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Anyone own any fish?

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wolfamngstsheep

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I just came back from the pet store with some feeder fish and the tank has never been more hoppin. I've had a red bellied piranha named ron for some time now. Just last month my body gave me his convict that he didn't want anymore so I added him to the family.

At first they butted heads but I think Ron nipped the convict and for awhile they were cool. Then about last week the convict started to bug Ron again. Convicts are a very agressive fish and even though Ron is twice the convicts size he isn't scared.

Yesterday I noticed that Ron is starting to get tired of his new friend. As soon as I put in the feeder fish the convict took two down instantly, but Ron is starting to get pissed off with all the comotion. It's going to get interesting.

Anyone else have any fish?

Here is what the convict looks like except mine has a different tail and fin pattern:

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A much larger version of Ron:
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We've got a 29-gallon planted freshwater tank for the goldfish that the rugrats keep winning at the county fair. It started innocently enough 2 years ago when our (then) 3-year old won one goldfish. The following year he won 2 more, etc ... The original goldfish that got us started two years ago is over 8 inches long now, and has led us through 5, 10, and 20H tanks. I think we'll be building a koi pond in another two years, now that the boy has apparently made it his lifes' mission to "rescue" all the mistreated goldfish from county fairs ...
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
I had a stingray for about a year or so and darn near cried when the wife told me it had died. That thing was so cool it would swim upside down and would eat from my hand.
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They have a petting pool of stingrays at Sea World in San Diego and they come up to you to be petted. When I have scuba dived in South Africa and the Red Sea, they also are very friendly. I always grew up thinking rays were bad news, but my experience is the same as yours NDChief.
 
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Anybody have recommendations for a starter fish tank setup? We're probably looking at a 5-10 gallon tank, just looking for suggestions on kits, fun/interesting fish, plants and other aquatic life.

Dryden said:
We've got a 29-gallon planted freshwater tank for the goldfish that the rugrats keep winning at the county fair. It started innocently enough 2 years ago when our (then) 3-year old won one goldfish. The following year he won 2 more, etc ... The original goldfish that got us started two years ago is over 8 inches long now, and has led us through 5, 10, and 20H tanks. I think we'll be building a koi pond in another two years, now that the boy has apparently made it his lifes' mission to "rescue" all the mistreated goldfish from county fairs ...
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Any updates on the koi pond installation? Or maybe you've filled the entire basement with saltwater by now?
 
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Santa brought my daughter a 5 gal tank two Christmas's ago.

We started with guppies and a ghost shrimp. Daughter won a f'n goldfish at street carnival and we added it. It was a bully and shit too much and killed th other fish. I was so glad when the goldfish died this spring.

So, we restocked with 4 neon tetras, a loach and a dwarf placostomas(sp?). They've been doing great in the 3-4 mos. we've had them. The tetras are a nice little school, fun to watch. The placo does it's job and keeps the algae at bay, and the loach it truly awesome. Very cool creature to watch, when it comes out of hiding. Like a little eel.

The loach looks like this:
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Any updates on the koi pond installation? Or maybe you've filled the entire basement with saltwater by now?
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Nope, no pond. Wrote that in July 05; unanticipated move occurred in November 05 and many of the fish did not survive the trauma of upheaval. Sold the 29 gallon tank several years ago because wife wanted to rearrange the living room and I wasn't about to reestablish that tank for a third time in six or seven years.

We've currently got one gold fish (again, won from the fair last October) in a 1.5-gallon tank on a corner stand in the kitchen. I've become a damn expert on curing fin rot in carnival fish.
 
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