What I have in my tropical fish tank

[cowmuflage]

Well I can't take good photos of my fish (too much glare etc) I'll just post pics of what types I have in side it as I'd like to share them.

I have about 7 Cardinal tetras


About 8 Rummy-nose tetras


6 glowlight tetras


4 Marbled hatchetfish


4 Bronze corydoras


4 peppered corydoras


And 1 12 cm long female Bristlenose catfish (sadly we had two but one just past away)


Hope you enjoyed seeing what I have to feed every day XD

[zedxrgal]

Awesome!! Love the fishies!

I <3 pepper cats!!

[cowmuflage]

Yeah they are my fav out of the two corydoras. Its neat to watch them as they school with their cousens.

[Shlee]

Those hatchet fish are lovely!

Have Rummy-nosed and Corys in my tank aswell- Just bronze, and one great fat albino one though. Would love to get some peppered Corys at some point but I doubt I have room what with all the breeding my albino and one of my bronzes have been doing.
Four of the currect tank-occupants are their spawn. My Betta always looks eternally bemused whenever the plaster the tank-glass with eggs.

May try to take some pictures here at some point. But GAH, can never get then un-blurry. >:

[cowmuflage]

Sometimes mine lay eggs but they allways eat them XD.
Gah i know mine are allways blurry too!

[Wain]

Very nice I have a few cardinals that are now several years old (I didn't realize they lived that long) and quite large.

I also have a pair of very large bristlenoses, and I'm now beginning to regret getting the female. There's now barely an inch of tank where you can't see baby bristlenoses now. There must be 50 or 60 of them (from different clutches). I'm not sure how I'm going to catch them all or what I'll do with them. Hopefully the aquarium shop will want them for free.

I really love your hatchetfish but I've never kept them.

[Boven]

Dang, you must have a decent sized tank.

I wish my BN pleco would finally decide it's okay to come out during the day. After a bit over 2 years, though, I doubt he ever will. He still prefers to hang out in his lair, which is a little 'cave' I make for him with 3 pieces of driftwood. He's a shy boy, to be sure. Even at night if I get up for some reason and walk through the living room past the tank, I'll often hear the skitter of gravel as he shoots back to his hiding spot.

I need to relocate some of the fish between my various tanks. Right now, the pleco lives with 3 giant danios, my one remaining zebra danio, and 4 platys in a 38 gal. My 20 gallon is home to 7 platys (one of which is the mother of the other 11) and four otos. The smallest of my tanks has 5 harlequin rasboras and 2 peppered cories. Yeah, I know, I need to get the catfish at least 2 or 3 more playmates, but that'll be part of swapping them and the otos, I think.

Oh, and then there's Rosie, my female betta and a black delta tail male betta who I've never named in 2.5gal minibows. I generally refer to him as 'emo boy' or sometimes 'stubby' since he has an annoying habit of tearing up his own tail and often just hangs out inside the little pagoda ornament in his tank. Unlike my previous male betta, he couldn't care less about Rosie. Charlie, his late predecessor, built HUGE bubble nests and would flare 'n go nuts at his reflection. Emo boy runs and hides from his reflection and not once has he built a nest.

[cowmuflage]

We used to have a skunk loach who made a "cave" out of driftwood. Boven you out fish me I'd like a betta there pretty.

[Saturo]

AWESOME fish! I love fish, they make cute pets! Wish I had some, that'd be way neat.

[cowmuflage]

Thanks

[Boven]

We used to have a skunk loach who made a "cave" out of driftwood. Boven you out fish me I'd like a betta there pretty.

Eh. The 38 gallon was the first tank I set up. I only set up the 20 gallon because I bought a female platy to replace one that'd died. Of course, they're almost always pregnant when you buy 'em. Shortly after arriving in her new home she must have decided she was happy because she decided to go and have 13 babies. At least, those're all I ever was able to catch. I don't know how many might've ended up sucked into the filter or as somebody's dinner.

The bettas I just couldn't resist.

I've just started planning for another tank way off in the future. I really want to get a tiger oscar, but that'll require a big ol tank and such, so I doubt it'll happen until I get to a point where I can shut one of the current ones down.

[scottyy]

I use to have 6 Marbled hatchets and a Zebra Catfish and a few angel fish. The catfish went through A LOT, One day I woke up and all of my fish had the white spots on them. {Fungus} and I couldn't get the medicine to them fast enough because it was a Sunday and it appeared that most of them had had it for a while but had not shown symptoms. So I think 3-4 days later they had all died. I sadly flushed em down the toilet and said good bye. I kept the entire tank up but did not regulate it and add chemicals and such. I kept it like this for all about a year until one day my dad said I had to clean it out, at the time I had a huge centerpiece driftwood thing so my fishes could hide and play. I sucked all the water out and took out everything and washed it and noticed something weird, there was a fin (a BIG fin) sloshing around in a little pool that had collected at the bottom inside of the piece. I reached down to grab it and lo and behold stabbed with a Zebra Catfish fin! I was amazed that he had lasted that long and had managed to grow 2 inches! Long story short, re homed him to a local pet store and he went home with someone two days later.

[Boven]

He looks to be a zebra pleco. I'm not too surprised he could survive, really. Odds are there was plenty of algae n such growing for him to chow down upon, and a hiding place, and driftwood to chew on.

[cowmuflage]

yeah plecos are hardy fish. Ohh yeah platys are allways up the duff. I wanted to get some swordtails once but I choose not too becouse of that reason XD I don't think I would ahve enough room.

[Boven]

Yeah. Livebearers do tend to be rather 'productive.' Still, they're relatively easy to care for and hardy. After that one had her gazillion kids, I set up my 20 gallon, caught 'em all and moved them there. When the fry were old enough for me to determine their genders, the boys (of which there were fewer) went back to the big tank, leaving Big Momma Fish and her daughters in the 20 with some otos.

[Rottingham]

I used to own glowlight tetras... until my dad accidentally putt too much food in and they exploded...

[scottyy]

Ah I also used to breed Guppies in my 10g and sell em back to the pet store, profit!

[cowmuflage]

Guppies are pretty. I'd love to get some but I have no room lol

[Boven]

Guppies are pretty. I'd love to get some but I have no room lol

If you've room for a smallish tank, say 10 gallons, you could look into Endler's Livebearers. They're little guys. Not quite so flashy, but they're pretty, small, and like most all livebearers, easy to care for.

On a related note, I'm strongly considering heading out to get a 55 gallon tank so that I can eventually set it up and get a tiger oscar. I went to look at one yesterday just to get an idea of the dimensions and discovered they're on sale 40% off through tomorrow. Saving 80 bucks on a kit aint bad, even if it'll be a while before I get it in place and cycled for an oscar.

[cowmuflage]

oscars are ment to have real personality.