Greetings from NYC!

[Eclipse]

Hi everyone, 

Happy to be here. I'm a pretty experienced hobbyist from The Big Apple. Living in a small apartment limits the size of tanks I can keep so my largest is a 55 gallon turtle tank (with a basking room on top so don't worry 😉).

I then have two five gallon betta tanks, a small ten gallon betta community, another ten gallon blue dream shrimp community, and a 20 gallon long puffer community tank. No, there is not a bloodbath happening in there.

I have all live plants and my tanks are mostly rather heavily planted or in the process of growing out into a moderately planted look. I am obsessed with colorful and red plants.

Edited September 9, 2020 by Eclipse

[Bill]

5 hours ago, Eclipse said:

 

I have all live plants and my tanks are mostly rather heavily planted or in the process of growing out into a moderately planted look. I am obsessed with colorful and red plants.

 

I'm the same with colorful and red plants... had a 30 gallon tank for years but recently started up more and I'm taking it more seriously now... disappointed at the number of good local shops in central NJ for fish and plants, looks like you have a good number of better shops in NYC. 

[Eclipse]

37 minutes ago, Bill said:

I'm the same with colorful and red plants... had a 30 gallon tank for years but recently started up more and I'm taking it more seriously now... disappointed at the number of good local shops in central NJ for fish and plants, looks like you have a good number of better shops in NYC. 

Yeah, we have more options for sure and local hobbyists are happy to sell plant clippings for cheap or even give them away free sometimes. Maybe you have a local Facebook fish group you can join. That's how I find inexpensive things for the hobby.

 

[Rikostan]

I'm in NY too, but waaaaaay upstate. I can't find a pet store or fish group anywhere within 50 miles of me, so I am stuck going to petco/petsmart. Luckily buying online is pretty easy these days and there are a ton of good sellers out there for plants and fish.

 

Love the pics, some awesome looking fish friends there!

[pedrofisk]

Welcome, fellow New Yorker as well.

[Bill]

BTW, Discus Madness in Union (central) NJ is great! Tons of beautiful angels and other fish, and good plants in addition to discus. 

[Eclipse]

2 hours ago, Rikostan said:

I'm in NY too, but waaaaaay upstate. I can't find a pet store or fish group anywhere within 50 miles of me, so I am stuck going to petco/petsmart. Luckily buying online is pretty easy these days and there are a ton of good sellers out there for plants and fish.

 

Love the pics, some awesome looking fish friends there!

You can join the NYPT (New York Planted Tanks) group as well as their marketplace group on Facebook. Lots of the members will ship plants to fellow NYers even if you are upstate. I got tons of free plants or plants for cheap and only paid shipping.

[Eclipse]

2 hours ago, pedrofisk said:

Welcome, fellow New Yorker as well.

Thanks!

[Eclipse]

1 hour ago, Bill said:

BTW, Discus Madness in Union (central) NJ is great! Tons of beautiful angels and other fish, and good plants in addition to discus. 

That's great to know, thank you!

[Rikostan]

18 minutes ago, Eclipse said:

You can join the NYPT (New York Planted Tanks) group as well as their marketplace group on Facebook. Lots of the members will ship plants to fellow NYers even if you are upstate. I got tons of free plants or plants for cheap and only paid shipping.

Appreciate the tip! i stopped using Facebook a few years ago though. I know there are quite a few decent fish related groups on there, but the rest of it just isn't worth it.

[Eclipse]

33 minutes ago, Rikostan said:

Appreciate the tip! i stopped using Facebook a few years ago though. I know there are quite a few decent fish related groups on there, but the rest of it just isn't worth it.

Oh, I see. Yeah, some groups can be a bit toxic so I understand.