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17-08-2010 5:37pm#1I don't have the greatest amount of fish or the best setup, but I am still delighted this forum is here
I currently have 2 goldfish (Ronnie and Reggie) and a brittlenose Pleco (Sugar Shane Moses).
The tank - Rekord 800 110L
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15 Gallon Reef Tank:
2 x False Percula Clownfish
1 x Pink Stripe Goby
Hammer Coral
Candy Cane Coral
Green Star Polyps
Bubble Coral
Scolly Coral
Pulsing Xenia
Sun Coral
Zoanthids
Ricordea
Getting a new 450 Litre soon - can't wait.
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There isn't enough reptile in this thread for me!
This is my beardie Rory. I love his colour morph, he's so much more exciting than the dull brown ones you always see in shops. We got him from Ben in Reptile Haven (Top bloke for all things scaley!)
He also goes through moods where he's completely apathetic towards his crickets
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Cookie_Monster wrote: »I've an old fish tank and thats it
(Well some plans too) It was my grandfathers, then I kept gerbils in it for years and then it went in the attic. Must take it down and fill it with fish one of these days
Have you any plans today
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Have you any plans today
Get it down and make a project out of it
I have to go home (parents) to get it. It'll be a while as i'm sure it'll cost a bit to get it up and running with all the bits and pieces. Will lurk around this forum for a while gathering info before doing anything
And if I get it today it'll only be used to keep beer cold this weekend so I'll probably leave it :pac::pac:0 -
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If that's a chinese softshell turtle, it's mostly aquatic but they do like to haul themselves out of the water every so often. They need a soft substrate with rounded grains as they bury themselves to hide and hunt. Any scratch and they easily get fungal infections. Small bit of marine salt in the water helps with that but would probably hurt the fish? The other thing is how big they can get. Dinner plate size if a female. After a year properly fed they'll hit 10 cm's near enough. Very aggressive too and the worst part in your case
they're very fast fish eaters. It would be better off in its own tank really.
I have a 6 foot tank with a few turtles. Mud turtles, chinese striped and amboina box turtles.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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If you can get one of those little turtle platforms that sucker on the side of the tank. The softshells in general and that species in particular tend to be much more aquatic than other freshwater turtles, but they do like the odd bask like your lads. Just a warning though, as they age they get aggressive and territorial. They dont play well with others including their own and are better off kept on their own. That said they do have definite personalities which vary. Of the three I've kept one was very placid and easy going, but IME you may end up rehoming one of them. They're great craic though. Huge long necks and very fast in water. They also like to redecorate their tank by moving stuff around like rocks and fake plants. If you're patient they'll even hand feed but be careful as they've mouths like razors. They also know the time you feed them if you do so at the same time. I haven't seen them for sale for years though. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Nice setup with the russian tort there lrushe, it's nice to see people taking a bit of interest and housing their critters correctlyFresh water tank in the hall with Yellow Gourami, Ghost Shrimp, Kai Swordtails and Mollys
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This is Nibbler my 4-5 year old Russian Tortoise
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Freshwater tank in the bedroom with a Sailfin Pleco, Red Gourami and an albino Polypterus Senegalus.
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Marine tank, this is kind of an older picture, have a lot more live rock in it now and some mushrooms and other stuff
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The problem is that while turtles kept in captivity are often in too little water, too much without a definite "land" part or platform and they will sicken and die after a while(though because they're so tough it can be hard to spot stress unlike in fish). They need to get out to bask and dry off. This goes double when younger and growing. I dont see basking area for them though I may be missing that? The bit floating n the right?
The razorback mud/musk turtle is much more aquatic than the reeves, so will tolerate it for longer, the reeves is more terrestrial. Both become less aquatic or have more need for land/platforms as they age. I reckon the musk will tolerate if for far longer. The two I've had(one for the last 20 years. He's looking at me now) were 90% aquatic only rarely venturing onto land. Though when I say rarely that was twice a week. The reeves I had basked at least 50% of the time.
Something simple like one of those sucker platforms that hang on the side of the tank would do with a simple ordinary incandescent bulb above it(out of the range of splashes). At some stage you may have to get a second tank or pass the reeves on. The mud turtle won't get much bigger than 4 inches in old money, the reeves can get to 6 or 7, but 5 inches is more common.
They do look healthy though I have to say I love your razorback mud. I'm looking for a new turtle as we speak and wouldn't mind one as nice looking and in as good condition as yours. Kudos. A credit to you IMHO. They're also one of the best turtles species to keep in my humble. Very hardy. They have definite personalities too. I'll say this though. They're clever buggers. The smartest of any turtle species I've kept and sooner or later when he or she gets a little bigger the cichlids could be in trouble. They're fiesty little ambush hunters, are shockingly fast when they want to be and have enough of a bite that even much bigger turtles will give them a wide berth. A cichlid wouldnt stand a chance. I had a softshell turtle the guts of a foot across, who was very aggressive and once I had to put her in with some of my other turtles for a few hours. She got real bitey with all, except for the little mud turtle, who faced her down and actually pinned her in a corner. I had to intervene or he would have injured her or worse. David and goliath aint in it. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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The problem is that while turtles kept in captivity are often in too little water, too much without a definite "land" part or platform and they will sicken and die after a while(though because they're so tough it can be hard to spot stress unlike in fish). They need to get out to bask and dry off. This goes double when younger and growing. I dont see basking area for them though I may be missing that? The bit floating n the right?
The razorback mud/musk turtle is much more aquatic than the reeves, so will tolerate it for longer, the reeves is more terrestrial. Both become less aquatic or have more need for land/platforms as they age. I reckon the musk will tolerate if for far longer. The two I've had(one for the last 20 years. He's looking at me now) were 90% aquatic only rarely venturing onto land. Though when I say rarely that was twice a week. The reeves I had basked at least 50% of the time.
Something simple like one of those sucker platforms that hang on the side of the tank would do with a simple ordinary incandescent bulb above it(out of the range of splashes). At some stage you may have to get a second tank or pass the reeves on. The mud turtle won't get much bigger than 4 inches in old money, the reeves can get to 6 or 7, but 5 inches is more common.
They do look healthy though I have to say I love your razorback mud. I'm looking for a new turtle as we speak and wouldn't mind one as nice looking and in as good condition as yours. Kudos. A credit to you IMHO. They're also one of the best turtles species to keep in my humble. Very hardy. They have definite personalities too. I'll say this though. They're clever buggers. The smartest of any turtle species I've kept and sooner or later when he or she gets a little bigger the cichlids could be in trouble. They're fiesty little ambush hunters, are shockingly fast when they want to be and have enough of a bite that even much bigger turtles will give them a wide berth. A cichlid wouldnt stand a chance. I had a softshell turtle the guts of a foot across, who was very aggressive and once I had to put her in with some of my other turtles for a few hours. She got real bitey with all, except for the little mud turtle, who faced her down and actually pinned her in a corner. I had to intervene or he would have injured her or worse. David and goliath aint in it.
cheers for advice mate, there is actually a turtle dock in the top right, its on the side wall rather than the back. your right, the reeves always basks, the razor only a little. when the reeves get older ill be moving him into a tank i have that has a 25per cent land area, im actually looking into planting it. when the reeves are young, there very aquatic so i have him in there. a lot of my books say that they should be kept in shallow water but i think thats not very natural. he loves swimming and hes a little trooper at it. basks for an hour then a quick dip, then back up again.
i decided to get a razor and reeves because there small and im in an apartment so it made sense. the red eared slider is my favorite tho. i used to have a red eared slider when i lived at home and she grew huge, had her in a 400 litre tank (i remember the pet shop saying to get a small tank, but my father insisted on getting a big tank, we still underestimated the size she grew to, after about 5 years we got the 400litre), we and kept it in shed, no matter how much i cleaned it, it would stink in a few days. it was a weekly task cleaning it out. i had her 11 years and it was sad because similar to you, i used to put her in the garden during the day in the summer, i had this little pen made out of chicken wire but she must have climbed it. i spent the whole week looking for her, the garden was big and mature, we had shrubs and hedges the whole way around. no joke, about 8 months later, she walked back into the middle of the grass, i set the tank back up etc.. but she never recovered, brought her to vet and he said, she probably dug into the leaves and hibernated, she never came out of hibernation properly and died about a week later. its amazing how hardy they are all the same
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That's sad about your red ear. I had one myself for a very long time. They can climb near vertical surfaces once they have grip. They're a lot more mobile than a tortoise. They're amazingly hardy too once they get to a decent size. They've been found in ponds in southern England where people have released them when they got too big :mad: I've heard tell there may even be some in a pond in the Phoenix park in Dublin where again they were dumped when they stopped being "cute". They can't reproduce here because our summers are too cold, but they'll often survive our winters as in their range in the US they can have very cold winters.
I agree with you about the shallow water part. In the wild they would be in far deeper pools than most tanks out there. I suppose it depends where they come from in the pet trade. If they've been born and raised in shallow water they may not have the skills to change depth, hold their breath or be strong enough swimmers and could drown. Yours look fine though Very healthy.
I had two Reeves. One was a rescue and he lasted a few years but was never very healthy, the other is still going strong with someone else. Both were 50/50 land water types, though like you said the one I had from young was much more aquatic at first. I know what you mean about the different advice. What I've found over the years is that a) a lot of the advice is dubious and b) like people individual turtles can vary. I have two Amboina box turtles(sadly one died recently, though she was 20 so...) and when I saw them as babies they were in a tank suited for a tortoise and the pet shop guy was convinced(as were the books) that they were 90% terrestrial. The second I put them in a 25/75 land/water setup they flew into the water and were much more aquatic than the Reeves.
I'd reckon the setup you have in mind will work perfectly TBH. Be careful with planting though. Chances are he'll eat anything you put in and dig up the rest. Harder to keep clean too. On the smell front, internal filters or undergravels are useless unless they're babies. A big external canister filter(roughly twice the size you'd need for a similar fish tank) will cut down smells and keep the water fresher and mean once a month cleaning. Turtles pump out a lot of poo. TBH I think that's sometimes a bigger risk to fish in that they will spike all the bad compounds(ammonia, nitrates, nitrites) in the water as they get bigger.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Howdy all,
Ok so i got fed up trying to take decent pictures of my tank and fish - so I've decided to go down the video route
It is a 120 Litre tank, at the moment we have got
2 Honey Gourami,
7 Female Guppies, 4 Male Guppies
1 Female Black Molly, 1 male Black Molly and 5 of their offspring left
All the plants are real - some growing like wildfire, but the small redish one seems to be struggling.
Here is the position of the tank, I love sitting on that chair and watching them swim about
Here is a 2 min video tour - it is quite hard to see the Black Mollys, I turn on the camera light to try highlight them.
Keep an eye out for my Favourite Male Guppy - he has a blue split tail - he is the only one chasing the mature female Guppy at the moment - something which i'm quite happy about.
2 of the other males spend all their time chasing each other - the yellow tailed one is quite big for a male - I'm starting to think he might be 50/50 sex wise! either that or I have 2 Gay fish - nothing wrong with that if it means my blue tailed one fathers the babies I'm after
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mrpink6789 wrote: »Got some Dwarf Gouramis, few casualties in the last month unfortunately.
I had two Honey Gouramins, still do, but I got 2 of the ones you have pictured there now and it has been a disaster so far!
One of them is an absolute bully, and my guppies tails have been nibbled at and are in poor health
None have died yet though, I can't even put them in another tank as I have my male Betta in there.
I wouldn't mind but there are plenty of baby guppies which they have not even sniffed at!0 -
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Here's some pictures from my fish keeping years. I started off small then got big and then back to small again where I am now. I needed to downgrade several years ago due to moving house so I had to sell up. I have a nice smallish community tank now that keeps the fish keeping fire burning in me.
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Kudos on all of you that have pictures, last time I tried I ended up with what looked like a bunch of blurry firework shots! :rolleyes:
In a 180l tank I have:
1 golden angel fish (whose black companion died on new years day )
1 peppered cory catfish
1 albino (bronze?) cory catfish
3 zebra danios
3 cherry barbs
5 black neon tetras
8 neon tetras
1 glowlight tetra
6 mollies (1 female black lyretail, 2 male black sailfin, 1 white/silver sailfin and 2 orange/black mottled sailfins)
1 endler guppy
4 guppies(?) almost identical to the endler guppy, but with no black and a lot of neon orange markings (they were a present from a friend who knew I wanted more endler guppies)
7 adult fancy guppies (3 female, 4 male) - and as of last night 9 baby fancy
--- This tank is stocked pretty much to maximum capacity because I adopted some 'rescue' fish at the end of last year - luckily most of the fish are very small and the tank is well established and carefully maintained - if any beginners are reading this, please do not rush out and dump this many fish into your tank in one go!!0 -
fred funk }{ wrote: »Here's some pictures from my fish keeping years. I started off small then got big and then back to small again where I am now. I needed to downgrade several years ago due to moving house so I had to sell up. I have a nice smallish community tank now that keeps the fish keeping fire burning in me.
Couldn't resist
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I got 2 Dwarf Indian Puffers today, I have always admired these in the fish shop and decided to see how I fare by getting two. They really need to be fed bloodworms and shrimp etc to keep them going as they do not like flakes too much. So will have to top up on some frozen stuff.
Put in some live stuff with them today to settle them in and my Betta gorged himself - I was getting a bit worried about the size his belly was getting!
Surprisingly to me the Cherry Barbs didn't fancy the live food too much, it took the Fighter quite a while to spot they were in the tank. I have read their eyesight is not supposed to be great, but I had always questioned this with mine as he always greets me straight away when I approach the tank - I am a big object though
I adore my Fighter, he is getting on so well and loves displaying in his mirror!
I want to try and breed them, as when I didn't have my filter introducing so much disruption to the water, he would regularly build bubble nests in the tank. The females sell out so quick where I am though and I have actually never seen one in any of the 3 shops I frequent. I will order myself 2 or 3 when i get my other small tank set up to be the breeding tank.0 -
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norrie rugger wrote: »What is the moonlighting and where did you get it???
They're just simple blue LEDs. I got them from a fella on ebay years ago. I had a quick look but I cant find him on their site. They're easy enough to make if you're anyway handy with your hands
I don't have that tank anymore but I used to bunch all those lights together and have them shining down at an angle from one side. It looked great. I'd have them on a separate timer, they would come on for an hour after the main lights went off. The fish looked really cool swimming through the beam of light.0 -
fred funk }{ wrote: »They're just simple blue LEDs. I got them from a fella on ebay years ago. I had a quick look but I cant find him on their site. They're easy enough to make if you're anyway handy with your hands
I don't have that tank anymore but I used to bunch all those lights together and have them shining down at an angle from one side. It looked great. I'd have them on a separate timer, they would come on for an hour after the main lights went off. The fish looked really cool swimming through the beam of light.
I have some Marina led lights in my tank,
Just came with 3 - a green, a white and a blue,
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