Author Topic: Fish tanks (Read 829 times)

SuperDud · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2008, 04:35:42 PM »

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.

JB88 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2008, 04:37:16 PM »

that's how i roll.

feed me momma or i'm gonna eat the baby.

Bodhi · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2008, 10:12:37 PM »

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.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2008, 10:20:28 PM »

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.

Regulator · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2008, 11:31:11 PM »

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.

Nilsen · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2008, 03:55:19 AM »

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

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2008, 04:05:02 AM »

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.

SD67 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:05:56 AM »

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

JB88 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:09:33 AM »

shark bait! OO HA HA!!!

Nilsen · « **Reply #24 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:32:17 AM »

Im thinking about getting a couple of goldfish and have them in a beer glass.

moot · « **Reply #25 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:42:28 AM »

The sausage fish in the third pic looks very very bored.

Nilsen · « **Reply #26 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:45:04 AM »

How much fun can he really be having?

JB88 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 05, 2008, 06:48:23 AM »

this much fun?

Speed55 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 09, 2008, 04:16:00 PM »

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?

JB88 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 09, 2008, 04:18:03 PM »

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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.