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Its been a busy week in Fish Room Grady. My deep sink is finally up and running and now water changes etc.
will become much eaier with my 50-foot Python huse attached.

I am moving/constructing stands for my larger tanks and it should finalize at 3 rows – floor, mid and upper. These will hold nine 20G-30G tanks on each giving me 18 tanks for either Rainbows, Blue-eyes or larger species of killies (Fp. sjoestedti). This will still take a little time.

I am seriously considering moving one of my computers into the area. Its not so much that I do fish stuff on it, but it might be nice to have my email handy amosng a way to search for things I want or need when I think about it.

After my trip to the Suncoast Killifish Society meeting this past weekend, I have added some fish the the tanks behind my work area. I picked up a Notho !!! M. kilomberoense, a couple of Rivs – and some bettas (eeeep) and eggs of Fp. gardneri Nsukka. I am quite happy with my new residents. I still have a ways to go in getting things fully active. I am very happy to go out and fiddle with numerous task, large and small, in getting thungs the way I am content.

I am still considering the 2025 AKA National Convention in San Antonio. I would really like to go, but its a long drive and I hate trying to bring fish back on a plane. Still there will be some fish I want, even if I do not know what yet. I know I could do a bit of roadside collecting on the trip – get some fun natives. Decision will have to be made soon.

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As I cleaned tanks and reorganized my fishroom yesterday, it became apparent to me there is a lot of work to accomplish to get back to what I want. I am ashamed to admit I only have one fish there. Now through my time of difficulties, at least the fish (tanks) were fed everyday. Now this does not count my living room tanks, a 90-gal and 100-gallon. I have some Blue Gularis in one and Jordanella floridae in the other. They seem quite happy. The Blue Gularis tank also has a few good size Cory. paleatus and some dither fish, tetras and Danios.

It bothers me a lot to have reached this point in my fish life. I guess it happens with what I have endurred the past couple years, but I am still bothered by it. I have been keeping fish mostly sucessfully for 60+ years and at 71-y/o want to do the same until I hit 100-y/o. Not obsessed or anything.

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After making this post, it’s my plan to finally get back to work in my fishroom. I am planning to build two 3 level stands in the center and running the length of the room. These will be designed to hold 20- & 30- gallon tanks which are the same height, so they should easily handle many of my stored aquariums. I am not certain about what I will put in the tanks, but I know I want some rainbows and blue-eyes. Probably use them for some of the aplocheilids too.

What is most important is to clean up my smaller tanks and get them ready for whatever fish I want to add. I am sure I will try to get some Nothos going. I am a bit intrigued by the gardneri-type too. But who knows I will finally obtain, but I need killies!

I will let you know what I am up to here and on Facebook.

Yesterday my friends Steve and Jessica came over to help build a rack for some of my many tanks not yet in use. They worked their butts off for some pizza.

We were able to construct a 16 foot section that holds 14 30-gallon and 20-Gallon High tanks. I expect to add another level to it that will add another 10 10-gallon tanks. I also added a section for my 2 /12 gallon tanks that holds 16 more tanks for raising fry. Forty-four tanks ain’t bad.

The next step will be to add a rack with 3 levels again. It should hold 8 more 20H tanks and a bunch of 5-gallon … roughly adding ten 5s for an additional 18 tanks. I will probably pause the construction there for awhile, but I have plenty of room to add more stands … I know insanity! It will mean I am running about 80 tanks before more construction and does not count the 1-gallon fry tanks at all.

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This weekend is a planned construction day to complete most of my fish room. I need to build a couple of tank racks and install my aeration system to hook up my blower which should easily handle 100+ tanks. This will require some lengths of 2 inch PVP piping and a way to hang it. I have a few ideas from past experience to do it the best way instead of the worst.

I will be offering pizza and soda as payment for anyone willing to help. I do have a few people planned on coming up.

You can contact me at tomgrady184@gmail.com if you feel like helping. We plan to start at 11am Saturday Dec. 30th.

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Added to the Fish Room

Ouchie … hurts to be in my empty fishroom.

WOW It’s been a long time

We Got Some Work Done.

FISH ROOM CONSTRUCTION