Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
what fish will live with a stingray
- Deco180sx (Declan Mcdonald)
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ive seen two different types i could get motaro and teacup does anyone on here have expierience with them
thanks in advance
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- Acara (Dave Walters)
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Any fish that lives on the bottom could be targeted as potential food. Any other fish in the tank could receive a fatal barb. A friend was sitting watching his teacup,a discus came down near it,and bang,up went the tail,in went the barb,and that discus was instantly dead.
Other keepers have probably had them last longer,I'm not talking from my own experience,and definately not from Google,but from a few friends who have had them.
The crayfish would be one of their natural foods.
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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They need lots of space and high filteration you ould need another fx 5 at the min in your tank and weekly water changes.
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Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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you'd really want a square tank for them, swimming up and down the same route would be enough to ill them of boredom
No different to any other fish

always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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How dangerous would that "Barb" be to Humans, are we talking "Steve Irwin" dangerous?Any other fish in the tank could receive a fatal barb. A friend was sitting watching his teacup,a discus came down near it,and bang,up went the tail,in went the barb,and that discus was instantly dead.
Regards Alan..
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you'd really want a square tank for them, swimming up and down the same route would be enough to kill them of boredom
No different to any other fish
very true but due to these being the same width as length i'd assume these would require extra wide tanks
Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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I'm not saying no because its your own money but with you losing loads of fish and only re-taking an interest into fish i would hold off so at least you know you will be definetly be commited to keeping water quality at optimum level's good luck man these lads know what there talking about well some of them

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- Jambomac (James McConville)
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Once the oscars go the dynamics will change and terretories have to be established might not stand a great chance of survival against powerful fish especially if its juvenile.
What garfish this one :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfish
Or an aligator gar which can grow to about 7-8 feet depending on species.
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Regards Alan..
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Did you know they can grow to 3 metres and weigh upto 280 lbs before you bought that little gar?a fella in aquatic village it wasnt ian or drew though got him the same day i got my snake head chana they didn last very long though
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- Deco180sx (Declan Mcdonald)
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gouramis and dwarfs
balas
red tails sharks
ID sharks
fire eel
100 x cardinal tetras
bolivian rams
10 xl congo tetras
snake head chana
aligator gar fish
tiger oscars
7 jack dempseys
3 monster plecos
siamese fighying fish
cori doras
hatchet fish
3 cray fish
20 auto cinulous
3 green terrors
2 green sevrums
and probably a few more i cant think of
im makin a proper go of it now no more just fuckin fish into the tank anymore
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a fella in aquatic village it wasnt ian or drew though got him the same day i got my snake head chana they didn last very long though
Cripes, they seem to specialise in monster fish.

Dave
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Do they stock killer whales i'd like one of them?
Deco180sx nobody here is telling you off for the fish you bought as a newb, yeah you should have done more research but i think sellers have more of a responsibility as to what they sell. a goldfish is one thing but some fish in the wrong hands can spell disaster especially as some of the fish you've had could probably smash your glass if its not thick enough.
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any advice on a 60 litre tank i have there and what to put in it thats cheap nice and low mentenance i have to say i dont know much about fish and i jimped in the deep end literally
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They easily breed and there great parenting skills will really draw into fishkeeping again.
Buy no real point in keeping what i like as your one who will be cleaning the tank

This sites good but when nobody is here to answer your question a book on fish is quite handy a bit old school especially with the internet at your fingertips good information.
You could always get adult convicts in your large tank as they've been known to punch whell above there weight and would take on oscars and jack dempsey's no problem.
The oscar definitely did you a favour but fully grown oscars might be able to crack your glass not sure on the exact specs that they could break but 2 foot of muscle as fish don't tend to have a lot of fat.
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I picked the fish more on the basis of hardiness a low maintenance as most others need more obviously there are tiger barbs and other small barbs, tetras.
Killifish would be good but need good quality water.
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AS you can see in second video larger fish scared when they breed.
a very underated fish probably because of being so easy to breed but female with her orange is quite an attractive fish.
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