Fishkeeping

[vanilla.exe]

My main hobby is fish keeping. I was a volunteer at that aquarium back home for almost 2 years until the bf and I decided to move to Florida. When we moved, I wanted to take all of my pets with me, so I shipped my fish and tortoise and the cat came on the plane. Anyway, I've had many different types of fish over the years, but these are the ones I have now:

Female German Blue Ram:

Albino Female Bristlenose Pleco:

Brown Male Bristlenose Pleco:

Two GBRs and my Keyhole Cichlid

I also have red eye tetras and a snail, but no pictures of those. Some of my fish died shortly after the move because my heater hadn't arrived yet and the water was freezing. Those were: 3 rummynose tetras and 1 marbled hatchet. It's a shame too because rummynoses are my favorite tetra and I really like marbled hatchets as well.



So, please feel free to look at my photos and discuss fish with me! Also, if anyone has any fish problems I am always willing to help, especially since you guys will be helping me on my new chicken adventure.

 

[paddock36]

I used to have salt water fish but had a very bad algea outbreak and it killed my tank. So then my husband decided to buy a stupid garfish and put it in the tank.

 

[vanilla.exe]

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I have heard about algae that can kill everything in SW. Right now I only have freshwater. 1 tank and a pond, but in the future I want to set up a SW octopus tank. People kept suggesting I put a gar in my pond, but it's way too small for that!

 

[annageckos]

As of right now I have four tanks running. All planted, a 55, 30,10 and 5.5. I'll post some photos, I have a lot of them. Some of the fish I still have, some of them have died.

Bichir

male black ruby barb

male Agassizi Apisto

male dragon betta

blue crayfish

spiny eel

striped Raphael catfish, only about two inches in that photo, it's now about six or seven inches long

Pearl Gourami

bichir

male plakat betta (he's supposed to have short fins)

Ok, that's all I'll post for now, I have 100's of photos.

 

[vanilla.exe]

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Those are really good photos! I have hundreds too but only some are post-worthy, a lot of them are blurry or you can see the flash. I love your apisto. I went on a search for them a few years ago, I could only find double red cockatoos for like $60 each so I settled for rams. I had a really nice pair, then I decided to get out of fishkeeping for a while until I could move out. So I gave my fish away and sold most of my tanks. A month later I decided to set up the 10g and I was just going to have a small freshwater 10g community. That's it. Sure enough I ended up with 4 tanks again. Then I finally moved and I have a tank and a pond. Once a fish keeper, always a fish keeper.

 

[NewHopePoultry]

 

[annageckos]

Thanks. Try taking your photos from an angle to avoid the flash. I started fish keeping when I was maybe 12. My grandmom got me a ten gallon, and a neighbor gave me a twenty long. There have only been a couple of years in between then and now that I haven't had fish. I really liked that aggazizi, but I haven't had much luck with them or blue rams. I do have a bolivion ram now that is doing great and turning out really nice. I have to get some photos of it.

 

[dgecko]

4 or 5 tanks would be easy to care for I have over 50 tanks set up for my fish. Some of the fish I keep are endangered or no longer in their native lakes-ponds

 

[annageckos]

What types of fish do you keep, dgecko? Do you have any photos? What type of set up do you have?

 

[vanilla.exe]

very nice dgecko. I used to work with some cichlids where we were only 1 of 2 places in the world that had them. A lot of the more popular fish people keep are extinct in the wild, it blows my mind! one example are 'red tailed sharks'. Strange how some animals have no problem reproducing in captivity, but they get obliterated in the wild. I plan on eventually putting axolotls in my pond, they are critically endangered in the wild, but they breed like crazy for their keepers. go fig.

@anna: I hadn't thought of that, I'll try it. my tank is in a poor state right now. No substrate, no hood. The fish don't care but the plants are suffering. We were supposed to have my hood sent here when we moved but it never happened.