My 225

Hello friends. Below are pictures of my 225gl US Native aquarium. The 225 is my biggest tank and it keeps large adult fish. These are fish I caught. I'm happy with my current stock, it's a nice mix of fish, colors, and unique behaviors. The process of collecting is fascinating to me, catching a rare fish is just as much exciting as catching a trophy fish. I love fishing new systems and seeing different pigmentations. I'm always looking for a new adventure and hunting down those exceptional fish. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

That is one SUPER TANK. Love your aquarium post.

Awesome!!!!!

I am jealous of that! Always wanted a big tank with native fish in it. You nailed it.

Great tank!!! Love a native setup.

That's so cool!

Super tank with some super fish. Where is the Rio?

Come to think of it I did not see a Rio either!

You better not grow any trophies, Chuck will be up there wanting to catch it for a private water body record

Totally Awesome...what a great hobby !

Yes Sir. Andrew indoor ponds.

Too cool!

Fitz you have one AWESOME tank! I can only imagine seeing native fish everyday swimming within inches of me. Keep those aquarium post coming. As always thanks for sharing your aquarium with us.

Thanks for sharing this, it seems like it would a great hobby.

This particular Rio was caught October 2015 at 1" with a dip net in the Colorado River by Austin Airport. Its about 6" 2 years later. It started in my 175 but got too big for his tankmates (Shiners, Log Perch, baby Sunfish, Stonerollers, Chubs, Killifish) and would eat them.

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Bump for those of you who might like the idea of having an aquarium with some really cool fish

That does not count as a private water body record!

Cool thread. I'd like to have one of these some day.

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Simply love it!

Nice. I had a 600 gallon tank in my house during the early 90s with bass and crappie. My wife and kids and I spent the Easter weekend at the lake and returned to the house with water coming out from the bottom of the bricks and running down the driveway. The 5/8'' thick glass cracked from one corner to the other and everything was dead. My wife said no more! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome set up. I been wanting to do the same. Little afraid if I set up a tank my cats will want to do some some fishing also.

Always love your aquarium post! Great that this was brought up again!

Thats awesome!!

Thanks everyone. New pics coming soon.

Too funny Chuck!

No Fishing Indoors

Maybe I’ll get some signs made like the No Tresspassing ones

For those of you that like to follow my aquarium posts, here are some new pictures from my 225. The fish are doing great, fat and happy. I'm fairly content with my stock and the first-rate collection of Sunnies. There are a few oddball fish out there that I would introduce but they seem to evade me. As always, Enjoy





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Next two pictures are the same Warmouth

Absolutely amazing Fitz!!! Are those guad bass?

Thanks Westside One Spotted and one Guadalupe.

Awesome Andrew.


Side note. If those fish keep growing they will not count as a private water body record.

Gotcha

How do you keep the white sand clean?

Awesome pictures.

Stunning !

Very nice

Very nice collection
One fish two fish red fish blue fish

Thanks guys, glad y'all enjoy the pics

It's a labor of love, lots and lots of water changes

Andrew

This has me intrigued. How much time investment would you say you
put into maintenance of your 255 with the school you have now ?
Over a monthly period.

thanks, Chris

Andrew your aquarium does not count for a private water body and you cannot use those fish as records.

Chris, I spend around 2-3hours/week servicing the aquarium.

Chuck, I have at least one State record fish in there and several private body records.

Here are some new pictures and updates of my 225 Native aquarium. Tank and fish stock are doing well. I have all species (Green, Warmouth, Longear, Redbreast, Redear, Bluegill, Redear, Rio) of Texas Sunfish in there (except Orangespots because they would get eaten, I keep them in a smaller aquarium), plus a Green/BG and Longear/Redbreast (one of the cooler hybrids I have come across) a Florida Spotted Gar, Spotted Bass, and a Bronzer. Also, I have been growing out a Brown Bullhead from 2" to almost 7" and he join the community soon. Hope y'all enjoy the new pics.

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Awesome pics and awesome fish.

Very cool....beautiful aquarium!

Very nice! Your tanks are the best I've ever seen for natives

Awesome fish. Always makes me jealous

Is it a pain in the booty to clean?

Andrew you Sir are the "Aquarium Master"! Awesome Fish!

Thanks everyone, Appreciate the replies and questions! I'll try to stay on top of this thread better with more updates.

Yesenia- Its not too bad. 1 or 2 water changes a week, takes a few hours. Keeping the glass clean takes some work. Algae wants to grow on the glass so I use a razor blade attached to a 2ft piece of pvc to clean/scrape. The glass has to be clean for pics otherwise my photos will turn out as garbage.

Always look forward to your updates in this thread. It's amazing how beautiful some of these varieties of fish are.

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Bored at work and stumbled onto your thread. Very impressive!

I don't know how I missed this thread.

Thanks guys, new pics soon