200 gallon Tanganyika tank

[PhishPhreek]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

I wonder if a sandblast rig would clean the drilled holes and sharp edges ?

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

Tim,

I would not drill the rock. I beleive this will just end up damaging them.

I think the tank looks really nice,  You could take some of the extra rock, and smash one into a bunch of smaller pieces.  The stack the smaller pieces and make them into a Honeycomb like design.

The smaller rocks will provide more hiding spots for smaller fish, and give more caves for females to hide.

In my experience it is much easier to clean the tanks with larger rocks than smaller rocks.  Also, in my opinion, larger rocks look better than smaller rocks especially in larger tanks.

It is all up to you, you might make a area of smaller rocks for females and fry but then still keep your larger rocks spread around.

Just my .02..

[armthehomeless]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

thanks guys.

geoff - i;m going to do that when I have a chance. I like the idea of leaving alot of big rocks and having a portion with lots of caves. I did my first water change on it yesterday. maybe i'll take a pic....

[Adiemus]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

Neolamprologus Leleupi and Neolamprologus cylindricus usually don't work well with shelldwellers.  If you want shelldwellers in the tank, I'd go with the larger more aggressive shellies like L. Hecqui.  Leleupi are known to pull the females out of the shells to get to the fry.  This sometimes fatally wounds the female shellies.  Shellies like Hecqui are more than capable of handling themselves verse most Tangs.

If you have trouble locating the larger shellies, just let me know and I can grow some Hecqui out.  They grow fast compared to most Tangs.

[armthehomeless]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

sounds likes a plan. start growing some hecqui out then. I currently have some occelatus and cyps but have no problem relocating the occies to a smaller tank. I was thinking about getting some syn. petricola later this week as well... any thoughts guys (and gals)?

[Tiapan]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

Fish ranch has some nice looking baby pertocola but they were like 20 bucks a pop, an you know i love cool cats

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

i like the looks of the giraffe cats and the syno eupterus

[armthehomeless]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

i have 6 syn. eupterus but they prefer softer and more acidic water than the tangs...

As for the giraffe cat, i doubt he would get along well with the shellies (especially as he gets bigger ). I'm gonna get one for another tank though.

[Adiemus]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

I forgot, AquaZoo already has some Hecqui.  If you prefered not to wait 4 months or so, AquaZoo has some already close to 2".  Their phone number is 281-974-7941.

[Jetta47]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

Really impressed with the tanks guys, I am HAPPY!!! Wish I had as much time to devote to my tanks as you all do... current job keeps me very occupied, as long as my syn eupterus is doing good that is all that matters to me....  

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

i have 6 syn. eupterus but they prefer softer and more acidic water than the tangs...

As for the giraffe cat, i doubt he would get along well with the shellies (especially as he gets bigger ). I'm gonna get one for another tank though.

im sure you can adapt them, i have clown loaches with my frontosa's and the are doing great! i plan to try and add one to my tank later on. i forgot about your shellies and think the giraffe cat would end up eating them.

[armthehomeless]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

Well...this is what it looks like currently with the cyp. leptsoma and occelatus. Yup. Looks empty. I swung by Aqua Zoo today, and remembered that it is closed on Mondays.

[Jetta47]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

looks awesome, IMPRESSIVE, maybe get one more large rock for the middle?
Just a suggestion

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

That looks really good!

You need some frontosa's in there! Are the compressiceps in there?

[Adiemus]

Re: 200 gallon Tanganyika tank

what locale of cyprichromis do you keep?  I keep Utinta and Kitumba, in seperate tanks of course :)