Izi and Taylors 75gal Adventure!

[Creat]

So first thing me Creat I am Izi, and Taylor should be joining soon. She got most of the equipment and most of the stock is mine. Hopefully I can make a journal entry every week so yall can see my adventure into the big tank world (sense I normally have under 10 gal).


Tank specs:
75 gal
2 T5 Glow Singles with Life glow bulbs
Marineland box filter
Heater
Substrate Flourish, black sand, gravel mix

Inhabitants (so far)
1 ropefish (his friends died :( more soon!)
1 raphael stripped catfish
7 betta females ( number varies)
1 Siamese algae eater (useless )
1 gold mystery snail
1 female bristlenose pleco


Plants and others
7 pieces of wood
Madagascar lace leaf
6 species crypts (give or take)
Micro swords
Rotalica indica (and something related)
5 tiger lilies
Lilly pad looking things
Water letuce
Duckweed (escapies )
Java fern
Valls

Feeding and Supplements
Bloodworms, pellets, algea wafers, beef heart, freeze dried daphnia, blackworms

Flourish Excel X1 week
Kent Marine Pro Plant X every other week


Front pic

[MaisyDawgThirteen]

What a lovely tank!

[LADY K]

your tank is awesome how old is it? the plants will grow in more, wonderful.

[ToeBiter]

the tank was only a month and a half old at that point.

[ToeBiter]

So yesterday I decided to completely redo my 'baby'. My 75 now looks 400% better. It started off as a pruning, cleaning and adding a new plant. I then decided to take everything out to add a sand bed and reorganize into more of a show tank.

Backing up a bit... I would also like to add that me and Izi have been moving fish around so there are new residents in the tank as well. The reason behind this is that my 55 gal. Cichlid tank exploded and we had to find new homes for 50+ mid to large size cichlids.

I will post pics of the new tank below. The water is still all orange from moving stuff around and leaching of new wood/Indian almond leaves.

[ToeBiter]

The new look.

[ToeBiter]

OH! and the bug on the wall is fake... we are decorating for Halloween.

[ToeBiter]

So changes in inhabitants are

• Opaline and Blue Gouarmi (1 has been moved to another tank)
• Electric Blue Crayfish (Dr. Zoidberg is from the Cichlid tank and we will monitor how destruct he ends up being. From experience with him in the past we have high hopes though)
• the Siamese Algae Eater and Raphael Catfish passed away recently (hence the deap clean)
• a new bulb plant, some rediscovered lilies, and a crypt that we moved

Here's some more pictures of our babies/the tank

[ToeBiter]

... i also forgot that we added Izi's tire track eel and bought a male bristle nose pleco to add for the female. everyone seems to be getting along too.

[Lizzie the Badger]

It looks great!