i used to have teacup stingrays, i get rid of my saltawater fish do to lack of time and space and know i have freshwater. Would like to start a brackrish tank someday though, those puffer fish are ausome, they move so slow that you can actually grab them. Cool sea horse those are one of a kind.
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Whatever you do, don't get freshwater frogs; you'll find them all over your house no matter how well you seal your frreshwater tank!
You want excitement? Get a 150 gal tank, and add 3 baby Tiger Oscars. Watch those suckers grow in weeks! And feeding time is the best!!! Drop hotogs in there and watch 2 of them chomp down on each end until they meet in the middle. My favorite pets when I was in college! Or buy 20 feeder goldfish and watch them go nuts! Half eaten fish still swimming everywhere! Oscars can jump about 18''s out of tank to get one out of your hand, too, so watch out. Oscars have teeth!
You want excitement? Get a 150 gal tank, and add 3 baby Tiger Oscars. Watch those suckers grow in weeks! And feeding time is the best!!! Drop hotogs in there and watch 2 of them chomp down on each end until they meet in the middle. My favorite pets when I was in college! Or buy 20 feeder goldfish and watch them go nuts! Half eaten fish still swimming everywhere! Oscars can jump about 18''s out of tank to get one out of your hand, too, so watch out. Oscars have teeth!
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hey it could play with plaids avator!!!
any pet store, just dont buy them from walmart because they use the same filter for all of their tanks meaning if one has a desiese they all do, find like a petko or local pet store. You could buy them online and they are guarenteed or your money back and new fish from www.drsfostersmith.com live aquaria
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Hey Plaidfish, is this you hiding out looking for the bastards that hit your card?
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Finally got him to eat tonight. I've been trying to feed him frozen mysis shrimp but he wouldn't eat and the LFS was out of ghost shrimp. Finally got some in today and put a couple in the tank. Man was it cool to watch him stalk one and then pow, as fast as anything I'd seen he hit that shrimp and it was gone.
I had a 125 long custom tank stretched across my living room wall in Queens...it was built by the guy who lived there before me....I set it up w/ black mylar backing and black lights w/ albino oscars.....the were AWSOME.....they tear ass on anything that came in that tank.......hands included.....you can throw anything in there when they get big and they eat it....finding a cockroach was a special event...my roomates would gather around the tank for that........and the best thing is they are CHEAP....no 100 dollar fish Albinos were 20 bucks I think.....the regular brown ones are like 5.....they get big too...about 1.5 ft long at the biggest maybe.....mine were just over/under 1 ft.......anyone wants an easy fish to take care of OSCARS.....mean as hell too....Revo Rancher said:
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LOL... i have 3 almost foot long gold fish. They are in like a 45 gallon bowfront tank.. They started out as those walmart .05 feeder fish... Now they are huge!!! No once a day feed here... try like 6-8 times a day...
I had to file my official report today at the bank.......the money finally cleared this morning.....the guy made a fake card w/ my number and the name Roberto Torres....the only place I let my card out of my site was at a local restaurant...It's probably a coincidence that the restaurant is a mexican place....but it seems a little fishy to me.......I know it's very hard to copy a state ID but to forge a bank card to match your ID would probably be easier....so I'm going to call the restaurant tommorow and see if a Roberto Torres works there....If so I might be having a talk w/ someone....w/o the authorities involved this time......I mentioned the coincidences to someone and they said I was being racist...Yeah that's me a fukin card carryin klan member....whatever....I guess assuming torres to possibly be a chicano name is just a heinous crime against this fuckers civil rights huh...well the next time someone assumes I'm nordic cause my name and blue eyes I'm going to sue for violation of my civil rights.....and just to clear the issue it was not a racist statement in any way I was using my brain to come up w/ possibilities as to who could have done this to me is all.....jetmechG550 said:Hey Plaidfish, is this you hiding out looking for the bastards that hit your card?
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Better shove a seahorse down the wifes throat on the nasty days
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nice! i have 2 oscars one orange/blk and an albino they are pretty cool i got mine ofr $3 a piece and theyve been in the 55 gallon aquairum since. i hear its hard to do a salt water aquairum is it really?
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That's close, but not quite right from what I've read. There's a male and a female, and after the deed is done, the female transfers the fertile eggs to the male, and HE carries them to term.Revo Rancher said:
Revo Rancher
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Tiger Oscars are the orange and black ones. If you buy them small, about 2''s big, they usually sell for under 10.00 apiece. You have to buy them in odd numbers if you are going to have more than two as they will fight each other if you have even numbers. You can't mix them with any other fish other than another ciclid (pronounced sick-lid) family fish, but there are some fun ciclids, too.
My Oscars were so cool. They would all be at the front of the tank wagging their tails the moment I walked in the door, They would race back and forth across the front of the tank until I reached in and petted them, when they were big, of course. Just make sure your hands do not smell like ANY kind of food, though. THEY BITE! If I walked in with a bag of feeder goldfish they would go nuts even before I was anywhere near the tank. I had one trained to jump about a foot out of the tank to get a feeder out of my fingers, and I even got one to jump about 1 1/2' once. ( He missed the feeder fish) Hotdogs were still my favorite, though. Used to trip out dates when I woudl do that. They could not understand how fish would eat meat. Duh!?!?
My Oscars were so cool. They would all be at the front of the tank wagging their tails the moment I walked in the door, They would race back and forth across the front of the tank until I reached in and petted them, when they were big, of course. Just make sure your hands do not smell like ANY kind of food, though. THEY BITE! If I walked in with a bag of feeder goldfish they would go nuts even before I was anywhere near the tank. I had one trained to jump about a foot out of the tank to get a feeder out of my fingers, and I even got one to jump about 1 1/2' once. ( He missed the feeder fish) Hotdogs were still my favorite, though. Used to trip out dates when I woudl do that. They could not understand how fish would eat meat. Duh!?!?
ya know those damn vikings were always eating some kind of fish...well I ate the scottish slamon I guess to get teh plaid part.... :jk: ....the plaid fish thing is too long of a story to tell here.....
is it hard to have a salt water tank? No i would start at freshwater because when you get into saltwater, especially with rare tank fish you have to really keep an eye on your chemical balance and your temp. Also you can't stick a oscar in with something other than an oscar, no matter how big the fish is an oscar will eat it as long as theres more than one. except cichlads Its a hobby, and you will learn as you go but start with cheap fish, remember when it comes to filters you pay for what you get, same with heaters. You want a seahorse you better have some good equip. I think that jetmechG550 will agree with me on that. hope that helps a little
hey guys I can make a custom tank controller that would auto feed the amount of chemicals you need to be balanced.....it's not cheap but I have 3 programmable DDC controllers...as long as the valves have control signal of any range in 0-10VDC and the sensor comming have the same or, contact closures, 10k thermistors, or 0-20ma signals.......you could dial in to it and see what your tank is doing from anywhere you take your laptop or have the software on a PC.......I did one that the guy wanted to simulate the sun moving across his shallow reef tank by staging lighting to match the actual position of the sun...poop you not.....
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Hey Jammin, nice point. Keeping anything is all about good husbandry. I have so many animals it's sick. Fish, invertebrates, cats, dogs, horses, etc. The point is you have to take care of each and every one. I love them all, I also love to hunt with a bow and arrow so I'm not some sort of tree hugger animal rights activist. I'm very fortunate where I can support all these creatures. Please don't take this thread the wrong way, I just thought most of you guys would appreciate another hobby and see some of things I enjoy being part of. Most of the aquatics boards always have someone that want to give you poop about one fish or another you have. They are all know it all's, but few want to share or admit success to another aquarist. I just thought I would share with some outside the hobby and maybe spark a little interest.jammin said:
