I really would like to do a fish room but this will do for now...
I have 5 aquariums total:
- 125G Wild Discus
- 40G Breeder for QT
- 29G Crystal Red Shrimp
- 20G Chinese fire bellied newts
- 10G TBD...
125G
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I plan on making my own wild thread in the future and possibly moving them to a bigger home (200G+). I have a Fluval FX6 but really really... really want a sump! For the time, since the 4 Nhamunda Reds get along in the 40 I will continue keeping them in there.
The office
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This is where majority of the aquariums are. Sorry about the blurry Discus... they get super excited when I walk in the room. It's like having 4 extra puppies.
29G
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There's about 40+ CRS and several that are berried. Also have a handful of nerite snails, mostly zebras.
10G
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This guy only exists because I had a lot of Ohko (Dragon) stone left over when I tore down my 125 discus/planted, with the addition of a bag of ADA amozonia I figured "why not." Not sure what I'll be putting in here yet. I was thinking Crystal blacks because the pH sits around 6.2 but we shall see. I was really wanting royal blue tigers but the pH is too low and i'd need a inert substrate for them... maybe Taiwan bess but they're really expensive. I even thought a Beta since I've never had one before. Open to your opinions.
20G
I prob should of just made the thread about these guys...
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Laying Eggs
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Pulled the babies this afternoon. 7 so far
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These guys have been a childhood love since I was 7 years old. I loved these things as a child but should be serving a life sentence for how many I killed. For those of you that didn't know most of these are wild caught that you see in the stores. It's easier to catch them as a "eft" and eft newts stay primarily on land. They will actually drown if in water too deep (hence why I'm a murderer of newts).
These are actually a lot harder to find as an adult... they used to sell them in petsmart and all LFS when I was a kid. I had to have my parents get them from a reptile store in Vegas and I online ordered the rest. As an adult I've had better success than as a child, I am "successfully" breeding these guys now (actually on accident). Newts are actually supposed to breed in cold water (below 65 deg fahrenheit), they have been laying eggs around 72-75 deg. I guess they are extremely comfortable!!! Just took a little time and removed the dumb plastic decorations and gave them live plants and real rock/wood and they are thriving now.
Thank you for browsing and I'll update this from time to time
- Paul