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Tropical Fish
Posted December 17th, 2008 at 12:33am by Electronic Punk
So here we go, this post is completely irrelevent to technology and completely and utterly getting in the way of my review of the HP mini as a few thoughts about the HP PhotoSmart and MediaSmart - but I am doing it anyway.
So in Summer of 2007 I decided one day I wanted a fish tank so I rocked on down to Porton and during the selection of tanks it suddenly dawned on me that I could go ahead and make it tropical with the addition of a heater
So, I wanted to take this seriously so I got it setup - waited a week to let the bacterial agents do their thing and convert the ammonia into nitrates and then the nitrates into nitrates (or was it the other way around?)
My 15 litre tank was'nt very big at all and was only support a single fish to start with (or I was playing it safe) - this fish was a Synodontis - a type of catfish and I still have him today, two of them infact.
I experimented with more fish such as Kryptopterus bicirrhis (glass catfish), Balantiocheilos melanopterus (Silver shark) and Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae (Red-Eyed Tetra). The sharks didn't seem to last so long sadly, although longer than the Betta splendens (Siamese Fighting Fish).
This year I recieved a 150 litre tank and was able to get a larger batch of fish in, having managed to migrate all my existing fish into this new tank.
The first fish I got were Archocentrus nigrofasciatus and in retrospect this was a very bad idea as the morning after getting these two fish I found my population of red-eyed tetra had in fact halved. The glass catfish had done an amazing job of doing their thing and staying the hell away from everything, but the surviving red-eyed tetra had to be moved back into the 15 litre tank (and these days happily live with other more peaceful fish).
I then got three Astronotus ocellatus and then soon determined that I had to take the Convicts back to the shop as they were so vicious they were actually attacking not only any other fish in the tank but also my hand.
Another two new fish, Thorichthys Meeki (Firemouth) also cichlids and able to deal and retort to the bullying from the oscars.
Other fish in there are bottom feeders to deal with algae and do a fine job - a male and female, but no more have appeared just yet.
A poor camera phone hot where you can only actually see the tail of the Tricactus, two oscars on the right and a fire mouth just left of centre.
The tank is a damn aggressive one with five cichlids in there and they are constantly fighting to see who is top fish, more so when they are hungry - I keep hoping they will figure it out but it hasn't happened yet. The firemouth's seem to be able to scare everyone else off when they flare their neck and gills which is good to see and the oscars will fight unless I distract them by moving around out here as they are fully aware of what is going on in the room.
Also is anyone else finding the forum post boxes to be annoyingly small these days? Not quite sure what has caused this....
Anyway, I will get back to doing what I am supposed to now.
So in Summer of 2007 I decided one day I wanted a fish tank so I rocked on down to Porton and during the selection of tanks it suddenly dawned on me that I could go ahead and make it tropical with the addition of a heater
So, I wanted to take this seriously so I got it setup - waited a week to let the bacterial agents do their thing and convert the ammonia into nitrates and then the nitrates into nitrates (or was it the other way around?)
My 15 litre tank was'nt very big at all and was only support a single fish to start with (or I was playing it safe) - this fish was a Synodontis - a type of catfish and I still have him today, two of them infact.
I experimented with more fish such as Kryptopterus bicirrhis (glass catfish), Balantiocheilos melanopterus (Silver shark) and Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae (Red-Eyed Tetra). The sharks didn't seem to last so long sadly, although longer than the Betta splendens (Siamese Fighting Fish).
This year I recieved a 150 litre tank and was able to get a larger batch of fish in, having managed to migrate all my existing fish into this new tank.
The first fish I got were Archocentrus nigrofasciatus and in retrospect this was a very bad idea as the morning after getting these two fish I found my population of red-eyed tetra had in fact halved. The glass catfish had done an amazing job of doing their thing and staying the hell away from everything, but the surviving red-eyed tetra had to be moved back into the 15 litre tank (and these days happily live with other more peaceful fish).
I then got three Astronotus ocellatus and then soon determined that I had to take the Convicts back to the shop as they were so vicious they were actually attacking not only any other fish in the tank but also my hand.
Another two new fish, Thorichthys Meeki (Firemouth) also cichlids and able to deal and retort to the bullying from the oscars.
Other fish in there are bottom feeders to deal with algae and do a fine job - a male and female, but no more have appeared just yet.
A poor camera phone hot where you can only actually see the tail of the Tricactus, two oscars on the right and a fire mouth just left of centre.
The tank is a damn aggressive one with five cichlids in there and they are constantly fighting to see who is top fish, more so when they are hungry - I keep hoping they will figure it out but it hasn't happened yet. The firemouth's seem to be able to scare everyone else off when they flare their neck and gills which is good to see and the oscars will fight unless I distract them by moving around out here as they are fully aware of what is going on in the room.
Also is anyone else finding the forum post boxes to be annoyingly small these days? Not quite sure what has caused this....
Anyway, I will get back to doing what I am supposed to now.
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thats a nice tank, if that where mine, it would be a tank of a 1000 corpses....Posted December 17th, 2008 at 12:47am by lancer
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I used to have Oscars, but outgrew my 50 gal tank. so i sold theThey were pigs when it came to feed time.
yeah Cichlid's are very territorial, i also had Jack dempsy's which had the same temperment.
here is a tip EP, buy a medium size clay flower pot and place it in the corner, this will allow the Cichlids to keep to their side. they use it as a "base" belive it or not, it worked for me.
nice tank EPPosted December 17th, 2008 at 1:16am by tdinc
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Thats cool, its hard to see but I do have a lot of stuff to hide in there, mostly taken up by the bottom feeders tho. There is a log in the centre and the biggest fish in the tank lives in there and only comes out at night or when its particularly hungry.
I wasn't so hot on them at the start, but I really love these oscars not big enough to look dense and big enough to actually have a personality.Posted December 17th, 2008 at 1:39am by Electronic Punk
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I used to get a few angel fish to put in the tank. I moved onto oscars after a few years and they grew to about a foot long each. One day, when I opened the tank to feed them, one flew right out of the tank like a flying fish.Posted December 17th, 2008 at 8:38pm by American Zombie
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Yeah, they get a bit excited at feeding time.Posted December 18th, 2008 at 12:06am by Electronic Punk
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Nice tank, but I think I will stick to my 10 gal. since it is mostly in place fro the cat amusementPosted December 19th, 2008 at 6:38pm by singermagic1
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