Post up your fish tanks/aquariums!

[Flippercon]

I just want more fish. I gotta wait like 6-8 weeks for the cycle to complete on the living room tank. I have no patience but lesson learned with the bedroom tank. do not rush it.

You can do an instant cycle....
You have a cycled aquarium already???

 

[Damaca]

You can do an instant cycle....
You have a cycled aquarium already???

Yes, the tank upstairs.

 

[Flippercon]

Well if you take some of your media from your established filter you can put in in your new filter and this will speed things up.
You can also take your new filter and run it on your established tank for a week.
Or you can move the fish and filters from your established tank to the new tank.
The only thing that changes in the last suggestion is the water volume. So swapping to a bigger tank is ok. The filters on your established tank can handle the bio load already so adding water is no harm.

Also media would be the sponges/cartridges. The brown gooky stuff is what you want.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

gotta love that brown gooky stuff

 

[Damaca]

Thought about all that. The only reason I didn't was because of size. AC 50 upstairs, AC 110 downstairs. I don't even want to think about what it would be like running the 110 on a 20 gallon tank. Hell, that filter is half the size of that tank. I figured the gravel in a 12" x 4" nylon bag ought to help a lot.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

I like your green ball

 

[Flippercon]

Thought about all that. The only reason I didn't was because of size. AC 50 upstairs, AC 110 downstairs. I don't even want to think about what it would be like running the 110 on a 20 gallon tank. Hell, that filter is half the size of that tank. I figured the gravel in a 12" x 4" nylon bag ought to help a lot.

You can split up the ceramic rings from your ac50. This will seed the filter pretty well. Then ring your sponge from your ac50 into the 110. should cut your time down to about 10 days.

 

[Damaca]

I like how it floats when it's cleaned out but then finds the dang intake every time. :-/

 

[Damaca]

You can split up the ceramic rings from your ac50. This will seed the filter pretty well. Then ring your sponge from your ac50 into the 110. should cut your time down to about 10 days.

Ahhhh I didn't think about ringing it out into the 110. Thanks.

Lord knows that tank has enough brown gooky stuff.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

I like how it floats when it's cleaned out but then finds the dang intake every time. :-/

LOL I have mine from last year just sitting in a little plastic bug critter tank with a plant...it's created an awesome web of green stuff everywhere LOL
I bought it and kept it in the original cup for a while to feed the daphnia or copeods to my african dwarf frog tadpoles. Wasn't enough in there..so i had to go the "sea monkey" route...I still lost all the tadpoles though...was sad

 

[Flippercon]

I like how it floats when it's cleaned out but then finds the dang intake every time. :-/

We got one and my girlfriend named it Mike Wachowski. Now I can't flatten it to make it look like a putting green.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

 

[MrsJrotax101]

Mine has been pretty neglected I wanted to put in the big tank with the cichlids but I'm afraid to do so

 

[Damaca]

It was making the tank entertaining until it got heavy and sunk down to the intake. I had it sitting in water in a chinese soup container for weeks before I said screw it and tossed it in with the new tank. I figure it can become a cichlid soccer ball.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

I want to go to the store and get more.

GET ALL THE BALLS!!!

I love this thread...

 

[Damaca]

I wish we had more room in the house. I really want a nano-reef and a crab/lobster tank but the house is too small. I'll have to wait until next year.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

The new trifle bowls for the babies

 

[Damaca]

Man y'all breed a lot of fish. More cichlid fry?

 

[MrsJrotax101]

lmao they're baby betta fish that I rescued from Petco. They were being sold at 6 weeks old as a great starter kit >_<
poor things. They were the only ones that looked alive

 

[Damaca]

Have you and the Mister ever used http://www.aqadvisor.com?