POLL: Once you go salt, you never go back?
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jgoodrich71
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6576890#post6576890 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wiskey
Hey, easy on my oscar, he will hunt you down.
I'm not afaid of him, he's cowering to a goldfish!
Pandora
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6577004#post6577004 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishfanv
poor betta. but he must be ok with that water if he hasn't died or doesn't act/look sick.
i have a betta in a 2 also but have to change the water about once a week otherwise he starts getting stress lines all over him. he's a sensitive little guy
Boy, I'm glad someone said anything. I'm not all about bashing, but you know if someone said they were keeping a goby in a 2 gallon tank, never did a water change in a year, but "seemed happy enough" people would be jumping down his throat...
And please don't give me that deal about bettas being labyrinth fish or living in animal footprints, blah blah... common misconception (they can survive for short times during times of drought in bad conditions, but their natural habitat is more expansive).
Sorry, off my soapbox.
And yeah, I like fluorite gravel as well for planted substrates. Tried onyx gravel for a while (also adds iron) but didn't measure up.
Wiskey
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6577290#post6577290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jgoodrich71
I'm not afaid of him, he's cowering to a goldfish!
He is not cowering, he is getting ready to strike
. Ps, it is a koi 
. That oscar has accually bit a couple of my friends, and there is a cat that will never come back into my apt because of that oscar
.Whiskey
ga_reefer_guy
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What can I say I still love some Cichlids!!!
jgoodrich71
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6578288#post6578288 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wiskey
Ps, it is a koi
Whiskey
I know, but goldfish sounded better. That is a pretty nice looking oscar. Bet you don't feed him feeder goldfish and pinkies!
ratherbediving
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I couldn't respond to the poll-- I LOVE my saltwater tank... converted it from an African cichlid tank. It was a sad day when I took my fish to the LFS so I could start the sltwater hobby. We only have room for one tank.
If we ever move to a big house, or maybe someday after we have kids and they go to college.... I'd love to have a large african cichlid tank (6' long) and a large reef tank. FW tanks are nice because you can stock them pretty heavily relative to SW and the fish are fine as long as you perform your water changes, which are SO much easier with FW. It is way less expensive, and less time consuming as well.
But if I can only have one tank? SW all the way!!
If we ever move to a big house, or maybe someday after we have kids and they go to college.... I'd love to have a large african cichlid tank (6' long) and a large reef tank. FW tanks are nice because you can stock them pretty heavily relative to SW and the fish are fine as long as you perform your water changes, which are SO much easier with FW. It is way less expensive, and less time consuming as well.
But if I can only have one tank? SW all the way!!
TJ
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Pandora,
I love the look of your FW tanks. We've never done FW, only SW for the past 8 yrs. or so. I know nothing about FW- I've been looking through your website and it's really informative- you've got a great database on the plants, which is what I'd like to do, if we start a FW. Freshwater tanks are more common, I guess, but they can still be quite beautiful. I guess because I love plants, but absolutely have NO greenthumb- I've always wanted to try "it" with FW plants. I had no idea there were so many...
TJ
I love the look of your FW tanks. We've never done FW, only SW for the past 8 yrs. or so. I know nothing about FW- I've been looking through your website and it's really informative- you've got a great database on the plants, which is what I'd like to do, if we start a FW. Freshwater tanks are more common, I guess, but they can still be quite beautiful. I guess because I love plants, but absolutely have NO greenthumb- I've always wanted to try "it" with FW plants. I had no idea there were so many...
TJ
LukFox
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I have both freshwater and salt, and I'm not about to give up either. A good planted tank can be just as beautiful as a good reef tank, imho. Right now I have 2 salt tanks running and 3 freshwater tanks. The 33 gallon fresh is devoted to breeding Tanganyikan cichlids - love their behavior and how they care for their fry . One is a community and the other is a betta tank. All of them are planted.
I love the personality of these little loaches - They're so soft and friendly X3
I'd show a tank picture of my planted community instead, but the only picture I have now is when I just put the new plants in. Things have since grown in and the picture doesnt really show the true appearance of the tank anymore.. So just enjoy the loaches .
. One is a community and the other is a betta tank. All of them are planted.I love the personality of these little loaches - They're so soft and friendly X3
I'd show a tank picture of my planted community instead, but the only picture I have now is when I just put the new plants in. Things have since grown in and the picture doesnt really show the true appearance of the tank anymore.. So just enjoy the loaches
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smp
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You know, since watching "the deep" episode of the BBC blue planet series, I've been dreaming of the same thing!!!
Bioluminescence!
Anyways .. I like variety.
Of course I started in FW, had it most of my life on and off as a kid and then as a teenager I got into keeping Mbuna .. feisty they are, and the colours are the brightest of the freshwater fish (IMO), the contrast in their colours is great.
I still have a 75 gallon mbuna tank and I love it. It's a completely different desire than the reef tank and I'm still new at this but have wanted to do it for many years.
To me, cichlid tanks have their place in a nice home. Reef tanks are so much more ... intimate. You can sit in front of a reef tank and you really want to get up close to look at all the fine details.
With an African tank, the lighting requirements are null, so you can play with lighting. FW tanks can go a long way to setting a desired type of ambiance in a room, so can reef tanks of course. Personally, I love HUGE dimly lit Frontosa tanks. Nothing gives the illusion of depth better than a nicely designed Front tank in a dimly lit room. I don't have one or anything, but that's something else I'de love to try. There's too much I want to try, including a planted tank.
Laying down rockwork and making a freshwater tank look nice is an art. With reefs, it's almost easy
Live rock just looks good on it's own!Anyways .. Takashi Amano's tanks are among my favourite. There are so many different ways to make a tank look beautiful, I think too many people both in fresh and salt water set up very common looking tanks and that's unfortunate, so much can be done!
Pandora and Whisky, I like your tanks BTW. I would post a pic of my mbuna tank (which I'm very proud of I'll have you know) but my server is dead so no dice.
Pandora
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Thanks for the responses! And one brave "mostly FW" person, too...LOL. Honestly, not much different from what I expected. I also posted to another site which has a more FW focus to balance things out. The writer of the newsletter also thanks you for your responses.
I was never trying to make this a FW vs. SW, which one is better, sort of thing. I was more interested in the history of how people discover the reefing/marine aquarium hobby. There are many who "wet their feet", pun intended, in FW, because there are fewer parameters to monitor, but get sucked into reef tanks for the beauty and challenge, or other reasons.
smp, I was gonna use that pic as well of Amano's tank, one of my favorites His stuff is just art, pure and simple...
And you could always post to your gallery if your server's down...
TJ: You say you don't have a "green thumb", but to me, keeping corals is a lot like gardening. You'd find striking similarities in the two... and after all, the zooxanthella inside the corals are photosynthetic. So you might be surprised what you could do...
And one brave "mostly FW" person, too...LOL. Honestly, not much different from what I expected. I also posted to another site which has a more FW focus to balance things out. The writer of the newsletter also thanks you for your responses.I was never trying to make this a FW vs. SW, which one is better, sort of thing. I was more interested in the history of how people discover the reefing/marine aquarium hobby. There are many who "wet their feet", pun intended, in FW, because there are fewer parameters to monitor, but get sucked into reef tanks for the beauty and challenge, or other reasons.
smp, I was gonna use that pic as well of Amano's tank, one of my favorites
His stuff is just art, pure and simple...And you could always post to your gallery if your server's down...
TJ: You say you don't have a "green thumb", but to me, keeping corals is a lot like gardening. You'd find striking similarities in the two... and after all, the zooxanthella inside the corals are photosynthetic. So you might be surprised what you could do...
Wiskey
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No, I don't feed him goldfish, have you ever seen those feeder fish tanks?:eek2: Although I must admit, when my guppies get a little too "prolific", and the tiger barbs can't keep up my oscar does get a few of those. I have the only fish that sees a net and swims straight into it
he started doing this after feeding guppies with the net only 3 times.For the most part he gets cichlad gold and chlicad staple.
Whiskey
Wiskey
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6579824#post6579824 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LukFox
I love the personality of these little loaches - They're so soft and friendly X3
What kind of loaches are those? I don't think I have seen them before. Here is my controbution in the loach area, Weather loach, there are 3 of them in the 180.
Here they are before they went in the tank,
Thanks,
Whiskey
