My fish, that is. I set up my 25 gallon aquarium today and put in my fish! (I’ve done this before- yes I put the water in several days ago. yes, I tested the water, etc)
I’m just excited about my new friends and thought I’d share!
Zette
PS- while at the store, I saw a freshwater Sting Ray. Does anyone have any experience with these at all? I’m thinking of getting another tank and getting one.
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
oooooo Zette, you have a pretty tank. I set my 20 gall up in October, didn’t put any fish in it till the beginning of this month.
I only have 5 (out of 6, first one died within a couple of days ) zebra danios.
Is that a fresh or salt water tank?
I should take pics of my dad’s tank, it’s 350 gallons, salt water and built into the wall. He has a puffer fish, couple of angels, a couple of clown fish, a few I don’t know and two zebra eels, man those eels are cool!
My wife just gave me nine 10 inch Koi for my birthday. 3 Yamabuki(yellow), 3 Kohaku(orange and white), 2 Shiro Utsuri(white and black) and one completely black one. It was a bit of a suprise because I never really thought she was confident enough in my ability to keep fish alive to spend a couple hundred bucks on some really nice fish.
I finished my pond in December and stocked it with cheap feeder goldfish and tadpoles. All through December my wife would greet me a couple times a week with “I see you trained another one of your fish to swim upside down.” Finally after experimenting with a variety of plants, food and chemicals, they stopped dying at the beginning of this month. The new koi look great in the pond and seem to be grateful that they aren’t crammed in a vat with a hundred other fish, anymore.
BTW- Does anybody know what a jet black koi is called? Apparently he’s supposed to preserve the chi or fung shui or whatever of my pond.
Ursa,
My husband said the same thing when he greeting my new fishies “Good luck, fellas”. Smartass…
My first tankfull, I was using an automatic feeder- it WAY overfed the tank, resulting in water that was more ammonia then water, no matter how many water changes I did.
I have learned much from my first experience and am doing everything correct this time. I just love watching these things!
Zette
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Good for you, Zette! I haven’t had a tank for quite a few years, but nothing ever came close in pure peace and tranquility than watching that tidy little underwater world.
I never had anything particularly exotic. (Except for the crab that insisted on crawling out and wandering around. Never figured out how he got out from under the lid. It didn’t end happily. He was on one of his jaunts and I nearsightedly mistook him for a spider. crunch)
My faves were always the tetras for color and the angelfish for grace. (yawn)
Anyway, enjoy your tank! I’ll just make do with my screensaver for now…
I am happy to report that our 50-gallon tank is doing much better after a horrific algea bloom. We lost a few snails and crabs (sob!) and did countless partial water changes before realizing what was wrong with the water. We finally added “Red Slime Remover”, and its effects were instantly seen in the skimmer. This stuff is actually healing the tank!
Uncle,
I’m a registered user on the fishboard now…Should I post on the Saltwater forum asking about goldfish? Or should I go on there and say “Angelfish rule, pufferfish drool!”
Could be fun…
By the way, thanks for the compliments on my tank…The nice coral you see is plastic- only the fishies are real in there
Zette
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
PLEASE SEND ME ALL THE INFO YOU HAVE ON ZEBRA EELS. I HAVE REASONS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE INVOLVED IN CERTAIN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SUBVERSIVE COVERT RISKY DANGEROUS DAMAGING SECRET ACTIVITIES. I HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE ZEBRA EELS FROM MY LITTLE SUBMARINE, WHICH IS WHY IT APPEARS THAT I AND THE EELS ARE POSTING FROM THE SAME LOCATION…THERE AREN’T MANY UNDERWATER ISPS, AFTER ALL.
Formerfisher, are you referring to Acanthurus Glaucopareius or Acanthurus Leucosternon ? Please elaborate. We are concerned and want to do the best to assist you in your activities, but we need more information.
My dad used to raise tropical fish in Florida. I worked with him on them 3 months. I started to raise an oscar in a small tank. I fed it junk fish. Eventually it was 8-10 inches long and couldn’t turn well. My dad sold it to a pet store and they put it in a prominent tank on display.
End of fish for me.
When I was a kid I bought a bunch of “feeder fish” from Longs Drugs for a nickle apiece. Most of them were the twin-tailed goldfish (name?), but a few had only one tail. One was white with an orange blotch on the top of its head. Another was a “molly” – a black, twin-tailed goldfish with bulging eyes.
They moved from my 5-gallon tank to a 10-gallon tank to a 20-gallon tank, then wound up in a pond in the back yard. These little fish, once destined to be fed to oscars or something, reached about nine inches in length before I moved in with my dad.
I am having a problem with algae…put in some algae stuff last night, seems to be working a little, but sheesh this stuff is annoying me.
Any ideas? I don’t feed the fish much, they eat most of what I feed them (what doesn’t sink past them.) I didn’t have this problem with my last attempt at this
I haven’t had fish since I was 15, but this worked for me: Put a couple of “Chinese algae eaters” (don’t know the real name) and “plecs” (don’t know the real name) in the tank. I also used some small aquatic snails that were either on the plants I put in, or else I got them from a local creek. They helped out the filter a lot. I still had to clean the tanks every so often, but every little bit helped.
it’s a magnet on one side and a scrubber on the other side. Run it along the sides of your tank when you do your water change.
Be sure you aren’t over feeding at all- pick up a kit at the pet store to test your water’s ammonia levels. (the leftover food and fish poop turn into ammonia eventually. Bad! Bad!)
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
) zebra danios.