The Fish tank/aquarium thread

[Cephus]

I want to get a 50 gallon, freshwater with native fish in it. I can be to the river in 8 minutes, better yet? Bring a piece of the river home. No pesky gators!

Be careful, some states forbid keeping native species.

 

[Slingshot Bob]

I haven't done fish in years but I've done a ton of them, both fresh and salt water. I had a 200 gallon reef tank for a long time but when we moved about 18 years ago, I bagged all the fish, took them with us and left the live rock and coral in the tank to be picked up later. Someone broke into the house, I guess they saw us moving, and dumped a gallon of bleach into the tank and killed everything. I wound up selling all of the fish because I didn't have a tank to put them in and never got back to it.

My new house has a big koi pond in the back, I haven't put anything in it, but I probably will one of these days.

Spiteful a-holes.

 

[Slingshot Bob]

Be careful, some states forbid keeping native species.

point taken

 

[Peter King]

I haven't done fish in years but I've done a ton of them, both fresh and salt water. I had a 200 gallon reef tank for a long time but when we moved about 18 years ago, I bagged all the fish, took them with us and left the live rock and coral in the tank to be picked up later. Someone broke into the house, I guess they saw us moving, and dumped a gallon of bleach into the tank and killed everything. I wound up selling all of the fish because I didn't have a tank to put them in and never got back to it.

My new house has a big koi pond in the back, I haven't put anything in it, but I probably will one of these days.

What kind of an evil bastard dumps bleach in an aquarium with beautiful corals in it. A person like that has to be almost dead on the inside for destroying something that beautiful for what ever his twisted pleasure was.

 

[Cephus]

What kind of an evil bastard dumps bleach in an aquarium with beautiful corals in it. A person like that has to be almost dead on the inside for destroying something that beautiful for what ever his twisted pleasure was.

Who knows? People are assholes. But it took out a couple of hundred dollars of live rock and live sand and probably close to $1000 worth of coral. I'm just glad that I took the fish out when I did, I was thinking about just leaving it and coming back in a couple of days to clear the whole thing at once.

 

[Peter King]

My aquarium is ready now. I had 8 Harlequin rasbora in there and I added 6 cardinal tetra



And my planting is done now too, I added a red Nymphaea lotus to my aquarium

and these 2 plants





So now I have 5 plants and 2 moss balls in my aquarium so I think I have enough plants in there. And I am going to stop at this number of fish because else my aquarium it would be getting to crowded in there and I want my fish to have some room to swim.

 

[Peter King]

Who knows? People are assholes. But it took out a couple of hundred dollars of live rock and live sand and probably close to $1000 worth of coral. I'm just glad that I took the fish out when I did, I was thinking about just leaving it and coming back in a couple of days to clear the whole thing at once.

That just boils my blood. When I visit my local fish store I marvel at the collection of living rock and corals they have and when I look at German/Dutch/English or American zoo shows I marvel at how they work with corals and grow bigger coral reefs, I think it is a magical sight.