With fish!

[Apache]

Think Tony wanted to see it with fish. No CO2 yet, but I've started assembling it

[Karma Supra]

Nice

How do the Angel fish get on?

[Apache]

Fine now they've worked out a pecking order. Smallest one seems to be 'alpha' male oddly enough!

[Karma Supra]

That probably a good thing, if he was the biggest he'd make a mess of the others!!

A few years back I worked for Maidenhead Aquatics.. I had demo tank to do with as I please... so put all sorts of bits and bobs in cherry picked from the shop's stock. There were a pair of angel fish in there that hit it off and started spawning....

I t was off to watch, those two fish "owned" 3/4 of the tank, and took it in turns to keep the rest of their tank makes supressing to one corner.

I came in one day and found someone had sold them

[Apache]

If there's signs of a pair forming, I have a 3ft set up growing some baby Kribs on that I could transfer them to. They'll wreak havoc in a community. People forget they are cichlids after all!

[Karma Supra]

Yup!! but they tend to have a little more charater for it!!

I have issues in my tank right now.. I recently added a MBU puffer and he keeps nipping the disk of the Motoro ray...

He doesn't seem aggresive like a cichlid, (I just had to give away a beautiful blue frontosa ) just..... hungry.. he goes around "tasting" things... unfortuantely he is most intregued by my pride and joy of the tank!

[Apache]

Hehe. A local fish place has a lovely Mbu about 10" long - I was tempted to reinstate my 800 litre in the garage!

[Karma Supra]

Blimey, 800L How would you even move one of those

We struggled with mine through doors at what not and it's about 440l.

It was my final present to myself making the best of the staff discount before I left the trade

[Vultch]

You need a small model Surf in there with air bubbles coming from its snorkel...

[Apache]

Blimey, 800L How would you even move one of those
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This why its in the garage. I built the stand, put it in the garage, then bricked up the garage door and put a standard door in. (It was unusable as a garage anyway due to house extension)

The tank can now only come out in bits!

[GBV8]

Apache, that looks fantastic! I know they look even more spectacular in the 'flesh'.

My son has a couple of reptiles and just had a very large vivarium made to order (for a Green Basilisk). I could sit and watch these things for hours. Very relaxing & fascinating.