New in the Muk.

New to this site and just saying hi! Currently in Mukilteo and just completed a 25+ tank fish room.

Welcome to the community, tell us about your tanks or better yet post some photos.

 
Show your tanks.

Nice meeting you today at the shop. Glad you found your way to the site.

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Current breeding setup. I'm going to have to move all these tanks to a house in a few months so the stand was pretty much done half fast and cheap as possible. 2x6's and cinder blocks. I also have a 37 gal, 55 gal and had to put a 10 gal in the fireplace because i ran out of room for a hospital tank, hahaha.

welcome! what are you breeding?

Welcome ... that's a lot of tanks. What size are they? What's in them more importantly.

All Livebearers right now. Lots of guppies and endler's, a few others. I plan on expanding to do killies in a few months when i find a house.

the breeding set up right now is:
8 - 10 gal's
13 - 5 gals
3 - 20 gal long's

Very cool, I like the rack system. Everything is nice and tight. Are you breeding for specific coloration in your guppies / endler's?

I have 3 endler types. Tiger, black bar, and red chili. Lots of guppies and right now I'm just weeding through them so i can get some better quality, but i like the cobra and snakeskin so i think i'm mostly going to be breeding those and eventually moscows.

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  WOW, look at that set up!! Welcome to WashFishBox Smashley745!

 

Welcome! It's always good to have a new livebearer nut around.

Nice sliding tops http://www.tankgeek.com/2011/04/07/diy-aquarium-sliding-top/

Hahaha, yeah I used that article too. How funny.

I stopped writing that blog and have moved it to http://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/corydoras now. I don't get as much time anymore to do the DIY projects

Now I just make youtube videos as it's faster for me You should check out the summer tubbin threads/videos and breed some livebearers outside this summer.

Hahaha, I wish. I'm renting a condo right now. Been house hunting though so hopefully will have a place soon to expand. Really wouldn't mind a pond with wild type mollies... and just a bigger fish room in general.

Too soon for a 'nice rack' joke?   

^there is always that guy.

hobbyorobsession wrote:^there is always that guy.

 

And the staggered ones are always much, much easier to work on the tanks but you don't see them often.

Welcome, nice breeding setup I've been considering setting one up myself just have to convince the wife

Thought you might like this. Showed up on my facebook feed today. I was telling you Charles Clapsaddle makes the best mollies. Just so happens he made a blog post about his setup today.

http://goliadfarms.com/raise-livebearers/

That's a cool setup, interesting design on the filtration system I would've never thought of that
Definitely something interesting to look into

That's awesome. I've been looking into the costs of building some sort of greenhouse or sunroom and using ponds for some of my fish. All the houses I've been looking at have well water which would be way better for all my livebearers right?

Welcome to the box, and great job on that rack setup! Glad to see there are awesome fish keepers in the Muk!

Smashley745 wrote:All the houses I've been looking at have well water which would be way better for all my livebearers right?

That depends on the well.  When I was on well water it was only 5dKH and 4dGH - pretty low hardness as far as livebearers are concerned.  It couldn't hurt to grab a water sample from each house and use an API GH/KH test kit after the fact.  

I boost my tanks to 7dGH, 7dKH (I'm 4/4 out of the tap).  Though livebearers generally prefer higher than that, my shrimp will tolerate 7/7.  They will NOT tolerate 10/10.   I had a tough time keeping my platies alive consistently until I started supplementing GH and KH with every water change.

Move to Covington livebearers love our water.