What I did Today

[cmzaha]

My daughter asked me a few days ago if I would help her take down her 55-gallon freshwater tank and redo it. So today was the day we tore into it. Eight hours later this is what we ended up with are we are pretty happy with it. She wanted a planted tank so we scooped out a 5-gallon bucket of gravel and used a substrate for plants with some of the original gravel to elevate the back of the tank. It still needs a few more tall plants to help hide tubing, but we are close to done. I laughed when my hubby recognized the bubble wall knowing I had added it. My former tanks, other than my Angel Tank, always had bubble walls. I love bubbles.

It was a busy day and my hands are trashed. Stupid eczema, back to prednisone for a few days.

 

[Relle]

Looks good, a lot of work. We use to have a 6 foot tank with a shark, his name was sharkie.

 

[cmzaha]

I like the name Sharkie for a shark!! Very original Relle. What kind of shark was he? My daughter was contemplating getting a 6ft 125 gallon tank, but I talked her out of it. I always found it fun to set up more tanks.

Better pic of the tank. My daughter is the photographer in the family. Fish are back in the tank.

 

[Relle]

Sharkie was a black fresh water shark, not like the sharks in the ocean that your probably thinking of. I think a 6 ft tank is too big, sharkie only grew to the size the tank would take, he was about 12 inches long and very chunky.

He jumped out of the tank one night after there was an earth quake recorded in Indonesia. He broke the glass on top and landed on the carpet, lucky we were here to put him back in. He was very quiet for a while, must have had a huge headache.

 

[cmzaha]

No, I am thinking of freshwater sharks. I had a couple of Bala sharks but they were nowhere near the size of your Sharkie. How lucky you were to be there to get him back in his home.

 

[Saltwater Scented]

In college I had a 125 gallon extra-high tank set up for saltwater. Marine biology major. Started off as a reef tank, ended up as a predator tank. The power in San Marcos Texas was notoriously bad. Middle of the day for no reason at all power would go out for 6 or 7 hours. That much time with no battery back up to power the sump with the spike in temperature killed a few too many fish, even with dumping ice into it. I'd come home from class and it would at 85F and half of everything was already floating.

Yours look great!

 

[shunt2011]

That turned out really great! I grew up with fish tanks. My dad had 4 built into the wall in the basement.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

That looks great! I haven’t had a fish tank in a long time, but I find them very mesmerizing.

 

[Lin19687]

I had an outside Koi pond which was not too hard to keep up.
No way I could do indoor, too much fiddling I found
That looks Great !

 

[Nanette]

Very pretty!

 

[cmzaha]

In college I had a 125 gallon extra-high tank set up for saltwater. Marine biology major. Started off as a reef tank, ended up as a predator tank. The power in San Marcos Texas was notoriously bad. Middle of the day for no reason at all power would go out for 6 or 7 hours. That much time with no battery back up to power the sump with the spike in temperature killed a few too many fish, even with dumping ice into it. I'd come home from class and it would at 85F and half of everything was already floating.

Yours look great!

That would be very frustrating. I lost a beautiful breeding pair of Angels due to a heater malfunction in a tank that was in my Beauty Shop. It was just a 30 gallon tall with the one pair but it was beautiful and so were they. Bad things can happen when you are not there to intercept problems. I always wanted to set up a large reef tank but was not home enough to maintain it.

Just to add a little funny since you were a Marine biology major. My boat neighbor daughter was a marine biology major with a reef tank. One day I found her mom trying to catch pretty little purple baby fish around the rocks behind our dock. Those purply babies were immature Garibaldi which is California's State fish and very protected.