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A Pictorial Tour Of My Fish House
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No new plans for the near future really, there is one more tank to be built to size next year for the electric eel and i want to expand my bichir collection to a few more of the rarer species, plus a nice rare oddball for the spare 80g tank i have, probably a knife fish of some kind (hoping for a dragon knife to come up)
Tank maintainance takes around 6 hours a week usually split over two mornings at the weekend and i spend around an hour each evening in the fish house checking the fish over, feeding them and doing general tidying.
Tank maintainance takes around 6 hours a week usually split over two mornings at the weekend and i spend around an hour each evening in the fish house checking the fish over, feeding them and doing general tidying.
I do dread holidays, because every time i go away for more than 2 nights something dies and i spend the whole holiday dreading the moment when the phone rings and its whoever is looking after the house telling me that they have found a fish dead, then i have to go through the whole trying to work out which fish it is as no one ever knows what my fish are called "well its one with a big mouth" err, that could be anything!
It shouldnt be so bad now though, my biggest problem before was the creating of my own stupidity having incompatable aggressive fish in mixed tanks, everything works out fine when you can stuff them to the gills with food and are on hand to do water changes and net out uneaten food if things go wrong, but when you have to leave it to someone else and put the fish on half portions they start getting narky and one always comes off worse. Now the tanks are less heavily stocked and the real nasties have single species tanks aggression should be less of a problem, he says while clutching onto the wooden table!
It shouldnt be so bad now though, my biggest problem before was the creating of my own stupidity having incompatable aggressive fish in mixed tanks, everything works out fine when you can stuff them to the gills with food and are on hand to do water changes and net out uneaten food if things go wrong, but when you have to leave it to someone else and put the fish on half portions they start getting narky and one always comes off worse. Now the tanks are less heavily stocked and the real nasties have single species tanks aggression should be less of a problem, he says while clutching onto the wooden table!
Crikey.. does sound like a headache.
Luckily I have a peaceful community tank and so don't encounter the same problems.. I have a white piece of paper with 'sample portion' sizes put on the top for when my parents visit to feed the fish for me, and/or I can get away with asking them to put a block of bloodworm in every few days for me.
But with one tank full of non-predatory fish that yours would love to eat, it's a little easier to manage. not arf.
Squid
Luckily I have a peaceful community tank and so don't encounter the same problems.. I have a white piece of paper with 'sample portion' sizes put on the top for when my parents visit to feed the fish for me, and/or I can get away with asking them to put a block of bloodworm in every few days for me.
But with one tank full of non-predatory fish that yours would love to eat, it's a little easier to manage. not arf.
Squid
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a couple of the jardini, these are the best pictures i have ever got of him, the light coming through the window was just right
and my big tiger which i have to hide from to take photos, if he can see me then he hides behind the filters
More great pictures and stunning fish
I get most of my fish from Wildwoods these days and a few from Dan at Tropical Imports, plus the odd fish here and there from other people.
I'll have to visit wildwoods sometime, as everyone seems to keep mentioning them.Now I have an idea where I could get some nice oddballls for my 270
You will probably end up with a load of people on the phone trying to flog you pacus
Shouldnt need to, its not the huge species you see in fishing programs its meant to be Lates microlepis which is a smaller species that only reaches around 3 feet, but properly identifying Lates species at a juvinile size is difficult at best so it could be any one of the several known species.
chrissaysyes
Nereus
man that setup looks great! Love to see more pics of the 900g
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