180 Gallon Hap and Peacock biotope

[caldwelldaniel26]

Hey everyone, glad to be a part of the community. I have 2 breeding pairs of cyrtocara moorii, 2 bi-color 500's, breeding group of yellow blaze lithobates, a fire hap variant of protomelas taeniolatis, 2 male placidochromis phenochilus, breeding group of copadichromis ovatus, breeding pair of protomelas spilinotus tanzania, protomelas spilinotus mara rocks, protomelas stevenii Taiwan reef, strawberry peacock, breeding pair of buccochromis nototaenia, alaunocara rubencens breeding pair, breeding pair of venustus, sunshine peacock, ngara flame tail breeding pair, albino peacock, an OB peacock and one of my favorites the ivory head mloto. I also have five synodontis catfish and a couple of albino BN plecos.

[caldwelldaniel26]

Also a little about the filtration, I built a 40 gallon sump with the first chamber consisting of an aragonite fluidized bed, second chamber mechanical filtration and a third for chemical filtration. I'm also running two denitrification reactors and a pothos plant in the sump. Zero nitrites with two heavy feedings daily and water quality is impeccable.

[thegoodlife]

Very nice tank...That background is amazing!

[caldwelldaniel26]

Very nice tank...That background is amazing!

Thank you very much, it's a custom sized "Malawi" background from Universal Rocks. I built the overflow into it so none of the filtration is visible.

[thegoodlife]

Thank you very much, it's a custom sized "Malawi" background from Universal Rocks. I built the overflow into it so none of the filtration is visible.

Very cool...sometimes I wish I didn't have so many tanks so I could afford to go all out on one tank like that...maybe one day!😁

[caldwelldaniel26]

Very cool...sometimes I wish I didn't have so many tanks so I could afford to go all out on one tank like that...maybe one day!

I only have two and it keeps me busy lol. But I know what you mean, it gets expensive. I've got close to $5000 invested so far. The background was about $550 shipped but well worth it IMO.

[supadave]

Nice !!

[caldwelldaniel26]

Thanks bro it's definitely been a labor of love. It's a nice tribute to the ones that were lost when my previous 180 ruptured and lost the entire stock and all the flooring in my house


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[sountfc]

Fantastic looking tank. Lots of blue! I don't see the notos. Are they in there somewhere? Should be pretty large if they are of breeding size. Well done!

[caldwelldaniel26]

Yeah here's a pic of the maleIMG_0127.JPG


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[caldwelldaniel26]

Fantastic looking tank. Lots of blue! I don't see the notos. Are they in there somewhere? Should be pretty large if they are of breeding size. Well done!

I am going to take more pictures when the water clears up from the fluidized sand bed lol. I swear fish are like kids when you're taking pictures though, never where you want them to be. Thanks for the compliment though.


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[sountfc]

Pretty low res, so hard to see him. I'd like to compare him to mine. Post more when you have them!

Yeah here's a pic of the male[ATTACH]33686[/ATTACH]


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[caldwelldaniel26]

I don't know why the pictures I post keep going to such low resolution, the original is very high quality...


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