Fish Thread

[ShrekDawg]

I used to have lots of tropical fish. We had gouramis, angelfish, glass fish, guppies, bristle-nosed catfish and a few others, not all at the same time. I now have neon tetras, white clouds in the pond outside (I think, you never see them) and three fantail goldfish, two of them are around 10 years old.

That’s awesome!! I would love a tropical tank. Maybe one day.

And oh wow that’s awesome!

I hope mine live a long time.

 

[MarsQuails]

Not necessarily a fish, but I have an axolotl!
Her name is Gleep, she’s a very interesting pet! We keep her in a 55 gallon, she loves playing with her filter bubbles and sleeping under her log hide <3

We also used to have a very beautiful goldfish with a big personality. His name was Gilbert, he was so sweet, loved to eat right from your fingers and follow you around the tank when you walked by. Unfortunately, he recently..... disappeared? No lid fit with his filter, and his water was tested weekly and changed often, but we think he must’ve jumped, no idea where he ended up after
I love seeing other people’s happy fish though!!

 

[Huntergatherr]

Aw yeah fish.
I have a 28-gallon tropical tank in my living room with some diamond tetras, harlequin rasboras, one cory cat, and a nerite snail. I recently adopted two gouramis from a gal nearby who didn't have a big enough tank for them, I named them Count Richelieu and Milady De Winter.
I have a second small quarantine tank for tropical fish but right now it's housing the male diamond tetra. He's in time out because he's the reason I now have 9 diamond tetras instead of the five I started with.

And I'm also working on breeding bettas! I recently joined the IBC and hope to start going to shows in the coming years. Right now I have six bettas from the spawn I did last year, all various solid blue-series veiltails (I love VTs and wish the IBC had VT standards for regular breeders, not just the new breeder category, but anyway). Currently I'm trying to breed a pair of halfmoon coppers. I tried a different method from what I usually use last time and it did not go well at all, so I've given them a month to rest and recover and I'll try again in a week or so.

I have been trying to breed for years unsuccessfully! Stage 1 was 13 + different VT, 2 dbl tail delta, and 1 half moon P. I achieved the fry stage 3 times, then failure. Stage 2 was 3 males, 2-3 females over 4 years, and limited devotion to breeding.
I did have a copper orchid female and she was something else!!! Shipped from abroad; she would wake us up at night shaking and smacking snails on the side of her tank at night.
Currently my set up is 1 female beta, 10 g brackish shrimp tank, 1, 29 g fresh planted tank.
Chickens have demanded our attention for 3 years, and the poor fish are not the center of our universe ATM!
However I am going to change that!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Every time we add bettas to our 125 gallon planted community tank they just disappear after a few weeks. Don’t know why they can’t thrive there like everybody else. We only try 1 or 2 at a time and it’s a peaceful tank.

You do know male bettas may kill each other?

 

[FredsGobblers]

I will have to follow this thread. I have not had fish for many years now. I often think of setting up a small 10g tank just to have fish again. When I was into fish I had a 500g reef tank with many corals, fish, shrimp, starfish etc and a 100g saltwater setup that was mainly a damsel habitat with a goby in there. I also had a 75g planted freshwater setup with different fish in it and another 75g that held a pleco, catfish and sailfin mollies that I bred for feeder fish.
I won't get into the spiders, snakes and lizards lol
My whole basement was set up with all this and that was where I went to relax and read.

 

[FortCluck]

I used to have lots of tropical fish. We had gouramis, angelfish, glass fish, guppies, bristle-nosed catfish and a few others, not all at the same time. I now have neon tetras, white clouds in the pond outside (I think, you never see them) and three fantail goldfish, two of them are around 10 years old.

Sounds like my tank minus the gouramis

 

[FortCluck]

Not necessarily a fish, but I have an axolotl!
Her name is Gleep, she’s a very interesting pet! We keep her in a 55 gallon, she loves playing with her filter bubbles and sleeping under her log hide <3
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We also used to have a very beautiful goldfish with a big personality. His name was Gilbert, he was so sweet, loved to eat right from your fingers and follow you around the tank when you walked by. Unfortunately, he recently..... disappeared? No lid fit with his filter, and his water was tested weekly and changed often, but we think he must’ve jumped, no idea where he ended up after
I love seeing other people’s happy fish though!!

This is cool! I had to look it up to see what it was. Very interesting pet!

 

[Quailobsessed]

This is cool! I had to look it up to see what it was. Very interesting pet!

Yeah, they are cool, I used to want to get one but got a lizard instead. My friend has one though.

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah, they are cool, I used to want to get one but got a lizard instead. My friend has one though.

I have a bearded dragon named Bob. I wanted a water dragon, but never ended up getting one. I'm pretty picky when it comes to lizards, I like friendly ones not ones that bite and have major attitudes like iguanas.

 

[allosaurusrock]

Right now I just have one mystery snail, named Chester. Used to have a betta but he sadly passed away.