Show off your Fish Room

[Larry Bugg]

geez Larry, how am I supposed to follow that up? lol NICE video

Ill post mine in a few days, lemme get things caught up from being out of town

Jeevus Bugman! I just showed that to my girlfriend to confirm that my 4 tanks are not that big of a deal !!! B.A though for sure !!!

Awesome fishroom Larry! Even better in person! Are you sure you don't want to get rid of those greens??

David

Thanks guys. It is indeed a addiction lol. People say it must be a lot of work but really it is my time to wind down and get away from stress. Water changes are good for the soul.

[Disgirl]

WOW Larry, that is some fish room!! All those beautiful fish in all those clean tanks, all those plants, I am speechless. Now I see why you wanted so many of my breeding cones! You must spend hours in there each day, and love every minute. I particularly love those black angels, just fantastic! I didn't even notice any glare, just admiring the tanks of fish! Now when someone tells me I have too many tanks, 3, I will remember your fish room.
Barb

[scottthomas]

Impressive fish room you have there Larry. Some great wild specimens in your collection that I especially like. Also love all of the plants. BTW how many total gallons in your fishroom? Looks like you did an expert job utilizing the space. Plenty of room to work and yet still many many tanks to play with

[Larry Bugg]

Impressive fish room you have there Larry. Some great wild specimens in your collection that I especially like. Also love all of the plants. BTW how many total gallons in your fishroom? Looks like you did an expert job utilizing the space. Plenty of room to work and yet still many many tanks to play with

Appreciate the compliments.
Well you made me stop and add it up. The last time I had checked I had around 1300 gallons in the house but I have since taken down some tanks and added a couple of others. I have 1175 gallons in the fish room and another 120 gallons upstairs.

Not so sure about expert job. Wish it had been planned out but it really boiled down to finding tanks on Craigs list and then fitting them in. Not the best way to do it but it works for now.

[Larry Bugg]

WOW Larry, that is some fish room!! All those beautiful fish in all those clean tanks, all those plants, I am speechless. Now I see why you wanted so many of my breeding cones! You must spend hours in there each day, and love every minute. I particularly love those black angels, just fantastic! I didn't even notice any glare, just admiring the tanks of fish! Now when someone tells me I have too many tanks, 3, I will remember your fish room.
Barb

Thanks Barb!

I really don't spend that much time working at it daily. The planted tanks require no daily attention. Plants do a wonderful job of helping with filtration. I rarely do a w/c on a planted tank. Simple top it off and then occasionally trim plants and clean the tank a little. The discus tanks get the bottoms cleaned each day but that is pretty quick. The adult tanks get water changes every few days and the juvies and fry get changes daily. I use a phyton to clean the bottoms so I just go from tank to tank, really pretty quick. I use a pump to empty tanks that are getting a w/c. I have four 44 gallon brute trashcans for water storage and two pumps that are used to refill tanks. I can be pumping out a tank, using the python to clean the bottoms and have pumps refilling two tanks at a time. Multitasking..............thank goodness for concrete floors cause I hear splashing quite often, lol.

[angel al]

Now THAT is a fish room!

[Naexus]

Larry, love the fish room. I really like the planted tanks.

What are the floating plants in the discus tanks?

[DiscusChris]

Alright guys, I don't have a fancy video cam. (if my GF is reading this, birthday HINT HINT) Here are a ton of pics from my 5 year old camera. Enjoy







Here is my 1st attempt at a central filter system, it works great. Its stocked now, sorry it looks empty! The bottom 2x4 isnt bowing, its my crap cam at work.



Sump



Here are the tanks going into a new system over the summer




Stendker Cobalts








Stendker Red Scribbles







Young Carnation/fine-line Blue SS






Angels







The only tank I have without algae (yet), glass is still dirty though. Sorry!

[Larry Bugg]

Very nice Chris. I really love that pic of the Cobalt.

[Larry Bugg]

Wasn't happy with the quality of my video so I worked on reducing the glare from the lights and shot the video again. I like this one better. Same fish room so if you looked at the first one, nothing is different but the quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAj_qFXlb8g

[DiscusChris]

Very nice Chris. I really love that pic of the Cobalt.

Thanks Larry,
did you use your Evo to make that video? Ive really been considering getting one of those.

[ikevi]

Looking good Chris. So are you in essence doublying your tank space this summer?

And is there any reason why you put the bio balls ontop of the spong? I would assume you would want to clean the sponges more then the bio balls. Though it looks like you have little sponges on each drain so it likely doesn't matter as much.

[Larry Bugg]

Thanks Larry,
did you use your Evo to make that video? Ive really been considering getting one of those.

Not this time. My wife has a Nikon coolpix (about $100) that she uses for school and other stuff. I have found that todays point and shoots usually take pretty good videos. I have a Nikon DSLR but it doesn't take videos.

I have taken some pretty good videos with the EVO though.

[DiscusChris]

Looking good Chris. So are you in essence doublying your tank space this summer?

And is there any reason why you put the bio balls ontop of the spong? I would assume you would want to clean the sponges more then the bio balls. Though it looks like you have little sponges on each drain so it likely doesn't matter as much.

Im going to build a stand this weekend to stack some 55s, and over the summer Ill be adding at least 6-8 20g tanks to a new rack, I dunno.

Well, originally there were only bioballs in the back chambers, but the sump wasnt made to be a sump originally (lol) and they were falling through. I shoved the sponge up into the boxes so I wouldnt have to pull out the bioballs. Lazy, I know, and I will redo it eventually. The pre-drain sponges do a great job of keeping the bioballs though, so I dunno.

[babakaty]

Wasn't happy with the quality of my video so I worked on reducing the glare from the lights and shot the video again. I like this one better. Same fish room so if you looked at the first one, nothing is different but the quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAj_qFXlb8g

Wow, Larry, that's an awesome fishroom. After meeting you in Dallas and talking about it, it's really cool to be able to see it and hear you describe it!