Aquarium

Preach · #1 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 08:46 AM

purchased a 25 gallon aquarium for my new hobby. can you guess what it is? FISHIES!!!!!!

anyway, so far i just got it up and running. keeping a relatively low amount of fishies in there until the aquarium cycles and the necessary bacteria culture develops, then i'll gradually supply the aquarium with more and more fish. i have an eel that imo is fucking cool. it's between 15 and 20 centimeters. i'm getting another one tomorrow. i uploaded a video from my phone. pretty sucky quality and you probably hear some guys playing ninja gaiden and me talking in norwegian. hope i humor you.

getting a new camera this week, when i do i'll take some high quality pictures of my new place and of the aquarium itself. i'm quite satisfied with it.

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Preach · #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 02:36 PM

bought another eel today. they are both fucking crazy. i fed them a food tablet just now. one of them tries to swallow the whole thing but fails, so he spits it out. after trying and failing for a while, he took it in his mouth and brought it back to his cave where he's trying to chew it up. sucks to be the other guy.

The.Menace · #3 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 04:01 PM

actually I did download the video and yes....your aquarium seems 2 be nice. Have fun with it.

Jeremy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 05:28 PM

I'm guessing it's salt water? That's funny cause I have been looking to purchase a aquarium.

Preach · #5 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 06:29 PM

it's a tropical freshwater aquarium. the eels, or reedfish, are from african rivers. the glowlight tetras and plecostomus are from south-america, the dwarf gouramis and siamese algae eaters are from asia. so a light mixture.

Jeremy · #6 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 06:38 PM

Yeah, I'm going to get a 40 gallon soon. Been looking online at some cool ass looking tanks. I want to get a saltwater one but it's looking very expensive and a hassle to clean.

The.Menace · #7 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 02:59 AM

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I want to get a saltwater one but it's looking very expensive and a hassle to clean.

yes, it's more work than others..... a friend of mine makes money with coral algae, he's breeding them at home and sellin them....

Preach · #8 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

Yeah, I'm going to get a 40 gallon soon. Been looking online at some cool ass looking tanks. I want to get a saltwater one but it's looking very expensive and a hassle to clean.

40 gallon, nice. mine's 25. due to space limitations that's the most i can keep currently.

you're right about saltwater. first of all, there's the salt itself which leaves white marks when the water dries up. then there's all the stuff in the water. you shouldn't keep a saltwater aquarium without corals, and they also leave lots of "waste". there's more things to think about though. a saltwater tank is a different type of biotope. sea fishies are used to a lot more current, and will need a much larger pump. furtherer, sea fishies are more expensive and a lot of them look boring. if you want one that doesn't look boring, it's very expensive. but these fishies demand more than tropical fishies, meaning you can't have that many fish in a 40-gallon saltwater tank. the ones i have seen had maybe two or three fishes and a couple of coral shrimp, and that tank was BIG.

last but not least, and i know you're the kinda person who might think about this, but saltwater fishies are used to having a lot more space. tropical freshwater fish mostly come from rivers, heavily vegetated water outskirts, or culps. an aquarium is a realistic home for them way more so than it is for saltwater creatures.

either way, sounds fun. we could get real gay and become aquarium brothers eheheheheheh.

The.Menace · #9 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 05:50 AM

Hey, I have an aquarium too.

SicC · #10 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 10:22 PM

Fishes are stupid and so is preach.

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