My 75 axolotl and goldfish tank

[Reptileguy2727]

The tank is a 75. The filtration is a Fluval 404, 405, and a Biowheel Power Pro 30. There are three underpowered airstones in there for now. There are 4 axolotls, 6 mystery snails, a bunch of guppies, and 9 assorted fancy goldfish. The plants are anacharis, moneywort, amazon sword, radican sword, wisteria, and some sort of val I have not looked up yet. I just added 22 pictures to my PhotoBucket page so please take a look. Here are a few.

 

[Saspotato]

Aww, that second picture is adorable

I checked out your photobucket page, nice axies... I would love to have more but only have a tank size good enough for one.

 

[i_love_necturus]

Thats a nice tank BUT, you should never keep large fish with axolotls. They can injure the axolotls or the axolotls could eat the fish if they got big enough. How long are the axolotls, the largest fish?

 

[Reptileguy2727]

The largest goldfish is about 5" total lenght. The smallest is way too big for the axolotls to eat. The largest axolotl is about 10.5". The goldfish do not mess with the axolotls at all, they avoid them. If you want to be extra safe and not ever take any risks, don't mix them. But mine get along fine. If they didn't, I wouldn't keep them together.

 

[kclinton]

Hi I think your tank looks great. If you have the guppies in there as a food source and want them to bread A think that I found out if you put floating plant is they give the babies a great place to hide.

 

[Reptileguy2727]

Actually there are a couple fake floating plants in the back left corner. They do hang out there a lot. I may just remove the babies into rubbermaid tubs with sponge filters and grow them up in there. I just have to get the sponge filters and more air pumps.

 

[Plonk]

WoW!!! I love your tank set up, what ground cover do you have? If its sand what type is it? This is exactly what Im aiming for.

 

[Reptileguy2727]

It is Estes' Marine Sand (does not affect water chemistry at all).

 

[Plonk]

Where abouts did you get it from?

 

[Reptileguy2727]

The pet shop I work at carries it. I am not sure if it is available in Australia. It is a silica-based sand that comes in a handful of colors.