Anyone Keep Tropical Fish

[scothunter 12,609]

id like to keep real jelly fish.but id imagine they would get filtered lol

[just jack 998]

id like to keep real jelly fish.but id imagine they would get filtered lol

start of with "the man of war"

easy to keep

stroke first though and "bond"

[scothunter 12,609]

was thinking more along the lines of box jelly fish lol

[LaraCroft 863]

Kept one of these for a few years. Aggressive little sod. He would attack your fingers while you were cleaning the tank. I checked where he was one day, before cleaning, and I could see a blue shell in the corner - so I happily start cleaning the other end of the tank - and then I see him 3" from my hand, claw ready, and realise he has shed his shell, and it was the empty shell at the other end of the tank

 

[just jack 998]

one step at a time

[just jack 998]

lara

that want's eating

[scothunter 12,609]

had one aswell lara.and did the same thing. wee b*****d kept climbing ot the tank,and kept finding it in the kitchen or behind sofa.then i was in the dam,and came home.found it behind the tv dead and dried out

[LaraCroft 863]

Put me in my place good and proper - I know I can be a bit dim at times, but sheesh - out-smarted by a ferkin prawn !

[Millet 4,497]

had one aswell lara.and did the same thing. wee b*****d kept climbing ot the tank,and kept finding it in the kitchen or behind sofa.then i was in the dam,and came home.found it behind the tv dead and dried out

I used to have a little tropical salamander that would do that..it was found several time's but then went missing for a year..it was found under the carpet bone dry and as dead as a door nail when a new carpet was being laid..

[Paid 935]

I have hoovered up plenty of those red thai crabs, bloody things are escape artists.

[scothunter 12,609]

mines was a blue lobster,well so they told me in the shop.grew quite big,well until its unfortunate demise

[South hams hunter 8,922]

I use an external canister filter, so i set up the 10 gallon with water from the big tank then swap the filter to that for a faster turn around. Not perfect, and I did lose a couple of Boraras maculatus out of a school of 20 due to them being tiny, and not taking the shock too well, but nothing else thankfully. Everything is back in there now.

 

i do the same thing when cleaning out and have only ever lost one fish and that was a small scissortail raspora that never seemed right anyway

 

people looking into getting a nice communal tank will do well to look into chichilds some real vivid nice coloured fish and get there furniture right and look nearly as good as marine tanks especially with some blue and white T5 lighting . Totally agree with gnasher about small tanks alot of people when get into marine systems start with little 55 litre tanks and slightest spoke in pollutants is magnified. will get some pics up of a couple of my marine setups when get chance, had a lovely 5x2x2 with pilkington glass front and one side with a sump at a guess now of 3x18in x12in is was a mostly fish only tank but if id of kept it going after mastering water chemistry i would of gone onto some more hard to keep corals but the ones i had looked beautiful with the strong random current i think thats what makes a marine tank for me the movement and the colours

 

friend of mine just emptied his placid communal tank barring the bottom feeders for cichlids and he had always had coral and sand anyway so looks marine

 

I can see us all meeting up carrying little jam jars some time in the near future lol.

 

where would we stand legally? can see it nw hunting internet forum members prosecuted for fish fighting

 

 

 

Bettas can live in a coldwater tank kept at room temperature.

 

Theres a few tropical fish that this applies to.

 

Betta's and zebra danios to name a couple.

 

mollies do ok as well mate, some even thrive

[South hams hunter 8,922]

i would love a tank filled to the top with bogwood and fill it with only plecos and catfish. at the moment i have an upside down catfish which is probably my favourite of all my fish but i dont see from one week to the next, a bumble bee catfish, a small common pleco and an 8 inch sail fin plec.saying that i just like the secretive fish, love to watch the female bettas popping in and out

 

been looking at gold nugget, green phantom and adonis plecs has anyone kept any of these?

[LaraCroft 863]

I have some green phantom plecs - nice, but seem to need a decent space. My tank is only filled to about half the capacity of fish it can take, so they can spread out. Not small though - they grew a lot bigger than I was expecting.

[gnasher16 30,121]

Forgive me if im wrong gnasher.

 

But looking at your nano spec tank (the small one) i dont see a heater in it?

 

I do understand what you are saying, but how do the betta breeders, keeping hundreds of fish in jam jars, tank set ups eith multiple dividers keep their fish going strong? They must be doing something right.

 

At the back of the tank behind the black grill thing there is another compartment about 3 inches deep half of it houses the filter the other half houses the heater ..............you say they can be kept in a " coldwater tank "............what is a coldwater tank ? its a tank with cold water in !.......they are tropical fish it doesnt matter how the water is heated just so long as it is heated.................most " fish rooms " will be kept at the required temperature as its near impossible to keep heaters in 50 odd tanks/jars or whatever..................why heat 50 tanks when you can just heat the room .....just because a tank aint got a heater in it dont make it a coldwater tank.