HOW BIG IS YOUR _ _ _ _??

[mrairportjunke]

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cichlid sooner you a breeder or just really really really love fish??

[cichlidsooner]

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Little of both, it dual project between my brother and I, I breed some or I search out for great deals, or/and I got few buddies in other states that can get their hands on fish we can't down here(without paying that huge mark up from LFS ordering them for me) and they send me fish. I am not sure if I am a full flegde breeder but I got many fish breeding, that is why there is so many tanks.  Got to make room for the babies.

I also like my fish alot. It is my therapy, the only time my kids leave me alone, heck my wife almost leaves me alone as well. She likes the fish too, especially if they are making us money otherwise she could careless except that it keeps me doing something good instead of out drinking or anything else wierd. It gives me something to do I guess, plus I make a healthy chunk of change from it, the fish must pay rent as well. If they don't make enough babies they have to move out and free load somewhere else. Once I learned how to ship, man it open a few doors to make a little extra.

My albino ngara flametails are my newest project, I figure out 41 of those I should get a few breeding trios. I hope so, they costed me a pretty penny. Plan on mixing them with my regular ngaras as well.

I buy and breed fish I like or think look cool in my personal tank(inside tank, the only one allowed in the house), I don't buy fish that are what you call the in or the hot fish, I get things I like and if they breed cool and then I try to pawn off babies to others. Heck at one point my inside tank was nothing but male red empress and that looked cool to me, but the HAS and everyone else in Houston couldn't stand me about a year and half ago, my breeding trio made about 800 fry and well I tried to help everyone else have a red empress or two. One auction I sold like a 100 of them and man I think everyone left with some. So if you bought any red empress at the HAS auctions last year, 90% sure that it was my fault they got them. I couldn't give them away at one point, I was selling 4" males with full color for like 4 bucks.

[rrocket2002]

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125g (Dining Room) - Pair of Red Devils, Scat, m/f Kenyi, Yellow Blaze, Severum, Yellow Labs, Demonsoni, Electric Blue, Rainbow Shark, Tinfoil Shark, 4 differ catfish and Pleco.

20g (Dining Room) - Triple Gold Apistos, Angels and Mono

30g (Bedroom) - Group of Lemon Jakes

75g (Bedroom/Den) - Tropheus Livua Colony, 25 of them and 14 fry.

30g (Bedroom/Den) - Tropheus Chimba Reds Juvi

75g - 1 - Garage - Sunshine Peacocks

75g - 2 - Garage - Ice Blue Zebras

75g - 3 - Garage - Orange Peacock, Rubs Peacock, Borleyi

75g - 4 - Garage - Empty, in progress.

75g - 5 - Garage - Empty, in progress.

75g - 6 - Garage - Empty, in progress.

75g - 7 - Garage - Empty, in progress.

75g - 8 - Garage - Empty, in progress.

55g - Garage - Red Empress, Electric Blue

20g - Garage - More Red Empress, Electric Blue

20g - Garage - Yellow Labs

55g - Garage - Chipoka

40g - Garage - Ngara Flametail

30g - Garage - Hongi

20g - Garage - Male Sunshine Peacock and mystery Peacock

20g - Garage - Group of Mystery Peacocks

10g - Garage - Red Lobsters

10g - Garage - Kribs, Bristlenose

10g - Garage - Angels, Bristlenose, Otos, Flounder

10g - Garage - RCS

10g - Garage - Chipoka Fry

10g - Garage - Female Chipoka, holding

10g - Garage - Sunshine Fry

10g - Garage - Empty

I know I missed some....but you get the idea.

Raul

[mrairportjunke]

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man.  lol.  yall gotta ton of tanks.  yeah well i have a pair of green severum that breed regularly. but i had been scoopin out the eggs and flushin them cause i didnt have anyplace for them.  but my 110 replaced my 55 and i still have the 55 so i have decided to put it back up.  My wife isnt real happy with me.  lol but i told her that if i set it up again, wont cost a dime cause i have everything for it, and 2 when my severum lay eggs again,  i can save them and then sell them.  well sell got her.  lol. but i dont care if i sell them or not. i just had to figure out how to get her to let me set it back up.  Bye the way,  when my severum lay eggs, whats the best thing to do with them to saveem???  right now i have a nursery kinda of sorts in my 29 gallon with some mix africans,  but they are gettin big enough to go to the 110 with everyone else.  SO when there out i wanna put the hopefully if i get severum babys in the 29.

[PhishPhreek]

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ok got another question for yall.  where the hell do yall put all those tanks?  do yall live in warehouses????

Bought a 2/1/1 retirement home
Converted my 1 car garage to a fish room
and my car sits out in the weather.  

Fish Room Plans

[Mzungu]

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mrairportjunke - Even though it's not very likely, it's still possible for those eggs to hatch in our local waters if you flush them...Might want to consider throwing them in the trash instead.

[Armadillo_Del_Rio]

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70 gallon: V. Zonatus, C. Cutteri x 2, P. Loiselli, V. Guttulas, A. Hystrix, A. Tridradiate, P. Costas, R. Parva

25 gallon: Gym. Balzanii (Rio Urugay), Gym. Balzanii (common), rest of the plecos

10 gallon: A. Compresses "Sumbu Dwarf"

[mrairportjunke]

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ok got another question for yall.  where the hell do yall put all those tanks?  do yall live in warehouses????

Bought a 2/1/1 retirement home
Converted my 1 car garage to a fish room
and my car sits out in the weather.  

Fish Room Plans

nice plans.  dumb question though, whats the rain gutter inside used for??

[armthehomeless]

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200- empty (preparing to move)
92hex - Tropheus bemba "Orange Flame"
80 - Planted tank / Rainbowfish
55 - Cyps, Erets, Leleupi, and Syn. petricola
37 - Yellow labs
37 - Yellow labs
37 - Planted tank / Pencilfish
30 -Tropheus bemba fry
26 flatback hex - mixed africans
20 - Yellow lab fry
18 - Planted tank / RCS
10 - Yellow lab fry
10 - Yellow lab fry
10 - Sunshine Peacock fry
10 - LF ABN
5 - Yellow lab fry

[mrairportjunke]

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wanna move that 200 gallon over here?  ill hold on to it for you.  ahha.

[PhishPhreek]

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nice plans.  dumb question though, whats the rain gutter inside used for??[/quote]

For my betta bunkhouse - here is the layout of my old one

bunkhouse

[mrairportjunke]

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you sell bettas or what?

[PhishPhreek]

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I breed and ship to international shows.
But I don't have any stock for sale right now.

[mrairportjunke]

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i was just curious.  
how did you come up with that system.  that is very ingenious.  thats amazing.  hell i am to dam un imaginative and creative to do something like that.  wish i could but man i have hard enough time tryin to build anything. lol.

[PhishPhreek]

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If you understand why cycling a new tank is necessary and know  the dammage Amonia and nitrite peaks can do to your fish can uderstand why Bettas in small jars must have a water change every week to 10 days.   This is the hardest part of rasing 100+ Bettas.   This system is similar to a wet/dry system on big aquariums but has been modified to serve 100+ small tanks.   Various IBC members have built and improved on this system.   So, I took the best ideas from a half dozen breeders and combined them with some upgrades of my own (level switch in filter tank) and this is my 2nd rebuild.  I even have some improvements in mind for my next rebuild.