Yet another exciting rendition of the Ultimate 125 Gallon Fish Tank!

In this weeks episode! Chaos! Romance! Betrayal! Fish! ... mostly Fish! ... after loosing an ass load of fish last week due to ammonia spikes, breeding convicts, and bad freaking luck (the green terror killed himself by running full speed into the hood..), I've decided to consolidate...c0n-sol-i-date? .. fxxk it sounds right.. to consolidate the 4 tanks into two. All the new worlds and gouramis are in this one, not to mention about, well there was 50 - 60 feeders... before you complain yes, they were pre-treated and are clean-ish, its just the gouramis, firemouths, featherfins, and "stubby" the tiger oscar are still slightly in the "I can eat you" range of the jaguar, so i need to keep her pre-occupied... yes she has already ate one gourami, and the female convict.. no big losses there... I'll include the offical who's who list at the end of this here. If I DO say so myself, I'd have to say the tank is rocking though.. if it looks a little green, I have some fungus meds in there, mainly for that small firemouth with eye fungus and no tail.. the africans beat him up, not any of these clowns. ... Leave me some comments, I'm a lonely guy.. and I'm not about to sing a cover of "sunny D and rum", so I'll never go viral... Hell my own family won't watch my vids... Word to all my cichlid keepers! Keep it fishy!

female albino tiger oscar, female jaguar cichlid, male midas, male texas cichlid, 1 male 1 female jack dempsey, 2 common plecos, male convict cichlid, tiger oscar juvenile, 2 firemouth juveniles, 3 featherfin catfish, 1 san ralph catfish, pearl gourami, blue gourami, many soon to be dead feeder goldfish

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• cichlids
• african cichlids
• sunny d and rum
• gallon
• fish tank
• oscars
• feeder fish
• fish
• aquariums
• bum fights
• jack dempsey
• midas
• female albino tiger oscar
• female jaguar cichlid
• male midas
• male texas cichlid
• 1 male 1 female jack dempsey
• 2 common plecos
• male convict cichlid
• tiger oscar juvenile
• 2 firemouth juveniles
• 3 featherfin catfish
• 1 san ralph catfish
• pearl gourami
• blue gourami

[1Rockyboxer1]

Your jaguar ate a convict? damn, I thought those guys are good fighters. My only one loves to pick on my Parrots, and my 3 Oscars.

[xhawkusmc]

@1Rockyboxer1 The jag went through an eating everything phase, then 3 months later wouldnt even look at feeders... i have a breeding pair of convicts now that turn away anything that comes close including a large female oscar that could def eat the female con, they truely are tough little sobs

[Mr69Squishy]

Beautiful tank

[xhawkusmc]

@Mr69Squishy thank you

[elguapotetigre]

Wow! Love how you made the community work with all those brutes in there! I'm convinced all I need is a 125-135 gallon now. Keep it up! It's a very lively tank!

[xhawkusmc]

@elguapotetigre thank you, but as they say learn from others... while nothing really "went wrong" in this tank, id HIGHLY recommend a tank twice this size now for this type of set up, and even with the 2 huge canister filters and air stones, id also say make sure you have some power heads for increased oxygen, as some previous jerks here pointed out, however it made a difference when they were added... not to mention i was changing water every week, where theres a will theres a way good luck!

[burzumaske20]

The larger cichlids take more oxygen,due to their size,if you get 2 powerheads running on both sides of your tank,you be surprise the difference it makes compared to airstones and a bubbler for oxygen. keep the airstones though,just in case the powerheads break in the near future. I met 1 guy who doesnt use heaters at all,so you are good on that part.

[xhawkusmc]

@burzumaske20 i also have a 4' bubble curtain in there as well. the filtration is still 2 rena xp4s with the returns as a single large opening instead of the spraybar. i have tried to post the new tank but this stupid aircard i have now doesnt support that transfer. what makes you say there is a need for more oxygen, so i have a better understanding.. and even without heaters the temps here make the water stay around 80, but ill be damned if im buying a chiller for freshwater here..

[xhawkusmc]

@burzumaske20 should the powerhead break the surface in anyway? while i do not have this current setup anymore i do have a heavily stocked 125 mixed with africans and americans, however it IS a planted tank (gasp i know..) and the plants have stayed rooted and flourished, im sure due to the heavy nitrates despite the 2 week water changes, the chemistry all checks out and none of the fish appear stressed, i do notice the larger cichlids appear to always "breathe heavy"

[burzumaske20]

Carpintis would be a Green Texas basically,for a much lighter grey color Texas,that would be cyanoguttatus as they would say its a true Texas.By the way,you need more oxygen,best way to get alot of oxygen is getting a powerhead.