Aquarium Fish Tanks
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I went overboard on them when I was younger. Had over 20 tanks breeding Bettas, Angels, Swordtails etc. Now I only have 3 tanks, a 10 gal quarantine/hospital tank, a 25 gal mixed community tank and a 75 gallon salt water tank being set up. I don't say marine tank, because it is being turned into "local saltwater tank" with sculpins, eels, crab and whatever else I can scrounge off the beach at low tide. These are tough fish and easy to keep. Plus they are free! The hardest part will be carrying up the sand, rocks and water from the beach to the truck and up a flight of stairs in the house. Having had this kind of tank when I was a youngling, I am looking forward to the beauty and fun personalities of these feisty little critters.
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Eurowing!
Check with fish and wildlife!
I bet you're breaking some arcane "bait fish" law! ;D
Personally I have a thing for Stickelback.
Lots of attitude.......
I've got angels too plus some rare Apistogrammas and a few mixed tetras.
I've also got a tub full of Koi and Goldfish that spend the summer in a pond.
Cheers!
Check with fish and wildlife!
I bet you're breaking some arcane "bait fish" law! ;D
Personally I have a thing for Stickelback.
Lots of attitude.......
I've got angels too plus some rare Apistogrammas and a few mixed tetras.
I've also got a tub full of Koi and Goldfish that spend the summer in a pond.
Cheers!
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Years ago I had fish tanks. I had a couple of successful breeds of Betas, and mouthbreeders, but mostly kept cichlids - aequindens, angels, kribensis, and discus. Once I had a pair of scats. They didn't breed but they were lovely fish to keep. I got right into it for awhile, keeping a whiteworm colony for live food, and even invested quite a bit of money at that time in a Sterba - 2 volumes of fresh water fishes of the world.
Haven't kept a tank in years - circumstances of living - no time to devote to it, and no room for a goodly size tank.
Hawk
Haven't kept a tank in years - circumstances of living - no time to devote to it, and no room for a goodly size tank.
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Hawk! You might be as weird as I am!
For white worms I just raid the worm composter.......
we don't throw anything away. :
I also keep a daphnia culture.....just in case there are
some unexpected little ones.
My sister and a lot of my friends keep Bettas in jars
or vases like a plant - poor little buggers.
I get the inevitable phone call.......
" my Betta looks sad "
I reply, get him some mosquito larvae!
" He's fine, I'm not going to any swamp " ;D
For white worms I just raid the worm composter.......
we don't throw anything away. :
I also keep a daphnia culture.....just in case there are
some unexpected little ones.
My sister and a lot of my friends keep Bettas in jars
or vases like a plant - poor little buggers.
I get the inevitable phone call.......
" my Betta looks sad "
I reply, get him some mosquito larvae!
" He's fine, I'm not going to any swamp " ;D
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Mosquito Larvae!!! You mean brute - the larvae would eat the beta!!!
You can get lovely little maybe 2 litre tanks now with lights and canope that would house a beta, or a pair nicely. Giving the beta a mirror so he thinks he has someone to fight might perk him up too. I just fed my whiteworm coffee grounds and bread. Lift the bread and scoop up as much as you need for a feeding. I got all kinds of howls from people because I kept a small tank of guppies for food. My discus loved them, and their colour was impressive! Have you heard of paku? I think that's how you spell it - vegetarian members of the piranha family. If you acquire them, give them frozen spinach, or they'll eat you plants! Daphnia's really good - so are brine shrimp, and ground, frozen beef heart.
Lord, you're taxing my memory - its been years!
Hawk
You can get lovely little maybe 2 litre tanks now with lights and canope that would house a beta, or a pair nicely. Giving the beta a mirror so he thinks he has someone to fight might perk him up too. I just fed my whiteworm coffee grounds and bread. Lift the bread and scoop up as much as you need for a feeding. I got all kinds of howls from people because I kept a small tank of guppies for food. My discus loved them, and their colour was impressive! Have you heard of paku? I think that's how you spell it - vegetarian members of the piranha family. If you acquire them, give them frozen spinach, or they'll eat you plants! Daphnia's really good - so are brine shrimp, and ground, frozen beef heart.
Lord, you're taxing my memory - its been years!
Hawk
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Vern - you don't know what you're missing.
You can commit every sin imaginable, vicariously through your fish!
I could imagine you with a tank full of gar. (like a tropical jackfish)
No tankmates - no prisoners - no fingers etc. etc.
Pacu's are Ok - My bro' in law had a half dozed red hooks.....
Also similar.
After about 10 years they were big. When they started kicking off
I suggested he fry 'em up. The natives in the Amazon do. ;D
The white worms are a by-product of the worm bin my wife insists we need for the garden. Nasty little red worms that dash off suddenly when you open the cover.
It's like a sci-fi film in there!
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Flip said:
I owned some pirahannas once, 'til one day while I was on Divisions in Halifax, my cat (named Beercan) managed to get the cover off the tank ...
Came home to "no" more fishies ... and one cat with a huge vet bill.
Vern swore -- "No more fishies, even the bitchy type."
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Flip said:
What's wrong with that name!!?? I thought it was quite original!!
Beercan has passed on and is now in kitty heaven (probably enjoying the fish).
Others?
JD (my dog);
Khalua (cat);
Absinthe (rabbit);
Tequila (cat);
Chubby Butt (cat); and
Hodgson (my turtle -- named after the DZ from which I picked him up upon narrowly missing landing on his ass).
Damn: Edited to add: I can't forget to mention "Caesar" -- the cat. :-X
My kids' names are fine BTW, but now that I have kids -- the pets are seemingly taking on more mundane names like Shadow, Ruby, Crystal, Shaggy & Gidget. How boooooring.
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As we have no kids, we generally give our cats human names.
ie. Kayla, Emma, Lucy, Ashley, Elly etc.
My wife likes to name the Koi........
They live up to a hundred years.
No way will we name the others
The way I figure it - In about 60 years
The parrot (December) and the Koi will be alone
in the house with someone coming in
every day or so to feed them.
The 9 cats' ashes will be in the back yard by then.
Yea I know.....poor planning.
Sorry about the crack Vern.
If you have that many cats you can't be all that..........
ie. Kayla, Emma, Lucy, Ashley, Elly etc.
My wife likes to name the Koi........
They live up to a hundred years.
No way will we name the others
The way I figure it - In about 60 years
The parrot (December) and the Koi will be alone
in the house with someone coming in
every day or so to feed them.
The 9 cats' ashes will be in the back yard by then.
Yea I know.....poor planning.
Sorry about the crack Vern.
If you have that many cats you can't be all that..........
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Parrot?? We have a Blue Headed Pionus who is gentle and playful. We also have a Hatebird. Some people call them Lovebirds and I have no idea why! Ignorant little $#%^& that he is, he was given to us by the previous owners. Was nice for 6 or so years and then went cuckoo on them. I want to introduce it to Mr Tailpipe before I lose anymore flesh trying to tame it.
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Yep,
Lovebirds and Angelfish are the most misnamed creatures on earth.
We have a Blue Fronted Amazon.
He's not so crazy now that he watches TV
with us and gets a few french fries on burger night.
For about a decade he just sat and plucked himself.
Thank God for A&W.
That bird actually taught me to weld.
He used to just have a perch.
Then he bit me on the back of the neck.
Janice said "don't punch the bird"
Remember Tweety's cage on Bugs Bunny?
Made one just like it, only bigger, about 120 lbs.
As for welding - I learned EVERYTHING the hard way
but I was highly motivated. ;D
Lovebirds and Angelfish are the most misnamed creatures on earth.
We have a Blue Fronted Amazon.
He's not so crazy now that he watches TV
with us and gets a few french fries on burger night.
For about a decade he just sat and plucked himself.
Thank God for A&W.
That bird actually taught me to weld.
He used to just have a perch.
Then he bit me on the back of the neck.
Janice said "don't punch the bird"
Remember Tweety's cage on Bugs Bunny?
Made one just like it, only bigger, about 120 lbs.
As for welding - I learned EVERYTHING the hard way
but I was highly motivated. ;D
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I know someone who names their tropical fish. It seems rather silly to me!
I went through the Fluffy, Puff, etc for cats. The Calico moggie - with more than a bit of British shorthair in her breeding, that currently owns me is Cleopatra - "Queen of denial" - Cleo for short. My son has a part main coon named Napoleon, who's also called Puffy Pants and Herman Purring.
Hawk
I went through the Fluffy, Puff, etc for cats. The Calico moggie - with more than a bit of British shorthair in her breeding, that currently owns me is Cleopatra - "Queen of denial" - Cleo for short. My son has a part main coon named Napoleon, who's also called Puffy Pants and Herman Purring.
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Ive had fish since I was about 4 or so. I had a feeder goldfish live about 3 or 4 years....and my dads deranged girlfriend ended that great saga by forgetting to add the chlorine remover to the water... Then I had a couple Silver Pearl Mollies. One day cleaning the tank the male jumped out of the bowl I put him in while cleaning the tank (I was 7 by now) and ended up a small cactus pot I had on my desk. THEN the female gave birth and decided to perform some sort of Satanic ritual and eat them all. She eventually started to choke after eating three of her own offspring (I think there was about 7 or 9 of them that spawned -these are mollies...they are the fish equivelant to gerbils). And the rest died either by jumping ship or the water filter (I had the filter turned on low filtration though I think they swam up the intake). Great way for a 7 year old to learn about the birds and the bees eh?
Though when I was 11 or so I gave it another shot since I had better luck with Goldfish I got a couple fancy ones- a calico fantail named Slippy and another non-calico fantail named Silverchair (after the band). After having them in a two gallon for a good couple years I went and got them a 30 gallon and then added a couple more fancy goldfish. In this time I also had another feeder fish that I saved from my school since he was unwanted for some reason and donated to the school in some puny bowl and I begged them to let me have it so they gave it to me at the end of the day and I put him in a 5 gallon to himself. Only lived a couple weeks after that but its better than being stuck in a crumy old bowl right? Anyways one day Silverchair got a nice infection on top of his head and made the other three fantails sick. I was right mad when he died as when I got that fish he was white and orange and because of how I took care of him his scales were silver and bright red when died. As well having these fish for a few years then one day the whole tank gone really can tick someone off.
After that I got a freshwater tropical tank with a school of Zebra Danios and a couple Coryadoras (small cat fish for those who dont know) and that tank went downhill after a power out in the middle of winter knocking out the heater and since the tank was in the basement well the waters temperature dropped so much that the Danios were gone almost instantly. The cat fish were a little hardier but didnt live much longer after that as they got sick.
Im tempted to keep a Beta (im a sucker for the nice cobalt and royal blue ones) in just a two gallon. I think they have the best looking dorsal and tail fins of any freshwater fish. They also are pretty harder from what I hear. I wanted to get one when I had the tropical community tank (as Ive heard a lone Beta's can live in community tanks with other freshwater tropics).
Something just like this one:
http://www.oneworldinternetcafe.com/betta/fullflare.jpg
Though when I was 11 or so I gave it another shot since I had better luck with Goldfish I got a couple fancy ones- a calico fantail named Slippy and another non-calico fantail named Silverchair (after the band). After having them in a two gallon for a good couple years I went and got them a 30 gallon and then added a couple more fancy goldfish. In this time I also had another feeder fish that I saved from my school since he was unwanted for some reason and donated to the school in some puny bowl and I begged them to let me have it so they gave it to me at the end of the day and I put him in a 5 gallon to himself. Only lived a couple weeks after that but its better than being stuck in a crumy old bowl right? Anyways one day Silverchair got a nice infection on top of his head and made the other three fantails sick. I was right mad when he died as when I got that fish he was white and orange and because of how I took care of him his scales were silver and bright red when died. As well having these fish for a few years then one day the whole tank gone really can tick someone off.
After that I got a freshwater tropical tank with a school of Zebra Danios and a couple Coryadoras (small cat fish for those who dont know) and that tank went downhill after a power out in the middle of winter knocking out the heater and since the tank was in the basement well the waters temperature dropped so much that the Danios were gone almost instantly. The cat fish were a little hardier but didnt live much longer after that as they got sick.
Im tempted to keep a Beta (im a sucker for the nice cobalt and royal blue ones) in just a two gallon. I think they have the best looking dorsal and tail fins of any freshwater fish. They also are pretty harder from what I hear. I wanted to get one when I had the tropical community tank (as Ive heard a lone Beta's can live in community tanks with other freshwater tropics).
Something just like this one:
http://www.oneworldinternetcafe.com/betta/fullflare.jpg
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WOW!! Is he ever beautiful!! Betas seem to do well in a community tank - if you don't have any fin-nippers. My cichlids left the beta alone, but I had to move out the tetras. I had a pair in the community tank till they started to want to breed (bubble nest starting in a corner of the tank). Then I moved the pair to their own 5 gallon, and succeeded with a nice little brood.
I'm more fond of the dark bodied ones with bright red fins. Come to think of it, I'm rather fond of anything bright red!
Hawk
I'm more fond of the dark bodied ones with bright red fins. Come to think of it, I'm rather fond of anything bright red!
Hawk
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