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Adventures in 225g's

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We are soon going to start the beginning phase of the 240g ! Finally
I'm going to be painting the wood like trim either black or deep brown and the stand as well . That should be fun .. *hands paint to Jaysee * ;-)
So here it is .. Haven't even moved it out of the previous owners house lol. But he's really nice and doesn't mind. In fact offered to assist moving it ! He just wants to drool over my fish .. ( he will be here on TFK soon to share his amazing array of previous fish !)

So here's out new tank.. I might have to dive in to do the planting in this beast .. Hopefully I still have my snorkeling goggles lol

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Will put all the fish from the 75 in there for now till Josh moves and the tank merging madness begins .
I want 10x turnover rate so umm.. Thank god we both have lots of filters . I know I'll put my XP 4 on this tank.. Perhaps one of my AC 110s for a bit then eventually a few other canisters .. Oh and that XP in the picture as well.. It's a bit small though. I'll get maybe another SunSun 304 or 2 of them.

Here are some of the fish going in at first . Then we need to brainstorm the final stocking .. Many ideas bouncing around
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Of course Baybay my ornate bichir who thinks he's an itty bitty pleco . After much practice he's learned how to sit on the glass like his clown pleco BFF haha
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The new tiger pleco
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And of course my daughter wouldn't allow me to do much of anything when she set up the QT for the tiger pleco . She really did everything except turn the faucet on to fill it.. Because she couldn't reach . Mini slaves are great!! Freshwater aquarium Aquarium Aquarium decor Aquarium lighting Aquatic plant

Plants !! I'll be moving these over when I finally get the tank set up .
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Pretty sure I'll have to use media from every single filter in this house to properly seed this tank lol


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Jaysee13's 225g and other tank madness of MTS x 2

So those 5 and a fire red, a dark angel and a royal blue snakeskin.

Woo hoo discus!
 
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High fin green scorpion

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White face Marlboro - the circle is just light play

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So tank needs to progress this weekend ! I need to get more done . Nearly all I need is now here . I'm just dragging my feet with this annoying this called responsibility . Ugh lol. All tanks are moved into place . I need to wash the sand and install the new toys -inline hydor 300w heater and coralife turbo twist UV sterilizer- . 75g is sold to neighbors and all inhabitants need to move on over to the 225g . Some plants but not all. I'll start over with a slower planting plan . This is the first tank in all my fishkeeping years I've put this much time and thought into .. Even more then my salty days :)

You guys please feel free to light a fire under my a**! Lol seriously


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Jaysee13's 225g and other tank madness of MTS x 2

Have a new snow discus . Probably still more to come . They really appear to need groups . Big time ! And other fish with voracious appetites along with them seem to stimulate feeding better .

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The future of their 46 QT tank is a goby tank with not quite brackish but a little salt . I have 2 knight gobies and 1 purple spot goby QTing I there at the moment . Super pretty and silly fish .



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Jaysee13's 225g and other tank madness of MTS x 2




The rainbow dragon has recently become the dominant one it seems . I'm sure that'll change when living with the full grown angels ... But then again maybe not . Certainly different fish . Discus keeping has so far been an adventure for us both


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Jaysee13's 225g and other tank madness of MTS x 2

I'm filling the tank !! Haven't prepped the fx6 filter yet .. Or the inline heater or the uv sterilizer .. But have at least for the next 2 days the filstar XP XL ready to go .. Put a couple plants from the 75 In already . Considering moving the balas on over tonight after I fill .. Idk yet .,

Oh dear the fish are splashing me in the 75 looking at me finishing up the 225 lol!

Using both the python from the sink and the powerhead from the bathtub to fill this beast .. God lord even that is taking loner them I'd have thought .


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Jaysee13's 225g and other tank madness of MTS x 2

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Oh wow autocorrect hates me lol! Looks like a other language .. I meant colors seem off in that picture haha.. I put two if the angels and the balas and more plants in after that picture I took last night in the previous post , but the planting part will be a slow process .

Thanks ! My idea with the sand is to create a river within the tank in white .. I'll do no planting there and it has black river stones as a border to help reduce the sands mixing . I still have 20lbs more river rick to put in there but lord this is a big job and I really get soaked working on the bottom of the tank lol..

That light is going to be trashed. Life got in the way of me picking up/buying that metal halide light .. I really hope that guy still has it.. If not I'll buy an LED one really soon.

I can tell those two angels are seriously not used to the not so jungle like planting I e done so far . And Baybay is mad at me for taking his favorite plant .. He's sulking right now .. Not realizing he's going in the big tank to .


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#47 ·
LOL, didn't even know you posted words in the other post! :) If you didn't say anything I would of not noticed!
Your sharks look very happy in the open space of the tank, they getting some real exercise now!
Also your angels look fabulous! I love the platinum one! Are your angels a breeding pair?
I got a great suggestion on not getting your arms wet - just use Jaysee! Or maybe your mini slave could go diving? ;-) I guess the water would be warm - bath time?
haha Baybay is sulking! That would be a sight to see.
Don't worry about your light, it like 20x better then mine! haha, you could have worst!
 
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Haha.. My mini slave would happily swim in there again. I wonder what the fish would think .

I don't know yet if those two will breed.. They do get along but that golden one is still young. I have two breeding pairs then those two and tie more even younger ones .. Wait no 3 because I've raised a fry from a pair .

Well luckily the guy does still have the metal halide for me! I just tossed one random plant bulb and a spare reptile bulb in that current fixture .. Looks weird to me but it works for the moment .


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More progress ! I can't wait to yank all those heaters out and install my inline heater ! I put all the rest of the occupants of the 75g in and just have the other discus left to put in fish wise .
The fish told me they like their new tank! Lol. On of the pairs of angels I put in last night have already laid eggs all over one of the intakes .. And somehow pulled it off the glass lol. They did this in no more then 6hrs after going in the tank !

Excuse the mess in the tank by the end of the night I was literally tossing the decor in and however it landed was how it would be haha., till I feel like positioning it . Also after I scape it more the columns and orange plant are coming out . I even tossed that pile of plants in the water as I was too tired of planting :)

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Darn tank is too big to get a closer pic where you can see more

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