Newbies!!

Hello,

My wife and I are newbies.. I kept fish for many years when I was younger, including a tank with about 20 African Cichlidss way back..

Our daughter is 7 months old and LOVES fish, so we decided to get a tank. We started out with a 3.5 gallon (see my review of APFP in Burien..) and that has since been changed into a Betta tank with 5 Norman Lampeyes and a Pigmy Cory. We recently set up our 60 gallon with about 25 Glofish, 15 Green Tiger Barbs, 15 Harlequin Rasboras, 3 different kinds of Corys, and 2 Pleco's which we affectionately call Ebony and Ivory.. It's a live plant setup and we're really happy with how it's turned out so far. I've got a few more things to move around in it to clean it up (i.e. the bubble tube placement will be changed a little bit) and we're going to add another light at the front of the tank as well.

Our stand (Petsmart..) was a complete nightmare but luckily my father in law is an amazing wood worker and great wish projects, so we shored it up and mounted it to the wall.. If anyone wants to see the pictures I'll start a thread with the photo's.

Will

Photo's to come, just trying to get them to upload..

Added pictures, was trying HTML before and it wasn't letting me..

The reason we have the tank.. ha ha





Got 3 of these from Coop in Edmonds Saturday!

And this guy

Welcome to the box!!! Check out this thread for how to post if you're still having probs!
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Welcome to the forum & back to the hobby poffman. Pictures are always a plus!

Welcome to the box!!

Welcome aboard.

Pictures added to second post.. Was using HTML not IMG tags..

Thanks everyone! Happy to hear any comments on the tank too, good or bad.

I've since added a second Cascade 300.. plenty of filtration for the 60 gallon haha.

 

welcome! your tank looks good, i'm sure it will become even better with age, like a fine kentucky bourbon ;)plants will fill in and you will most likely get more species if you are getting addicted to plants like a lot of people here are, myself included

if you have trouble with plants, especially swords, dying back you could get some root tabs, if you don't already... i can't grow swords without them haha

edit; lighting is also something to consider investing in, if you haven't already... i didn't start really having fun until i got a good grow light for my tank
edit again; i just re-read the first post; if you are considering getting lighting anyway, i would recommend led lights specifically meant for plant growth. they are efficient and very effective, in my relatively limited experience with them

Welcome! Your tanks look awesome.

BABY

Nice pictures poffman, thanks for sharing. Nice start with the plants. Later you will be able to look back at these pictures to see where u started with the tank.

Welcome! My baby girl (8months) also loves to look at tanks too.. If your in the south sound feel free to come check out my tanks! My fish are trained to perform for babies! And thanks for sharing the great pics

Thanks for the welcome everyone! Great group of people here!

 
Great pictures, thanks for sharing. Welcome to the fishbox!

lloyd378 wrote:Welcome!  My baby girl (8months) also loves to look at tanks too..  If your in the south sound feel free to come check out my tanks! My fish are trained to perform for babies!   And thanks for sharing the great pics

We are I'll take you up on that sometime!!!

Welcome to the forum!   

 

Ah hah! Welcome to FishBox, Poffman! I don't think I got a chance to welcome you via our Forum, so...welcome! Hahaha

It was nice seeing you, your wife, and your little one (what a cutie pie she is!)

PokeSephiroth wrote:Ah hah! Welcome to FishBox, Poffman! I don't think I got a chance to welcome you via our Forum, so...welcome! Hahaha

It was nice seeing you, your wife, and your little one (what a cutie pie she is!)

Great to meet you too Angelo!! Thanks for the warm welcome up there, and we're really happy with the light, plants, and substrate we picked out up there

KaraWolf wrote:Your tiger barbs look really cool! :)and good luck with the glowfish. I gave up on them when my 5 chased each other to death o.o And welcome to the box!!!!!

Thank you!! We love the tiger barbs, they're really fun to watch as they dart around the tank.. Since they're in such a big group they leave everyone else alone which is really nice, one of our Corys thinks he's a tiger barb and it's pretty much hilarious to watch.

I'm curious how the glofish will go too, my wife loves them, but i've heard they don't live very long a few different places now.. we'll see!