TROPCIAL/MARINE FISH

anyone interested also in tropical/marine fish keeping?

i have 2 200 litre aquariums which fish ranging from piranha ,oscars african flog claws 2 cray fish(little lobster looking dudes lol)

* hard work at first with the science of the water etc. but great hobbie imo..

 

Piranah??? I can't imagine they'd be the most friendly of fish!

 

actually there quite a placid fish in general kept alone..african cichlids are nasty little * who would eat a piranha alive..they have a bad hollywood rep like pit bulls have with dogs

put a piranha in with a group of community african cichlids and he wouldnt last 2 minutes lol..

be like a group of fighter planes attacking a jumbo jet

U like fish?

 

That's really interesting, I think most people who don't have a knowledge of fish would think piranahs are the worst.

I know someone who likes fish....

 

Well this is one of the most bizarre threads I'ver ever seen!

I was at a tropical fish shop last year to have a wee look around. There was one really cool fish, i think it was called a sleeping guppy or something. It would lie on the bottom doing nothing for ages and then it would do a backflip and then go back to lying on the bottom. It was really cool.

 

haha...whos that lol ill set me dogs on him if he comes near me fish lol

 

fish keeping is cool bud

wouldnt be a guppy nah.. could have been an oscar..theyre extremely intelligent and like 2 have a kip and muck around..if have my oscar clicker trained so ya can hand fed him and jump through a small hoop i kid u not

 

I'd be scared of getting steaming and knocking the tank over. I kill about 3 lamps a year by knocking them over when i'm trying to turn them off at the end of the night. How big is a 200 lite tank?

 

litres aand gallons are different here 2 the us i think about 60-70 gallons i think.. its about the same size as a 42" plasma tv roughly

 

I have a 33 gallon fresh tank, i'd like to get a saltwater tank though.
I work in my dad's aquarium shop, the one i like best thats in right now is a 2 foot bamboo shark.

 

This is very interesting Bobobhoy. What we learn about each other eh ? I don't keep fish but I have yo say whenever I have been in the house of someone who has them I am absolutely hooked. So relaxing, so hypnotic. Good for you mate - it's a fine hobby.

 

I used to keep tropical fish but like everything else didnt have time to look after them so i had to give everything away to my mate , they look great but never again

 

Any Pics? Would love to do it myself!

 

ill try and upload some some later bud

just came home after being away since thursday and me african cichlids have eaten alive the baby red blood parrot fish...just a skeleton left floating on the top

first one ive lost in over a year

them AFRICAN CICHLIDS ARE NASTY LITTLE * WHEN NOT FED PROPERLY

BTW.. u want any tips info 2 set up ...no problem bud just ask

 

piranha only attack when they see a struggleing fish and smell food and it's normally one at first which takes a bite then they all jump in but the eat a elephant in 20 secs thing is total rubbish and a normal batch of piranha maby 20-40 couldn't eat that much and they couldn't bite into the hard skin of an elephant and for a human you will get some bad nips and tiny bits out of you buy watch out for your groin area Painful

anyone seen the piranha movie when they accadently get released well they made a second one and guess what......They fly hahha horrifying but really fake


And are you sure it's red belly piranha you have as they are the evil ones

But theres these big yins which will attack anything it wants if you see about 10 of them around you swim fast I mean fast as they aren't the fastest but can outswim you--He really wants that fish
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HznJZK9K_eo&mode=related&search=


Red belled piranha
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxw1EFcm3vw

These eat piranha for an advertiser http://youtube.com/watch?v=SPtUxqOOegk&mode=user&search=

 

no such thing as an EVIL piranha gaffney no fish is evil end of!! even the most placid of fish will attack a struggling one and behave like a pack of wolves..

and yes it is a red belly piranha i have..he does * all.. bit like a silver dollar with a bad rep

 

I like them Angel Fish and Guppies Bobo
and some of them catfish...

very relaxing to watch them swimming about top and floor feeding..

 

That's not a very nice thing to come home to

I just looked up african cichlids and they don't look very violent (lol I'm sure that's the wrong word but you know what I mean?). Appearances must be deceptive.

Will you get another parrot fish?

 

VERY PEACEFUL ARENT THEY STONEWALL

i have no guppys in my tank

3 angels though gordon 2 marble and 1 silver

alpino african claw frogs are the bizz..like little naked men doing the breast stroke turn u on

catfish..

i have red tail sharks...clown loaches...

 

Is there something you're not telling us?

I don't know about tropical fish, but they seem quite amazing. I have a weird hobby of collecting autographs. Got about 90.