Lets talk about fish......

ElliotJasChief · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject: Lets talk about fish......

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

I keep fresh water predators......anyone else...
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VARNYARD · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject:

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

ElliotJasChief · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

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

)

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

Oh yeah I gotta betta too...
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ElliotJasChief · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:55 am Post subject:

p.s. I hate pacus.......

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VARNYARD · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:15 am Post subject:

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 · Honored Member Joined: Jun 07, 2005 Posts: 265

I used to keep piranhas

ElliotJasChief · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:04 am Post subject:

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

.

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

. 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.
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ElliotJasChief · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

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

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VARNYARD · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

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

Junior · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

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

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punky · Member Joined: Apr 13, 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Austin, TX

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

i'm also a moderator on an AWESOME fish forum. if anyone wants the link please pm me!
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Junior · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

i keep arowanas, rays, a big snakehead and a few more boring fish
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ElliotJasChief · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

ooooohhhhhhhh rays...

too much work for me

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1.2.0 blues
1.0.0 red
0.2.0 family

...and way too many fish