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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on February 03, 2008, 10:18:03 PM
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I have a 20 gallon freshwater tank in my barracks room. Its the max were allowed to have. But I think Im going to push the limits soon and exchange it for a 30. Heres my inventory:
2 Black Ghosts
3 Green Barbs
3 Tiger Barbs
1 Female Freshwater puffer
2 Red tail sharks
1 pleco
And my new addition today is a foot long freshwater moray eel
Heres some pictures:
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x226/BlueJ17/IMG_0612.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x226/BlueJ17/IMG_0610.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x226/BlueJ17/IMG_0609.jpg)
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i love aquariums. very relaxing.
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Originally posted by JB88
i love aquariums. very relaxing.
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Agreed. I can lay in my bed and waste a good part of a day watching my fish.
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Sure those are red-tails? Look a lot like rainbow sharks to me (red-tails are usually solid black fins except the tail).
Been a while since I've done anything with fish, but that's an awful small tank for a foot-long eel (especially one that looks like he could make a snack out of those barbs).
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Originally posted by Saxman
Sure those are red-tails? Look a lot like rainbow sharks to me (red-tails are usually solid black fins except the tail).
Been a while since I've done anything with fish, but that's an awful small tank for a foot-long eel (especially one that looks like he could make a snack out of those barbs).
Everything I read online said 10-20 gallon tanks work well with them. Also said barbs are a good mix but I just have to make sure I feed the eel or else he'll eat the barbs. Im not really worried about the barbs or the sharks. As long as he dosnt eat my knives. The owner of the pet store is a good friend now and he said once he gets to big for me just bring him back and he'll give me store credit and put the eel in a display tank. He told me even tho if I feed the eel regularly dont be suprised when you wake up and a barb is missing. He will replace any barbs I have for free. Eel only cost my 15 dollars so I figured it was a good deal.
You are correct in the rainbow sharks. Was thinking one thing and typed another. I was going to get 2 red tails today until I saw the eel.
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I'll post a picture of the fishtank i built tomorrow. There's only 1 fish left, a neon tetra, since i'm broke. My friend the female beta died 3 days ago, but she was around for almost 2 years.
(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/speed55/IMAG0016.jpg)
Well the lights are off.. i'm kinda drunk, and i don't want to wake up the little guy. tomorrow i'll post one with the lights on if i remember,... hickup
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my favorites when i was a kid were the neon tetras.
we had a whole bunch of em. beautiful little creatures.
angel fish are a great addition to any aquarium, but they are very temperamental.
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What no Seabasses!!!!
You can't have no aquarium without no Seabasses.
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Originally posted by JB88
my favorites when i was a kid were the neon tetras.
we had a whole bunch of em. beautiful little creatures.
angel fish are a great addition to any aquarium, but they are very temperamental.
I love angels. I was going to make my tank strictly angels. But it started out to aggressive with the knives and puffers. Barbs and eel sent it even farther away from angels.
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Hee hee. Neon Tetras, the snack chips of the aquarium world. :D
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Originally posted by JB88
my favorites when i was a kid were the neon tetras.
we had a whole bunch of em. beautiful little creatures.
angel fish are a great addition to any aquarium, but they are very temperamental.
Never mix Barbs with Angel fish... the Barbs will eat the bottom fins/strands off of Angel fish.
Neons are great..a nice school. Zebras are boring. Fancy Tail Guppys are awesome and easy to breed... *Please no "Do ya hold them by the gills during breeding jokes".* Glass Catfish and Redtail Sharks are kewl.
I gotta dig up some pics of my tank. 55 gal beautiful wooden stand I bought in Korea back in the early '80s. paid $1500.00 for it back then. Had to rework the lighting system... it had "Death from a Mistake" written all over it. I started young with a 5 gal tank....Yes they are awesome to have. Sit and just watch the fish.
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Mac
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Looks like a nice healthy tank you have there.
You would be amazed at how much a cheap backdrop will change the look of you tank. I always went with a plain black that really made the neon tetra's colors pop.
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I have a 3 gallon tank with my g/f's male beta in it, a 10 gallon tank that's home to 4 female betas and some mollys, and a 23 gallon bow-front tank that's home to a 3 schools of neon tetras, bloodfin tetras, and diamond tetras.
In another 4 months all of the tetras are being moved to a 100 gallon community tank at my brother-in-laws, and the 23 gallon tank is being sold and replaced with a 40 gallon tank. The 40 gallon tank is going to be setup as a nano-reef, and is the future home of a few dwarf lion fish.
One day I'd like to get a nice tank in the 110 gallon range and get a Volitans Lionfish. A pain to own since you have to practically hand-feed them every 2 days, but very beautiful (oh.. and poisonous)
(http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/images/thumbimg/400/5330_1.JPG)
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I happen to have a 110G SW. And yes I also have the volitan in there. Along with a hippo tang(dori), engineering goby, maroon clown fish(sorta like nemo but a bigger version), starfish, lobster, cleaner shrimp and many other critters/fish I don't feel like mentioning.
Oh and you don't actually have to "hand feed" the lion. You can, but all I do it drop a silverside in the water around him and he takes care of the rest.
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It doesn't eat everything else in the tank? Done a bit of reading on Volitans, and it seemed like the concensus was that if it can fit in its mouth, it's getting eaten.
edit: nm, just read it was a much bigger clown fish. was wondering how the hell it stayed alive.
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Yeah there is a risk of it eating tank mates especially the cleaner shrimp. I keep him well fed though and have had no disappearances. They've been in the tank together for about 2 years now.
Like I mentioned, my opinioon is keeping the lion well fed keeps the other fish from becoming a meal. A good site to look at is saltwaterfish.com forums. They got a whole section on aggressive fish.
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that's how i roll.
feed me momma or i'm gonna eat the baby.
;)
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I had a 60 gallon sw tank years ago. It had live coral, anenomies, clowns, tangs, a little lion fish, and a few others. I made the mistake of getting a snowflake eel that was 10 inches long. When I gave him to a fish store, he was 24+ inches long and had gone on about a $2500 eating spree over a year.
Sold the tank after that.
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Gave the moray his own tank today. A nice 20 gallon with lots of hiding spots. Going to cut his chances of cleaning out my other fish.
Hey bodhi sir, havnt seen you in awhile. I love snowflake eels.
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I'm too lazy to have a fish tank. Can't pet a fish, they don't get the morning paper off the driveway, and won't alert you to a prowler. What's the point? :)
I do find when I see a fish tank, I will sit and watch the fish for a while. They probably wish I would just move on, but there I sit.
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You need a small RC coast guard vessel there blue to make sure the eel doesnt do anything evil to the rest of the population. If you google you can find drawings on how to make small fun depth charges.
As a fishtank dictator you need your tools or else things will get out of hand ;)
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I've had all kinds of fish tanks, freshwater tropical, saltwater, liverock. But my favorite was when I collected the fish myself from local lakes.
I've had two different native tanks. The first had two bluegill, two crappie, and a largemouth bass. I put a dozen minnows in the tank that I bought from a local bait store, boy what a feeding frenzy that was! The second contained six pumpkinseeds (a very colorful type of sunfish). I had a sand substrate and live plants I grew from bulbs. Was a very pretty tank. However, once the pumpkinseeds started trying to breed, they got too aggressive, so I released back where I caught them.
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I bought Sarah a 30Gal tank for her birthday, we are still deciding what to stock it with, but since it is going to be her first tropical tank we want to start with fish that are relatively easy to care for :)
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shark bait! OO HA HA!!!
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Im thinking about getting a couple of goldfish and have them in a beer glass.
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The sausage fish in the third pic looks very very bored.
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How much fun can he really be having?
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this much fun? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34VdEyXt4M&feature=related)
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(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/speed55/fishtank.jpg)
Since i keep getting booted from the MA, i remembered to take a picture.
It's about 60 gallons all together and cost about $200 to build.
I used Plexiglass from home dumb dumb. I think 1/4" .
Then used boiling water to clean some 3" pvc, and used aquarium glue to get the gravel to stick.
The tunnel in the middle was just because i wanted to do something different.
I'm thinking of taking out the gravel and using sand, and converting it into a brackish water molly tank, with hopes that they just naturally fill the tank by breeding.
Anyone else have a brackish water tank?
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Originally posted by Speed55
Anyone else have a brackish water tank?
i have a big huge one right behind the house.
mostly mullet, redfish, flounders...nice ornamental ducks on top.
:D