HCCC Fishrooms

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Greg & Lee Ann's Fishroom

"Warmest welcomes from Greg and Lee Ann. We hope you will enjoy this brief virtual tour of our fish hut. The construction is an ongoing project but we are both happy with the results thus far. Our present set up is compilation of the successes and failures from previous fishrooms. In Canada we had over 100 tanks at one point and although this fish hut is much smaller, it's also a lot more organized than any previous effort. Presently we have converted two bays of our garage to house our hobby and although we don't anticipate any further expansions, there are still 2 more bays to conquer if needed! At present we are keeping 70+ species of cichlids and catfish. We always look forward to having people over to see and chat fish so if you find yourself in the Canyon Lake area, look us up."
		This is the view walking into our fish hut. We built all the cabinets that house our tanks. Along the back wall are fish posters we've found on our travels.

		This is the view of the left wall of our main room. There are 4 cabinets with 55 gallon tanks on the top and two 20 gallon tanks on the bottom.

		This is the right wall of our main room. The end cabinet contains two 125 gallon tanks with a variety of Malawian and Victorian cichlids along with various Synodontis species. We have somehow acquired an extensive catfish collection. I'm not certain how it happened, just one of those things.

		The 20 gallon tanks on the bottom house our adolescent fish that are being grown.

		This is another view of the left wall taken from the back of the room.

		The two 125's. Many fish in the top tank are BAP fish from other members. We're very fortunate to be involved in the HCCC and have such great cichlid species available to us from our friends.

		This is a mbuna tank mainly. It is very active and glowing with color from the Malawian species housed here.

		This is a view of some of the inhabitants of one of the 125's. You can see Pundamilia nyererei "Python Island", Pseudotropheus saulosi, Pseudotropheus acei, Neochromis rufocaudalis and even some Cyprichromis leptosoma. This is another very busy tank.

		We expanded our fish hut last spring creating this room which we call "the lab". It contains our work table, some Tanganyikan species only tanks as well as a whack of 10 gallon fry tanks. There is also an old 125 gallon tank that has become home to rogue male fish mostly although it also contains a compliment of Synodontis.

		A closer shot of the Tanganyikan (mostly Julies) species tanks and the fry tanks.

		This is a shot of the fry tanks. They also serve as quarantine tanks sometimes as well. A year ago we had a parasite enter some of our tanks and we lost a lot of fish before we could eradicate it. This taught us a valuable lesson about being too lapse because things are going well. We quarantine everything now no matter the source.


		We built a small pond this year with a couple goldfish calling it home. This turned out to be a great little project with many hours spent sitting by the pond watching the dragon flies or hummingbirds hovering around. It's amazing the amount of life a small puddle of water will attract!

		This was our grand experiment this year. This kiddie pool is filled with Pundamilia nyererei and Labidochromis sp. "pearlmutt" fry. We put them out there a couple months ago. There is no filtration and no water movement at all. Every few days we do a small water change and sprinkle some food on the top. These fish have done remarkably well growing and coloring very nicely. I expect that next year we will have more kiddie pools.

		We have placed some of the awards (which we are proud of) on the cabinet lids. Now we need to decorate the rest of them.

		The Wall of Fame. These are some photographs and our BAP certificates as well as framed magazines that contain articles from our friends.

		We have a long ways to go yet before we can call our fish hut complete but it's coming. So far we have found it most rewarding so stop on by sometime and sign the door!



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