Graham
Member
Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Lincoln.
User status: Offline
|
im considering getting rid of my mbuna's and housing the red bellies for a good few months now  bastard
|
Rob_Lee
Banned
Registered: 9th Dec 05
Location: Folkestone Drives: Nova 1.6 16v
User status: Offline
|
Fooking hell... this threads kicked off a bit!
That frogs fooking cool!
|
Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Graham
im considering getting rid of my mbuna's and housing the red bellies for a good few months now bastard
Piranhas are awesome fish though, especially if you have a good sized monster or shoal. There are a few places who are solely importing Piranhas into the UK now aswell so some of the rarer ones that never used to get over here are.
|
GREG 1
Member
Registered: 28th Jul 00
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
 That fish is MEAN
|
Graham
Member
Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Lincoln.
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by Graham
im considering getting rid of my mbuna's and housing the red bellies for a good few months now bastard
Piranhas are awesome fish though, especially if you have a good sized monster or shoal. There are a few places who are solely importing Piranhas into the UK now aswell so some of the rarer ones that never used to get over here are.
check out wharf aquatics
pinxton near derby
pretty good place
|
gasman dan
Member
Registered: 8th Feb 06
Location: dudley, west mids
User status: Offline
|
i had a marine tank about 12 months ago, at the moment iv got
2 starfishes
2 skunk shrimp
1 (until recently 2) clown fish
2 emerald crabs
5 hermit crabs
4 other fish which i dont know the names of
aload of corals n sponges and some stuff that glows in the dark 
they are take a hell of alot of effort to maintain, but are more entertaining to watch than most of the stuff on TV at the minute! 
|
GREG 1
Member
Registered: 28th Jul 00
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
Dan, can you tell me more please with regards to whats required ? I've done alot of research today and i've learnt a fair bit.
|
gianluigi
Member
Registered: 9th Mar 05
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
User status: Offline
|
interesting thread this 
|
gasman dan
Member
Registered: 8th Feb 06
Location: dudley, west mids
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by GREG 1
Dan, can you tell me more please with regards to whats required ? I've done alot of research today and i've learnt a fair bit.
what do u want to know? the internet helped me loads to start with, the hardest part is havin to wait 6-12 weeks with only sand and rocks and saltwater to look at! ask any questions, n ill try to answer them if i can
|
GREG 1
Member
Registered: 28th Jul 00
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
Basically im gonna loose my tropical tank and move into the marine game.
Now I know its hard but what would you suggest to do from here ?
Also water changes, is it a matter of getting the water / salt right etc etc ?
|
gasman dan
Member
Registered: 8th Feb 06
Location: dudley, west mids
User status: Offline
|
what size is your tank? my main tank is 62 litres and the sump another 34 litres. with marine, the larger the tank, the easier it is to maintain. the hardest part is getting the water right in the first place.
http://www.thetipsbank.com/marine.htm
i do a 10-20% water change about every 10 days. what size is your tank? my main tank is 62 litres and the sump another 34 litres. with marine, the larger the tank, the easier it is to maintain. also, was you looking at only keeping fish or going for a reef type?
|
danny_vx
Member
Registered: 20th Feb 05
Location: Swansea
User status: Offline
|
this is what you want, a flowerhorn
|
Rob_Lee
Banned
Registered: 9th Dec 05
Location: Folkestone Drives: Nova 1.6 16v
User status: Offline
|
Anyone else got tank pics?
|
Tiger_kpt
Member
Registered: 2nd Apr 05
Location: Retford, Nottinghamshire
User status: Offline
|
Cosmo, very impressive. Had to sell my setup a while back when I had to move home from uni. Had loads of different tanks and fish setups. All types of Tropicals - Community, Discus, Cichlids, etc. Marine and Brackish. But by FAR the best was the.....
PIRAHNA setup I had. Had three red bellies which ended up being around 6inch in size each. Called Frankie, Benny and Vinnie Absolutely awesome fish.
Kept them with a pair of Texan Cichlids around 4inch in size and an imported Egyptian Nile Pufferfish around 6inch in size. Oh and a rare 8inch midnight Catfish.
The whole Pirahna story about them going for you or nipping you or being frantic killers is a big myth. Generally during cleaning them out every other day they would play dead in the corners of the tank... the pussies
But as Cosmo said, drop a Goldfish in and they just get brutal. If anything the Pufferfish was ALOT nastier than the Pirahnas. Now he was savage.
Liking King Kong. Will have to go for something similar when I get back into it mate. You got any contact info or any good Pirahna importers/suppliers you could pass on to me mate? Cheers, Kyle.
|
Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Tiger_kpt
You got any contact info or any good Pirahna importers/suppliers you could pass on to me mate? Cheers, Kyle.
www.piranha-hut.co.uk and www.piranha-shop.co.uk can get hold of virtually any kind of Piranha. And piranha-fury.com is an excellent forum on them.
|
Ditch
Member
Registered: 29th Nov 02
Location: St Albans Drives: JDM Celica GT4 WRC
User status: Offline
|
1 carp... the other three died when they were still babies 
1 goldfish... he has been around since time began 
|
Tiger_kpt
Member
Registered: 2nd Apr 05
Location: Retford, Nottinghamshire
User status: Offline
|
Ditch... think you should donate your Goldfish to Cosmo in the name of training King Kong.
|
loo_goblin
Member
Registered: 14th Jul 04
Location: Horsham, West Sussex
User status: Offline
|
who was it had one built outside?
|
starkie
Member
Registered: 1st Jul 03
Location: Leslie, Fife
User status: Offline
|
anyone keeping malowi's thats what i have just started keeping though have tropicals in living room
|
Sam
Moderator
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
User status: Offline
|
We have two goldfish in a Spongebob Squarepants starter tank!
Looking into buying a decent tank with stand etc. to put them in the living room, as they are in the kitchen/dining room area at the moment.
|
Rus
Member
Registered: 24th Jan 05
Location: SE London, Kent
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by danny_vx
this is what you want, a flowerhorn
|
