Lets talk about fish......

[ElliotJasChief]

I like fish....I like fish...I like fish...

I keep fresh water predators......anyone else...

[varnyard]

I got fish oscar, betta, and pacu.
Not all together though.

[ElliotJasChief]

I have.........................

1 silver arowana
5 arius joradani "silver-tip sharks" rangeing from 4" to 12"
1 blue hap
1 stupid crayfish
1 common pleco

1 peacock bass
3 senegal bichirs
1 candy-stripe pleco

1 red and white Ryukin
1 calico Ryukin
1 white common fantail
1 butterfly pleco

4 mollies - I breed them for food. (for my other fish not me 8O )

I had an oscar, my big Arius Jordani beat him to death last month, right after the Arius ate all of my yellow lab cichlids... if he goes for the arowana i'm gonna be pissed :roll:

Oh yeah I gotta betta too...

[ElliotJasChief]

p.s. I hate pacus....... :lol:

[varnyard]

I have never seen a candy-stripe plecostomus or a butterfly plecostomus.
I want to see some pics.
How big is your arowana (osteoglossum bicirrhosum)? they can get real large. They are the argentine tegu of the fish world. I had one a few years ago that would come to the top to get petted.
And they look like they came from the jurassic period.
As for the arius joradani, he would find a new home before I lost a arowana over him.
Yellow lab cichlids, also run about $12.00 each here, depending on size.
Yea I can understand why he would make you upset.

[DeadIrishD]

I used to keep piranhas

[ElliotJasChief]

my aro is only about 8" right now...I got him when he was like 3"
He will definetly be outgrowing his current living conditions before long. I'm hoping to get something around 600 gal to keep him in, so he can achieve his fully 4 ft. potential 8O .

He's got a lot of personality, I hand feed him every morning.

I think I got the labs on sale for like $5 each, so no biggie. I was a little upset about the oscar, he was a very friendly fish :cry: . But he sealed his own fate as he was always bullying the cat fish...whoops.

I think the arius and the aro will be fine, the aro is always topwater and the arius ussually just cruises the bottom so they don't run into each other much.

[ElliotJasChief]

I'll try to get some pleco pics up...but unfortunately they hide most of the day. :cry:

[varnyard]

Yea plecostomus tend to hide in the daytime, and clean all night. 8)

[Junior]

I use to have five albino Oscars they were a school until one died of a bacteria after that the biggest ate the rest. I guess he figured if one died why keep around the rest. After eating all he died of loneliness. You could tell when they were all together they swam all day unlike most that lay at the bottom. Than when big boy was alone he would just lay around at the bottom like he was depressed. Thats why I went with dry. Tanks are aloooootttttt of work depending on the species you keep and what they eat.

[ElliotJasChief]

I don't know about that.....I spend like an hour a day with my tegus. all my fish take about ten minutes a day for feeding, and an hour twice a week for water changes....tegus - 7 + hrs a week...fish - 3 hrs and 10 minutes a week.

winner - tegus :wink:

[punky]

i have lots of fish. i have a few puffers ( T mbu "giant", fahaka, fangs, and modestus) a gar, a large chocolate cichlid, a midas, senegal bichir, paratheraps breidohri (very rare), jaguar, severums, clown loaches, honduran red points, vieja regani... the list goes on and on....

i'll post pics in the "fish pics" thread :D

i'm also a moderator on an AWESOME fish forum. if anyone wants the link please pm me!

[Junior]

I don't know what size tank you have but I had a 75 gallon tank and I fed the Oscars pinkies and small rat babies. Also I could not use the water around my way because the chlorine and bleach were to high. So figure doing a water change when 100% of your water is imported. plus because the oscars ate only meat I went through filters quickly.

[baloo]

i keep arowanas, rays, a big snakehead and a few more boring fish

[ElliotJasChief]

ooooohhhhhhhh rays...

too much work for me :)

[baloo]

they r not that much work
cf. humerosa
http://epsilon.applepics.com/52/userfiles/42a2078ebec73.jpg (http://www.applepics.com/)
motoro
http://www.applepics.com/50/userfiles/4197e45f15faf.jpg (http://www.applepics.com/)
cf. yepezi
http://gamma.applepics.com/7/userfiles/4298f83d2832d.jpg (http://www.applepics.com/)
2 ft channa marulioids
http://www.applepics.com/6/userfiles/4186a847a9dbc.jpg (http://www.applepics.com/)
osteoglossum ferrairei spec.blue
this fish is supposed to be bluer then the usual black aro
so far it's looking promising
http://www.applepics.com/6/userfiles/41b22f3c016bd.jpg (http://www.applepics.com/)

[punky]

i'd love to keep rays but they are illegal in my state :/

great pics!

[baloo]

just keep it quiet
richard ros is from cali and has or had as i'm told a lot of rays

[drfish]

I currently have a massive sale going on on in the UK if anyone is interested

As follows:

Tanks and Equipment:
1 - 5' x 2' x 2', 120uk Gallons, with cabinet, laminate glass, with various lighting, pumps heaters etc. Open to offer's around the £100 mark

1 - 4.5' x 2.5' x 2', very heavy duty tank, with home made cabinet, which need's a bit of attention (new doors), £50 of micro gravel (black), pump, internal filter, and various bits
Open to offer's around the £100 mark again.

Fish;
3 x Red Pacu 10" - 15", will only sell together as a small shoal - £30 for the 3
1 x African Lungfish, approx 12" - £50
1 x Red oscar, unusual markings, about 8" - £10
1 x Polypterus Senagalus, around 8" - £10
1 x Polypterus Ornattipinnis, around 10" - £20
1 x Giant Ossie Gourami, white, around 14" - £30
3 x assorted Plec's, red sailfin, common, 6" - 10" - £20 for the 3
1 x Clown Knife Fish, 14" - £30

£150 for all the above fish.

I don't get chance to come on here much, so if anyone is interested, e-mail me at buillin@hotmail.com

I'll start a new thread with some pic's, although they are a little bit old now.

[Astigma]

I have never seen a candy-stripe plecostomus or a butterfly plecostomus.
I want to see some pics.


http://www.aquariumfish.net/images_01/pleco_candy_stripe_w180.gif

http://www.scotcat.com/images/l170.jpg

there some are :D

[shawntraviss]

Ok my fish go as follows, nothing overly rare but i likem

150g Pre-Formed Pond
Closed For Winter

65g (48x18x19)
Two 5” - 8” “Cichlasoma” octofasciatum - Gold Jack Dempsey
6” Vieja maculicauda - Black Belt Cichlid
5” Parachromis loisellei - Loiselle’s Cichlid

65g (48x18x19)
3” Aulonocara ''Gold Peacock Hybrid''
Three 2” Aulonocara ''OB Peacock Hybrid''
Five 2” Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos - Maingano
Five 2” Metriaclima greshakei (Albino) - Albino Ice Blue
Five 2” Pseudotropheus demasoni (Pombo Rocks) - Demasoni

65g (48x18x19)
Two 2” Aequidens diadema - Acara sp.
Two 1” Gymnogeophagus balzanii - Balzanii Eartheater
Four 1” Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus - Eartheater sp.
6” Pterygoplichthys scrophus - Rhino Pleco

65g (36x18x24)
12" Gold Flower Horn Cichlid
4" Pterygoplichthys pardalis - Common Pleco
3" Betta splendens - Fighting Fish

65g (36x18x24)
10” Pearl Of The Orient Flower Horn Cichlid
6" Pterygoplichthys sp. - Albino Pleco
3" Betta splendens - Fighting Fish

65g (36x18x24)
13" Amphilophus citrinellum - Midas Cichlid
14" Clarias batracus - Walking Catfish

23g (36x12x12) Divided
Two 2” - 3.5” Flower Horn Cichlid

1g (6x6x6)
3" Betta splendens - Fighting Fish

[rrcoolj]

I have...
55 gallon Mbuna cichlid tank
4 red zebras
4 yellow labs
4 maingano
4 powder blues

29 gallon community tank
1 angelfish
3bleeding heart tetras
5 black skirt tetras
1 cory cat
1 rubber lipped pleco

not as much tanks and fish as you guys but I like my setups

[Shonuff]

I've kept livebearers, tetras, and my favorite "Cichilids". I miss having Midas cichlids the most.