Is there such thing as Fish Addict Anonymous ?

[flamenco-t]

Some of you may remember my " I spent $ 1000 on fish in 3 weeks" thread.

http://www.dfwfishbox.com/showthread.php?t=1666

Well, I have done it again...

I bought 2 more Black Arowana, Looking for 2 Silver Arowana to make it an 5 Arowana tank :)

So the list of my pick up this weekend is:

2 - 14" Black Arowana
2 - 7" Atabapo Pike "Fire"
1 - 8" Lenticulatta Pike
1 - 6" Galaxy Vampire Pleco L240
1 - Baby Endlicheri

And I am about to pick up 2 more huge ass pleco, watermelon and blue phantom. both about 8" or larger.

I am seriously need to slow down, don't get me wrong, all my fish are in great health, happy and thriving. I am running out of room with all the tanks. I even hide some of my growout tank under larger tank to make it seem that I have less tanks than I actually have :)

Hi, My name is Stan and I am a fish addict !!!

stan

[ambitionz]

nice fish you got there

[fishyjoe24]

aquarium trading co in the plano square mall has some arowana's.

[rolloffhill]

:hehe:

[bra8ndy8]

Hello Stan! Nice to have u in this meeting.....but ur in wrong place..heheok I have to ask.......r u married? if so what does ur wife think about this??? love the fish by the way! what size tanks do u have.....and how many?

[flamenco-t]

No I am not married. I have several tanks..

240 Fresh - Where all the big boys are.
75 Fresh - Where the arowanas, fei feng, tigrinus, juruense and the rest of teenagers are..
20 Fresh - Pikes...these guys can go in the 240, but I want to convert them to dead foods and get them fatten up to where they're too big for my shovelnose cat can't swallow.
20 Fresh - Infant tank. I have 6 baby (1.5") Indo Dats, 3 baby bichirs (senegalus, delhezi and Endli) and a baby Scarlet L25 Pleco.

20 Salt with 20 G sump - My fuzzy Dwarf Lion tank. He's on his own until I can add a Fu Manchu lion

75 Reef with 30 G Sump - Corals, clowns, wrasse, tang, cardinals, mandarin..

I'll take some pics later on tonight. I am in pics mode.

I no longer have hobbies, everything that started out as a hobby soon becomes an obsession and then business. I hope I'll never turn fish into business..I already did that with cars :)

stan

[poel_19]

your fishies look fantastic!! you run bare bottom tanks? hows the maintence on those?

[EAST_TX_RN]

Stan, those are some nice fish and I cannot wait to see the others!

[flamenco-t]

your fishies look fantastic!! you run bare bottom tanks? hows the maintence on those?

I am setting up a drip system on the 240 using a dosmatic pump. Basically, it drips 48 gallon of freshwater per day at the rate of 2 gallon per hour through a dosmatic pump that dilute the fresh water with prime to reduce chloramine. VERY SLOW changes in water and within a week, the drip system have safely changes 60% of water volume without any work on my own :)

The 75 runs similar setup but not as extensive, I am using timer and small pump to pump out freshwater every hour and the overflow automatically overflow excess water out.

The smaller tank, I am still doing manual water changes, I do about 2-3 times per week, since I am growing them out.

MOst of my fish are amazon based, in nature, river fish gets constant flow of freshwater unlike lake based environment. I am simply trying to re-create nature at home :)

stan

[supersmirky]

Wow....Nice looking fish! Good pics!! Also, brilliant idea on the water changes!! I love it Can't wait to see more pics

[lellison]

very nice!

[REYREY]

YES..NICE... VERY.....

but Stan...it seems as though you do have a Problem... we here cannot help you with that problem specifically....but can make a recommendation...

"" when you start running out of room for more tanks and fish... it is just simply time to hang the gloves up and BUY A BIGGER HOUSE! """

that my bud..will solve you problems... cuz money comes and money goes... but with our fish... WE CAN AT LEAST EAT THEM IF TIMES GET Tough!!!!