Yet another loophole was found in my acquisition of the
aquarium. In our house, we have this second living room that for the
longest time contained only our piano. I toyed with a multi-media room, a
library, a pool room...but nothing seemed right and they all came with a pretty
hefty price tag. One day, I was reminiscing on my earlier days of
fish-keeping. I lost my last aquarium in the great fire
of '97 . I love keeping fish, I have always had good luck with them
and they are fascinating to watch. Anyway, as I was evaluating what to do
with the room, I made an off-hand remark about "just putting a big ol' aquarium
in there". After all, as expensive as aquariums are...it was much cheaper
than any of the other ideas I had come up with. As I cringed, awaiting the
reaction...the clouds parted! It would seem that some people believe
aquariums to be furniture! Astounded at my fortune, I rushed out the
very next day and got the biggest aquarium I could find and get home (with the
help of a friend's truck). My tank is a 125 gallon glass aquarium.
I
have an Eheim 2260 canister filter underneath in the tank stand. A couple
of powerheads are usually on, but the fish often take delight in displacing
them. The tank is a dedicated Lake Tanganyika Cichlid tank (with a couple
of clown loaches thrown in for good measure). My treasures of the tank are the
Frontosa's, the big daddy is pictured here. Other than that, I have a
variety including Brichardi's (breeding like mad) L. Leleupi, J. Transcriptus,
J. Marlieri, Brevis, Altolamprologus and some Synodontis Petricola.