tropical fish tanks?

aLteR1 · 27th July 2001, 11:45 AM

Just curious if anyone was into fish keeping, i've got a 2 foot tropical setup with 3 blue rams... sweetest fish ever!!!!

Diluded · 27th July 2001, 11:51 AM

I have 2 tanks... 1 with tetras and black ghost knife fish and the other with a 30cm axoltyl

Xizor · 27th July 2001, 1:29 PM

I used too. Right now i only have 1 tank in the house, and it needs cleaning badly. But i only keep a Yabee these days, so it's extremelly low maintenance. Just chuck a tiny bit of meat in every so often. I had to remove the filters and stuff cos the little bugger would climb out, fall over 1.5m to the ground..then walk down the other end of the house. But usually he'd hide behind my chester draws cos my little doggie wouldn't let me move, she's protective of me.

) So now it's just got an airstone/rod in the tank, gravel, and some rocks.

Strange1 · 1st August 2001, 4:15 PM

We used to have a tropical tank. 4ft with Gurami's, bronze cats, these little eel kinda things that i cant remember the name of, actually we had a rather large range. Until we went away for the weekend and the thermistat failed and the heater locked on, came home to find all the fish dead and the water to be very hot, DOH!!

So now we have cold water natives like Silver and Golden Perch.
We had a few nice Redfin Perch (I know they arnt native) in there before, very nice looking fish.

Strange1 · 2nd August 2001, 4:42 PM

The Biggest Redfin wee had was 32cm, we used to go down the creek and catch 30 or 40 little Mosquito fish and shrimps and drop them in, it would go apeshit and in no time at all the little fish had disappeared. Mosquito fish are introduced and are responsible for the decline in native fish and frog numebrs, so we were doing out bit for the waterways

aLteR1 · 4th August 2001, 9:28 AM

i'm useing feeder guppys for my blue rams.
guppys breed every 4 weeks!
and like 50 fishes at a time its great for c0lour inhancing

M320K173 · 4th August 2001, 12:58 PM

i have two 6 foot tanks one with small fish light rainbows and neons and stuff.
the other with 3 arrowanas and a catfish of some kind...damn catfish eats all the food of the arrowanas...though its great fun watching the fish go sick over the feeders and stuff

Strange1 · 4th August 2001, 1:19 PM

We also used to have placostomous (Sp??) sucker fish, they were pretty cool and changed colour a bit when they were on dark logs of light gravel.

M320K173 · 4th August 2001, 4:40 PM

pleco's are cool we had a couple but they died for some reason...still dunno why was a great mystery and now they are really really expensive to get

aLteR1 · 4th August 2001, 10:06 PM

kewl plecos are kewl fish
damn expensive i hear....... like 600$ thast what i've been told not sure tho.

pOst@L · 6th August 2001, 11:20 PM

i help my bro out with his 3 tanks

4ft tank - 2 15cm oscars
1 full grown jack dempsey
breeding pair of convicts
Yurtle the penny turtle

few large plecs
7 y/o bumble-bee catfish

4ft tank - Huge breeding colony of Lombardoi's with very mature
male and about 12 adult females
a few very large plecs (suckers)

6ft tank - huge breeding colony of electric yellows.....too many to
count (this tank is also used as a nursery once the
baby lombardios and convicts r big enuff not to be
eaten by the electric yellows
some more plecs

these tanks r kept clean with 2 of those massive fluval cannister filters (like 1200lph), about 4 rio power filters and under gravels with rio power heads
yeh, u could say we like fish

27th July 2001, 11:45 AM	#1
aLteR1 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Geelong,Victoria Posts: 126	tropical fish tanks? Just curious if anyone was into fish keeping, i've got a 2 foot tropical setup with 3 blue rams... sweetest fish ever!!!!

27th July 2001, 11:51 AM	#2
Diluded Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Kiwiland Posts: 79	I have 2 tanks... 1 with tetras and black ghost knife fish and the other with a 30cm axoltyl __________________ "I dont care what PC, Camera, Console etc you have, really I dont" diluded@gmail.com

27th July 2001, 1:29 PM	#3
Xizor Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 2,859	I used too. Right now i only have 1 tank in the house, and it needs cleaning badly. But i only keep a Yabee these days, so it's extremelly low maintenance. Just chuck a tiny bit of meat in every so often. I had to remove the filters and stuff cos the little bugger would climb out, fall over 1.5m to the ground..then walk down the other end of the house. But usually he'd hide behind my chester draws cos my little doggie wouldn't let me move, she's protective of me. ) So now it's just got an airstone/rod in the tank, gravel, and some rocks. __________________ Xizor

6th August 2001, 11:20 PM	#11
pOst@L Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Wangaratta Vic Posts: 192	i help my bro out with his 3 tanks 4ft tank - 2 15cm oscars 1 full grown jack dempsey breeding pair of convicts Yurtle the penny turtle few large plecs 7 y/o bumble-bee catfish 4ft tank - Huge breeding colony of Lombardoi's with very mature male and about 12 adult females a few very large plecs (suckers) 6ft tank - huge breeding colony of electric yellows.....too many to count (this tank is also used as a nursery once the baby lombardios and convicts r big enuff not to be eaten by the electric yellows some more plecs these tanks r kept clean with 2 of those massive fluval cannister filters (like 1200lph), about 4 rio power filters and under gravels with rio power heads yeh, u could say we like fish __________________ "He who lives by the sword is shot by those who dont" - pOst@L 10:14

1st August 2001, 4:15 PM	#4
Strange1 Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Blaxland, NSW Posts: 2,655	We used to have a tropical tank. 4ft with Gurami's, bronze cats, these little eel kinda things that i cant remember the name of, actually we had a rather large range. Until we went away for the weekend and the thermistat failed and the heater locked on, came home to find all the fish dead and the water to be very hot, DOH!! So now we have cold water natives like Silver and Golden Perch. We had a few nice Redfin Perch (I know they arnt native) in there before, very nice looking fish.

2nd August 2001, 4:42 PM	#5
Strange1 Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Blaxland, NSW Posts: 2,655	The Biggest Redfin wee had was 32cm, we used to go down the creek and catch 30 or 40 little Mosquito fish and shrimps and drop them in, it would go apeshit and in no time at all the little fish had disappeared. Mosquito fish are introduced and are responsible for the decline in native fish and frog numebrs, so we were doing out bit for the waterways

4th August 2001, 9:28 AM	#6
aLteR1 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Geelong,Victoria Posts: 126	i'm useing feeder guppys for my blue rams. guppys breed every 4 weeks! and like 50 fishes at a time its great for c0lour inhancing

4th August 2001, 12:58 PM	#7
M320K173 Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Melbourne, 3167 Posts: 342	i have two 6 foot tanks one with small fish light rainbows and neons and stuff. the other with 3 arrowanas and a catfish of some kind...damn catfish eats all the food of the arrowanas...though its great fun watching the fish go sick over the feeders and stuff

4th August 2001, 1:19 PM	#8
Strange1 Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Blaxland, NSW Posts: 2,655	We also used to have placostomous (Sp??) sucker fish, they were pretty cool and changed colour a bit when they were on dark logs of light gravel.

4th August 2001, 4:40 PM	#9
M320K173 Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Melbourne, 3167 Posts: 342	pleco's are cool we had a couple but they died for some reason...still dunno why was a great mystery and now they are really really expensive to get

4th August 2001, 10:06 PM	#10
aLteR1 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Geelong,Victoria Posts: 126	kewl plecos are kewl fish damn expensive i hear....... like 600$ thast what i've been told not sure tho.