A 90 gallon home.

This is the biggest tank we had 90gallons, glass top, single tube light hood, light honey oak stand,
Fluval 404 + 1 AC110 filters, CoraLife Turbo Twist X3 UVS, 400W heater with guard, electronic thermometer, a large bell deco, a small tree stump deco,
with full length background paper.

The substrata was changed from all
1/4"-1/2" neutral tone rounded gravel, to 50% 2"-5" light to dark rounded river rocks a few months later.
Also one 1-3/4" thick, 9" long triangular slab of black slate & 6 colored glass eggs.
It started with 5 fake plants, but there were only 2 left in tank at the end due to Oscars pulling them out.

The occupants changed over time too.
We started with 3 Tinfoil Barbs, 2 Tiger Oscars, (Rajah & Jasmine) and Hoover the Pleco.

Jas developed Ich & died. We replaced her with another Tiger my daughter named Blondie. Blondie was very special and enjoyed being stroked and rubbing against my hands when I worked on their tank.

The 3 TFBarbs kept whizzin around the tank driving the O's crazy. So before the O's killed them, I brought them back & exchange for our first Ornate Bichir, Cheetah. Cool fish! Basically unchanged for 93 million years.

With a tank full of preds, we occassionaly live fed- never feeder goldies, but ghost shrimp or some small tetras. A month or so before my allergy started, Blondie was ripping around, chasing a small fish. It darted into the stump deco and Blondie was too big to fit in that gap. The impact killed her. :(

At an LFS, I met a young teen who was trying to return a small Ornate Bichir who had been told it would be fine in his small community tank. He was in tears - store wouldn't take it back and it was eating everything in his tank. I didn't need another O.B., but I bought it from him. Things were fine so ling as the water temp was under 80.

Allergies forced me out of the hobby, but I really enjoyed it

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• aquatic
• fish
• Oscars
• Ornate
• Bichir
• common
• Pleco

[slidewerks]

IM SO JEALOUS. OMG NICE TANK.

how much is that tank?

[SC0RePIO]

Thank you very much for the compliment. :)

Sorry to say, but this clip is rather old.

I really did try to sell all of my fish, tanks & equipment privately... for over 6 months in fact.

I was unsuccessful;

subsequently, all of what you see in this vid was sold back to the Big Al's store I got it from 2 years ago...

[kickinitholmz]

the ornates and the oscars got along perfectly fine?

[SC0RePIO]

Yep

I had more problems with the Pleco once it got big...

Hoover was an armored glutton!

[redtailedblackshark]

what type of allergy. it could have been towards the food and you could have kept going.

[SC0RePIO]

It was a skin reaction- major case of hives whenever I touched the water.

I have lots of allergies and checked out all foodstuffs given. I'm sure this reaction was to the algaes as it didn't start till months after we got the tank...

and it takes time for some algaes to get a foothold.

[hotlips4000isback2]

Wow, nice size tank, wish i had the cash to get something like that for my goldfish.

I currently have a 40 gallon, but with two 6in goldfish, i need to upgrade.

[Legoman4096]

I am so sorry you got the allergy. It looked like you really liked doing that. You looked like you had a good tank going there.

[billyholic]

cool

[smascarinas]

@westwide - first of all is your pleco a normal pleco? anyways I used to have a large pleco, he got huge within the first month. What happened was that my GF parents kept feeding it daily and there was just food all over the place. Anyways it was to the point that the whole floor of the 55 gallon was covered with pleco poo. That's how much he ate daily.

[westwide]

thos look like dog fish , for a second i thought they were mud puppies.. well any way i got a question how come my pleco wont eat?? will they eat in the dark only?? mines are about 1 inches.. they keep hiding.. im not sure if they are eatting the disc or my other fish are eatting the disk at night

[R4V1D]

beautiful tank.