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Hey so I was wondering. Saw somebody post something about plains and helicopters. Does anybody love fish and aquariums. I love to fish just to pick out a ancient older then me just to say hi then throw him back. My dad used to have a 3000 gallon koi pond and a 27000 gallon that I helped dig and build when I was living with them. Although koi are cool to some all they are just carp to me. Since then I have owned south american ciclids brakish tanks, community tanks of all sorts and most recent a 75 gallon with a 20 long gallon sump stocked with redbelly piranha tiger barbs and a pleco. Maybe ill take a photo of them if anybody would like to see. Gosh I love fish if anybody goes to Chicago go to the shed aquarium. Even if you dont like fish that place might curve you to like them more. Some of the most amazing creatures are there to see. Even some mile deep ocean stuff. Well I can go talk about this for hours and write a article about how much I love fish but I want to see or hear what you guys have. Hope somebody has teacup stingrays that would be awsome.

I don't have any fish but it would be cool if you posted a photo.

You know what I am going to do that for you and anybody that wants to see. The water is cloudy even after 2 water changes from a friend over feeding when I was in the hospital. I told him to feed 6 pellets a day and he put in like a hundred thinking that they would eat it overtime? Idk all I know it almost killed my tank

Scratch that the piranahs do not have any color because there sleeping. Ill put up a photo when I feed them later this morning and there colors are shining.

I use to have a 55 gallon tank, I enjoyed it a lot. I had a bunch of tiger barbs and they're a fun fish to watch as they school altho they can be pretty aggressive towards other fish. I wish I could get back into the hobby but i don't have the money or the space to do it, maybe a smaller tank.

Pretty neat you have piranhas in your tank with other face, you'd assume they'd eat them

Haha they will eat them the question is when I added them from a old smaller tank. But preditory fish are never to be trusted ANY that oscars most cichlids gar puffers any of those will kill others. Piranahs are not going to go through the extra effort for bite size snacks when I feed them twice a day. I feed them pellets 90 percent of the time because I do believe it curves there need for meat. Pellets for the most part have everything it needs to survive the cichlid pellets. Plecomous cat fish the ones that clean the algea are armored to the bone and are the most successful tank mates for those guys. They co exsist in the wild with them. Yes barbs are a pain with normal fish I mean they even nip the piranahs fins. Ballsy if you ask me but it does not phase them. Piranhas have a dead pool capibilites and can have more then half of the rear fin removed bitten off and that son of a gun grows in about a week or two. This is from evolving being in schools with each other. When one feels likes its space territory is violated they nip a fin off. It happen to one of my barbs he lasted 2 weeks before they actually picked him off probably being so weak.

How hard is to clean a piranha tank? I figure feeding them mostly pellets helps but I always assumed there was a lot of up keep needed. How bad do they attack you?

They never have attacked me. Look up jeremy wade aka river monsters on animal plannet say they are docile for the most part. He went into a poll with over what looked like 100 and fed them beef heart. They are more scavengers but when stuck in a mud hole in the dry season waitinf to get back in a stream they get vicious. Cows are known to be turned into meaty bones in less then a hour. I do a 20 to 50 percent water change a to keep the water quality right. 50 is a bit of a stretch. I have a 3/4 tubing going to my toilet attached to a bulkhead on the bottom. I made a short strainer like connection above the sand and made small holes in it so I can drain the tank without getting sand or fish and it goes right into the toilet. Tanks can be a pain but its a breeze if set up right. The barbs peck my arms piranhas never do it lol those barbs. Baaaalllllssyyy

https://goo.gl/photos/h4gSMSJw9gzC1Mfq8 piranhas together

https://goo.gl/photos/CE6FqnpxU7Wc1Jqd7
The aquarium with wet dry filter system and refugium.

Looks sweet! What is that other tank under the tank now? Is that the pump? What exactly is it's purpose? I only had a normal filter on mine.

When I had my 55 gallon one I let it get way too overgrown with real plants which can be quite a hassle but the fish seem to like as I got the tiger barbs I had to breed in the tank. Also never get snails, holy crap they bred like crazy. I had Neons, Tiger Barbs, these weird eel-like fish, mollies, and few others The tank would get overrun by this moss plant I had in there, I don't know what it was called but it would float and that's where the they bred. I also had a bunch of those Japanese moss balls too. I really miss the hobby.

That tank on the bottom is called a sump. Extremily popular in coral reef and marine aquariums. This adds more water volume. That sump probably added 17 extra gallons to my tank. Plus it has a wet dry bio ball system going to the sump. The water is poured onto mechanical media first filtering out all the large crap then it goes through small holes to evenly trickle water over the bioballs over time as crap sticks to the ball bacteria grows eating any waste that is left. Turning ammonia into less deadly nitrites.

https://goo.gl/photos/jdy9dTqbmVqkg64C7