800+ gallon American cichlid tank - Update 3

[racknor666]

how old are your fish? apart fromthe bacourti and midas they seem to be getting on a bit. Beautiful tank.

[24languran]

MANAGUENSE



[BlackAndRedEvil]

love the colors of your fish but whatta setup?????

[greenterra]

@DogWarrior327 The jag is hands down the king.

[TheAlmightyKingTroll]

@greenterra I was just thinking that must be the case! That jag is just massive.

[greenterra]

@DogWarrior327 My only suggestion is to make sure you use a marine quality epoxy resin in conjunction with fibreglass cloth for the sealing process. A drain in the bottom can work but always remember it is also another point that a leak can occur. Personally I would scrap it and just use large diameter flexible hosing to drain it.

[greenterra]

@TropicalFishLovers There was a trimac in earlier vids but not in this one.

[wan2shuffle]

@TropicalFishLovers Also there is no Trimac in there lol

[wan2shuffle]

@TropicalFishLovers 'Thats not going to produce Flowerhorns. it is going to produce a gray fish with stripes. Midas is only a small part of the flowerhorns lineage.

The recipe for a flowerhorn is a lot more complicated than that. The flowerHorn contains Trimac, synspilum, texas, midas and possibly festae and other Central American Cichlids. Fader FH do contain some midas genes though

[wan2shuffle]

@TropicalFishLovers Why would he do that?

[greenseverum78]

Before I start to build my tank, has your tank bowed at all?

[greenterra]

@greenseverum78 Not in the slightest. I don't ever expect it to either.

[SuperAaaaa123456]

@greenterra size , dimensions and thickness of glass please??

[greenterra]

@SuperAaaaa123456 External dimensions = 9' x 4' x 3.4' with 19mm plate glass. Full details in build thread in vid description ;)

[ReaIly]

GT is stressed. Id really like to see some carpinte, mota, loi, cuba, salvini, female festae, argentea and synspilum in this tank. Then that would be a real showcase for american ciclids. Its already great though.

[MrJRISDEAD]

beautiful setup by the way.. cant go wrong with a tank full of american cichlids

[MrJRISDEAD]

ahh the jaguar.. so many memories of my evil jaguar digging the gravel and lunging at me constantly.

[Alexthefish123]

how much does it cost to run something like this?

[Alexthefish123]

what happened to the arowana in the photos?

[greenterra]

@Alexthefish123 It decided to go loggerheads with the trimac. Unfortunately the trimac didn't make it and the lei broke its bottom jaw in the process somehow. I had to euthanize it.

[chesney1396]

omg that is the best tank ever i watched how u built it u have some expeties lol how do u keep the tank warm what heater are u using and what were all the pipes for thanks i am a fish keeper myself and i have a 50 gallon tank

[greenterra]

@chesney1396 Thanks. All info can be found via the documented build link in the vid description.

[pointgrinda]

i inspire to be as good as you with my hobby..thanks 4 sharing dude

[baytherman1]

The new tank arrangement is excellent. The Festae is incredible looking. Congrats man. What a tank..

[glitchysparten]

Bet NOTHING messes with the jag

[damafiafz]

lovely friend again u and ur fishes did a nice job :)

[aequidens88]

I love that Midas of you. Also I like how you keep the same fish and grow them into monsters, not changing your stock the whole time.

[greenterra]

@aequidens88 I think it adds to the experience to grow them out. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks to everyone else for looking and commenting too.

[superstarboi]

Goddamn. Its so nice!

[28rampage]

awesome as usual bro..

[joeprestara]

Impressive collection of fish.

[seel1990]

always a pleasure to watch your videos greenterra!

[cebosound1]

awesome tank. Looks like you have some big boys in there. :)

[fishstick]

oh ya, friggin sweeeeet

[todanp]

so nice