Pictures of the tank as of April 2002 are here. Click here to go back to ThirtyTwoPaws Home Page.
I recently changed over the tank on my desk- it is now a 7 gallon bowfront. The whole design of the plants, etc has changed. It is still on the webcam, though, and you can see it here.
Next is a 55 gallon tank, also planted. This one has been set up since January, 2001. It is starting to grow out and I'm still fussing with the arrangement of the plants. If you would like to see how this tank looked as I set it up, go here. These are pictures of the tank as it looks in April of 2002.
The last of the indoor tanks is a 90 gallon African cichlid tank. It has crushed coral as it's bottom substrate layer, topped with a couple inches of natural aquarium gravel. There is a pile of rocks in the back half of the tank that were mostly dug up out of our yard (they don't call NH the "Granite State" for nothing!). I have it filtered with a Marineland Emperor 400 and a Fluval 204 cannister. Current inhabitants are 1 Cyrtocara moorii, 2 Labidochromis caerulus (yellow labs or electric yellows), I have no idea how many Iodotropheus sperengae (rusty cichlids- I started with 3!) and a marble sailfin pleco. Pictures of the tank as of April 2002 are here.
Outdoors, I have an approximately 5'x7' x18" deep pond just off the corner of the deck. It has a flexible sheet liner and is edged with flat bluestone. The fish in the pond are currently one multi-colored butterfly koi, one blue calico oranda, one blue calico shubunkin and one red comet, plus a bunch of baby fish. I put a pond heater in it and the fish stay outside during the winter. Most of the plants I grow are tropical, so they winter over in the basement. Here are a few pictures of the pond.
If you would like to learn more about fish or fishkeeping, here are a few links to get you started, There are also a lot of helpful people on the aquaria newsgroups.
The Krib: Lots of good info on just about every aspect of fishkeeping.
Aqualink: Fairly simple to navigate and has some good info.
Aquatic Plants Digest: Not only a source of information, but it has the logs of all the postings on the Aquatic Plants Digest, a mailing list for those interested in planted tanks, Subscription info is here, too. The list members include people who have been keeping fish and plants for a long time as well as newcomers and is a terrific source of help and information.