12 Volt Man's Aqueon 150 Gallon Startup Thread

[jeffries]

tonight I am putting my new flagtail (recovered from a bad case of ich in the hospital tank) in my 65g planted.

Oh awesome, he's ready to go! Can't wait to see him get bigger and develop those colors.

 

[12 Volt Man]

actually, I am surprised how much more colour he already developed while getting plastered with ich (had to crank the temp up high to get it off of him or he was going to be a goner) and treated.

a lot more than when he came home. pics to follow

 

[cebosound]

nice lemonfins!

basically the tank history goes like this:

1. started off the lemonfins and redhooks for about 6 months. grew nice but they were nipping one another and were all chewed up.

2. sold them all and got some redtinfoils that ended up having internal infections and I had to put them down (actually two batches that were apparently from the same supplier)

3. got new lemonfins and redhooks (and two red tinfoils) but had to sell redhooks because they were being out competed for food. the lemon fins and the redtinfoils remain.

I am actually going to try and isolate one of my redtinfoils because he is actually a very fussy eater and is lagging way behind in growth and its only going to get worse. the other fish are large enough now that I am feeding less and less small foods (the only stuff he will eat) and more of the larger pellets etc.

I am going to put the fussy tinfoil in another tank and try and powerfeed it and get it to accept foods better.

tonight I am putting my new flagtail (recovered from a bad case of ich in the hospital tank) in my 65g planted.

Okay, Now I get whats going on. Thanks for the update 12Volt, and very cool thread. Keep it up!

 

[SteveR]

I'm from the UK so can't send them to the USA I'm afraid. The flagtails seem to be quite hard to get here in the UK aswell. I had to travel quite far to pickup my flagtail, and the shop only had 2 left.

A good few of online retailers in the Uk have these, they are only available during the wet season in tha amazon though! I had 10 places online down here that would ship me one and a couple of shops too.

 

[12 Volt Man]

some updates: picked up 5 filamentosa barbs yesterday, hopefully this time they will be compatible in my 'nippy' 50g with the firemouths and the red shoulder severums.

also the flagtail in the 65g

there is ich (boo) in the 50g, as I did not put the filaments in my quarentine tank for fear of them nipping the tinfoil that is in there..so I will be treated the 50g for ich. shouldn't be too big of a deal..

I actually moved the other tinfoil barb in with the existing one, as it has become 'fussy' in the last little while as well. not really sure what is going on, both tinfoils will not eat tetra colourbits anymore, nor will they eat shimp pellets (but both used to). ??

I am pretty sure something is wrong. there is no such thing as a 'fussy' tinfoil barb especially one in a growth spurt.

the lemon fins, however, are doing very well (eating everything) and growing rapidly.

 

[12 Volt Man]

the dennisoni barbs are growing and fattening up well and look stunning in my 65g planted:

 

[12 Volt Man]

65g full tank shot

 

[eternity302]

Any updates of your monster barbs? =)

 

[12 Volt Man]

okay as per request, pics coming soon

 

[12 Volt Man]

lemonfin barb shot