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WIZE wrote: »

i can give you an Angel fish . im in Celbridge . its about 4 inches

Thanks for the offer... but I was planning to get a small angel fish so my tetras don't end up in his mouth!

here's the new addition. it's a 2nd hand 260L Juwel Vision.

it's going to need a lot of work to get it how i want it, but it'll have to do how it is for now whilst i get together all the bits and pieces i want.

no backing yet, so that's the dining room wallpaper you can see behind it.

it got about 75% of the water from my old 65L aquarium, plus a good squeeze out of the filter media and the existing substrate and filter came full of the good (and most likely bad, but you can't win them all) stuff from its old home so i'm just going to keep an eye on the levels and do frequent water changes as required until it's all settled down, then i'll look at getting re-decorating and maybe getting another few fish to liven the place up a bit.

I still have the 65L tank on the go with a single fish in, who was very antisocial towards everyone else in the small tank before i upgraded, so i've left him where he is. my wife wanted me to feed him to our cats because he's killed off at least half a dozen other fish inc. 2 angels, but i'm getting far too soft in my old age so he's living out his time in solitary for now. if anything else seems overly aggressive in the bigger tank, i'll just move them in with him and they can fight it out together.



my long term plan will be lots of sand, bogwood & plenty of live plants with a plain dark background (or possibly something 3D), but it'll do as it is for now, it's keeping both our cats and the new baby very entertained as it is.



i also have an air pump with it, so i'll be looking at getting some pipe to snake around under the substrate for some bubble action, i've just got to find somewhere that has some.

norrie rugger wrote: »

Seahorse definitely has air line.
I imagine that most stores would

i'm working out near blanchardstown so i was going to try the Petstop out there next to Lidl in Blanch and see what they have.

if not, i might nip round to seahorse tomorrow afternoon, thanks for the tip although i think if i go in there, i'll come out with half the shop!

Silverfish wrote: »

Moved him into a 300L tank

What's that you have either side of the thermometer?

Must look out for some of those, good idea!

Apologies for the blurry pics!

Tank front view


Rummynoses in lotus


Talyn shows off his tail


Front view. You can see the tetras at the end and Talyn perched on the wood in the middle by the bubble tube, it's one of his favourite hang out spots.

Love the planting, really impressive!

I'd hold off adding any more fish to that unless you can move the goldies somewhere else...

128 litres is *WAY* too small for 8 goldfish... It's recommended to have 140l for the first goldfish and another 40l per fish thereafter... Adding the bio-load of the weather loaches and you should be at about 450l for that many fish...

It's to do with goldie's being large fish that need room to swim (common's grow up to over a foot in length!) and, as you said, they're dirty fish. Most common tropical fish require far smaller tanks than goldfish.

Most fish tanks you see in pet shops are way too small, goldfish bowls are downright animal cruelty.

If none of your mum's fish grew beyond 3" it's probably because they were stunted from being kept in a fish bowl; keeping a goldfish in a bowl is the equivalant of keeping a human in a room 3' square because that's what they measure back to front.

This is Paul, common, shop bought goldie, in a tank while I was cleaning out the garden pond. He was bought about 10 years ago from a petshop at the length of an inch or so. The tank he's in in the pic is 12" in diameter, and he was completely unable to move in there. I doubt if he'd even fit inside a standard goldfish bowl. I'm moving him indoors away from the bad weather (the pond froze almost solid last winter) and I've had to get a 120L tank which is the bare minimum he needs. Ideally he'd be in something twice the size.

I decided to change my tank over from a standard community tank to an African Tanganyikan Cichlid tank. I gave my local petshop all of my fish except my pleco in exchange for some fish food. The substrate is coral sand and the rocks are ocean rocks. Even after two rinses the sand still clouded up the tank, which wasn't unexpected. I collected some sea snail shells down the local beech for a bit of decoration.

I've changed the rocks around a few times and I'm still not 100% happy and I'm sure i'll change it around again over the coming days, maybe take out a few stones.

For now the pleco has the whole tank to himself but not for long. I'll be picking up some fish this week, maybe some shell dwellers. I'll update the pictures when I ad some more fishies

it's not the size of the tank, it's what you put in it...

...or something. :pac:

paddy - does the equipment in your marine tank degrade much faster than in freshwater and if so, how much faster?
thanks

id be interested to know the final cost of an entire marine setup.....it has been in my mind for a while as i moved from typical community to cichlids....seems like the obvious next step!