Visualize the madness

SinisterKisses

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By madness, I mean my cichlid obsession of course. I have just spent the last like two hours updating the "my tanks" section over on a certain very large cichlid site, and since I went around taking pics of all my tanks tonight, I thought you all might like a visual of my madness. Sorry, the pics are dark - the result of no-flash pics in a house with the LAMEST lighting ever.

Monster tank 1 - Vixen's tank, 90gal.

Monster tank 2 - Talon's tank, 75gal.

Monster tank 3 - Dozer's tank, 75gal.

Monster tank 4 - Kujo's tank, 65gal.

Monster tank 5 - what just today became the growout for my 2" Vieja argentea baby, 46gal.

As you can see, the monster tanks are pretty bare. They each have a "house" , and some of them have toys, but the obvious point is to leave as much free-swimming space as possible.

This is my South American tank, 55gal. Houses Chester, my gold severum, a green severum, an A. diadema, and now some Geophagus abalios.

This is Maverik's growout, a 33gal. He's the EBJD. He lives with two cories to clean up after him, in an attempt to prevent any diseases while he's still very vulnerable. He'll get a background soon.
 

SinisterKisses

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And the African tanks...

The only mbuna tank (except the growout) I have left. My Pseudotropheus tank, 33gal. It houses my breeding colony of P. polit and my soon-to-be-thinned-out colony of P. saulosi.

My hap/peacock tank, 55gal. Set up simply for my love of my OB and pheno males.

This is a Neolamprologus growout, 20gal long. Houses my juvie N. leleupi and N. cylindricus.

And lastly, my N. brichardi species tank, 33gal. Started with just the pair of parents, and the rest are their offspring - approx. 25 currently in the tank.


Well, that's the cichlid part of my madness anyway. There are a ton of other smaller tanks in this house, for crayfish and misc. other fish, but it's the cichlids that really count ;)
 

SinisterKisses

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Jan 30, 2007
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Lol there is NO wasted space in the SA or CA tanks :p There's barely even enough :p

That is my fryeri, yes, but he's extremely dark. Not the ice blue a lot of them are, he's a very deep midnight blue/purple. And the hap under the big OB is one of two male P. marginatus - aka Turquoise haps.

Lol I put them wherever I can make them fit ;)
 

CAPSLOCK

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I love the shape of that 46g... it's soooo long :D

Also I like the cool custom background on your 55g SA tank, with the picture of you in it ;)

All your fish look awesome. I wish I had just one tank that was big (75-90g)... you're lucky.
 

SinisterKisses

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I love the shape of that 46g... it's soooo long :D

Also I like the cool custom background on your 55g SA tank, with the picture of you in it ;)

All your fish look awesome. I wish I had just one tank that was big (75-90g)... you're lucky.
Lol that is a pretty awesome background eh? Lol I couldn't be bothered to photoshop myself out of it, ha.

Look on the bright side - I can promise you that you don't spend a fraction of what I do on this hobby! ;) It's why I'm always broke, lol.

The 46gal actually isn't anything special. It's the same footprint as a 55gal, but it's something like 5-6" shorter in height. Just looks really long, lol.

And Karma I finally had to force myself to put down. He'd had some kind of bladder problem for the last three months, couldn't swim straight. I left him alone for as long as he seemed otherwise healthy, but then he started getting all kinds of other infections and I just couldn't keep medicating him over and over. It sucked :(

Thanks everybody!
 

SinisterKisses

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Now the only monsters she needs are Oscars, Jags, and Common Plecos
Hate them, hate them, and hate them ;) There are a lot more monsters out there, gotta expand your horizons!

The goldsaum pair no longer exist. The male came down with parasites that I couldn't for the life of me cure, and so after he died I gave the female to friend of mine to start up his SA tank.