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Warhawk

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  1. I have two memory's that really stand out for me. My first memory of keeping fish was when I was 5 or 6 I remember my family had what I thought was a huge fish tank in our living room. I can remember it had 3 or 4 gold fish and lots of fake plants. Thinking about it now I'm guessing it was a 30 or 40 gallon tank. I remember feeding them a few times but we didn't keep the tank very long. Later when I was 10-12 years old I would spend the summers playing in the creek behind my house. I remember digging out a section of the creek and making a dam to build a small area to let the fish live in. I would catch small fish and crayfish in the creek and turn them loose in the area I had built. It is amazing how much time a kid has to do stuff like that when your single mom worked 2 jobs.
  2. I was thinking if I got enough hiding places and got them fully going they would make it but yeah after thinking about it more I think your right they won't survive more than a few weeks. So time to rethink that idea. My tap water is 7.5ph so getting it lower for apistos is possible but could be a lot of work. I know they will do okay at 7.5 but closer to 7.0 would make them happier. I will need to check the gravel that is in the tank but as long as it isn't sharp edge rock the corydoras should be fine. If the gravel would work they might be a good idea.
  3. I'm leaning toward the live bearer tank, because I have keep oscars in the past and while I enjoy them maybe it is time for something different. If I do this I don't want to mix live bearers that will cross breed so no guppy with molly. That was why I was thinking molly and swordtails. With a tank that large I could drop a pair of apistogramma or kribs which would do great too as long as they take over the bottom. Thought about corys for the bottom "cleaners" but with the gravel some cherry shrimp would be a good idea. But any of the fish above will eat those unless I can give them a nice head start. I'm really thinking this is the best idea plus if it all fails I could move all the fish to 20g or 40g tanks where the oscars can't go there once grown.
  4. So want to ask here for some feed back on what to do next with my 150g tank. Quick back story the tank has been setup for 6+ years with Lace catfish and big Texas cichlid. The Texas has passed and the LFS is interested in the lace catfish so think it is time to revamp the setup into some thing different. Idea #1 Break down the tank give it a full clean change the gravel to sand drop in some large drift wood and pick up two Oscars 2"-3" long and let them live there for the next 10+ years. Even with regular water changes and vacuuming the gravel there is still a lot of fish poo still in the bottom of that tank. So if I do Oscars I will want to strip it all out and start off fresh (keeping the cycled filters) Idea #2 That gravel could be a gold mine for plants at this point. I could drop in some 2-3 Amazon swords and some Dwarf sagittaria along the front of the tank in the gravel. They should grow like mad for a long time. I will have to add root tabs at some point but that wouldn't be too hard to maintain. With live plants I can't do the oscars so thinking moving my Lyretail yellow mollies and maybe add some swordtails. That is a huge tank for livebearers but seeing 75-100 of these guys swimming around all the live plants would be awesome. So what do you think Oscars or Mollies with plants?
  5. I would say my favorite is the Red or Blue but I do like them all. My goal is to have reds, blues, yellow and orange (in different tanks) once I get enough tanks setup.
  6. Salt water does cost more. I have a friend with a 80g salt tank and costs a lot more to keep up than my 150g from what he tells me. My room was in my basement and about 200sq feet so not huge but had about 1,200 gallons at my peak. I would have to estimate the cost but pretty sure it was less than $150-200 per month. If I where to rebuild my fish room with better walls, door and better insulation I could drop the power bill down to nothing. If I did auto water changes could cut the water bill too. My guess is a well build and thought out room would be about $100 or less per month
  7. Yeah the timeline is very vague and things would change. My thought is my filters are seeding in my main tank right now and will be adding water and substrate this week. I have to order new heaters I don't want to use my old ones just not worth the risk. That means I could order plants over the weekend and have them in the tank next week, so fish could be this weekend or next week depending if I go with mutt or order online.
  8. I know I won't be getting a lot of money from the local stores for the quality guppies and doing mutts will be cheaper up front I might still go with quality ones because the would be nicer to look at. Looking at my time line (listed below) I could cut it down by 3 months or so if I bought 20 mutts at the local store for the same price I would by the quality online. Follow up to OP. So assuming my plan is solid that leads me to my time line here. Lets assume I get the Quality Trio from online at the middle of this month(Jan) I could have 3 month old fish to sale in 6 months right? Feb Fish are in tank with first spawn on the way. Mar first fry drop (calling them Spawn A) April- May original females still dropping fry (still part of Spawn A group) June Spawn A fry are 3 months old and start spawning July Spawn A have dropped fry (Spawn B) Sept Spawn B are ready to start spawning Oct Spawn B have dropped fry (Spawn C) Feb Spawn C have dropped new spawn Mar swap over 5 or 6 males in each tank Rough math is Spawn A will be 15-20 fish, Spawn B 100-125 fish, & Spawn C many hundreds of fish but with deaths and having to cull some realistically I could have fry to sell in 6 months. That would mean I need to be adding the Guppy Grass or Java Moss right away and then around April-May I could add Red cherry shrimp to the tanks. That gives the tanks some time to get ready, the plants to grown in well so the shrimp have room to hide. Then given another 3 or 4 months the shrimp should be established well and can start to sell of these guys too. So my thinking is about a year to have it going full swing with 2 very solid tanks fully of Beautiful fish, lots of plants and colorful shrimp crawling all over the place. With the mutts I could have have the fish in the tanks in full swing in 6 months with the shrimp needing a little more time. Very hard to say I could tell myself I would swap out the mutts down the road but honestly that won't happen I would have to setup new tanks for quality guppies. But I could use the time to build up my own line of guppies if I wanted to go that way.
  9. From what I'm reading about every 4th gen you need to bring them back together. So my every 12 months is a rough guess to be on the safe side. I have read some places you need more than 2 tanks to pull this off but wanted to be sure 2 is enough. I could buy more fish every year from the same breeder to add a little more mix but not sure it is needed. Thanks
  10. Yes MTS is real. I really enjoyed my fish room, couldn't count the hours of time I spent tending to the fish and relaxing. But after a few years it was just taking too much time away from the family and had to scale back. I keep my big tank going and many people tried to buy it but couldn't give up all my fish. If you ever get a chance for a room what every time & money you think it will take double it. They take a lot to make run but worth it.
  11. Thank you. Angelfish are very cool and would go well in my main tank but before I do that I would want to flush out my main tank and reboot it.
  12. As I posted in the intro section I think it is time to setup some new tanks for breeding guppies. But hoping to get some advice. My goal is to setup 2 tanks where I can breed and be able to sale to the local store. I know I won't get rich but $50-75 per month is good for me. My question is over the years having breed guppies in my other tanks after a while the line starts to degrade. To prevent that from happening here is my idea let me know what you think. Ebay has little higher quality guppies so pick up a trio for $50. Then keep them together for about a month and then move one female to a new tank. Once spawned that will give me two of the same line. Then every 3-4 generation swap 5 or 6 males from each tank. My thought is 3-4 generations should be about every 12 months maybe a little more but to be safe. That should keep the lines pretty stable for years. What do you all think? Will this work or better to buy low quality and just drop 4 or 5 new males from the store in a year to each tank? I also know just guppy even higher end ones won't do $70 per month. So going to add Java moss or guppy grass and shrimp to the tanks. Between those two with the guppies I'm pretty sure I can get that out of each tank. Not sold on the idea of guppy grass, I know it grows faster but could be a little too much if the stores don't buy enough of it. My starting tank will be a 30g long 12" W, 12"H, 48"L (I think that is 30g) and I'm thinking of picking up a 20g long for my second. Put a fresh filter in my large tank last night to start seeding it and by the time I get fish (maybe 2 weeks) it will be ready to go in the starting tank. Then will start another filter for the other tank. Any suggestions are welcome Thanks
  13. Hello everyone, About 3-4 years ago I needed a break so I shut down most of my fish room, I dropped from 25+ tanks to 2 so huge amount of time freed up. After taking that break I catch myself looking at the fish tanks in restaurants and thinking it could be time to set up a few tanks. Plus the local store credit I have from when I traded it fish is kind of burning a hole in my pocket as they say. What I enjoyed was breeding fish and always loved guppies. So I think I will use this to setup some a few tanks just for those things, I'm going to post in the breeding section about that. So hello again to everyone.
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