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Lorgakor

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I have a new obsession, fish! It went from tarantulas to fish. Fish take up a whole lot more room lol!

Sorry for the crappy pics, I haven't learned how to take very good fish pics yet.

I have a 10 gallon fry tank, a 37 gallon and a 90 gallon.

10 gallon with 30 or so Green Severum fry.


37 gallon with 4 clown loaches, 6 redline torpedo barbs, 2 male bettas and a peacock eel.


Crowntail betta

Veiltail betta

Loaches and barbs

Peacock eel


90 gallon with 4 clown loaches, 1 featherfin synodontis, 1 jack dempsey, 1 threadfin acara, 1 L200 pleco, 2 bala sharks and 4 boesmani rainbows.


Threadfin acara recovering from cloudy eye

Featherfin syno

L200



Lets see pics of your fish and tanks!
 

scorpio1

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very nice tanks you have there i used to work in a aquatics shop and have loads of setups inlcuding my fav of the lot surisalmus naterii but unfortunatly i have lost pics off my phone:( also i live in the uk and the fish that u call bettas we call siamese fighting fish and we dont put males together coz they kill each other (not critisising jus saying), how do you manage to keep them together? also the peacock eels we call fire eels jus thought u might like to know
 

Lorgakor

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A Siamese Fighting fish is called Betta because the scientific name is Betta splendens. We also call them Siamese Fighting Fish too.:)

A peacock eel is of the spiny eel family, as is the fire eel. The difference is that the fire eel gets three feet long and the peacock stays under one foot.

Fire eel
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/mix/fireeels.php
 

DansDragons

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here's my OLD setup..man i miss this tank..
 
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Lorgakor

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Is that a red tail catfish? What size tank? What do you keep now? Those are some nice fish.
 

DansDragons

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1 Red Tail Cat
1 Barramundi
2 Oscars
2 Giant Gouramis
1 Datnoid
1 Jaguar cichlid
1 Silver Arowana

the tank was a custom built 150g. i sold those fish about 2 years ago, havent kept anything since, but i'm thinking about a nice planted discus tank in the future :)
 

Lorgakor

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Awesome stock list! I would love to have a tank that big. Someday.

A discus tank sounds nice, too much maintenance for me though.
 

Kimix

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I'm jealous of your Puntius denisonii, I really want those someday.


L007


L091


L127a


L187b


L190


L201


L270
 

Kimix

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Red Tail


Tilapia buttikoferi


Rainbow Fish


Leporinus fasciatus


I also have... Mystus leucophasis, Polypterus ornatipinnis, Oxyeleotris marmorata
 

Pacmaster

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Awesome stock list! I would love to have a tank that big. Someday.

A discus tank sounds nice, too much maintenance for me though.
That would be a great stocklist if they werent all in the same tank . . .
I love all those species, but that picture is just the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in my life . . .
The tank may be 150g, but the footprint is all wrong for even the oscars or gouramis . . .


I would not be surprised if those fish actually died 2 yrs ago and not "were sold"!

I saw that pic earlier, and have been fighting the urge to post my opinion on it, but I just cant hold it in any more . . .



Dan, I dont mean to flame you personally, but that pic gives people the idea that a tank like that is ok . . .

Those are beautiful fish, but that pic just about breaks my heart.
 

Lorgakor

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Well I was assuming that is why they were sold. They outgrew the tank.

Those fish look pretty healthy, and that tank is less stocked than alot of others I have seen. If it has adequate filtration and maintenance, then it isn't that bad, it's a good size growout tank. As long as it isn't long term.

Kimix: I got a great deal on the denisoni barbs, they are stupid expensive in the stores, but I got them privately. My favourite fish!

Awesome plecos, I love that 190. I would love a Royal but they get too big for me. How do you find the Leporinus? I heard they were pretty nippy. What size tanks do you have? Must be pretty big!
 

DansDragons

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LOL.
given that all those fish(except the barramundi) lived in that tank for over 3 years, had 1500g in filtration and i never had a problem or a death, i'd say it's perfectly ok ;).

take your opinion somewhere else, it's not needed here.

That would be a great stocklist if they werent all in the same tank . . .
I love all those species, but that picture is just the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in my life . . .
The tank may be 150g, but the footprint is all wrong for even the oscars or gouramis . . .


I would not be surprised if those fish actually died 2 yrs ago and not "were sold"!

I saw that pic earlier, and have been fighting the urge to post my opinion on it, but I just cant hold it in any more . . .



Dan, I dont mean to flame you personally, but that pic gives people the idea that a tank like that is ok . . .

Those are beautiful fish, but that pic just about breaks my heart.
 

KadeshAvic

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Just saying but red bellies do best in schools....
Well the pet shop owner I bought them from said 1 per ten gallons and I had a 20 gallon tank :) The Problem was I left it at a relatives house for the summer (I went back home from school) and they underfed them or something.

I guess I will just have to call it a $15 meal :p
 

Diggy415

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here is my 55gallon, caviar is no long with us, i have in there currently female bettas, gold tetras, 2 plectos, a zebra.



 

froggyman

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Well the pet shop owner I bought them from said 1 per ten gallons and I had a 20 gallon tank :) The Problem was I left it at a relatives house for the summer (I went back home from school) and they underfed them or something.

I guess I will just have to call it a $15 meal :p
thats the thing about red belly piranhas they need a fairly large 55gallon or more tank to be really happy and healthy... im sorry that both are gone now
 

KadeshAvic

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Oh maybe i typo'd somewhere, but one ate the other, and I still have one alive and health. So is the best thing to do to get a big tank and have 4-5 of them in there?

Thanks.
 
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