i started ages ago looking into fish and have been keeping two oscars for a while now and they are at around 3-4" (albino picture 1 and tiger picture2) now and I recently bought a 36"x18"x15" tank for them (once they outgrow this tank i am going to return them to the shop) so far i have the tank the filter (aqua 1 power filter 2000l/h) and the gravel (picture 3) and i already have everything else needed in my current tank (air pumps, thermometor, etc.) however we are still minus a stand which is our goal for this week we are still trying to find i nice, strong design. I am planning on getting some nice big round rocks for decoration and once i get a light (once everything is setup first) then we are going to get lillypads and other plants from our backyard dam and clean them off and make it look really nice i can also afford the oscars plant destruction habits by replacing the plants very easily as they are all through our dam once all of this is done i am thinking of making a custom 3D background i will keep posted on how what is happening with the tank and hopefully it'll be looking good as soon as possible


Picture 1

My Albino Oscar at about 3" not much bigger now
5/12/05


Picture 2

My Tiger Oscar at about 3.5" taken last night (the water looks yellow because i don't have a light in my tank and i was using the roof lights which are pretty yellow)
5/2/06

Picture 3

my tank, gravel and filter

Am I right in what I'm seeing? Is that a sliding glass hood? Very nice, love that Tiger Oscar too. I simply must get one of those eventually. But next will be a betta for me, and the sw tank fish for my wife, whenever she makes up her mind.

nah it's not a sliding lid the lids aren't in the picture the tank is just on it's side thanx about the comment on tiger oscar my dad tried to get the wood for the stand today he went to 3 hardware stores and none of them had the right stuff :(

i am going away on the weekend (to stradbroke island a friend from school lives there i will be surfing all weekend :):)) and Dad says when i get back the stand will be ready so i will post pics on monday or tuesday

saw a really cool stand someone made with 3 2x12s and 9 cinder blocks

i think Sgt Mjr posted a pic of one of those up there and had a comment completely opposite to yours about it

the stand

12/02/06

i am going to turn the stand into a cuboard by putting some plywood on the back doors on the front and sides on it to make it look more professional i am also wondering whether i could build in two lights into the inside of the stand that light up the tank from the bottom has anyone ever tried this

the stand is finished and the tank is full

14/02/06

with the fish in it

the fish are loving it doing laps up and down the tank swimming in the current the tank is very bare at the moment going to slowly add decoration and will update when things change

14/02/06

Tell your dad that I said he sure does know how to pick out some good wood. Nice work on the stand!

lol we are still going to put a shelf in the bottom like dividing the storage space into two sections and put swinging doors on the front and meat safe (i think that is what it is called the metal stuff they used to put on cuboards so meat could be kept and still get the breeze to keep it from going off i don't think it would work well though

tank now has background lillypads and a large rock still a work in progress

15/2/06

sorry for poor quality :sick:

Just saw that set up you got there, got any more updates? :rolleyes:
It looks nice! :up:

only thing that has happened is i removed the plant cause it died (dad poisoned the plants in the dam before i put it in the tank luckily it didn't hurt the fish) so nothing new to see