Sort of fish room

[Lindy]

My sort of fish room is taking shape. Didn't want to go down the racking route again as you end up with so many tanks and fish it becomes a full time job. Sticking with 4 tanks in here, although they may be replaced by larger divided tanks at some point.
I have been afflicted by discus disease after buying 2 adults with fin rot and cloudy eye. They are now completely recovered and today were joined by a group of 4 1/2 mth old little uns. Eventually these will be moved to my 5x2x2ft when it is set up again.




The original inhabitants of the big tank are in a juwel 180 and are doing well.




The Betta simplex fry are in the juwel 96l and the paros and betta channoides have a little blackwater tank to themselves




I would eventually like another 80x60x40cm tank to go beside the one on the left

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[Dorbel]

Very nice and manageable fish room. More pleasure than chore I'm sure. What are the buce's in pictures 7 & 8?

 

[Manisha]

Really nicely organised - I like the white cabinet with all the storage for filters etc... The young discus look very cute compared the the adult ☺

 

[Lindy]

Very nice and manageable fish room. More pleasure than chore I'm sure. What are the buce's in pictures 7 & 8?

I'm afraid the buces got mixed up when the big tank was stripped down. Probably brownies of some sort lol..

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[Lindy]

Really nicely organised - I like the white cabinet with all the storage for filters etc... The young discus look very cute compared the the adult

Thanks Manisha, I just bought kitchen base cabinets. I'll put on some mdf panels later to hide all the "stuff"

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[Lindy]

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[Tim Harrison]

Marvellous...those discus look very happy, and loving the scape in the wood effect Juwel.
Just out of interest what's the reasoning behind the lack of substrate?

 

[Lindy]

Hi Tim, none of the tanks have substrate as they are all temporary. I find it easier to catch the fish without substrate that they can hide amongst. Once the big tank is set back up and the fish are in it I can do something more permanent.

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[Lindy]

Big tank is currently home to nothing more than some beech wood.

My view of the big tank...


Hopefully only 2 more weeks of loft conversion to go. Meanwhile I'm going to try and sell my big eheim and the dsuny leds and get a filter/ filters that I can actually remove from the cabinet without completely dismantling it. The lights are total overkill on what is definitely going to be low light tank.

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[Manisha]

Love your new avatar Lindy ☺

 

[dean]

Has real potential to just be able to sit and enjoy


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[Lindy]

Has real potential to just be able to sit and enjoy


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You are right Dean. Even in this infant stage I'm loving getting to watch my fish, mug of tea in hand, and it doesn't hurt that this little room is always toasty warm!

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[dean]

That's one of the drawbacks of having a fish you if you're spending a long time in there you dress fir the heat but when you come out you notice the difference


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[Lindy]

Happy new year everyone! Can't believe how much the young discus have grown since I posted their pics beginning of November.



Now they look like this 2 months later..









Unfortunately the chequerboard and blue turk I bought first do not appear to have grown much but have huge heads and eyes so I suspect they are stunted and won't get much bigger. I think in another couple of months the youngsters will be bigger than them.

I'm having the big tank resealed in Feb and then can hopefully get it set up for the discus.

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[sciencefiction]

I actually love the substratless 180l set up. It looks very nice and the fish colour goes great with the rocks 🙂

 

[Lindy]

I actually love the substratless 180l set up. It looks very nice and the fish colour goes great with the rocks 🙂

Thanks. I've stopped noticing the lack of substrate, I think because the tank is so full. I'm loathe to touch it but I'll need some of the wood/rock and plants for the big tank.

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[zozo]

Coool!! Very lovely fish too.. I wish i had room for that.. Fishtanks and loads of pampers says a lot, you need room.. 😀
Now you got me thinking, with those pampers.. Might be a good motivation to get what i want.. And convince someone we need more space.. 🙄

 

[Lindy]

Coool!! Very lovely fish too.. I wish i had room for that.. Fishtanks and loads of pampers says a lot, you need room.. 😀
Now you got me thinking, with those pampers.. Might be a good motivation to get what i want.. And convince someone we need more space.. 🙄

Haha zozo, those pampers boxes are full of our books, not nappies! We have one daughter she is enough for us lol..

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[Lindy]

A couple of months down the line has seen the big tank get started up again complete with sump. Has been scaped (I use the term very loosely as usual) with my Discus in mind.



More plants, namely anubias, trident java fern and more pennywort , have been added since this pic was taken but lights are out.
The Discus are still in the fishroom busy growing. I sold a few to a friend to make room for some different strains and have added a tiger turq, mosaic turq, 2 x rose reds and a red snakeskin. All Chens fish from Discus Central in Scotland.

My babies are at the 4.5 -5.5inch Mark now



New babies 3.5 to 4"





The young Betta Simplex went to Colin Dunlop (bar a few) and the tank has now been set up for some new fish I hope to get around the end of April/may.





I'm hoping a group of Peacock eels will be happy in there.


The 180 is home to all the gourami and wild bettas. Once the Discus have moved to the big tank the 240l will be set up for these guys. Then the 180l will be divided to house a couple of species of wild betta, one which I am hoping will be Betta Mahachaiensis.

Meanwhile the chocos seem happy and several females are holding. They appear to have paired off, which I didn't expect, and the males guard their women fanatically. The women follow their males slavishly which tends to cause more trouble than if they just hunkered down in a chosen spot.



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[Lindy]

A choco with a gob full of eggs



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