Aquarium

[Preach]

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.

zSHARE - 20080819_013.mp4

 

[Preach]

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]

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

 

[Jeremy]

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

 

[Preach]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Hey, I have an aquarium too.

 

[SicC]

Fishes are stupid and so is preach.

pz

 

[Preach]

i'm so puzzled. one of the larger fishies went missing. i know this is perfectly normal that this happens every once in a while, what i don't get is where she's gone. i looked through the whole aquarium without actually moving stuff around, and she's not in any of the caves or bushes. The fishie is a couple of inches long and half as wide, so it would be impossible to miss. there's no foul stench anywhere, which is quite normal if a fish dies. maybe it's too soon yet. it sucks a little, but more than that, it's weird.

 

[SicC]

i'm so puzzled. one of the larger fishies went missing. i know this is perfectly normal that this happens every once in a while, what i don't get is where she's gone. i looked through the whole aquarium without actually moving stuff around, and she's not in any of the caves or bushes. The fishie is a couple of inches long and half as wide, so it would be impossible to miss. there's no foul stench anywhere, which is quite normal if a fish dies. maybe it's too soon yet. it sucks a little, but more than that, it's weird.

Somebody ate her ass.

pz

 

[Duke]

SicC wasn't loved enough as a child.

I'm probably going to get an aquarium as well when I'm moving next week.

 

[SicC]

SicC wasn't loved enough as a child.

I'm probably going to get an aquarium as well when I'm moving next week.

Sure I was, my parents had fish and they would cannibalize one another. It was fantastic.

Pz

 

[Duke]

We had an aquarium (tropical) with a lot of guppy fish in it when I was young. Such an amazing system. Where most fish just dump their sperm and eggs in the water and have them figure it out, yet the guppies go out of their way to do things right. The female lays around 30 to 80 eggs I think, all of them hatch inside her body. She actually gives birth to live young. Result, a nearly perfect survival rate.

Then the mother eats her young. lmao.

I remember it was very educational.

 

[Preach]

^^
if the aquarium is laid out right, the young will be able to hide and several should make it. but for breeding you actually have to take the young'ins in another tank after birth.

i expect a high death rate in my aquarium in the coming weeks. i put too many fish in too soon. i just feel that they're gonna die. i've added bacterias to try and prevent it but i'm so scurred right now. the missing fish, none of the other fish are big enough to eat her. i'm gonna re-do the whole aquarium though, i have some new ideas.

 

[SicC]

^^
if the aquarium is laid out right, the young will be able to hide and several should make it. but for breeding you actually have to take the young'ins in another tank after birth.

i expect a high death rate in my aquarium in the coming weeks. i put too many fish in too soon. i just feel that they're gonna die. i've added bacterias to try and prevent it but i'm so scurred right now. the missing fish, none of the other fish are big enough to eat her. i'm gonna re-do the whole aquarium though, i have some new ideas.

You would be surprised, but you know everything. :suspicious:

pz

 

[S. Fourteen]

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.

With the right filteration, algea eaters and magnet cleaners - it's not that bad. It's more of a hassle to carry giant jugs of the water you need. Corals in saltwater is where it's at.

 

[Preach]

You would be surprised, but you know everything. :suspicious:

pz

i don't.

and in fact, you must have been right. i completely re-did the whole aquarium interior. removed the gravel and replaced it with sand, replanted the plants, removed all the rocks and used roots instead. i never found that fish. another fish also went missing.

now here's the thing. judging by the size of the fish that went missing first, and the size of the eel, to me it seems like a mathematical impossibility that the eel ate the fish. it probably ate the siamese algae eater, but the gourami like i said was a lot bigger. no matter, they're gone now. i also got rid of the eels. i'm gonna be buying smaller, more friendly eels called khulii, a few more gouramis, a few more glowlight tetras, and in time i'll be getting freshwater shrimps and apple snails. snails and shrimp add a lot of life to the aquarium.

 

[Preach]

new pic. grumsy water, better pic will come later tonight.