Fish Cam - Live Aquarium Video
This site hosts three fishcams directed at a single 125 gallon aquarium. The site contains pages that direct you to each fish cam and this page that describes the fish tank, the fish, aquarium history, and the care and maintenance performed.
February 18, 2010
We have replaced the bulbs in the fishcam’s night light. It is a 
Coralife 48 inch unit with 4 compact fluorescent bulbs. The lights had been out of commission for a while but today we got a great deal on the replacement bulbs from out favorite LFS. Unfortunately the deal on the bulbs came about due to the “50% OFF / Going Out of Business” sale at Pets Plus in Hazlet, NJ. They were in the Airport Plaza on Route 36. The FishCam will miss this store. All of our supplies had been purchased there for a few years.
Any new LFS in the area is welcome to sponsor us. Just send an email!
In other news: The Clown Knife is dead. I don’t think that the tank is a welcoming place for any new fish.
October 9, 2009:
The fishcam would like to thank Barry Egerter for including our cams in his outstanding iphone app “Live Cams”
Now you can watch the fish from your iphone or itouch. There are hundreds of more cams available through the app.
The camera on fishcam 3 got a new zoom lens. It offers a better view of the tank and the fish. This camera really shows just how large some of these fish are.
September 30, 2009:
We added a new clown knife to the mix inside the tank! 
He was actually placed in the tank 2 weeks ago but after a few days, I stopped seeing him swimming around. I assumed that he became a tasty lunch for the Green Terror, but he has just been hiding among the plants. He is about 4 inches long and is quite stealthy. I only found out that he was still alive by chance. I caught him on fishcam 1 last night when the main tank lights were turned off.
On another note, the new fishcam server is super fast and hardly being taxed at all. Unlike the older unit that ran at 100% processor usage constantly.
September 15, 2009:
The 
Volcano is now running at full power. The airstone inside the volcano disintegrated and was causing an awful blockage in the air flow. I replaced it with a new larger unit that creates a violent blast when activated. A new webcam server has been installed. It has 3gig of memory and a dual core processor. This upgrade should keep the cams running for quite a while.
September 14, 2009:
The new arowana was eaten by the green terror. 
I think that the tank has seen its last one. It may be time to try out a clown knife. The Volcano has been slow to erupt lately when using the controls on the web cam pages. I will be looking into this problem soon.
July 31, 2009:
A Giant Danio has passed 
away. He never recovered from the power outage, I suppose. Another Blood parrot seems
to be struggling too. He is just hanging around in the corner of the tank. I hope that this hasn’t turned into a death tank.
I performed a huge water change and tested the water quality. Lets hope that the Blood Parrot pulls through.
July 22, 2009: Sadly, a 24 hour power outage has caused the death 
of four fish. The 3 barbs died off and were found floating. One of the large Blood Parrots was found nose dived into a plant, dead. The Blood Parrot was a few years old and a veteran of the tank. His name was Jonathan. All the fish were clearly having difficulty breathing. It took most of Monday for the remaining fish to recover. The cleaning crew that comes in to tidy up the office blew a fuse with the vacuum and left the office without power for a day. This left the pump, the lights and the fishcam offline most of the day on Sunday July 19th. The tank has not seen this kind of devastation in a long time.
June 29, 2009: It didn’t take long, but we have been recognized by earthcam.com as one of 
their Top 10 Webcams.The people have spoken with their votes and fishcams.net has come out a winner. The fish would like to thank the academy for the recognition and their parents for raising them right. The decision is based on quality of image, uniqueness of content and overall technical achievements in webcam technology. For more info visit EarthCam.com
June 10, 2009: Today we added a another Silver Arowana. It 
stays towards the top of the water column, in and around the floating plants. It is a juvenile, 4 inches long. It should grow quickly like the old one. I have started adding small floating cichlid pellets to the feeding schedule to help it along. The green terror does not seem to care much about the arowana, but I will keep an eye out for any bullying.
The fishcam page was originally a feature to generate traffic to my computer services business website: http://www.netiton.com but judging from the amount of traffic the aquarium cam has gotten over the years, I suppose that it time for the fishcams to get their own domain and content. I am a aquarium hobbyist and enjoy sharing the aquarium views with anyone interested in the hobby.
There are some interactive components installed inside the aquarium. The volcano’s eruption can be controlled by a button beneath the video stream. Dim lights can be activated through a second button, while the main tank lights are turned off at night for viewers after 10:00 pm EST.
The fish tank is a 125 Gallon All-Glass Aquarium. It has dual built in overflows that empty into a huge wet/dry trickle sump below the tank inside of the stand. It sits on a heavy duty oak stand on reinforced floor joists. It is a planted tank with lots of live plants that seem to grow faster than I can keep up with. CO2 is released into the tank during the daytime hours. The CO2 and the main tank lights are controlled with an automatic timer.
The fish include a dozen clown loaches. These are my favorites. They seem to behave like a family, always traveling together across the tank. The clowns also enjoy piling upon one another until they are completely stacked up in a corner. These fish are fun to watch. There is a single green terror cichlid. This fish is actually blue with bright orange tips on its fins. Other inhabitants are giant danios, tin foil barbs, some blood parrots, and a common pleco.
Past inhabitants included a beautiful Arowana that jumped to an untimely death on the floor. I am now considering a Clown Knife fish. This fish is pretty but I am hesitating on buying one for fear that it may out grow the tank.
April 7, 2010
The Fish Cam and aquarium have been on autopilot now for a while. The maintenance has become routine. I am looking for some suggestions on making the tank, the cams and the site a little better. If you have any suggestions, drop an email to info@fishcams.net
Three fish cams in one 125 gallon freshwater planted aquarium.
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