750 gallon new tank

[ken31cay]

ken31cay have your moba & sapphires arrived yet?

I have 19 Moba now with 15 more coming in around 5-6 weeks, and I have 12 sapphires which I'm growing out in my 180gal. The sapphires are about 3 inches but still not big enough to put in with the Moba which are 4"-4.5".

When the Moba first went in to my 750gal I also put in eight 3" Tinfoil Barbs to see if they could act as dithers. Within 3-4 days all that was left of them was about 2/3 of their front sections - the tails and rear third of bodies were bitten off by the Moba. Never saw that before with Moba that small so wasn't expecting it. Hence the reason I'm growing the sapphires bigger before putting them in the tank.

 

[danotaylor]

A pack of mobas stealth hunting at night no doubt! You prob know this, but they come out of the depths & feed on cyprichromis in the free water column at night.

Love to see some pics & a vid of them in the 750 when you get a chance!

 

[Maui the FRT]

Wow your tank is coming together nicely. I haven’t been on in a few months. Love it. Can’t wait to see the pics with your fish in it

 

[ken31cay]

Here's a video I took earlier today.

14 Frontosa in 750 gallon

I have 14 Moba Frontosa in my 750 gallon aquarium, with 28 more coming in a few weeks.

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[ken31cay]

 

[danotaylor]

Looks great mate. Can’t wait to see the sapphires go in and the new group of mobas

 

[Maui the FRT]

Awesome looking sweet. The fish have tons of space!

 

[ken31cay]

I replaced about 2/3 of the bio balls in the main comparment of my sump today with 100 liters of Seachem Pond Matrix. I plan to put the remaining 50 liters in about 4 weeks. I've read all I can about the effects of Pond Matrix decreasing nitrates and my conclusion is that the results are inconclusive; some report it works and other report it makes no difference. I'm doing this in the hopes I have a good result in decreasing nitrates, and if it doesn't then I still would have what I believe is very good bio media.

 

[HUKIT]

I went down the rabbit hole of matrix too. I have my 90g sump stuffed with it and removed Fluval Biofx media. It’s been roughly 10 months with zero effects on nitrates.

 

[ken31cay]

I'm adding a good number of fish to the tank in the next 6 weeks and so with that change, I probably will not be able to say with much certainty whether or not the matrix had made a difference. I guess it can't hurt though, and may possibly help.