What's New in Your Tank Today?

Not in my tank, more-so in the oven.... I went to a lake out west (somewhere south of Roanoke) and the lake was drained down a bit. Anyhow I have 3 new pieces of driftwood I am curing. 2 in the oven (larger than my pots) and 1 boiling in a pot.

Tomorrow, into the tank..... maybe.....

 

awesome! do you remember the location (I used to live in Roanoke)?

 

Clayton Lake? I think that is it?

 

if i new you was going to the lake I would have gotten you to get me some driftwood too!! LOL!! no im only kidding.

 

I honestly only got 3 pieces.... didnt want to take future fishy homes.... and also the 3 I found were really cool looking. All of the others were plain sticks.... these 3 were really neat. I have them in the tank now after boiling/baking for several hours..... they wont sink yet... but oh well, 2 held down with a rock and the large one just floating.......

these 3 guys are going to make me have to re-arrange my tank....

 

Woo Hoo Finally got my 55gl...

 

not really in my tank, but today my first fish tank ever, my 20gal that held a few of my community fish (black mollies, danios, cory cats, and some snails) decided to crash through the thing i had it sitting on. 1 molly, 1 snail, 1 danio, and 1 of my cories didn't make it through the fall. Luckily my girlfriend came home right after it happened and saved a couple of the fish that hadn't died. Her mother then went and got my a new christmas present, and got me a 55gal tank kit. So now i have the couple of fish in a really small tank untill the 55 cycles completely.

 

Wow, thats good and bad lol, enjoy the new tank, and sorry about the old one, is the RTC in your sig a red tail cat?

 

yea, I have him in a 180gal that my girlfriend and I were going to use as a saltwater bamboo shark tank. A guy i know at work got him when he was 2 inches, didn't know anything about them, and when he found out that it would eventually grow to giant proportions and would eat his other fish, he wanted to get rid of him. So my girlfriend and I decided to take him in and put him in the unused at the time 180gal. As of right now he's probably around the 4-5 inch mark, and I'm planning on building him a huge indoor heated pond. As well as this forum, I now belong to another forum, and they have some good plans on how to build a pond of that size for them. He likes to mostly hang out in a cave i built for him, and he eats worms and krill from my hand.

Edited by Anthony: Removed Forum Name

 

be careful throwing around that "other" forums name, but yes Im glad you know what your doing, do youhave any pics? Thats one of my dream fishes!!

 

sorry about the name drop, yea, i got a couple pics last night. nope, the pic is of my spotted raphael. I'll upload a couple pics of him as soon as I finish this post.

 

after looking at the pics, this is the only slightly good shot I got of him.

 

2 snails.

 

Got 2 Green Spotted Puffers! These dudes are great! Earl and Edgar.

 

keep an eye on them one will prolly try to kill the other

 

Yea I am, they are right next to the couch! Perfect spot for them. The tank has a lot of plants and driftwood so they have plenty of places to hide.

 

Are you going to slowly convert the tank to brackish water in order for these guys to strive?

 

One will have to be removed, or the other will remove it for you.

 

yes i am. i got the stuff today to start doing it.

 

a Blue Paradise Gourami and 2 Synodontis nigrita (at least that's what they are supposed to be, the spots look larger then on the pics I've seen and they seem to have a light colored stripe going down their sides, but then, they are also young)