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Hi all,

For sale is my 2016 fish room setup. The lot! $1500 ono. I'm moving out of my house for renovations so must move on the lot. Took me a good 3 months to build and get right.

School holidays start 8th April, so for those two weeks I'll be able to help move setup onto trailer. Private message me if interested.

I have four : 4 foot tanks
1 - 4x1.5x2.5 400L
1 - 4x2x1.25 240L
1 - 4x1.5x1.5 240L
1 - 4X2X1.5 300L (3/100L sections)

All drilled with overflows and plumbed into a 2x2 sump which contains a 15,000L Pond Pump (less than 12months old).

These are located (as seen in photos below) on a 3 tier 8 foot metal stand and a 3 tier 5 foot stand. All tanks are in fair condition, the 8 foot stand is a little rusted, however the 5 foot is new.

These stands also houses:
One- 6x2x2 750L tank
And four - 3 foot tanks
3 - 85L
1 - 140L

All tanks contain sponge filters connected with air from a 65W 4500L Air Pump (less than 12months old). Approx 10 x 500W and 300W heaters and I have a couple of 3 x 4 foot LED lights, and one 4 foot grow light. Heap of other bits and pieces also. All equipment no older than 12 months old. See YouTube link for quick video of setup in action.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Kgla8FUOE







Also included in the above sale (if wanted- no additional cost- aka free with purchase of above) is a 6x1.5x2.5 rounded aquarium on stand. The glass on this aquarium is thick! And the tank is super heavy.

As seen in the pictures below it was a beautiful tank... but recently I drilled the tank for overflows (idiot!) one side was perfect the other side I rushed and I cracked it. Such a shame but it can be mended with glass panels I'm sure. Stand in not great condition. It did cost me $1500 three years back.

Hi all,

Just thought I'd let our Perth cichlid community know that I've shut down a few of my tanganyikan tanks and dropped off the fish to Rob's Aquarium to sell on to a fellow enthusiast, currently lunchtime Saturday.

-colony of wild caught blue Zaire frontosa, 2 male 7 females. Have held fry many times but poor feeding by me left the frontys not holding till full term.
-colony of 12 F1 tropheus chaikita 5+ years old
-5 large black calvus,
-pair large yellow leleupi,
-2 ventralis,
tropheus lufubu and red moliro
Awesome fish, well fed and good water conditions through out the couple of years they have been in my care.

Cheers Paul

October 2016
The Aquaponics is still to come... but I have got myself a few bags of those clay balls. I'm still testing ideas and water flow on top shelf.
I have changed these tanks a bit this year. It has been pretty fun getting it all organised. I told myself I had to have this setup for the July school holidays, so that all the fish I keep in the science lab, have tanks to go in. I used automatic fish feeders on the last holidays in September but can't do this over the Chrissy holidays, as I will not be going in to do weekly water changes.
This is the guppy pool that I've just moved the black snake skin guppies in to, now that the temperature is warming up in Perth.

The daphnia tubs. Stoked to get a bag from the last auction. Which has allowed me to feed live daphnia to all my cichlids every morning.

The Frontosa tank 6x2x2, wild caught and still no fry, after all the times of holding. Maybe I should strip?

The double stack 6x2x2 keeping a few tangs and a colony of petricola.

Just put these two colonies together

Fry grow out tanks

Yellow labs

Tropheus and Calvis tank

and a few non Africans....

I'm going into the first summer using this "sun room" that was once (1950s) a patio as my fish room. The last couple of years there was times my house got really hot. I drilled a few holes in the asbestos walls and had a couple of air conditioners installed into the whole house. Maybe I need to cover the windows with reflective insulation, and maybe I will need to part ways with the Tropheus. But right now, I'm stoked with the setup of sponge filters and sump and can't wait to turn all the heaters off.
I'll try keep this journal updated.

Spring Term update on the 5 footers Polits looking good, building a decent colony. Phenochilus and Moorii continue to distract the class. While the Yellow-tail Acei and Bi-Colour 500s show support for the best team in the AFL... displaying their West Coast Eagles colours.

Just popped in to Rob's Aquarium while in the area. They have just had a customer drop off the most incredible and huge Discus (easily 25 centimeters in diameter). I'd say there is at least 15 at that size. If I had the tank space, or the funds... these are the biggest and most beautiful discus I've seen to date. And that's a BIG call.

Still contemplating leaving with a few, as I write this post. Get in and check them out.