Charlene

I put up a thread a while ago with my tanks. 2 of them have now changed completely.

Here are some pics

120L Tanganyikan


70L Malawi, no fish yet, still cycling.


Here is a link to the 120L to watch the cichlids. They just got fed in this so please excuse the particals.

Lucy

I really like your tanks, very nice! Great vid too. Thanks for sharing them.

aquarist48

Good morning Charlene. Wonderful job!
The fish are beautiful and that driftwood is amazing!
I'm glad you shared!
Ken

Charlene

Thank you. It took 2 days to rescape the 120 and a day for the 70. The fish prefer the sand. They dig a lot!

Charlene

Ken thank you!!

That drift wood is in 4 parts. 2 big bits and 2 small pieces and the fish swim in and out all the time. These guys are growin gout and will go in a 300L tank.

aquarist48

Very nice! It really looks like it's all one piece by the way your have it placed in the tank.
Ken

Charlene

That was the aim and I'm glad it looks like that. I have just realised there's actually 5 pieces of wood. 2 big bits and 3 small bits. Again thank you!!

sglider12

Those tanks are nice! Great job!

Charlene

Thank you. My bf and I are very pleased with it.

bolivianbaby

Beautiful tanks and...I love your avatar

Charlene

Thank you bolivianbaby. Thats a standard avatar from this forum that I put on when I first joined. I watch family guy all the time and quite sadly I have stewie as my text message

bolivianbaby

Good choice! We named our budgie Stewie and let him watch Family Guy when we're not home hoping he'd pick up a few phrases, but unfortunately, he hasn't. We're huge Family Guy fans here as well.

2lucky

Fantastic! Your tanjanyikan cichlids are absolutely mesmirising!
Your fish are loving all those nooks and crannys

peacemaker92

Great tank!

Charlene

Thank you 2lucky and peacemaker92. Done tons of reseach about lake Tanganyika to get the effect that you can see. we will be doing all tanks as to where the fish originally came from.

Bolivianbaby - if we had a bird that could talk, we'd probably do the same.

Charlene

Thought I'd update again on my tang tank. The first picture at the beginning of the thread.

I decided to rescape it as it look a little to crowded. While doing this I came to move a piece of the slate and found some Julie Dickfeldi eggs. I'm going to be expecting some fry soon!! My first lot.

Here is the result of the new scape


And these are the proud parents

peacemaker92

Wow! Congrats Charlene! Your couple there looks great!

Charlene

Thank you peacemaker92. Just thought something needed to be done.

It's so exciting to watch them defend their territory. They have nw dug a pit for when the fry will be free swimming which I don't have a clue on. I would gues that it may be day 4 or 5, so I'm not sure when I'll see free swimmers.

peacemaker92

Nice! Hope to see cute pics of them

Charlene

I can only but try to get some pics of them as and when they are free swimming. I haven't seen any fry pictures of these guys, so it'll be interesting to do a documentry of this activity.

Charlene

I have managed to get a pic of one of the fry that I have. I accidently sucked it up while cleaning the tank but here it is.




This was taken a little while ago so they have developed since then hopefully but I haven't seen any fry since this pic.

Melissawater

Congrats on the babies and the tanks look absolutely amazing!

Charlene

Thanks very much Melissa. I'll get some updated pics up soon as I seem to have changed it again, only added an extra piece of drift wood for the syno multi taht we purchased a month or so ago.