Retiring my old river tank and New River tank plans.

[brett_fishman]

keith, the tank looks awesome!!

i've only read pages 1, 4 and 5.. i think i missed the dimensions and capacity, could you fill me in? it looks huge.. maybe 10' long??

-brett.

[loachmom]

its great to see it finally come together....

My thoughts exactly! Beautiful clowns, too.

[chefkeith]

thanks all.

Brett- the tank is 8ft x2 ftx 16"inches high. 160 gallons.

Here's a video I shot this morning-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Opg1xLZQU
or
Click here to watch clown-loach-crazy-train

[brett_fishman]

wow, they really were swimming along to the music.. haha

what a great tank, are you going to plant land plants ontop of the island?

-brett.

[chefkeith]

I haven't made any real plans for plants in this tank. I do have a few small anubias floating in the island cove right now because I didn't have anyplace else to put them.

I might go with no daily lighting on this tank. The ceiling lighting in the fishroom seems like enough light for the front of the tank.

I moved 8 more clowns and 4 boesmani in the tank. All I can say is wow, this tank truely is amazing. They are having a ball. There is so much action. Way more than before with the old river tank.

I don't want to overload the filtration on this tank, so I won't move anymore fish until I have the continuos drip water changer running on it. Maybe I can get that done tonight or tommorow. There is still alot of work to do on the fishroom.

[Graeme Robson]

Looking good Keith!!

[chefkeith]

The continuous drip water change system is hooked up to this tank now. I moved most of clowns over to this tank. I'll try to get some more pic's.

[LoachOrgy]

I am speechless! Incredible job! That flow video was awesome!













*************jaw drops to floor***********

[chefkeith]

I moved 14 of the 2" clowns into the river tank Today. What a pain that was. So 44 clowns are in the river tank now. Only 5 more to find and move. These smaller clowns are extra cool to watch when they school together.

[shari2]

It's really fun how they seem to follow the larger clowns somewhat. And clearly they are loving that flow. Beautiful job.

[TammyLiz]

So you are taking down your whole system with the water bridges and putting all your loaches into this one tank, then?

[chefkeith]

Not really Tammy. It's hard to explain, but what I'm doing is overhauling all my tank stands. I made this new tank/stand 48" high off the floor so that I'd have more room for storage. All the other tanks/stand are only 42" high off the floor, so I need to modify the other stands; which is to add 6" to each. After I do that all the tanks will be level agaiin, then I'll be able to hook back up all the water-bridges.

This overhaul is long over due. The tank stand on my 190g tank has only about 8" of space, which is useless. With 6" inches extra I'll be able to put some canister filters there.

[TammyLiz]

Wow, those are some tall stands. I think my stands are something like 29 inches. But I have thought before it might be nice to have them taller. THey are a good height for viewing when sitting on a low couch but none of them are next to a couch.

[Keith Wolcott]

ChefKeith- Is the 48 inches to the bottom of the tank or the top of the tank? 48 inches to the bottom of the tank seems very high.

[chefkeith]

I knew I'd have difficulty explaining. Actually the tanks are very low to the floor right now. It will be 48" from the floor to the top of each tank. All the tanks must be the same height from the floor or the water-bridges will overflow the lowest tank.