Rene's 75g

[drstratton]

I have just recently decided to restart my tank after four years of it sitting empty. I just ordered my first fish, a pair of Purple Firefish, they will be here tomorrow. My DT is still cycling so the fish will be held in my quarantine tank until the tank is ready and I know they are completely healthy. Here are some pictures of my tank & setup!

DT


My husband & I modified a 40g breeder as my sump/refugium. Picture from 2011!


I will post pictures of my firefish pair tomorrow!

[DrPheel]

NIce setup ! Love the fuge and the sump layout ! I may have to copy it if I change my current sump

[drstratton]

Originally Posted by DrPheel

NIce setup ! Love the fuge and the sump layout ! I may have to copy it if I change my current sump

Thank you! I really like the room that you get with the 40g breeder. The only thing I might change on it, is that I would leave more room on the Skimmer side and less in the return section. I bought it at Petco when they were having their buy one gallon for one dollar tank sale. Can't beat that deal.

[drstratton]

So in anticipation of receiving my Firefish pair today, we got busy last night and made the screen for the QT. I thought it would be fast, but it took a bit longer and more thought than I had originally put into it. Thus enters my son and a product he just bought for his hobbies. Moldable plastic! I have a Penguin bio filter on my QT so we needed to shape the screen to fit around it.



Products is put into hot water to make it moldable:


Molded and placed into the ends of the screen frame:


Attach other piece and hold for a minute or two. This product cools and hardens very quickly. We placed it in the freezer for a few minutes to speed up the process:




The screen was sucking the frame in to much, so we had to glue the corners together and added a cross piece for strength:


Finally in place on my QT. My husband and son are awesome!


Now I just need my fish!

[drstratton]

My Purple Firefish arrived today from Coral Imports. I have to say what a great buying experience. Peter was so helpful and patient with all of my questions.

Without further ado here are my two beautiful firefish!

[drstratton]

Thought I could delete this post! Guess not!

[drstratton]

Finished the screens for the display tank! They fit like they were made for it !

[drstratton]

My Purple Firefish are eating, they love the Mysis Shrimp I've been feeding them!

[DrPheel]

Great news !! they are so hard to find here in Canada , I have seen one in the last 5 months... it was a store exchange and he was a bit too big for me since I like to get my fish small and see them evolve

Very nice find, they are one of my favorite fishes!

[Ruskin]

Those screens look great. The fish look even better

[drstratton]

Originally Posted by DrPheel

Great news !! they are so hard to find here in Canada , I have seen one in the last 5 months... it was a store exchange and he was a bit too big for me since I like to get my fish small and see them evolve

Very nice find, they are one of my favorite fishes!

I hope you can find one! Bought mine online. They have them at Pecto, but the last time I was there they were battling ich and cyano.

Originally Posted by Ruskin

Those screens look great. The fish look even better

Thank-you! I bought the material to do the screens 5 yrs ago when my tank was first set up, never got around to making them. I decided that I had better get it done this go around since I'm getting fish that like to jump. I'm really enjoying the firefish, we check each other out pretty closely whenever I go in to see them!