Posted by untitled1209 yeah i started this tank knowing nothing about fish besides how to clean the tank how to feed them. so pretty much i bought a bunch of fish that i thought looked cool now i have a crowded tank with fish that im attached to ........ talk about a delema. | lol, thats what multi tank syndrome is for, just get more tanks lol... Thats how I ended up with 10 tanks, and still getting more. You can get different biotopes with each tank and go crazy with it... a lot of fun. Also you can find good deals on craigslist, classifieds,etc and not pay the full LFS cost for the tanks. | |
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May 15th, 2009
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| well my fish are gonna be moved up to a 125 gal tank at the end of summer.
we have a 125 gal that isnt going to be used at the end of summer the iridesent shark that is in it out grew it so we need to buy him a 250 gallon. | |
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May 16th, 2009
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| it looks wonderful! great job  | |
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