Thread: Who keeps fish?

I use to have a lovely 100+ltr (approx) tank that was my fathers before he passed away.

Unfortunately after a spit up with my partner at the time, she went and sold it before I could organise to get it and the fish moved

I now have a small 54ltr tank with a 2 x catfish (1 x Bristlenose and 1 x other that I can't remember his name). I had some tetra's and some other fishees (including a black sharky thingy) but they all seemed to have either died or disappeared over time..

It was bizarre - I just couldn't figure out how the biggest fish in the tank could disappear overnight 8O

Good to see so many fishkeepers around here.

I'm going through problems here because one of my cichlids got sick, and then got picked on, and got his tail bitten off! 8O 8O So I removed him, and medicated him and he got physically better.. but then I put him back int he main tank and all his old mates are trying to take him down [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

Gday,
I am a fish keeper, although i am currently selling off all my tanks, i have a 5ft, a 3ft and a 4ft for sale, at one stage i had about 15 tanks running but i just dont get the time for it any more.

I have kept and bred heaps of cichlids - Discus, oscars, dovii, eye biters, lionheads, red devils, and heaps of others, at the moment all i have left is a large male Dovii, a few eye biters and a sail fin pleco.

Its a good hobby if you have the time..

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I had that happen to my green terror, then I found him 2 weeks later all brown and hard behind the stand. :roll:

I really liked my green terrors, bought one, she kept laying eggs, so I bought a male to mate. They mated, I read that they'll work together as parents, don't need to seperate them, then the male ate all the babies, bit, by bit. Once they were all gone he ate the female. :roll:
Then he got really sick, thought it may have been hole in the head, but he got a bit better before he finally commited suicide.

Fish can be viscous. One of our cichlid is an outcast... whenever we put him in the tank the other beat on him so bad that in 24 hours they nearly killed him [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

Now he has to stay in the hospital tank until we work out what to do with him? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

Yeh i have had some nasty fish like that, none worse then my Dovii i currently have, he shared my 600L tank with my breeding pair of oscars, divided the tank with a barrier of course, he never liked the oscars and then one day he knocked down the barrier and killed them both.......

he is about 14-15in and they were about 12in, it really ****ed me off, took me so long to raise them oscars from 1-2in and get a pair from my original 12. part of the reason i want to get rid of him!!

So why does my dwarf guoarmi (spellin?)only swim in anti-clockwise circles of about 6" in diameter. It never swims straight or in a clockwise direction.

Some have said it is coriolis (spelling?) others have said it is blind in its right eye.

Any ideas?

Gazz

Had a texan cichlid for six years, got it when it was two inches long, ate the tank out in a week.

When it died of extreme bad temper it was 14" long and had a 4'x2'x2' tank all to itself.


Gave up on fish, too much death to explain to the kids.


Cheers
Simon