These were my first fish in my 90 gallon fresh water tank. The white fish, an Albino Oscar,
is around 8 inches long while the Tiger Oscar is around 10 inches. There is also a 9 inch
channel cat. Tank equipment include a Whisper power filter model 3, a Fluval
canister 403, and a sponge filter on a power head. As it turns out, the tank was
to small for the fish and underfiltered which led to high nitrates and poor
water quality. I eventually gave the fish to a local fish store in exchange
for store credit. So, I put the tank up for a while.
I decided to try my hand with salt fish so I hauled the 90 gallon tank out again. This
is the salt tank in its early stages. In there somewhere are two blue hippo
tangs, one pgymy angel (my first salt fish), and a cleaner shrimp (it's barely
visible; see if you can find it). I added a hang-on-the-back protein skimmer.
Here I added a yellow tang, a red tree sponge (which later faded away), a flame angel
(which later got beat up and died) and a feather duster. Notice the hood my friend
Bernard made for me where I have two dual 40-watt fluorescent strip lights.
I later moved the salt tank, with the help of my friend Rick, to a house 5 miles from
the apartment. Anyone who has moved a large tank knows the struggle. I started
emptying the tank at about 6 pm and didn't get it completely set up at the house
until around 2 am; about 8 hours! The next hour was spent checking on it for
fear that something was leaking. The only casulties were a couple of snails.
This 20 gallon fresh water planted tank houses a mix of small tropical fish. Tank
equipment include a Whisper power filter model 1 and 2 and a sponge filter. There
is a dual 20-watt strip light.
Here is one of my 90 gallon salt water tank setups. The visible inhabitants are
two Blue Hippo Tangs, a Yellow Tang, Tomato Clown (middle of tank), Pin Cusion Sea
Urchin (bottom left center of tank), and limpets (on the back glass-look like snails).
I enjoyed the tank with very good success but something happened and I lost one of my
Blue Hippo tangs and soon after that my Yellow tang-both of which I have had for
over 4 years. The only thing I can think of is I got behind in my cleaning maintenance
or aggression towards my Blue Hippo tang. Because my remaining Blue Hippo Tang was
so aggressive, I decided not to add fish to the tank as it would probably kill them so I
moved my remaining Blue Hippo, Tomato Clown, Longnose Hawkfish and a Wrasse upstairs
to my 20 gallon tank. This 90 gallon tank remained empty for 2 months while I regrouped
to decide what fish to add.
This was one of my goldfish setups in a 20 gallon fresh water tank. I never really had
much luck with goldfish for some reason. They are suppose to be easy to keep but I had a
lot of trouble with Dropsy. In the right corner of the tank is the root mass and outside the
tank I let the leaves from a philodendron hang. This helps filter the water naturally since
the roots remove accumulated nutrients from the water and use them as food.
This was my first live plant setup in a 30 gallon fresh water tank. It did alright for
a while. At its high point, I had to remove much of the plant growth to make room for the
fish but eventually, the algae overgrew the plants. Unforturnately, this photo is when the
plants were in decline. Live plants include Java Moss, Java Fern, and Anubias. The soda
bottle on top of the tank produces carbon dioxide which is used as food by the plants.
