who owns marine fish?

kyliegirl

<div class="IPBDescription">show us yer fish tanks!</div>well we always see dogs, cats and guinea pigs. how about the fish lovers?

I am a marine hobbyist and i take great pride in my tank. I love seeing other peoples tanks, what better than to see the lovely tanks of ns fans!

ill start off

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the inhabitants

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lolfighter

Yay fishies! \^_^/

I would have fishies if they didn't require so much work. And if the aquarium ever breaks, you're in for giganto water damage.

But fishies are cool. And relaxing to watch. I wonder why potheads don't have aquariums to sit and go "whoa" at. Probably because they inevitably try to fashion the entire aquarium into a bong ("duuuuuuuuude, I could TOTALLY make a bong of that!") and kill the fishies in the process.

Lanfear

Fishes are always cute. Especially the little blue ones. :-)

kyliegirl

i actually enjoy watching my blennie (the orange and black one) as he shows the most personality, hes always trying to make reverse parks into holes and gaps and is very curious. funny to watch he likes to follow the wrasse around (stripey one)

oh btw i made a vid of the tank too

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbO-pI-gvYU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbO-pI-gvYU</a>

and an older vid of the 3ft when it was just set up

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8Y9JqwpGQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8Y9JqwpGQ</a>

<b>A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE</b>

those of you who dont own a marine tank and are inspired. I would personally like to warn you that this is a hobby, it is a hobby because it costs money and takes time and effort.

alot of hard work is needed and alot of care is taken into keeping marine fish alive and well.

the tank i have atm has cost me so far well over $4500 AUS dollars, from the tank to the fish and the necessary items like heaters, chillers, pumps etc.

marine fish arent for people who dont have time to give the attention the tanks need, Alot and i meant ALOT of careful reading and learning is needed before setting up a marine tank, along with patience and care.

a general saying most reef hobbyist say

<b>What can go wrong WILL go wrong</b>

Plaguebearer

What's your lighting setup on there?

I used to own a fish store, once upon a time, but got out of the business. I'm planning to set up a new tank with some old stuff I have in the garage... a 55 gal main tank with a 30 gallon refugium-slash-wet/dry filter. I just haven't settled on lighting - it's one of the things I'll actually have to go out and purchase <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />

Nice to hear you're enjoying your bicolour blenny. Sometimes those guys have nasty attitudes.

Do you have any sifters for your substrate? Whatchacallem... garden eels... are so cool for that. Cept sometimes you get individuals who never come out :/

kyliegirl

i have 2 150 watt 15,000k metal halides. they give more than enough light for the corals which need it.

as for substrate, i have a sand sifting starfish which only comes out at feeding time or when he feels like wandering up the glass.

I also have 2 trochus snails and 2 peppermint shrimps which help clean the tank of scraps and algae. i dont see the peppermints much they are nocturnal.

I keep a sump in the bottom of the tank which holds a deep sand bed and a whole pile of caulpera taxifolia to help with nitrates.

so far all tests have shown my tank is clean. the algae is doing an excellent job keeping my nitrates at 0.

old photo but this was when i transferred everything from my old 25gal to the 3ft tank

<img src="http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/other/3ft/000_0604.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

it shows the sump in the bottom where my dsb and algae is, theres alot more algae in there now tho. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

who has some fish tanks to show? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

tankefugl

I read the topic and thought; "What, as opposed to alien fish?"

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />

TychoCelchuuu

The blue one is looking at me...

I like fish, but I don't have any because I would feel kind of bad sticking them in anything other than a giant Olympic-sized swimming pool. I mean those guys could have lived in the ocean, but no, they get stuck in my little fish tank.

Plaguebearer

The way some people see it, Ty, before long the folks who have reef tanks, and the big commercial aquariums, will be about the only place you can see some species of corals.

re: peppermint shrimp... they're native here in Texas, you should see out on the jetties at night, take a flashlight and shine it down between the rocks and there's thousands of the buggers!

Do you have any moonlighting?

TychoCelchuuu

I don't feel bad about having coral. Coral doesn't care if it's in a tank because it doesn't swim around or anything. Didn't you see Finding Nemo? The coral wasn't seperated from its father, the FISH was. Duh.

Faskalia

Did I mention, that catfish>>dogfish?

kyliegirl

most fish are captive bred where i live, my clowns were both captive bred, as are the chromis, the wrasse the two firefish and blenny were wild caught but are happy and feed readily. if they werent happy they wouldnt be eating at all.

as for corals, corals arent plants and are living organisms, they have moods and even show anger and sadness with sudden changes of water quality and temperature.

the way i see it with the reefs dying and bleaching due to the rise in global temp, i feel that one day reef tanks are what will save whats left of our reefs and will one day beable revive what we lose from aquacultuing and breeding in captive tanks.

TychoCelchuuu

Right but constricting coral to a comparatively small region isn't going to make them sad. They don't exactly motor around if you know what I mean.

kyliegirl

anemonies do <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Armageddon

wow a marine tank. I imagine that must be difficult to maintain. I've only owned a few tropical fish myself (they all died T_T, but i'm left with 2 plecos and a crapload of mosquitofish) and I thought it was hard enough to clean the aquarium once a week along with the filter. I think you have to be really pro to maintain sal######er fish. Props V-.-

Mantrid

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I think you have to be really pro to maintain <b>sal######er</b> fish. Props V-.-
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Hahahaha.


GG, forum filter.

Talesin

Used to have a 55-gallon freshwater tank... standard stuff, some guppies, a couple of rays, a reedfish. Kept them for about three years, before the time investment started to become more of a chore than anything else, and a couple of fungal infections ended up having a couple of the fish die.. somewhat unpleasantly, even with the neccessary medication. Kept them until they'd all died off of age, and stopped replacing any losses.


Still was tempted to photochop a Marine helmet and visor onto a fish in a Sherman. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

lolfighter

lol sal######er. This is too hilarious. XD

Kouji_San

I have a tall square fishtank with guppies in it. Also have a bubbly filter thingy and plants and a little sunken city for them to play in, this is also the extent of my knowledge of a fishtank...

They do however have little baby guppies from time to time, which tells me that I'm doing something right <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

oh and they aren't sal######er guppies btw XD

lolfighter

I declare sal######er the next esophagus.

Talesin

You seem to be missing the hyphen in salt-water.

lolfighter

I dunno about <a href="http://www.webster.com/dictionary/salt-water" target="_blank">that.</a>

Actually, I thought that the noun was hyphenated. The adjective, however, isn't. So while salt-water is hyphenated, sal######er fish ain't.

CoolCookieCooks

Woo, nice to see you are still working on your aquarium, it has changed a lot since you first shown me it.

kyliegirl

lost my black clownfish this morning <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> it somehow managed to get sucked up into the intake of one of the pumps near the sand.. i have no idea how, he must have been sleep swimming everywhere to manage it.. poor guy <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

rip to blacky <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

guess ill need to find the mrs another mate..