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Hey foos--enough of these elaborate million gallon home setups.

Let's hear from the scholastic bunch, whose spartan academic lifestyle affords them only small or otherwise sparsely maintained setups (post setup info, too). I'll get the ball rolling;

15 gallon ballitorid tank.
Specimens:
boraras micros
boraras brigittae
barbus hulstaerti
danio margaritatus
sewellia lineolata +fry
corydoras pygmaeus +fry
hara jerdoni
gastromyzon ctenocephalus
nanobagrus stellatus (cf, maybe)
and maybe otocinclus sp. "3" in the future

yeah, way overstocked, I know.

very overfiltered at 2x fluval 3's and a cruddy aquaclear in the back.

pics:

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the tank

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a cteno

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Kleevage/IMG_0919.jpg
some of the dithers

My bad--here's the tank:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Kleevage/aq.png

I really like that tank
Very nice aquascaping indeed.
What kind of background do you got there?

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I don't have a tank in my dorm currently, but in the past I had my 10 g mudskipper set-up. No pics of that either, I'm afraid.

Your tank looks friggin' awesome. Doesn't look like just a 15 gallon either.

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Aw, cmon guys.

The background is keyboard nylon. I told you I was poor.

Gee noodles! Simply a stunning tank!

COL

Don't sell your self short that is a very well thought out tank. I played with the photo a bit to see it better.
Many can learn from what you have there.

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Keith

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Mate ..I agree with Keith ..don't sell your efforts short . Thats a fantastic look you've got there... very simple but highly effective . Well done


Garry

What a great idea! I hope that more students will post their tanks. Nice shots and splendid so far.

Here's my uni tank, not exactly sure on the volume, its a hexagonal tank i think it's 35L. So far it just has 6 small tiger barbs cycling it. I have previously kept fish at home and minimal funds and the need to move it fairly regularly meant this was the biggest I could get although the total cost of this setup was only about £25, utilising car boot sales and ebay! £12 of which was a the new filter. I know its size restricts the fish i can have but can anyone suggest any interesting additions when the tank has finished cycling?

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Very nice. The cobble is especially attractive.

Pretty tank tom.......I wouldn't add many more fish cause of it's size though. Tiger barbs get to a pretty decent size for that size tank & are quite active too. How about a couple of cories to add interest & help keep it clean? Cories like to be in schools of 6 or more, but I wouldn't add that many to that size tank as they are bottom feeders & you don't have that much bottom.

nice tank tom!

a bottom feeder like a corydoras species would look nice.. and also might i suggest you place a bit of moss on those caves to cover th gapes and also a bit of live plant (maybe anubias petite?) would look good attache somewhere in the tank.. even an aponogeton would look nice...

great tank though BTW!

if it is 32ltr you might need to upgrade soon or trade your tiger barbs in eventually (within the next year or two) because they wil get too large for a tank that size...

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Cup,

Your tank rocks

The Amazon Nut...

I would like to take my 20 gallon tank up to college with me when I start in August. I was wondering how you go about cleaning an aquarium in a dorm room???

I hope to get it planted by the time I go to college also.

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im attending the university of tampa in a month.

so i will post my tank once i get it.

as of now it will be a oceanic biocube 14 gallon with around 5 pounds of live rock and two black and white ocalleris clownfish.

Uh, what exactly do you mean "how do you clean it"? It's the routine as always: gravel vac, the occasional scrub, water changes, etc.

By how do u clean it I meant where do u dump the water? Would buying one of those siphons that hooks to a sink make it easier? Any suggestions or tricks.

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kj fishy-finn, you would want a bucket and dump method... if you are on the first story you could syphon right out the window into a planter... if you are on another story you could just save the water and use it for some indoor plants (if your into that), or you could carry the bucket to the floor bathroom or suite bathroom and dump it wdown the toilet, then fill the bucket with teh syphon hose from the sink... thats what i do in my house, although if you have a small enought tan you could syphon into some water bottles and tosst them.

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I hadn't thought about doing it out the window. That might actually work if the tank is close enough to the window and I am on the first floor.

I don't think my suitemates would like the fish poo going down the shower.

I wasn't planning on taking the tank up until a week after school starts anyway so I can figure that all out.

When the time comes I hope to have pictures for ppl to see.

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