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Out of Your Aquarium
This 72 gallon Oceanic bowfront with stand
and cap, can be seen on the aquarium page, but this photo lets the rock and plantwork show. The entire tank, from
down payment until it was stocked with fish, was put together in less than 48 hours.
Left end closeup: (Reflection
of blinds couldn't be avoided.) 
Right End. The suction
cups have since been eliminated. 
Fish, waiting for dinner.
Visible: Blue and gold gouramis, bala shark, red-tailed shark, black ghost tetra, clown loach. 
Cichlid tank, 70 gallon prox
(48 inch by 18 inch deep, 24 inches tall) This one's in a doctor's office, so the decor is pretty conservative.
Lots of rocky cover. The
left end. 
More rocky cover and caves.
The right end. 
The same tank, redecorated in May
2001. 
Cichlid
tank, my 30 gallon high before the cichlids started rearranging it.
We decorated and maintained this one for a year, from Sept 2001
until about November 2002 
Photo taken December 4 2001. 
Photo taken December 4 2001. 
Photo taken December 4 2001. 
Photo taken December 4 2001. 
Photo taken December 4 2001. 
Cichlid tank in a museum: fast fish. Photo taken Sept 20, 2005. 
Cichlid tank in a museum: fast fish. Photo taken Sept 20, 2005. 
Cichlid tank in a museum: fast fish. Photo taken Sept 20, 2005. 
Original 'logo' fish recovered after a bout of ich. Photo taken Nov 11, 2000. 
125
gallon planted aquarium in a school building. Stock: Bala sharks, congo tetras, red serpae tetras, black mollies,
dwarf gouramis, 1 large pleco, several otocinclus, a donated swordtail, a couple of platies. Plant stock: a large
variety of live plants. Decor supplemented with natural rocks, artificial driftwood, and a few artifical plants.
Lighting: Oceanic dual bulb fixtures on approximately 9 hours per day. Filtration: undergravel covering 4 square
foot of this large aquarium's floor, driven by 4 Hagen 301 Powerheads. Heater: PennPlax Submersible. Aquarium setup
date: August 2003. Initial culture: FritzZyme 7. Plant supplement: Instant Amazon by Marc Weiss.
29
gallon tank in a small office. Filtration: Millennium 2000, air-driven sponge filter for backup. Decor pieces:
probably PennPlax or BlueRibbon pieces. Stock: 2 very large plecos, 2 opaline gouramis, 1 clown loach. The tank
will be moved soon, and any new fish are waiting for the move to be completed. 
Red Caulerpa in low-light reef tank. When I saw the plant sprouting out of a rock, tangs and rabbitfish
were elminated from potential stock choices for this aquarium. 40 gallon tank features about 80+ pounds of live
rock that wasn't show quality, 60 lb aragonite sandbed. Filtration: 3 circulating pumps in the aquarium, SeaClone
skimmer, and an older dual whisper-type filter on the back which never gets new cartridges. Started in August 2003,
photo 1/29/04. A blend of the "new" salt ideas, with the sandbed and chiefly live rock filtration, and
old ideas featuring: let's not have an ammonia or nitrite spike. Initial culture: FritzZyme 9. Current salt mix:
DI water with Instant Ocean, additives: Kent Trace, Iodine, Strontium/Molybdenum, Seachem Reef Buffer, Kalkwasser,
Seachem Calcium Buffer. Water changes currently: 4 gals per month. Will need increased to bi-weekly soon, since
the last 3 fish were added only a week ago.
River tank, 55 gallon, in
the early stages of development. Presently only plants, pump and water. 