I get home from work one day about 2 months ago, to my GF saying the neighbours across the road (who she's friends with) were getting rid of their fish tank, and could we have it since she'd always wanted fish.
As the dutiful and loving boyfriend, I of course say yes, expecting it to be a small 40-60L or so tank. Pop over to their later that evening house only to find a huge 200L tank waiting to be carried across the road! Needless to say, that was a fun experience!
As far as I can tell, it's an Aqua One Aquareef 200, and it seems quite a nice tank (although my experience is limited). When we got it, it was stocked with:
- 3 Tinfoil Barb
- Clown Loach
- Bristlenose Pleco
- 8 Black Phantom Tetra
Have had a very intensive few weeks learning about fish since then, unfortunately we lost the tinfoils, clown loach and Black Phantoms to an outbreak of white spot just after we got it
Anyway, now we have:
- Bristlenose Pleco
- 10 Neon Tetra
- 2 Dalmatian Molly
- 6 Male guppy
Here's a couple of pics (looking a bit empty before we put the guppies in this weekend).
And a video taken this evening just after feeding time (excuse the music, ended up catching me talking rubbish to my 4 year old
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It's still a bit of a work in progress - the guy we got it from had it set up to look quite natural (which I actually like), but my GF wanted a bit more colour, so we're gradually swapping the ornaments etc - think we're going to put black gravel in, and need something a bit taller to fill the empty space in the middle (I want a big pirate ship
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Unfortunately we've now got a severe case of MTS, so here's another little fella we picked up at the weekend:
Still need to think of a name for him!
, they are all male endlers, I was thinking maybe the endlers we're mistaking the tetras for female, maybe you can tell by the video.
