Posted: 1/9/2010 1:56:44 PM EDT
| Are there any other people on here that enjoy fishtanks or have more than one fishtank in their house, or am i the only wierdo that enjoys fishtanks and guns. |
| When I was much younger I was obsessed with tropical fish(wish I could have afforded the salt water setup) and had a constant collection of fish that would always include at least 3 angelfish. Now there isn't a decent pet store anywhere near where I live and my apartment complex has a "no-pets" policy that includes fish. |
| I'm getting rid of mine this week. I'm down to an Auratus, Electric Yellow, Synodantus Angelicus, 4 Line Pictus, and a giant Danio (dither fish from when I introduced some other cichlids)... oh, and a Kuhli Loach I think. He was a stow away from when I moved the tank 15 years ago! lived for a week in about an inch of water sitting in the sun while I was moving. The Auratus kills pretty much everything, but he was the last survivor from a breeding pair I had about 10 years ago. |
|
Quoted: That fish eats piranas. I still have a couple fish but I use to really be into rare freshwater fish. Ive kept fresh water stingrays, snakeheads, and many fish most people have never heard of and more expensive then a sane person would spend on a fish, even had two of these... http://www.thejump.net/id/Payara.jpg  |
|
Quoted:
well, i'm just getting started into the tanganyika fish, in my opinion the closest thing to saltwater without the trouble and great looking fish. I've always had some tanganikan stuff, I always did well with the Julidachromis genus. They weren't the showiest fish, but I was always entertained by them. A lot of the malawi are very colorful, and easy to breed. I've always had luck with P. demasoni, and L. caeruleus. (sp?) |
|
I have a 55 gal filled with four fish that are 8 years old. Yes, 8 years old. Three silver dollars and a yo-yo loach.
I'm so sick of this thing. It was fun for a couple of years, putting it together, decorating it and getting fish that didn't die after a few months. Then it was nice to look at and maintain for a while. Eight years later, I just wish the damn things would die. I haven't cleaned it or changed the water in over a year, I add water when it gets too low, I feed them maybe twice a week and the damn things just keep living. I had 3 tinfoil barbs that made it six years before they all started to die. It amazes me every day that the fish are still alive. I'd love to start over and get some different fish, but I plan on moving in the next year or two. Hopefully these things die by then. |
|
I currently have a 2 gallon with 2 female betta's. They are separated as one of them is a total bitch and tried to kill the other betta. Then we have another betta in a 1 gallon tank. We are slowly starting our fish collection. I hope to one day have a big aquarium with all kinds of tropical fish. |
|
I did up until about a year ago. 55gal with your basic run-of-the-mill pet store freshwater species. Two huge plecos though. One was just shy of 10 years old. The other about 7 or 8 yrs. Something weird happened and I couldn't keep the water chemistry correct. Massive fish kill. Even got my plecos. Haven't had the time to start over yet. But it's still sitting there ready. |
|
I've kept fish off and on all my life. I've never kept salts though. The entry fee has always kept me out. Last time I had my tank running was two years ago now. I got into Africans and kept a bunch of Lake Malawi's. A buddy in Washington has them now. The most memorable fish I ever had was a pair of Oscars that I kept in a 65 gallon long. They got progressively more destructive as they got big. First they started digging up the under gravel filters. I'd go through the whole drill of moving all the gravel to one end and putting the grids back down then do the other side. I'd go to work and they would do it again. Put plastic screen over the grids, they dug it up and tore up the grids and screening. Replaced the under gravel and put big rocks in the tank to keep them from digging up the filter. They drug the rocks around and dug up the grids again and tore them up again. Gave up on the under gravels and went to an external. The started eating the lift tubes. After many lift tubes I replaced them with a piece of stainless steel tubing. Did I mention they were still dragging the rocks around. Actually put big scratches in the glass doing this. I quit even trying to smooth the gravel out as they would immediately start digging and moving it. I feed them beef heart and feeder goldfish. They would hit the beefheart and splash water everywhere. You could even play tug of war with them with a piece of beef heart. Dump the feeders in and they would eat them until they literally had a feeder hanging out of their mouth because nothing else would go down. One night I was bed when I heard a huge crash from the living room where their tank was. I got up expecting to find they'd finally broken the tank. Instead they had hit the glass tank top hard enough to break. Its beyond me had they didn't get electrocuted by the light. Fucked it up though. My Ex killed them as part of her psycho bitch act during the divorce. Threw a bar of soap in their tank.  |
|
Quoted: here's the 150 and the 10 http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0710.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0858.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0864.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0871.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0873.jpg Wait until that Jack Dempsey gets bigger. The Oscar might keep up with him and then again he might not. Both Dempsey's I've had killed everything else in tank once they got to a certain size. Meanest fish I've ever kept. |
|
I have 5 aquariums in my house, all freshwater.
55gal has 1 oscar and a pleco 40 gal has 3 year old 9 banded leopranus and 3 yr old pleco both are about 10" in length 37 gal Cichlid Tank never know how many I have as they are always breeding. 16 gal with community gold fish 10 gal with feederes for the oscar. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
here's the 150 and the 10 http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0710.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0858.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0864.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0871.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/bgcoop884/fish/DSCF0873.jpg Wait until that Jack Dempsey gets bigger. The Oscar might keep up with him and then again he might not. Both Dempsey's I've had killed everything else in tank once they got to a certain size. Meanest fish I've ever kept. I had a normal color JD that was about 9" but the red-devil didn't like him, So far the meanest fish i've had have been the red-devil and a jaguar, the oscar is about 3" bigger now and a huge baby, he doesn't bother anyone. |
|
I am down to one tank, 55 gallon planted freshwater with a 10 year old common pleco and a couple of tiger barbs. Girlfriend and I used to breed Bettas and guppies (well, you don't actually breed guppies). We had upwards of a dozen tanks running at one point. It was insanity. Have a beautiful 75 gallon bowfront with a 20 gallon sump sitting under a cover behind my garage. I bought it like 8 years ago with the intent of setting up a saltwater tank. Now I am glad I didn't, but I can't give the damn tank away. To the poster who doesn't change the water or care for his fish and hopes that they "just die". If you don't want em, call your local fish stores, many of the non corporate ones will take in unwanted fish. |
|
Quoted:
I still have a couple fish but I use to really be into rare freshwater fish. Ive kept fresh water stingrays, snakeheads, and many fish most people have never heard of and more expensive then a sane person would spend on a fish, even had two of these... http://www.thejump.net/id/Payara.jpg That is one ugly mo-fo |
This was my 55 before I moved...
... I didn't have the money to re-plant and add fish after the move.
And yes, there were fish in there. 70 or so of them. - Cardinal tetras - Brown pencilfish - Emerald Eye Rasboras - Large school of Panda Corydoras - Leopard pleco - Clown pleco - And 1 Betta for good measure. All I have set up now is my 29 gallon. I love it, but I miss having a fully planted tank. The 29 is only 1/2 real plants. *sigh* |