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General => Pets Corner => Topic started by: joji on October 08, 2005, 00:01:02

Title: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 08, 2005, 00:01:02
I know some of you out there have fish so I thought I would show you some of mine. ;D

These are my puffer fish and this is what I do to any snails that I find on the lottie. LUNCH TIME GUYS :D

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0918_640x207.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0893_640x378.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0869_523x480.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0843_640x363.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0840_640x437.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0611_640x446.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/malekribensis2_640x307.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0388_640x404.jpg)

That is only a few of what I got. :)
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Derekthefox on October 08, 2005, 01:26:21
Awww my daughter has fish, I will get her to look at these.

Derekthefox :D
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Georgie on October 08, 2005, 17:02:27
Hey JJ, you remembered, and after all that wine last night too!   ;)

Lovely pics.

G xx
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: undercarriage plan on October 08, 2005, 19:37:25
Wonderful Pics, JJ! Am sending you all my snails........ ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Heldi on October 09, 2005, 23:07:03
Hi Joji.  What's that grumpy looking fish,pic no 6 ?  Do you have any silver sharks? I love those.  I did have a big tank but now I only have a biorb with two coldwater fish in it. One a bog standard goldfish...OH's..."Lips McGurk" and my fish an oranda  "Ship Ahoy" . Both live in perfect harmony and infact ganged up on the White Clouds and ate them!

Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 10, 2005, 15:51:40
Quote from: Heldi on October 09, 2005, 23:07:03
Hi Joji.  What's that grumpy looking fish,pic no 6 ?  Do you have any silver sharks? I love those.  I did have a big tank but now I only have a biorb with two coldwater fish in it. One a bog standard goldfish...OH's..."Lips McGurk" and my fish an oranda  "Ship Ahoy" . Both live in perfect harmony and infact ganged up on the White Clouds and ate them!



Hi Heldi

The grumpy looking one  is a saphire blue dragon goby. :)

Yes I do have silver sharks 3 of them. Here you go :D

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/Bala-silvershark_640x334.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/siberfish/000_0430_640x376.jpg)
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Heldi on October 10, 2005, 16:54:10
cheers joji!  I do like those. I think if I ever had another big tank I'd have a whole shoal of 'em.

I think I've seen something like your saphire blue dragon goby at the garden centre. They've recently upgraded their aquarium section and it really is quite impressive. Lots of BIG display tanks with lots of BIG fish! 

How many tanks have you got joji?  Do puffer fish have to be in a marine enviroment or tropical? Have you got a marine tank? Questions questions!
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 10, 2005, 19:09:21
I got 7 tanks Heldi.

Tank 1 has discus and small tetra in it ( fresh water )
Tank 2 has the silver shark ( also known as balla shark ) and red torpedo barbs and some catfish in. ( fresh water )
Tanks 3 Has 4 pairs of keyhole cichlids, some more catfish and some more tetras. ( fresh water )
Tank4 1 male and 6 female kribensis and 2 pair of agassi cichlids ( fresh water)
Tank 5 3 saphire blue dragon goby ( brackish water )
Tank 6 3 figure 8 puffer fish ( brackish water )

Tank 7 2 fire bellied newts ( cold water )

Tank 8 comming soon for chirstmas. ( 100 gallon )
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Heldi on October 10, 2005, 20:37:43
That's alot of fish joji  !!!!!!    :D  :D

I've always quite fancied a marine set up but thought it might be too much of a faff.

What are you planing for your new tank ?
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 10, 2005, 21:55:33
New home for the discus as they are getting as big as tea plates. :)
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 13, 2005, 13:36:44
ooooooooooo Joji, I will have to get my darling to post some pics of his tanks.  I have limited him to 3 as I worry about the amount of electricity pumping around the system, and where on earth do you keep them all!  He now has a fabulous corner tank with just platties and endlers in at the moment, but I sense a weekend shop......discus, angels, rainbow fish have been under discussion, altho for me, it has to be oscars everytime!  In the kitchen we have a monster tank, but it is thin and sits on the windowsill.  This has convicts, which breed like rabbits, catfish and loaches in it.  A very masculine tank.  Then at the foot of the stairs, the pretty tank, a whopper with big shoals of neons, harlequins, rummynoses, silver tips and serpas.
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 13, 2005, 15:25:54
I have a fish room Emma  ;D

One room in which all but one of my tanks sits out of the way lol

Yes would love to see some of your fish.

Discus are hard to keep unless you are in a soft water area. :)

Oscars are nasty and can bite you badly. :'(
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: busy_lizzie on October 13, 2005, 22:36:12
How fantastic Joji!  I love your fish and the way you have photographed them is impressive, loved the lighting shining on them. My sons has just put  lovely fish tank wallpaper on our computer with sound effects, which is probably the nearest we will ever get to some tropical fish.   :D busy_lizzie
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Heldi on October 13, 2005, 22:58:26
Sad news...Lips McGurk has died  :(  .    I always feel very sad when a goldfish dies. Goldfish in fung shui are baby dragons and one of mine has flown. Ship Ahoy is now all on his lonesome.


I don't have fish as my wallpaper but I have Ben Browder on my desktop..cooooorrrr!! 
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: Andy H on October 14, 2005, 00:27:34
We had puffer and fed him snails from garden, vicious things, ate 10 tetra by cornering them when divider failed, cunning and evil but cute little flappy winged things :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on October 14, 2005, 09:21:55
Hi Andy

If you look at the first picture. You will see a snail that they are about to eat. The lottie is exactly where it came from lol.
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: littlegem on January 31, 2006, 16:39:19
joji, i know u say that discus are hard to keep, well let me tell you about our tank.

1 x leopard pleca
1 x pearl gourami
5 x green tiger barbs
1 x platy
1 x discus
1 x black moor goldfish
1 x big fat greedy calico goldfish

All kept at 26 c, water change every week 30%. every 3/4 weeks 50%. dont use any chemicals or water tap safe stuff. we dont live in a soft water area, just use hot & cold water from the tap, thats it!

and everything is as happy as larry!
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on January 31, 2006, 17:41:32
:o

How long has your tank been running little gem ?
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: littlegem on January 31, 2006, 18:47:58
joji, 3 years but we've only had discus since oct 05. we lost a lot of fish at the begining, when we was using all the added stuff, so we stopped putting stuff in and since then, they've been fine, thats been nearly 2 years
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: joji on January 31, 2006, 20:26:38
You probably don't have chlorine in your water system then. Or is your water filtered ?
Title: Re: Some of my tropical fish
Post by: littlegem on February 01, 2006, 09:42:16
joji, no, our water isn't filtered. no idea whether there is amounts of chlourine. got one of those strip test kits but OH threw the instructions away, so no idea what levels they were supposed to be!!!!!
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