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If I had a 220 Gallon Aquarium, I would stock....

On my way to getting my dream aquarium...

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We have a 20, 35, and 2 x 55 gallon tanks. Today we took the plunge and put a 6 foot, 125 gallon tank with stand on layaway. It will be our last tank.



It'll take a couple of months for me to pay off the tank, stand, heaters, filter, etc which gives me plenty of time to figure out what kind of substrate I want, whether or not I am finally going to try live plants, and what kind of fish to keep. Actually, i'm not even sure what kind of filter to get yet.

Our current tanks are very colorful and artificial looking (think Vegas, tacky but entertaining) as you can see in these pictures:





I'm thinking I would like the new tank to look more natural. We're going to use it as a room divider in our basement so it will be visible from both sides of the tank, we won't be using a background. So far I'm leaning toward some Balas, Barbs, and Loaches, if the tank is big enough.

Can't wait to get the sucker home and set up! Going to be a long couple of months. My 3 year wedding anniversary is July 18 and I'm hoping to have it then, as this is my anniversary gift.
 
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Ick Update

Well, all my clowns are still alive this morning. 5 were schooling together nicely. One was six feet away on the opposite side of the tank playing with himself. Well, by himself. ;-)

So far no ick spots on any of the other fish. How long do they usually take to show?

Yesterday was exhausting, I feel a little better about it today. So far none of the fish show any adverse side effects of the medication.

Of course, I have to do the final treatment tomorrow afternoon. If the medication is going to bother them, I assume it would be after the second treatment when the concentration of medicine in the tank is doubled.
 
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i think it depends on how bad it is on your clowns and how quickly you treat the ich. keep in mind that when you kill the ich is when it is in the water it'self. before it hides back into the gravel or it's in the fish it'self.

The tomont may swim for several hours before settling on and attaching to the substrate, a plant, or some other surface. During that time it is susceptible to chemicals and medication will be effective. Once attached, it begins its reproductive stage. It encysts and begins rapidly dividing. At this point, it is again immune to chemicals. Within a few days, hundreds of new organisms burst from the cyst, sprout cilia and start swimming in search of a host.
~ that is in my notes from a website...sorry don't remember what one. lol. i keep a lot of random fish stuff on my sticky notes on my cmp.
 
#457 ·
Glad they are all okay. All of mine except one have really grown not in length but height they are all rounder love to watch them

I have a 4 day weekend this weekend and am trying not to buy fish or dog stuff bought a plant today even though I have 23 coming from a guy from kijiji that was placing a wholesale order for hard to find plants and he had to have enough people for the minimum which he did.

Just wasting time at the dealership my car had a recall
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Haha. I know. I need to stop.

I just saw some dwarf water lettuce on the top of Boredomb's tank and I think it might look good in the 220. It's such a high tank, I think the roots hanging down will look nice, as long as enough light still gets to my other plants.
 
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All your fish every night? Wow. I'm too lazy. I put them in my Silver Dollar tank once or twice a week. I used to do it more but Byron suggested I do it less. My Rainbows get them once a week if they're lucky. The puffers every other day.

Well, just checked on the fish in the 220, as I did the second dose of medication today.

All the fish, including the loaches, seem to be acting normal, EXCEPT THE BALAS, which I thought was weird. They're all hanging out in the upper corners of the tank. Strange. The Congos, Skirts and Clowns are swimming around business as usual.
 
#487 ·
All your fish every night? Wow. I'm too lazy. I put them in my Silver Dollar tank once or twice a week. I used to do it more but Byron suggested I do it less. My Rainbows get them once a week if they're lucky. The puffers every other day.

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I don't have as many tanks as you do though I was told by my lfs to do flakes/pellets in the morning and bloodworm or brine shrimp in the evening because my loaches weren't growing the queens especially so I have for quite some time now my sister only feeds bloodworm or brine live and frozen shrimp I found that when I fed the brine shrimp that they would poop it out undigested and then eat the poop again so I don't give it that often
 
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Gross!! (The eating the poop bit)

I started feeding my Silver Dollar tank more than once a day (not every day) and my nitrates started going up, Now I only feed any of them once a day. How often and large are your water changes? Probably bigger and more frequent than me.

Man, if my Balas die tonight I am going to be really pissed. Hopefully they're just being weirdos.
 
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