My husband is an enabler!!

I finally have figured out who gave me the MTS, my husband who loves to look at the fish, but don't want to have a part in the care (unless its heavy lifting especially right now).
I have sold all the fish in my 36g tank, so the process of turing it salty will begain this weekend .

Well He said I should move it to where the nano is, and replace the 36g's spot with another malawI tank putting a couple breeding groups in it. Um, I had to agree, in fact over joyied that I have an enabling husband. So that is now our plan.

I have done so well selling fry the past 2 weeks that I have even found a local need for healthy lake malawI cichilds that don't come from the "mixed tank" at the lfs. They are wanting the hard to find malawis. How can blame them, I am estatic that I am going to get to stock another malawI tank!
I have been looking at different afra species, and will prob go with a pseudo species, or lab species (non red top hongi, or yellow labs).
I am also going to go w/ a more fine sand substrate, and large round river rocks for this one (I saw a tank set up like that and fell in love with it).

I am also trying to figure out what to do with 68 kenyI fry. My female spat again, the count was 35. (I will post pics of this bunch, they are too cute!).

The salty tank.. he he he... I can't wait to get started!!!!

 

yayyy for enablers! my roommate is an enabler, every time we are at wal mart she always has to pick out the prettiest and saddest looking bettas and show them to me...I can't just leave them there!

 

haha, nice, Angela, check out this link below its got a cool diy cichlid background pretty cool

 

sniff :'(... wish I had an enabler... sniff...

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Oh wait, I've got fishlore >

 

sniff :'(... wish I had an enabler... sniff...

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Oh wait, I've got fishlore >

always happy to enable you, Red!

 

always happy to enable you, Red!

Peer Support one of fishlore's great attributes, usually resulting in MTS

 

Peer Support one of fishlore's great attributes, usually resulting in MTS

*hides 7 betta tanks.......... and one guppy/cory tank........*

 

I am also going to go w/ a more fine sand substrate, and large round river rocks for this one (I saw a tank set up like that and fell in love with it).

If 3M color quartz is available to you where you are, you should look in to it. It's usually a pita to find if you don's have a distributor or applicator near by. generally sales for 25$ for a 50lb bag... every color available. I'm sure you know all that already. I used the T-Grade in my 55 gallon and am using S-Grade in the 75gallon. The S-grade is heavy enough when it's disturbed it doesn't go flying through the tank in to the filters, yet fine enough to feel like your raking your fingers through beach sand on the beach. I use black in both of them but they literally have tons of colors available.

 

I am going to use the agronite based sand, it has the minerals and ability to raise the hardness and ph in the water for the cichilds.

 

I am going to use the agronite based sand, it has the minerals and ability to raise the hardness and ph in the water for the cichilds.

That works too I used limestone to raise our pH.

 

Yea, I use crushed coral and limestone in all my cichild tanks, it keeps me from worrying about their ph, and no supplements are needed in the water.

 

I'm totally jealous as I have the oposite husband. He loves looking at some fish but hates the thought of getting another tank or a bigger one. Thus my overstocked 10 gallon

 

I'm totally jealous as I have the oposite husband. He loves looking at some fish but hates the thought of getting another tank or a bigger one. Thus my overstocked 10 gallon

tell him you'll let him get a shark if you get a 120 gallon, you'll have a new tank the next day.

 

tell him you'll let him get a shark if you get a 120 gallon, you'll have a new tank the next day.

lol...probably true....testosterone

 

He does like the little sharks that are silver. I think they're actually some form of barb... not sure. He likes the shiny!

 

They're balas, and they need 90 gal.!! There you go! Easy upgrade!

 

I would show him the malawI mbuna, after seeing the aggression of those guys, most men love them....
My husband loves the mbuna's I have (I keep the highly aggressive ones, you know the ones that go off on the net when you catch them, attack the algae magnets, I will soon post a pick of my kenyI male going off ont he magnet)