I always thought there was something fishy about you, WLB

we have a fish tank but it's got gerbils in it (not filled with water now, obviously!)

we have an outdoor pond with miniature koi in it, very nice little pond too. they're all asleep now at the bottom because it's so cold. I'm considering a larger pond, and getting a large indoor tank as a feature, maybe build it into a wall or something. funnily I've spent pretty much all afternoon in the aquarium supplies part of our local big graden centre.

Miniature koi? Nice! The ones in our pond are NOT miniature, and they are getting bigger! A bigger pond is planned eventualy. An indoor/outdoor feature would be neat, one where the fish could swim in and out. I saw one at this fancy hotel once

A large indoor tank built into the wall with all the filter stuff in a secret room in the wall!!! Someday I'll desing my own house and it'll have that.

EDIT: see what happens when you start talking about fish? You get promoted

Edited by - Warlord Bob on 07-12-2003 19:34:53

something fishy is going on here

@WLB

Fisherman's Wharf.

Problem with indoor/outdoor is water level to maintain a weather tight seal. Also, heat/cold transfer of the pond water. Only seems practically affordable in temperate climates where hot and cold don't get extreme. If you are in the Norhtease of the US, it is too extreme, I'd say.

Edited by - Indy11 on 07-12-2003 23:57:58

I hate fish. But I did see a neat restaurant one time where they had plastic tubes all over the place and fish could actually swim from one part of the restaurant to the other. I was really young and can't remember where this place was. Probably a seafood restaurant. A clever way to let the fish know what they're in for.

I hate eating fish too, by the way.

Sir Spectre

Edited by - Sir Spectre on 08-12-2003 02:56:12

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where they had plastic tubes all over the place and fish could actually swim from one part of the restaurant to the other

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...another of my private dreams... problem is they (the fish) like to hide. The really pretty ones too. Black ghosts, clown loaches, and my favorite, plecostomus' (sp?) etc.

@Indy - I'm in the southern US. There were German POW camps here in WW2 and the prisoners complained it was hotter than North Africa!

@WLB

LOL. A lot people say that and then, of course a lot of people say: It's not the heat, it's the humidity. But I happen to think that it is true.

Well then the other problem for you to worry about would be moisture and the propogation of unwanted molds in your house.

I use to have fish...but I prefer my cats.

Taw said,

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we have a fish tank but it's got gerbils in it (not filled with water now, obviously!)

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Thats no fun!

Life: No one gets out alive.

I have a small hexagonal tank in my bedroom with:

1 neon tetra
1 x-ray tetra
1 plococtomus (i dont know how to spell it), or just a sucker fish

In my old 3 foot by 2 ft by 1 ft tank I had:
2 clown loaches (or tiger botia's)
1 silver shark
10 neon tetras
4 x-ray tetras
4 platy's
the sucker fish
Some other fish

When I moved house I ditched the old tank, gave away the silver shark and the biggest clown loach to the old next-door neighbours, and bought a nice new hexagonal tank! I had sand in the bottom, and what I thought was enough bottom feeders to rid the sand of any crap.

My light bulb fused out because of condensation, and the fish just relied on a constant stream of sunlight from my north facing window. Little did I know that 9 of my neon tetras had died and had got sucked into the filter. Bits of dead fish were floating about (I couldn't see them) and eventually all my fish died except the two tetras, a platy, and the plococtumus. I almost cried when I found my clown loach floating because it's been through hell.

In my old tank, after some live food (NEVER BUY THAT CRAP) I had an infestation of parasites, then gill flukes, then white spot, then pop-eye (where the eyes swell up), and surprisingly only a couple of fish passed away. The medicine that fights white spot is unfriendly to loaches, so my clown loaches suffered even more . My clown loaches survived that, but my baby clown loach had been scratching against the pebbles and had deep gashes in his side where he'd been scratching. He survived.

Then we moved house (about 3 months ago) and then the sandy problem happened! I was devastated. My mum told me that I wasn't allowed back on my PC until I'd 'sorted out that **** bath in my room!' I promptly visited the garden centre and sorted it all out!

So there we have it, from a relatively large population of fish, I now have a meager 3!

Oh well. At least now the deceased fish are now swimming with the big fish in the sky!

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Estupidud Rex



http://www.cardamine.net/ - should be up and running after Christmas!

Hmmm, theres something fishy about this thread.

we've heard that already

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Junkers rule
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well cardemine, be carefull where you buy live food from next time

@Cardamine - yay! I knew there was somone else out there!

My hex tank had a precession of fish go through it. The first group, including my surviving clown loach (there used to be two) and a silver shark (I think this is the same as bala shark?) outgrew the thing and moved with the rest of the population into the at the time new 100 gal. tank to make way for some Oscars. Boy do they like live food! I used small goldfish though, so maby they have less parasites. They were really messy though, so I got rid of them

Now the hex is empty untill I get the resources back for some nice scenery and a few yellow ciclids perhaps. The big tank has the now 7 inch clown loach and 8 inch bala shark, plus 4 big gold severums (friendly cichlids) who are coincidentaly 2 mated pairs(!) and, of course, the obligatory plecostomus, or two. Also assorted bottom feeders, schooling fish and one overgrown chineese algae eater

I once had a sunshine pleco once that I loved very much. When I came back from summer camp I found that it had jumped out through a 2x3 inch hole in the top of my tank and flopped to the middle of my room where it became very dry Than there's the time I failed to clean a new tank, only to find it had some soap scum or pesticide in it when all my new fish started doing cartwheels Methinks the great fishtank in the sky is very crowded *sniff*

@RILMS - Cats are nice too... esp. fat ones