65 gallon "Super tank"

[werehatwere]

Well, after seeing all of the tank builds that are going on around this thread, I thought that I would share my own build. A 65 gallon "long" tank (Thanks a lot to Vernon for the free tank ) will be the star. I originally was going to have this built for a 30 gallon, but I wanted something more substantial. The tank will be divided into 6 sections. Each section about 12 gallons except for the last one witch would be about 5 gallons. So far the tank looks like this:

Here is the link to the photo... I dont know how to post picks in here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65093594@N06/6710940273/

The pic pretty much sums it up.. Ill have real picks up soon.

[cdylnicki]

Very interesting! 

I cant wait to see it in action.

[Peekay]

Cool idea!  Are you building all the dividers etc yourself? 

[werehatwere]

Haha well the tank actually turned out to be much larger then 65 gallons...its 90 gallons! My seller thought it was 65...Anyways, I caved. I knew it would happen...the moment I laid eyes on the tank, I knew that I didnt have the heart to split it up. So I came up with a new plan. I am going to get all of the fish I want to put in here, along with many invertebrates. If by chance they have babies, I will let them grow out in the tank as it will be heavily planted. Im going to get about 50  pounds of those lava, and sand rocks, and make a huge mountain that has lots of caves in it. The rock itself is very cheap. Only like a dollar a piece.  My plan is to add tones of driftwood, and rocks on top of the drift wood, sort of making a natural divider. I have a miny rock mountain right now, but it needs to be larger. There will be moss and plants ( Live of course that will stick out of the mountain. I will also add about 100 RCS and have them spawn in the moss. Any babys will be moved to a safe shrimp haven. The fish in the tank will probably be:
Glofish
Live beares
tetras
gourmis
a clown loach
*possibly a spawning pair of angel fish
and rainbow sharks.

Also dose anybody know of friendly chichilds that could go in there with them?

[cdylnicki]

Get a school of clown loaches instead of only one.

They are very social and will be more active with friends!

[sas]

I'd personally remove glofish from your list, there are lots
of other nicer fish out there.

As a side note does anyone know if the ban on glofish been lifted?

[jshchrtn]

I'd personally remove glofish from your list, there are lots
of other nicer fish out there.

As a side note does anyone know if the ban on glofish been lifted?

I don't think so, I looked it up recently and couldn't find any information that they've allowed the sale of them.  I wouldn't mind having a ten or twenty gallon glofish tank though.

Definetly want to see progress shots of your super tank!

[charlie]

Although cherry shrimp are tough & resilient, i think it would be an interesting challenge for them in that set up, with your present wish list of fish.

[werehatwere]

I actually scraped the angels. I hear what they do to tetras. And there was a band on glofish? Why? whats up with them...I also just finished cycling a 10 gallon tank exclusively for RCS babies. How can you tell when a mother is ready to lay her eggs? And I heard that gouramis will breed in the community tank. I dont need 300 gouramis. How can I tell male from female so I only get males?

[jshchrtn]

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/pre-2007/files/health/glofish/

Here is info on glofish ban

[cdylnicki]

$49 dollars each?!

Who in their right mind  would pay that much for a glowing zebra danio!! (No offence if anyone here has)

[werehatwere]

^^^ I agree. I would never pay that much. And its funny. Just before this all began, I saw some at big als for $1.39 each. I thought to myself, meh Ill get them some other time. Well anyone have some glofish for sale? Lol.

[bizfromqc]

I don't know if the "Local Breeders" list is up to date but we do have a member on there that lists Glo Fishes as one of the species.