FISH!

[LinkPlaysLax]

Hey! I was wondering if anyone else here has some cool pet fish or is really into fishkeeping. Right now I have a freshwater 55 gallon tank with...
*Jack Dempsy Cichlid *Lobster
*Convict Cichlid *Ropefish
*Brichardi Cichlid *Alligator Gar
*Tiretrack Eel *Pleco

*2 new fish: Auratus Cichlid and a Knight Goby

So what kind of fish do you all have? Any saltwater tank keepers?

[raykessler]

i had a gold fish named billy it lived for 5 years which i consider a good run. Billy didn't do much.

[MainLax28]

I just bought a new 10 gal last week. I have about 8 random tetras. Too bad I don't have enough room for anything bigger cause I really like doing it. I've had 5 of my fish for 4+ years and before that I had 2 go over 7 which is quite a bit. Now that I am starting to get some more money though I might try to upgrade my collection and tank like a high quality filter, bottom lights and such. A great hobby

[NY Lax 4]

My dad really likes fish, since he was a kid. We have this really exotic like 120 gallon salt water tank.

[Deadhead46KC]

i caught a 28" pickerel today...does that count? we let it go though. I once had 5 guppies many years ago, and now i have about 1,000 guppies, the horny little buggers.

[marflax33]

I caught a Yellow Perch at a local lake, Brought it home in a bucket of water, Filled up my sandbox (dimesions- 8 feet tall, 8 feet wide, 3 feet deep) with water, And the perch lived in it for like 3 months... Than the magpies caught and ate it. God i hate magpies.

edit- The sand box had no sand in it, for the record.

[fossil8412]

I have an Nanocube 12 DX (reef) w/ a clown fish and a skunk cleaner shrimp...

[CHSlax]

Yea i use to when i was younger but not anymore i had a heated salt water tank that was about 10 gallons maybe more not really sure it had a bunch of wicked cool tropical fish but when moving my older bro went to move a table with the fish tank on it and the water swished and one wall of the tank gave out. It sucked. And i had a Beta name rainbow when i was about 5 that was blue with red and yellow in it tail and it live for about 3 1/3 years so that one was pretty sick.

[HdGLaxWarrior]

i had a gold fish named billy it lived for 5 years which i consider a good run. Billy didn't do much.

My catfish lived for 8. He was huge.

[FPDefense]

I had one that doubled as a screen saver. Named Mopy

[laxiceman]

I don't but a friend of mine is really into it. He defanitely spends too much money into it. he's got this really cool coral though that looks like a thousand latex glove fingers with little nubs on them. The neatest thing is that that coral is transparent. Anyways, this guy loves stuff like fish, frogs, and plants. It's crazy. Personally all I've ever had were some goldfish.

[checklax]

I've had goldfish =).

[justlaxin484]

ive had goldfish...accidentally killed em though. which was too bad. if i have room in my house and some extra money i would try and get more because theyre kinda cool to have

[DeftGoalie28]

my goldfish just died :crying: but im saving up to buy a big 10 gallon tank and all kinds of sweet fish.

my friend has a 10 gallon fresh water tank, a 15 gallon salt water tank, and a tank with frogs in it, he loves his fish. he once sat in his basement and watched his fish for 10 hours straight, regardless that he had a concussion

[Oside Lax]

I had 6 ugly goldfish. They only lasted for 2 weeks because they caught ick disease, what a bummer. :concerned Now i have 2 frogs that just float and eat and GROW :banghead:

[MinnetonkaLax]

i have a saltwater tank, my brother set it up, all we have right now (since our last fish commited suicide) is a clown fish and lots of cool glowing corals

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

My brother has a 10 gallon freshwater tank. He has 3 or 4 platies and a dwarf gourami. He may be adding more. Not sure right now.

[MNM19]

at my old house, i had a goldfish named Killer, for about a week. then one day, he was floating. It was a really powerful sermon that my dad gave as we flushed him though.

Now, i have a huge pond in my backyard, and i have bass, sunnies, and catfish in there. I catch them a lot and throw them back, but its cool to just be able to have big fish right behind my house

[MainLax28]

my goldfish just died :crying: but im saving up to buy a big 10 gallon tank and all kinds of sweet fish.

my friend has a 10 gallon fresh water tank, a 15 gallon salt water tank, and a tank with frogs in it, he loves his fish. he once sat in his basement and watched his fish for 10 hours straight, regardless that he had a concussion
I just got a tank from petsmart for 7.99. Its real nice too. 26.00 if you want a hood on it. You might want to look into it.

[lax4life6]

i have a 55 gallon tank
-Severum, Shovelnose catfish, Bichir, Rainbow cichlid, Pictus catfish, and a calvus. its pretty cool actually

[kfkeating]

i used to have alot of freshwater fish untill i went on vacation and my neighbor forgot to feed them, so when i got back all the fish were dead. now all i do is go fishing in lakes and rivers so thats about it

[Jesse]

We have a turtle.. A turtle is like a fish... kinda...

[dragonlax]

i had a beta but i left for a week and my rents forgot to feed him..that or my sis killed it. his name was el pimpo smacko. im about to get el pimpo smacko 2 wehn i get some funds

[justlaxin484]

Now, i have a huge pond in my backyard, and i have bass, sunnies, and catfish in there. I catch them a lot and throw them back, but its cool to just be able to have big fish right behind my house



i envy you...fishing is life...next to lacrosse

[lilax16]

i have (2) 10 gallons, (2) 30 gallon, (1) 40 gallon, and a 55 gallon the fish have are (4) jack dempseys, (2) plecos, (4) jaguars, too many convicts,
jewels and dafodill cichlids and have baby convicts dafodills and jaguar. so when im not stringing a stick or playing iam taking care of my fish.

[stegmakk]

We have a turtle.. A turtle is like a fish... kinda...
So do I...3 of them...and the only fish I have are their food....
mmmm...tasty goldfish...like steak for turtles

[FitchLaX24]

I have 2 clownfish and a bunch of other stuff like starfish, snails, hermit crabs and other stuff in the tank. We got it a few months ago. My dad is crazy over it. im more of a reptile kinda guy.

[lax4life6]

i have (2) 10 gallons, (2) 30 gallon, (1) 40 gallon, and a 55 gallon the fish have are (4) jack dempseys, (2) plecos, (4) jaguars, too many convicts,
jewels and dafodill cichlids and have baby convicts dafodills and jaguar. so when im not stringing a stick or playing iam taking care of my fish.
dude thats like war. but a fishy version. jaguars and jack dempseys will pretty much kill each other when they get bigger

[lax_dude]

I got a clown fish like finding nemo a 3 gallon tank and a really cool annenmy with like orange tentecales it likes to stay in it alot :thumbsup:

[CtLaxin]

Well as of this morning I had:

Oscar
Convict Pink Cichlid
Blue Lobster
Irridesenct Shark
some South American Cichlid

but the Oscar became very aggresive today and attacked the Convict Cichlid which we had to isolate into some net in the tank and also the Oscar just killed the shark and began eating it. It was really out of no where, they have lived with each other for 3 months and nothing bad has happened

[lax4life6]

CT just a heads up but the irridescent shark was gonna get like 5 feet long anyways.

Now I have
- Senegal Bichir
-Severum
-Rainbow Cichlid
-Calvus
-4 Pictus catfish
-Festivum

My shark and shovelnose cat were both eaten by the senegal

Heres some pictures

Senegal
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT0015.jpg

Severum
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT1010.jpg

Hoplo Catfish (was eaten a while ago) this is the best pic ive taken of my fish
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT1001.jpg

Shovelnose Catfish (before it was eaten) with rainbow cichlid in background
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT1012.jpg

Festivum (when I first got him years ago)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT0421.jpg

Green Cory (now in my 10 gallon)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT0422.jpg

Gold Gourami and juvenile rainbow cichlid (Gourami has since been eaten)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Fishy411/PICT0414.jpg

Sorry for all the pics but I had em so I figured why not

[coppellax]

my friend had an oscar. it was prety cool he trained it to jump for its food

[CtLaxin]

yea the thing was really stupid anyway and would swim into walls and rocks. Im most surprised about the convict cichlid. Those have been known to even be aggresive towards oscars 3x their size but I guess mines a wuss

[MainLax28]

All of those tetras I had caught some kind of flea, or virus, and I lost 12 fish in the span of a week. Very depressing.

So I bought two green terrors, a male and a female, the guy at the pet store said you could keep them together in a smaller tank, and have no problems, but alas the male ended up killing the female like I thought it was going to do.

He has been living very happily since then, I could probably hand feed it if I wanted too, and it is growing at a very fast rate. Now I am saving up to get a giant tank and fill it with cichlids. They are awesome.

[CtLaxin]

ok, this is crazy my little 1 inch cichlid keeps fighting my 5 inch Oscar

heres a video of it with some dramatic music to make it look more hardcore

http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb312/CtLaxin/?action=view&current=bdb9f364.flv

[lax@wwu21]

My brother has about 40 guppies. I started out with 4 and gave them to him after a while and my Dad bought 2 females...you know...

[kgncoughlin]

at my house we have 2 beta

they are pretty stupid though they flare up at eachother all the time and attack the fake plan tin their tank

edit they are in seperate tanks obviously