Fresh Water Aquariums

[tom]

Originally Posted by Chris Guimaraens

I had a hell of a job transferring these to their new aquarium, had to grab them just behind their head but only after many atempts as they kick/fin like mad..

Reminds me of the fun I used to have trying to move a reasonable sized Oscar. Except that would usually bite me as well. In fact, it would normally try to bite me whenever it could - feeding time usually got messy, there was always water on the floor...

Great fish though, real personality. Would love the space to have a tank big enough to keep them again.

[Lynne]

Aww getting all nostalgic about my pair of 12" red tiger oscars I had to get rid of when I split from my ex (mind you they did manage to murder every other fish I ever put in the tank with them including armoured catfish by dropping a boulder on it!) - the 4ft x 2ft x 2ft tank was way too big for my tiny tiny house I don't have tropical fish at the moment for the first time since I was 11 but they do tend to become addictive - at one stage I had a fishtank in every room in the house - yes including the kitchen and bathroom (handy for water changes)

[Paul Beal]

We have 2 tropical tanks (1 x 90l and 1 x 50l) with the smaller one having far more fish in it than the larger one. The small tank was originally intended as a place to grow plants and to put fish if they got ill. Sadly (in a sarcastic sort of way), we took pity on a pregnant platy that looked like she was about to pop and put her in the little tank where she promptly had about 60 babies. Suddenly our nice empty tank went from no fish to rather a lot. Also, with platies being platies we now have grandoffspring and I am sure it is getting to the great grandoffspring stage now.

Our intention was to put as many as possible into the larger tank as there is less chance of the babies surviving (Tiger Barbs!!) but as soon as any new fish are put in there they die. We have had all sorts of ideas about what might be going on in there and have even taken out the undergravel filtration - still fish keep dying! All very odd. I am sure it is down to water quality so we are slowly working through a few ideas!

We also have a cold water tank with 3 bored looking goldfish and the star of the show - a red clawed crayfish (Blue Lobster) called Bob. He is a real character and very intelligent. These crayfish are apparently the only ones you can keep without a licence. He is slimmer with smaller claws than the ones you see in stoney.

Paul

[David]

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well i tryied to link to this picture of my bristle nose with eggs

go look if you want this is only my fun site sorry but it is really bad :-)


David

[angleseydiver]

Kept a cold-water marine tank for a couple of years with anenomes,squat-lobsters, little flatties, gobies, blennies, limpets, winkles-an endless list,really.
Stars of the show were the blennies,though-real characters!
Living 200yds from the sea made the job easy enough-used to change half the water about once a fortnight and apart from things eating each other everything seemed to thrive. Rigged up a washing-machine pump to run undergravel filter and topped up evaporation losses with rainwater. Quite low-maintainance really.
Don't know how close to the sea you live, Chris, but it might be an entertaining option for you- your very own "rockpool" in your living room!

ATB,
Terry