Figured I'd share whats left of what has been my primary petkeeping hobby for many years. I'm down to ONLY 3 Tanks these days. I was already on the decline before we got the Torts, and now between the remodel and the torts my tanks are looking TERRIBLE. My fish have been slowly dwindling in numbers, and by and large I haven't restocked. Not many left.
The first two are 40 Breeders in a stacked setup with a sump. I've been doing different lighting experiments on them for a while now, and its taken a toll on the plant life. Both of these will be going into a 135 soon.... I guess you can't call it downsizing, but its one less tank.
This one was originally a dwarf rainbow tank, signifer, furcata and the like. They're long gone, nothing but algae crew left.
This one was an amazon tank with some cockatoo cichlids and cardinals. cockatoos are all gone, still a couple cardinals and lotsa guppy/endler hybrids. One spotted Severum is growing out here, one of my few purchases in the last couple years, he's almost ready to try and make it with the big boys, except most of the big boys have passed in the big tank, and all thats left are a mated pair of severum.... not good.
This is my 150 Tall, kind of a unique tank, you don't see alot of them. Its too tall really, 32 inches, which makes lighting a pain. Aside from neglect on my part the last couple months taking a toll, the Severums mated recently... and tore the place up! All that java fern scattered around the substrate USED to be attached to logs. That little female was a big mistake. The Male Severums better half died mysteriously about a year ago. Healthy one day, dead the next. Not too long after I bought the spotted, I saw that Female Severum at a store, she was a trade in and as pretty as can be. Well Mocha, our big male chocolate, may he r.i.p. and Junior the big male severum were best buds until I dropped that little tart in there. They wound up fighting over her, and Mocha died from his wounds. In a year I went from about 10 Large to Medium peaceful, co-existing cichlids that I expected to have for many more years to only 3 of that original group for one reason or another. Pretty much bummed me out. I'll likely be tearing this tank down when we redo the floor in the room its in, and not put it back up.
The first two are 40 Breeders in a stacked setup with a sump. I've been doing different lighting experiments on them for a while now, and its taken a toll on the plant life. Both of these will be going into a 135 soon.... I guess you can't call it downsizing, but its one less tank.
This one was originally a dwarf rainbow tank, signifer, furcata and the like. They're long gone, nothing but algae crew left.
This one was an amazon tank with some cockatoo cichlids and cardinals. cockatoos are all gone, still a couple cardinals and lotsa guppy/endler hybrids. One spotted Severum is growing out here, one of my few purchases in the last couple years, he's almost ready to try and make it with the big boys, except most of the big boys have passed in the big tank, and all thats left are a mated pair of severum.... not good.
This is my 150 Tall, kind of a unique tank, you don't see alot of them. Its too tall really, 32 inches, which makes lighting a pain. Aside from neglect on my part the last couple months taking a toll, the Severums mated recently... and tore the place up! All that java fern scattered around the substrate USED to be attached to logs. That little female was a big mistake. The Male Severums better half died mysteriously about a year ago. Healthy one day, dead the next. Not too long after I bought the spotted, I saw that Female Severum at a store, she was a trade in and as pretty as can be. Well Mocha, our big male chocolate, may he r.i.p. and Junior the big male severum were best buds until I dropped that little tart in there. They wound up fighting over her, and Mocha died from his wounds. In a year I went from about 10 Large to Medium peaceful, co-existing cichlids that I expected to have for many more years to only 3 of that original group for one reason or another. Pretty much bummed me out. I'll likely be tearing this tank down when we redo the floor in the room its in, and not put it back up.
