Is Y'all a fishkeeper?

[LT. Columbo]

i have 2 aquariums, wondering if anyone here has a fresh/marine aquarium hobby. if so, whatta ya got?

[BR7]

I used to be I had a 50 gal tank with angel fish and neons nothing that great.I have been thinking about getting into salt water fish I want to do more research on it cause it is a lot more pricey and way more advanced then what I was doing before

[anonymez]

wouldn't call it a hobby of mine, but a relatively tiny 30L tank with 4 goldfish and 2 crustations

[LT. Columbo]

br7, yeah i want a marine tank too, lot more dough, more maintenance. i'd like a true reef system with invertebatrates, corals and fish. gonna have to crack a few more cases before i can do that though

what crustations anonymez?

[clink]

I used to breed kribensis until the kids came along. Was a nice hobby but too expensive and time consuming when you have a family.

[kevdriver]

Hey Columbo. I used to keep african cichlids. They're not salt water fish but very colorful never the less. You have to keep your aquarium water kinda brackish for them to really thrive. Used 4 powerheads with an undergravel filteration system and one outside filter that I put peat into to make their enviorment brackish for them. Had this all on display in a 125 gallon aquarium built into a wall in the basement rec room. Decided to remodel and out went the tank. Now that you brought it up, think I may look at getting back into it again........... just on a smaller scale maybe.... LoL

[nwg]

I have two ponds. One with small coldwater fish (several goldfish and carp). The other have several Japanese Koi and other big carp

I had others but they died recently (jumped out of the pond during the night). I have since lost more due to a massive and hungry heron.

I know have a big net over the pond.

This is the biggest fish I have now. It is a Ghost Koi.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/links/koi2.jpg

[LT. Columbo]

wow, i knew you people did more than digital video!

@nwg

very impressive specimen. i wish i had room for a pond, and you have 2?

@clink

the kribs are very nice, had some myself about a year ago. but i lost them to disease

@kevdriver

african cichlids are my next "fresh" venture. those fish from lake tanganyika and lake malawi are some of the nicest on the planet in my opinion. your right about the water, they need a hard water with a ph of 8-9 most of them. i hope i can afford a tank to please me and them (looking for a 200 GAL)

[DiscoInferno]

@ NWG. I had ghost koi . Also eaten by a heron. But they were black and white mottled, and only half the size of yours, around 2 years old.

[nwg]

@ NWG. I had ghost koi . Also eaten by a heron. But they were black and white mottled, and only half the size of yours, around 2 years old.

The Ghost Koi were in the small pond when I moved here 10 years ago. The pond isn't that deep and they grew really big. The second pond was dug out for the Ghosts. The pond is over a metre deep.

[DiscoInferno]

About the same size as mine was(the pond). At the time i was in somerset and there were herons every morning in my garden, all queing up for the fish. After the koi got eaten i gave up on big fish, now i just have newts and frogs, ha!

[nwg]

Some more fish pics.

Mirror Carp.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/links/carp.jpg

Golden Orfe.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/links/orfe.jpg

Second Ghost Koi.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/links/koi.jpg

[tigerman8u]

I had ten aquariums
1-150 gallon
1-90 gallon
4-55 gallon
2-30 gallon
1-29 gallon
1-10 gallon for quarintining new saltwater fish and hatching and raising brine shrimp
will look for some pics to post if ex didn't take them all

[BR7]

br7, yeah i want a marine tank too, lot more dough, more maintenance. i'd like a true reef system with invertebatrates, corals and fish. gonna have to crack a few more cases before i can do that though

what crustations anonymez?

I think he means crustaceans I think they are shellfish crabs and such

[anonymez]

lol yeah they are some kind of shellfish, will try to find a pic soon. but how often does a guy spell "crustaceans"