The fish tank.
October 04, 2005
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Beautiful... I hope to have a really big tank one day. So youre just doing coldwater fish I take it?
It's a freshwater tank. The salt tanks were just too expensive to set up with the hundreds of dollars of liverock and such. It is lovely. D got it for such a steal too, it's used. The tank itself is a bit scratched, but we'll eventually replace it. Right now we've only got cichlids in it, but we're getting a catfish once the tank is all set up.
Sorry Im a bit confused! - I never would have thought to put a goldfish in tropical water which is why I asked if you were doing coldwater! - I guess its tropical if youre keeping cichlids - they can't live in cold water can they?
Haha... Sorry, my mistake... The goldfish is in her own tiny tank in our kitchen. She had friends but they died. The cichlids are in the huge tank, and yes, they do need warm water. The water is warm enough to take a bath in, in my opinion, and it's making the damn bedroom hot and humid!
What kind of fish do you have? I know you had an angel at one point.
Ahhhhh ok!! LOL that explains it!
Well mine are in the process of dying off at the moment - old age tho, they're about 4 years old and because they went in the tank around the same time they're leaving it together! Ive got left - 2 silver dollars, 3 tiger barbs, 1 albino cory, 3 zebra danios, 1 neon tetra, 2 ruby platties (both male because they breed like disease) 2 glolight tetras and the red tailed black shark. I lost the angel a while back and some of the tetras and corys. Im going to move towards turning it into mostly Cichlids tho. Although they like quite a heavily planted tank - so I have to either rehouse the silver dollars or wait until they're gone as they love eating the plants. I was thinking about setting up another tank specifically to grow tropical plants in. I think they look so pretty. There, thats enough from me - you brought out my fish nerd side there for a moment!
ooooh beautiful tank! ooooh cichlids! african cichlids? mine are africans and i love their colours! but the sad thing is my favourite ones--frontosas--died like one by one last month and it seems like they've dwindled from 5 to 1 :O(
haha i was wondering how da hell you could keep that small goldfish in a tank full of cichlids... until you said she's in her own tank.
warm water? how warm? mine's around 25-27deg and they're fine with it.
hey ml actually cichlids don't need so much plants--you can use rocks too to create nooks for them to hide in, which is what i do. woowww you actually bother with planting real plants? i'm so lazy mine are all plastic :OP
Three are South American and one is from Texas. We just accquired two more that we aren't sure what they are... They're blue with red bellies, we think they may be fire-mouths, but they're still pretty small so it's hard to tell. D just got ANOTHER tank for the living room... A pirhana is going in it. One of the really vicious ones, that follows you around when you walk by, because it thinks you're food. Nice.
About the plants, we took the plants out of the tank, because our Texas just digs them up... But we have lots of rocks, they dig out holes behind them and hide like nuts. It's kinda funny.
PIRANHA! COOOOOOOOOOL!
Thats a good idea about the rocks. Come to think of it I guess what I have will work too.. My main decor is large pieces of stacked driftwood. I would need to add a few more bits but they could hide in that like the others do. Real plants look really pretty but there is a knack to growing them well. Therein lie the challenge I suppose!
Yeah, I have NO knack for plants. None whatsoever
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