These are the tanks I currently have up and running. The heaters are taken out during the Summer when they are not needed to maintain an acceptable temperature, as I live in Australia. They are all cycled. I do have some photos on my posts if you’re interested. The fish in the earlier photos have now passed away, unfortunately.
Female guppy community tank:
This tank holds 18 gallons. It’s dimentions are: 24 inches wide x 12 inches deep x 15 inches high.
Currently houses 5 rummynose tetras, 3 black kuhli loaches, and approximately 10 female guppies, bred and raised my me. The tank has no live plants. I’m using fine black gravel. It doesn’t have a very descent light at the moment. It’s got a small light at the moment, I think it’s a 5 watt flurescent. At least the kuhli loaches appreciate the dimmed lighting. For filtration I have a VitaPet Crystal Clear Aquarium Filter 700. It filters 700 litres an hour, which is 185 gallons. For this tank I only need a filter with a flow rate of about 70 gallons per hour, So this filter is much bigger than really needed. This is how I support the extra fish in the tank, as well as bigger water changes than really needed. I have it set up so that the water flows into the back wall of the tank. This prevents a strong current, meaning it won’t bother the fish. I use a 50 watt VitaPet Automatic Aquarium Heater (built-in thermostat).
Male Guppy Tank:
This tank holds 18 gallons. It’s dimentions are: 24 inches wide x 12 inches deep x 15 inches high.
Home to my 5 remaining male guppies, bred and raised by me. This tank has two VitaPet Crystal Clear Aquarium Filter 200’s (200 liters an hour per filter. That’s about 53 gallons an hour). This aquarium is planted. It has a 24 watt flourescent light. I use Aristopet Aqua Master Plant Food. It has natural gravel. The plants include one amazon sword, dwarf hairgrass, moneywart, elodea/anacharis, and one plant I can’t find any information on at all. If you want to count it as a plant, there’s algea growing on the driftwood (or rather, taking it over!). This tank is fitted with a submersible heater with built-in thermostat.
AquaOne AR380. Holds 9 gallons.
Siamese algae eater tank.
This tank currently holds a single Siamese algea eater. He’s now approximately two and a half inches in length. The tank has a built-in wet/dry filter and a 7 watt flourescent light, however I do not have any live plants in this tank. I’m using fairly fine, natural gravel. The tank is set up with a small VitaPet heater (i’m not sure of the wattage), which has a built-in thermostat.
Spare/currently empty tanks:
3 gallon acrylic tank. Has it’s own light and good, oversized filter.
4 cheapo plastic tanks, probably hold about 4 gallons each. A few spare sponge filters.
Want:
4 foot aquarium. Dimentions of 4ft x 18in x 28in. ~90 gallons.
I can’t decide what I would get if I owned this tank. Either a tiger oscar and a turtle or two, or a breeding pair of oscars(still researching these ideas), or a breeding pair of gold headed angelfish with some community fish. My rummynoses and black kuhli loaches would go in there if Ichose to keep the angels. If I got a group of small angels and waited for the to mature and pair off, I would get a large school of neons. Hopefully this way the majority of them will survive and grow as the angels do. I would provide hiding spaces to help avoid them being eaten, as neons are natural prey of angelfish in the wild. If I went with the oscars or the oscar and turtle(s), I would use the 10 galon tank to breed guppies and shrimp as live food. The turtle(s) would be happy and healthy, the oscar(s) would also be happy and in better condition for breeding, and the oscar fry would grow faster, as well as them being healthier. The two 20 gallon tanks could be used as grow-out tanks for the oscar young, or they could also be used to breed live food, but then I would have to get rid of my current fish, or wait for them to pass away. I still need to to a lot of research before making a decision.
