MoshJosh's aquariums/racks:

[MoshJosh]

I wanted to share my aquariums and have a place to chronicle their progress.

Currently I have 5 aquariums, but one is a shrimp tank that is not part of my rack system, so I will not be including it in this thread. I have 2 racks, 1 that holds 10 gallon tanks and 1 that holds 20 gallon longs. Between them I could keep 6 tanks but currently I have 2 10 gallons and 2 20 gallon longs.

All are filtered with air/sponge filters using USB air pumps. Other nitty gritty details can be found in my build threads:

10 gallon rack! | Freshwater Aquarium Builds Forum | 492584

20 gallon long rack. . . changing my whole setup | Freshwater Aquarium Builds Forum | 488211

Current stoking:

1st 10 gallon 9 medaka ricefish (7 orange and 2 "sparkling orange")

2nd 10 gallon is exactly the same as the first, though they are of "lesser" color.

1st 20 gallon (probably a bit overstocked ATM) 2 apistogramma Viejtas, 6 "assorted fancy guppies", and 8 panda cory's.

2nd 20 gallon has 8 "sparkling" blue medaka ricefish, 2 African mudfish, 4 Enigmatochromis Lucanusi (West African cichlid).

I have a number of live plants, mostly stem plants. 20 gallons have root tabs, 10s do not. Fertilizing once weekly with Thrive C.






















In the very back under the heater you can just see the head of one of the mudfish:




The plan for the coming weeks is:

Add one more 10 gallon and one more 20 gallon long. Move some fish around (some to outdoor ponds) and add some fish.

 

[Betta'sAnonymous]

Lot of different rice fish! You going to try and nreed them?

 

[MoshJosh]

I’d like to. They are also one of the few fish I can/should be able to keep outside year round (will use stock tank heaters to prevent the water from freezing).

 

[MoshJosh]

I was sort of bummed that my 10 gallon rack didn’t turn out how I wanted, namely I wanted to use bolts, and was envisioning something smaller and cheaper. . . So round two.

 

[MoshJosh]

I don’t know much about Enigmatochromis Lucanusi, however, if I had to guess I’d say they are about to breed. They have dug quite the pit under a flower pot and are making some pretty interesting displays.

 

[MoshJosh]

My gups had some babies. When I got home this AM I saw 6 little babies swimming around. . . When I came back in the afternoon I could only find 2. . . Thinking the rest had been eaten I decided to move them to my shrimp tank. . . Then I found the other 4 haha. Well now at least hopefully two will survive regardless, but we’ll see how the other ones do in the community tank anyway.

 

[Betta'sAnonymous]

My gups had some babies. When I got home this AM I saw 6 little babies swimming around. . . When I came back in the afternoon I could only find 2. . . Thinking the rest had been eaten I decided to move them to my shrimp tank. . . Then I found the other 4 haha. Well now at least hopefully two will survive regardless, but we’ll see how the other ones do in the community tank anyway.

We going through this with platy fry as well. Pretty sure the adults have been snacking pretty well, lately...

 

[MoshJosh]

If I had the space, I would probably try to catch them all out, but I don’t really have the room. . . Also I’m not sure which female they came from, there is one female in particular whos fry I am interested in growing out, so when I know for sure she’s pregnant I’ll probably separate her.

 

[Betta'sAnonymous]

If I had the space, I would probably try to catch them all out, but I don’t really have the room. . . Also I’m not sure which female they came from, there is one female in particular whos fry I am interested in growing out, so when I know for sure she’s pregnant I’ll probably separate her.

I wish more of our fry got ate. I really don't want to have to set up another tank for the platies. But i figure there will be some serious inbreeding, seeing as all our current adults came from about 2 or 3 different mothers and 1 or 2 dads. Gonna look like the dudes from Wrong Turn before long...

 

[MoshJosh]

If I’m not mistaken many (maybe most) captive bred fish are quite inbred already before they get to the hobbyists. I would imagine more so with things like guppy’s and other fish that are line bred for color/traits

 

[MoshJosh]

Apparently everyone likes algae wafers