# Any fishkeepers on the dope?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fishkeepers-on-the-dope/831009>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fishkeepers-on-the-dope/831009 "2019-03-12T17:16:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fishkeepers-on-the-dope/831009/21 "2019-03-13T23:48:32Z")

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I’ve been keeping fish for about 10 years. I have a 35 gallon and a 55 gallon hex. I started with the 35, added a bunch of fish over the years, but eventually the pair of wee, little featherfin synodotus that I bought got big enough (7-8 inches) that there’s not a lot of room for bigger fish and anything small just seems to disappear. They have some rosy minnows for company, which are cheap enough that I can cope with the losses if I have to add more. Enough survive to keep the tank from looking too empty.

The hex tank I bought because I ‘won’ a blood parrot cichlid in a guess the fish contest, and needed something big enough to house him. He shares the tank with some Raphael cats, the striped Raffi cat I see sometimes, but it was only because I moved and had to empty the tank that I realized I still had two spotted Raffi cats. They are pretty, but I call them my invisible fish because I never see them. The move resulted in a few losses from that tank, so there’s a few newer barbs, which seem to be multiplying slowly, some snakeskin barbs, which I wish would breed because I like the look of them, and some zebra danios.

There’s also a 70 gallon stock tank outside that is my goldfish pond. Nothing expensive, just feeder fish, but I ended up with some colourful ones, so a nice mix of plain and fancy goldfish.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fishkeepers-on-the-dope/831009/22 "2019-03-14T13:41:17Z")

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