Fish shuffling / tank redecorating

Sherbert's been looking too big for her 55 gallon so I've been wanting to move her back to the 75 and try putting Buddy with her (he was in a 20 tall).

So today I finally got around to moving the africans from the 75 to the 55 and Sherbert & Buddy into the 75.

And while I was at it, I did some redecorating as well.

Here's the 55 before:


And the 55 after (Something a little different than the traditional Malawi set up. Still need to get a few more pots and I'm going to look for some nicer plants. Most of those are my old/worn out/reject plants)


75 before (as nice as 3D backgrounds look, I don't think I'll ever do it again. You either have to completely seal them to the tank, in which case they're pretty permanant; or you don't seal them and they trap a butt load of junk behind them - as bad as a UGF - it was disgusting).


75 after (that white sand really brightened things up).


So far Buddy & Sherbert are doing fairly well. Buddy wants to be friends with Sherbert, but she wants him to leave her alone. She's given him a few warning nips & chases to put him in his place but nothing serious and no damage done. And there's a couple places that he can get to but she can't.

And as a teaser, here's the before shot of the 20 gallon.



I'm going to give Buddy & Sherbert a few days to make sure they're okay with eachother. If all goes well, I'm going to move the 10 gallon fish/plants to the 20 so I can tear down and sell the 10. I won't go into details about my plans on the decor for the 20, but I will say it's something I've never seen done before (although I've heard a few people talk about considering it), and if it turns out like I hope, it should be pretty cool.

-Chelle

 

nice looking tanks you have chelle. goodluck with buddy and sherbert.