What Fish do you keep in General ?

Without going into detail I get the ball rolling I keep American cichlids and African cichlids what's your setups ?

i keep African cichlids and betta fish and considering a project of breeding chocolate gourami s


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craig

hi ,I keep tropical community fish with a good few catfish ,not to forget the koi in the pond , and of coarse the newly set up shrimp tank

Shellies! Julies! Killis! Livebearers(Guppies,Mollies,Platys,Swords)! Cichlids(CA,SA,African)! Anabantoids(Bettas,Gouramis)! Barbs! Plecos! Ottos! Rainbows! Rasboras! NA Minnows! Corries! Catfish(Various)! Gobies! Gudgeons! Dwarf Cichlids(SA,African)! Snails(Nerites)! Freshwater Sharks! Loaches! Mormyridae!

Always on the lookout for more

hi, right now ive a few diffrent catfish (plecos and corys), discus , albino kribs, hm and dumbo bettas, gouramis. in next few weeks will have a shrimp tank

Mixed community tank holding
Angel fish
Platies
Danios
Denson barbs
Clown loach
Bristlenosed pleco
Hatchet, well at the moment it could jump out at any time!
Cardinal tetras

And after looking that both Robert and Trent have set up shrimp tanks, I am thinking maybe I should get some for my sump. Would they survive in the main tank?

i think maybe ammano shrimp will survive in main tank and cherry shrimp for sump to start with incase parameters are diffrent but ive never kept shrimp so only my thoughts

American Cichlids I've kept the longest
Then Channa (snakeheads)
And marine fish

gunnered72 wrote:

Shellies! Julies! Killis! Livebearers(Guppies,Mollies,Platys,Swords)! Cichlids(CA,SA,African)! Anabantoids(Bettas,Gouramis)! Barbs! Plecos! Ottos! Rainbows! Rasboras! NA Minnows! Corries! Catfish(Various)! Gobies! Gudgeons! Dwarf Cichlids(SA,African)! Snails(Nerites)! Freshwater Sharks! Loaches! Mormyridae!

Always on the lookout for more

mts lol nice selection

JohnH wrote:

James,
This thread has been moved to 'Member Profile', which might (well, you never know) encourage more activity under that topic.

John

John
it was one of them topics where i didn't know where to post,
thanks for your help

MTS!!! Absolute junkie for Tropical Fish!!!

7 tanks and counting! Total of about 200 fish! All shapes and sizes!
Thats why this hobby never gets boring

Theres more water in this room than fresh air LOL

Actually forgot to mention my African Dwarf Frog as well....

gunnered72 wrote:

MTS!!! Absolute junkie for Tropical Fish!!!

7 tanks and counting! Total of about 200 fish! All shapes and sizes!
Thats why this hobby never gets boring

Theres more water in this room than fresh air LOL

Actually forgot to mention my African Dwarf Frog as well....

any videos or photos? please share

hammie wrote:

American Cichlids I've kept the longest
Then Channa (snakeheads)
And marine fish

have u posted any photos of the marine setup here ?
i might have missed out on your post

Betta brownorums , coccina , rubras , falx , persephone and domestic halfmoons.

Channa ornatipinnis

Epiplatys annulatus

9 tanks running at the moment

Eric

At the moment I have water,
180 litres of it just waiting to stock.

Stuart

wylam wrote:

At the moment I have water,
180 litres of it just waiting to stock.

Stuart

any idea on what setup your going with.

Eric wrote:

Betta brownorums , coccina , rubras , falx , persephone and domestic halfmoons.

Channa ornatipinnis

Epiplatys annulatus

9 tanks running at the moment

Eric

more mts lol nice selection

I like anything monster

At the moment i'm keeping red belly piranha's and a black piranha.

Probably go with a lightly planted setup with bog wood. Corys , some type of tetra and hopefully a pair kribs or another type of dwarf ciclid I haven't nailed it down yet any suggestions welcome.

Stuart.

How many Piranhas Ski?

How fast do they grow and what do you feed them?

Im considering a Piranha tank myself....Whats the minimum size tank you would recommend and can they be housed with any other fish at all? Like would they destroy plecos?

gunnered72 wrote:

How many Piranhas Ski?

How fast do they grow and what do you feed them?

Im considering a Piranha tank myself....Whats the minimum size tank you would recommend and can they be housed with any other fish at all? Like would they destroy plecos?

I have 10 red bellies in a 5' * 2' tank (4 3 yr olds and 6 2 yr olds)

Started off with 10 3 years ago but was only left with 4 of that shoal so got the six more. Better to get more when starting cos they do pick each other off when young.

They do grow pretty fast and i feed them pellets, squid and lance fish. Sometimes trout but it messes up the water.

I'd say you could get away with 4 or 5 in a 4' tank.

I've seen a few people keeping pleco's with them but i don't cause i'd say they'd have a miserable life in there.

Here's a current pic. They're not for everyone cos a lot of people find them boring but i love keeping them

Ski PMed ya a few questions if ya dont mind answering....

Dont wanna hijack the thread....

gunnered72 wrote:

Ski PMed ya a few questions if ya dont mind answering....

Dont wanna hijack the thread....

No problem gunnered, pm'd back.

18 tanks stocked with shrimps and 1 killi female which appeared in a shrimp tank after i gave away my breeding pair with fry and eggs

7 discus, 4 angel fish, 2 blue ram, 1 bolivian ram, 7 sterbai cory, 10 bristlenose plecs, 10 cardinal tetra, 12 zebra danio, 2 clown loach, 2 panda garra and a pair of bettas possibly im missing something all are housed in 3 tanks that add up to 850 litres of endas free water ☺

Fish I keep in general would be mostly Cichlids but I can't remember ever having a tank without some kind of Catfish in it aswell

I use to have a good few tanks on the go but nowadays I've just the one 480L and at the moment it's housing Tanganyikan Cichlids and of course 5-6 Ancistrus..........Before this I had a SA set up of the larger fish ie.Jack Dempsey,Oscar,Green Terror,Texas Cichlid etc. and before that I had Manacapuru Angels (they were stunners) and before that I had a large Tropheus colonly with a couple of Eel so I kind of jump continents regularly......Next might be Red Belly Piranha's but i'm saying this a while now so maybe not.....I kept 7 Sub-adult Piranha in the past but the set up was all wrong for them (got a chance to buy them cheap and I only had a 180L tank free but I stupidly bought them!!)......My worst mistake in fish keeping and it still bugs me so that's probably the main reason I want to keep them again!!

"Real" Angel's will always be my favorite though

Ger