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Recently I decided to put together a high tech aquarium. The aforementioned aquarium is a a 61 liter (H-40, L-45, W-34 cm), a good sized tank for light penetration. The equipment I use is as follows: Ehiem liberty 75 hang on back filter Chihiros A451 Plus LED light Future heater will be the 50 watt Dennerle heater (summer is hot here so my room is cooled to 24C with AC) DIY Sodastream CO2 system I decided to use Dennerle's Scaper's soil as a substrate, ended up using about 7 liters of the stuff, and dragon stone as the hardscape. This is the only image I have right after adding the soil and hardscape, please excuse the terrible quality. This image is 24 hours after setting up the tank. In this image I am using the Dennerle bio co2 system temporarily until I put together the Sodastream CO2. The plant selection at the time of taking this image is as follows: Anubias nana Cryptocoryne nurii "rosen maiden" Cryptocoryne wendtii "brown" Cryptocoryne scurrilis Cryptocoryne balansae Eriocaulon vietnam Hygrophila pinnatifida Bucephalandra sp. After all the parts for my CO2 system arrived I was finally able to put it together. This system consists of a 400g CO2 Sodastream cylinder, a TR21-4 to W21.8-14 adapter, and a CO2 regulator with a solenoid. Long term a large CO2 cylinder is better cost wise, but I decided to go with this system because I'm limited for space. The picture on the left is of the system in general, and on the right a picture of the adapter. This is the aquarium now, I've moved around some of the plants and swapped some out for others. The current plant list is as follows (would love if someone can identify the plants I'm unsure of): Cryptocoryne nurii "rosen maiden" Cryptocoryne wendtii "brown" Cryptocoryne scurrilis Cryptocoryne balansae Hygrophila pinnatifida Bucephalandra sp. (Dark green and reddish new leaves, it's the big one in the back) -unsure Bucephalandra sp.green (located on a rock just to the right of the filter intake) -unsure Bacopa colorata Alternanthera reineckii "mini" Blyxa japonica Nymphaea zenkeri (red tiger lotus) Ludwigia repens "rubin" Micranthemum Micranthemoides (pear weed) I hope to soon add Cryptocoryne wendtii flamingo and Pogostemon helferi. These are pretty rare in my country so they're a bit pricey and hard to track down. I'll update on the progression and stocking of this aquarium in the future. Constructive criticism and advise is welcome. Hope everyone has a fantastic day and thanks for reading!

Here is my 40 gallon breeder display tank. I guess you could say it's a Dutch style aquascape is you had to put a name on it. Tank has been up for 4 months. I run injected co2 at about 1.5 bubbles per second. Lighting is a 36" fluval plant 3.0. Substrate is fluval stratum. Filtration is handled by a fluval 307 canistar, filled with sponge, seachem matrix and chemipure green. I also run a airstone and a marineland 300 watt heater to keep things nice and warm. Hardscape consisted of some mopani wood, spider wood, a few river rocks and some dragon stone. Livestock 2 Sunset Gourami (used to get tank cycled) 6 Harlequin Rasabora 15 Neon Tetra 6 Panda Corydora 7 Otocinclus (1 is in quarentine with some sort of bacterial or fungal infection) 1 Bristlenose Pleco 3 Apistogramma agazizzi (1 male 2 female) 4 Young Angelfish 1 German Black Ram (also in quarentine with the otto with same infection) Plants Temple Plants, Amazon Sword, Scalet Temples, Rotala Rotundifolia, Cardinal Plant, Wisteria, Bacopa Caroliniana, Crypt Parva, Golden Creeping Jenny. I started the tank dosing dry ferts using the PPS Pro system and flourish exel. Nutrients got a bit to high and was dealing with some algae so I stopped dosing lowered the light intensity and shortened the photo period to allow the tank to stabilize and the plants to establish a bit longer. The lights have been slowly brought back up to moderately intense with a longer photo period. I still have some algae on the wood hardscape but I look at is as food for the pleco and Otto's. I also kinda like the look of it. I will begin dosing ferts again this week based on my water parameters which I have posted below. Any input, comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. I hope you enjoy.

Was tired of dumping the liquid test tubes. So, I constructed a personalized, DIY test stand.

I love to take photos of my fish, here are some of the best one's I've taken, I hope you like them! She was the queen of my tank, had a lot of personality! Guppy enjoying a sera snack About 2-3 month old old mystery snail A cory and a baby mystery snail Lovely glowlight tetra Angelfish deciding if duckweed is food or not lol A shy rasbora The absolute king of the fish room, he's growing fast!

One of the benefits of being in the freshwater hobby is that most things don't tend to deteriorate and poison the water like they do in marine tanks. I've taken this to heart and wanted to share a few of my applications: All of these decorations below have been in the tanks for six months or more, with no ill effects. (I name my tanks after fictional worlds to make them easier to refer to in conversation.) 1. ENDOR This 6 gallon Marineland Portrait houses 2 pea puffers that are getting along for now (I'm watching them closely and may be separating as they mature). The two Imperial walkers you see are Micro Machines toys, and I gave them a light wash in watered-down black acrylic paint and wiped it all off. This had the effect of bringing out some details. To enable them to stand up in the gravel, I superglued a half-inch of plastic drinking straw to the bottoms of the feet. 2. DAGOBAH (See a trend starting here?) This is a 38-Long, stocked with Congo tetras, serpae tetras, and a single platinum angel. It's on continuous drip water changes (future post about that coming). The vines come from the floral department of Hobby Lobby. I glued them into floating foam using a technique The King of DIY demonstrated recently. The crashed spaceship is a brand-new Hallmark ornament. I drilled some holes in the bottom to allow water in so it would sink. 3. SPACEBALL This 20-Long has no live plants in it, so my water changes are frequent! With some assorted tetras and a single moonlight gourami as a centerpiece fish, this is my strangest tank. The floating planets come from a kids' educational solar system "mobile". The crystals came from eBay, and the astronauts are part of a Mega-Bloks Halo toy set. They don't fall over because I superglued a half-inch of drinking straw to the feet. I also gave them a light black acrylic wash to bring out detail. And for that extra alien touch, I mixed in a bag of rainbow glass beads into the black coarse aquarium sand. 4. ATLANTIS: Also a 20-Long, this tank houses a colony of multies with rummy nose tetras who stay out of the way. These statues are called the "Argonath" from Lord of the Rings. They're really a pair of resin bookends that came with one fo the DVD sets, and you can find them on eBay now. I drilled holes in the bottom to let water in, so that they would sink. So there you have it. What unconventional decor have you put in your tanks? Thanks for reading! Bill

I'm not sure if this idea is already well known or not, but I am going to share it anyway. If you have fast, voraciously eating mid-water fish like I do, and you have to try to get those pellets or wafers down to your bottom feeders without your other fish gobbling them up on the way down, this may really come in handy. It sure has for me lol. Rather than risking overfeeding or having to distract the other fish or take the time to do who knows what, this has saved me a ton of time and energy, and has allowed me to stop worrying if my bottom feeders are getting enough food or not. What you do is you order/buy a small acrylic or pvc tube roughly slightly taller than your aquarium. I ordered an acrylic tube about an inch in diameter (although it doesnt really matter as long as your food fits down the tube). Im also really glad I got clear because I prefer to see the food fall and its fun to watch my other fish try to eat it and get blocked by the plastic. Now what I do is I just stick the tube in the tank to where the top sticks above the water but the bottom rests on my substrate. Then its just as simple as it sounds! Just drop a few pellets in and theyll be at the bottom safely for your bottom feeders to find. I will also add that I first saw this on another post from a while ago. I am not trying to take credit for the idea but merely trying to pass it along.

Hot-rodding a new AquaClear 20 for an aquarium. 🛠️ This is how I personally break up the giant Wonder-shell. Safety glasses are MANDATORY... 🚩 Made a DIY algae scraper from a bit of hardware laying around. Used an old ice scraper with a home-brew swivel mount. Carbon fiber rod. 👀 Converted the algae scraper into a scrubber, with one of the Co-Op's foam pads. 👌 Made the handle a good length to keep my hands dry. 👏 Customized an ordinary bucket into a "fish-room-only bucket". Made a bracket in the basement ceiling for hanging it out of the way. 🧺 Maybe I'll do some traveling, in the future. ✈️

I just wanted to share some photos of my tiny reticulated hillstream loach fry. These fish are so cool and unique. I knew that i had a female and a male but i was not expecting to see fry so quickly! I am super excited that they’ve bred. I’ve counted three total so far and they seem happy and healthy.

Yes it’s just a final smoothing cycle as I recall. There is no lacquer on the rocks. Thanks for all the helpful answers. I’m feeling pretty good about them, but there are a lot so I might just pour an inch of vinegar from the giant jug in the garage and see if any bubble... In case anyone wants to play a game - here is the rest of ‘em, ignoring all the ordinary quartz and river rock. If there are any rock aficionados who want to tell me “Not THAT ONE!” 😄 I’ll likely not put all of them over the substrate but definitely the unique ones. Thanks everyone!

Yes I have braced my floors. I think this is something overlooked in the hobby as it is not brought up too often. I braced my floor for my 110 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump. I used 2 floor support jacks in my basement with a 4x4 spanning the two floor joists the tank sits on. My tanks sits parallel on the joists so I also added 2x8 bridging or "blocking" between the joists to evenly distribute the weight between both joists. Usually in homes the floor joists span the shortest distance of the room. This makes the best place for aquariums being along the longest wall with the tank sitting perpendicular on to the joists. That way the tank will sit on the most joists, evenly distributing the weight. Also a good idea to check your floor joists for damage, cracks, large holes, chunks missing from previous work etc. All things to consider when adding a tank volume of 75 gallon or more. I attached Marinelands spec sheet for standard size tanks which gives an approximate full weight.

I have the same problem. I mitigate this by shining my light at the top first for 10 minutes. bringing the free-swimming bbs off the bottom. Then I drain that sludge, and than I move the light to the bottom.

Built mine as a self-contained unit with everything you need. Way over-engineered, but fun. And yes, I bought a Ziss hatchery anyway. 🙂 Build log is over at Reef Central: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2694002

Frozen Baby Brine shrimp in my opinion should only be used if you absolutely have to. When thawed it just sinks in water and most of it is just mush. Will it keep your fry alive?, maybe, it depends if they go after it. Live baby brine shrimp swim around and trigger fry to strike out and eat, that is why almost all successful breeders use it and swear by it. It makes bringing fry along much easier. Also it is far cheaper to hatch live baby brine shrimp than buy frozen.

Am I getting in this and planting it or what!? just don't leave ladybird in there while i'm in there.. she freaks me out. haha

This seems like an ideal place to log the changes in my tanks, and get opinions on issues I'm struggling with. You'll notice a trend in most of my aquariums -- collectoritis. I'm at the stage of fishkeeping right now where I can't fathom a species-only tank. My schooling fish are all in sufficient numbers, but I still love the variety. I think I have an even bigger problem with plants. Over the past year I've just been buying all the plants to find out which ones grow (it's a secret, no one knows). I'll post each tank in order of acquisition. 1. Living room display, 40 breeder, initially set up August 2019. Below is what the tank looked like back in October. Started it out as a super-artificial scape, and then I realized how much I liked live aquatic plants and began adding them in droves. After some experience with subsequent tanks, I went back to this one for an overhaul. This is what it looks like today (changing the substrate was a B-and-a-half): YouTube video on this tank: The tiny sword plant you see in the lower left corner of the first pic has grown into the giant sword plant in the second pic. The floating moss ball was a recent addition from the Co-op, and while it arrived in great condition, I am cursed when it comes to growing moss. I just can't figure it out. Stocking: Angels, rosy tetras, maccullochi rainbows, australian rainbows, otos, powder blue dwarf gourami, and emerald corydoras. Update 4/10/21: I've been messing around with backlighting on this tank. See video below. 2. Dining Room, 20 tall, initially set up September 2019 I wanted to breed bristlenose plecos. It didn't take long before I saw baby bristlenose all over the glass, at least 30 of them. Unfortunately, they dwindled one by one over a period of two weeks - no idea why. There was one survivor, which has grown 2+ inches. But since that initial spawn, I've only seen white eggs that the male pushes out of the cave. Any tips to get this back on track? In addition to the plecos, it's housing my wife's platys from her classroom tank (she's a teacher) which are breeding, as well as breeding endlers and cherry shrimp. Stocking: Male and female adult and one juvenile bristlenose pleco, platies, endlers, cherry shrimp. 3. Daughter's tank, 20 tall, set up October 2019 My daughter (8 years old) wanted a tank for her room. Trying to move her away from the artificial plants but she likes them too much. So I just have to keep doing bleach dips every month or so until I can get the lighting balanced (upgraded her light recently). The lighting upgrade seems to have negatively affected her live water sprite, though. Used to be lush and green and now seems to be falling apart. Stocking: Platies, platy fry, green fire tetra, sunset honey gourami, pygmy corys, and guppies from my wife's classroom tank 4. Son's tank, 20 tall, set up November 2019 My son (6 years old) loves dinosaurs, so we went with sort of a prehistoric jungle theme. Stocking: Zebra loaches, panda corys, cherry barbs, purple harlequin rasboras, and one platy (offspring from my daughter's tank) YouTube Video on my Kids' Tanks: 5. The livebearer tank, 40 breeder, set up in February 2020. In the dining room next to the pleco fail tank, I have guppies, platys, and cherry shrimp breeding up a storm. I started with just guppies in the 20 tall in October, trying to breed the fancy strains from my LFS. I could never keep a single one alive for more than a couple weeks. I had purchased some already-pregnant females, which gave birth and died. I raised the fry and let them breed as well, and it looked like I was getting some strong stock out of them, so I set up this 40 breeder to let the guppies do their thing. Simultaneously, my daughter's platy was having babies, which I also added to this tank. Because of how much feeding I was doing, I added panda corys and cherry shrimp to the mix. But then in March/April, there was an outbreak of some horrid bacterial disease. My corys were happy, my shrimp were breeding, and the platys were thriving. But for several weeks the guppies died one by one, then two by two, then five by five, etc. I probably lost 75% of my guppy stock. Maracyn didn't touch it, nor did . What ended up working was kanaplex, though it crashed the cycle. Should've quarantined... I didn't lose any corys or platys during all this drama, though. I decided not to buy anymore guppies and just let my surviving endlers and guppies breed. Things are doing better, so much so that I've been able to grow out enough stock to trade in at my LFS. Also trying to grow java moss glued to foam (removed from my bonsai tree because nothing was growing). Stocking: Guppies, endlers, endler/guppy hybrids, platys, panda corys, cherry shrimp, and amano shrimp Note: The background in the above tank, as well as the cave, were DIYs that were intended for tank number 6. However, I wasn't entirely satisfied with the result and found a better DIY method online. Still, didn't want the first background to go to waste. EDIT (April 30, 2021): The amazon sword has really taken over since that above pic. I finally finished my video on this tank: 6. The Bedroom Display, 90 gallon, set up February 2020 Sometime in December, I dove into a large DIY project. I had 1/2 inch glass cut to custom dimensions so it could fit in a particular space in my bedroom, and I siliconed it all myself. Tank dimensions are 55"L x 17"W x 24"H. I also built the cabinet/stand and created the foam rock background . The tree used to have the moss I mentioned above, but recently changed it out for subwassertang. I plan to buy more of it soon. Every plant in here is exploding. I've had trouble keeping cardinal tetras alive. Can't tell you how many I've purchased, but the 15 or so left in here are doing well now. I've lost far fewer rummynose. This tank is just so much fun to look at. The rainbows and corys are always spawning, the forktails play in the spraybar current, the rummynose stay together and swim back and forth, the amano shrimp are big enough to stay visible and crawl all over the rock wall, and the gourami patrols the tank like it's his job and eats from my hand. The cardinal tetra just sort of exist and look pretty. It's the first thing I see when I wake up in the morning. Stocking: Cardinal tetra, rummynose tetra, boesemani rainbows, forktail rainbows, pearl gourami, otos, julii corys, and amano shrimp. 7. Betta in the bedroom, 16G fluval spec, set up June 2020 My wife wanted a betta tank, so we got one, tank number 2 in the bedroom. She made all the aquascaping and stocking decisions. New tank so still sorting out the algae, fert/light balance. Another christmas moss floater, doing better in this tank for some odd reason, but still don't have high hopes. Stocking: pygmy corys, white cloud mountain minnows, and betta BONUS: Quarantine bin Learned my lesson with those guppies, so I'm quarantining now. I'm trying to add a few more cardinal tetra to my 90G. I've had great success with aqua huna fish, except for their cardinal tetras. This time around, I ordered 20 and put them in this 10G sterilite container. I lost 9 of them over 48 hours, but the remaining 11 have been alive for the past 6 days. Still don't look great, though.

I'm Jon form Long Island New York. Great to be here and very exited to be a part of this new community. Just got back into the hobby after about 6 years thanks to the coop. Here are some pics.

Hey everyone! So excited to see this platform turn into a great place for information, care, and just general community. A little back story on myself; I am an amateur aquarist, that mainly focuses on guppies, but I am slowing expanding my current stock to include fish from other families/ species and regions. I love the fish community and all the people I have been blessed to meet through this hobby. So glad to be a part of it! here are a few of my guppy strains that I have kept or am keeping. Enjoy!

Hi there: My tanks are scattered throughout my house and office, and I thought it would be fun to share them one at a time. Each has some sort of quirk that makes it special to me or my family. Hope you enjoy! Coming from the computer world, I have named each of my 12 tanks, to make it easier to refer to them in conversation. "Atlantis" is easier to say than "the-top-middle-20-Long-in-the-office-with the-multies" Welcome to PANDORA This tank is a 3-gallon Top Fin Bettaflo "Soothe" picked up from PetSmart. It belongs to my wife Teri, who wanted to take things in as weird a direction as possible. https://www.petsmart.com/fish/starter-kits/top-fin-bettafloandtrade-sootheandtrade-betta-aquarium---3.5-gallon-40722.html The Bettaflo Soothe has a large center column mounted to an undergravel filter plate. A small water pump at the bottom of the column pumps the water upward and over the rim of the column to waterfall into the tank. MODIFICATIONS We made the following modifications: 1. Painted the back half black: I masked off the back half of the glass with masking tape, and brush-painted it with black acrylic paint. 2. Painted the center column black: I took out the center column and spray painted it with Plasti-Dip. This gave it a nice, even, rubbery coating that is inert when cured. 3. Added a mini LED light: The light that comes with this tank is fairly weak, and even though Teri didn't want live plants, she wanted some more creativity with the light. For $12 we added this off-brand multicolor LED light that suction cupped nicely to the inside of the lid: 4. Added a heater: We dropped in a cheap 5w self-setting heater, also from Top Fin, I believe. It tucks nicely away in the center column. DECOR For decor, Teri did the following: 1. Mixed pink & blue gravel (yuck!) 😉 2. Added a silicone "alien flower" (which I sliced into two pieces with a bandsaw to spread it out) 3. Added some rocks for the back. STOCKING For stocking, Teri has the following: 1. The most gorgeous galaxy koi plakat betta I have ever seen. 2. A cobra endlers guppy 3. A blue swordtail endlers guppy RECENTLY Recently, Teri let me replace one of the fake flowers with an Anubias nanji from Aquarium Co-Op to the tank, and aside from helping with water quality, it actually does look pretty nice in there! Also, the betta has started changing color: more black is starting to show. I read this is a sign of a happy fish! MAINTENANCE Maintenance involves a weekly 50% water change with a quick gravel vac. After the initial round of brown diatoms went away, we have had no algae trouble in the . Teri feeds a variety, consisting of betta pellets and freeze dried daphnia, and I drop in some frozen bloodworms and spirulina brine a couple times a week. So, while I personally wouldn't have jumped to make something this colorful and weird, it served to inspire me to think outside the box as much as possible when applying decor! Hope you enjoyed. More tanks coming soon! Thanks for reading, Bill

Thank you guys, really appreciate the kind words. Here's one idea up for grabs that I didn't do: a Stargate in a desert setting... I bring new meaning to the term fish NERD.

Back when I first stepped foot in the warehouse. Cold and empty. It's come a very long way.

What a beautiful Squeaker! 😍 Also love the Limia nigrofasciata! By far my favorite Limia. I could watch this tank all day.

I tested a few and I was getting .02 amps at 5.19 volts, this is well under a watt. So the solar panel you linked above should be plenty but also the original unit should be working. My guess is this is a case of the "smart" circuits being not so smart. Will it charge a phone while sun is on the panels? I would consider a plan B of pairing that new panel with the nitecore F1 or nitecore F2 charger. They aren't water resistant but are inexpensive, made for this situation, and the battery can be swapped out. I have a couple I keep around for power outages and I like them.

I had my hubby 3D print me a test tube stand at his work place because I too was tired of the test tubes falling over. Your solution is much nicer looking than mine. X3

Gorgeous betta. Pandora is a really fitting name, especially with those glowy plant things.

I would think the Co-Op might have them. The store would be my first choice. @Cory has done videos in the past. You could also try Aquabid or GetGills. Both have them listed right now if you search for "Heterandria formosa"

Lookin good! I was actually just checking out a very similar tank that has a hole in the lid to grow a plant but decided against it because it looked kinda cheapo online. Your tank looks so good tho youre making me think i need to pick one up

Whoa ok. Figured it out. LOL. X3

I particularly like the combination of a really natural jungle scape with one unexpected figurine or a "ruin" half hidden in it. That is what I like about Endor and Dagoba--you could just see a nicely scaped tank, and then there is a little Easter egg in there....and suddenly everything has more depth.

Im super clumsy and have knocked over my test tubes on more than one occasion so i knew i needed something like this but i just hadnt taken the time to do it. When i saw your stand today i decided i was done putting it off so i went out and made one out of an off cut i had lying around. So thanks Dave, if you hadnt made yours i probably never wouldve actually made one for myself.

I used to think that I didn't like artificial decor but the universe is working hard to prove me wrong. I love your themed tanks. They're brilliant! It helps that I'm a Trek and Star Wars fan. I recognized the LOTR statues as well. Couldn't figure out why you called it Atlantis at first. 😉 My son is a big fan of castles in aquariums and insisted that I include one in my betta tank. I have to confess that it's grown on me and will follow Rowan to his upgraded tank this weekend. It's just a store bought ornament, nothing amazing. But it's the first non-natural thing than I can remember having in one of my aquariums. As a bonus, when I wiggled my finger in front of the tank to coax him out, Rowan popped out of the little hole near the bottom edge of the castle. I had no idea that he liked to hang out inside it. That was a fun discovery! You're definitely inspiring. And while I'll probably keep my little slice of nature in my main tank we might have some fun with any tanks I add in the future.

How are the babies doing? Still alive?

I'm a big fan of sparkling gouramis and boraras. You could easily house half a dozen of each in a 10 gallon.

I think you could have a sweet Least Killifish setup with a 10 gallon. Bonus that you likely wouldn't need a heater, meaning more room in the tank. You could also do a fun Endler tank if you wanted more color and action.

Cool, that is one of my favorite things too. Maybe focus on a certain biotope then, or create a miniature version out of something else? I remember seeing a "desert" scene using things like khuli loaches for snakes and black shrimp for scorpions--amusing but not very "natural". But the concept is fun if you tried to make a miniature version of a favorite scene with mini fish and mini rocks and twigs and plants to maintain scale. It could be a little jewel box. Things like killi fish or ember tetras or dwarf rainbows. Alternatively you could go with a pair/few of some super charismatic small fish and make their perfect world. Small fish I like are guppies and Dwarf cichlids, because they notice you when you approach the tank. Of course, there are always betta and pea puffers that like their own domain too, and then no worries about breeding. I have been waffling about the puffers myself. they are sooo cute, and yet they belong on a desk, where you have to be close to see them.

Wow! Great photos! Gorgeous fish!

Wow those are awesome photos! Is that a lemon oscar??

Wow! Those are fabulous photos! I notice you refer to the first fish in the past tense. Is she gone now?

Really nice photos!

Added hornwort to the outdoor pond.

Weekly water changes and plant trims. :3

Id say i have a bit higher flow than normal in this tank for them but its not directional like a powerhead or anything. I just hot rodded the filter that came with it by removing the crappy cartridge and replacing it with aquarium coop sponge pad which increased the flow quite a bit. And then i added a sponge filter right up against a rock so that they can hang out on it in the flow. To be honest they dont spend most of their time in the high flow areas. They seem to treat the high flow more like a playground that they go flutter around in throughout the day.

Thank you so much! I like pest snails, but these specifically I love for their speckled bodies and the triangle tentacles. Thanks again!

OMG, I found old pictures! Circa 2007, back when I cared about saltwater over fresh. How little I knew...

That is quite an accomplishment!

This pandemic has obliterated most of my life plans for the year, really hard on an overachieving control freak like me. I think the timing of my fish obsession is a coping mechanism--a pretty healthy one. Before this I was starting to drink like it was a sport. Fish>Whiskey.

Once back in early 2000 I had a lovely 55 gallon and I worked hard on it to make it almost self contained. I gave it up when I moved, just didn't have a place to put back up. Fast forward to 2017 and i picked up one of those 16 widescreen ones. I have kept it limping along, not really putting any effort into it. When my last fish swam off to that fishy pond in the sky I stripped it all down because I wanted to do it right. I found Aquarium Co-Op on YouTube while trying to figure out what I wanted this time round for fish. The videos got me excited again about building and maintaining a quality tank environment for my fish friends. I am still struggling a bit but I am getting my water parameters just about right, I just have to get rid of this bba, figure out where my shrimp have gone (eyeballs her betta hunter), and turn back the amount of time the light is on. It still feels good to look over at my little tank, watch my betta Hunt around the gravel and drape himself over plants and things, watch the Danios dart around while the neons swim across the tank in their little group. I smile and feel proud that I am able to create a happy place for these fish to live and enjoy.

Thanks Lizzie! Good luck with your move, hope everything goes smooth!

This is going to be a great forum

I always wanted to do nature photography including aquatics. I just can't afford a good camera. 😛 My phone is not that great, but, meh. Your photos are beautiful. I look forward to seeing more.

Hi David. We’ve got a lot a TN fish keepers around. I’m in the Nashville area. I look forward to seeing what your future tank looks like.