Behr
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Im about to purchase a new tropical fish for my tank, but what would you say is too much to pay for a tropical fish?
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Cosmo
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Depends on the fish and your set up.
£100 on one in a shitty tank is too much, £500 on one in an amazing tank isnt.
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MarkM
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I bought a couple of new fish over the weekend...I am currently stocking:
1 Gold Gourami
1 Red Tailed Black Shark
2 Firemouths (Male and Female)
2 Kribs (Male and Female)
6 Zebra Danio
3 Silver Dollars
4 tiger barbs
Come September 2009 I am upgrading my tank to something huge...maybe a 450 litre...
Over the weekend I also changed my substrate from gravel to sand...looks much better...the fish seem to love it too!
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Behr
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im looking at a zebra pleco there £110,
it'll be going in with the following,
1 x Angelfish
1x pearl kissing gourami
1x silver shark
1x Neon Blue dwarf gourami
2x ancistrus
1x sucking loach
1x L18 Golden nugget plec
3x mollies
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Neo
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How do you clean the tanks 
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Behr
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my filter cleans it or when it gets overly messy syphone out the shit and replace the water only 10% tho
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Neo
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F/e, i just imagined having to remove the fish and empty it, clean etc would be an almighty task !
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Behr
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i used to do that, take the fish out empty all the water and scrub the entire tank replce all the gravel all of that but its not good for the fish.
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Cosmo
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I spyhon the shite out each week and replace about 15-20% of the water - otherwise you'll get a build up of nitrates and it'll end up killing the fish.
Make sure you use dechlorinator on water going into the tank. Make sures it around the temp of the tank as temp flucuations will kill some fish. Make sure you only wash filter media (sponges, bio-balls, lava rock, etc.) and gravel with USED tank water - dont use fresh water as this will kill off the filtering bacteria and you'll do some serious harm to the tank!
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Behr
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back to the point Zebra Plec £110 worth it?
[Edited on 27-05-2008 by Behr]
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Neo
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Yeah, how cool is that !
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Behr
anyway back to the point at hand,
Zebra plec £110 worth it?
Its expensive but if you like the fish and are serious then go for it.
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Behr
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i love the L number plecs !! and it would make a great addition to my tank.
What you got in your tank cosmo
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Behr
What you got in your tank cosmo
Nothing at the moment 
I keep Piranhas though, so not community tanks!
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C2RL R
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fuck me i'd cry if it died because of mistakes when cleaning the tank
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Behr
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i was gonna get another tank specially for pirahnas they are just too cool.
what you planning to do with your tank then ?
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MarkM
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In the future I want:
a Piranha set up
a cichlid set up
community set up
marine set up
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Behr
i was gonna get another tank specially for pirahnas they are just too cool.
what you planning to do with your tank then ?
Ive got everything here to set the 7fter up, I just have to decide what Im doing
Have the 5fter at my apartment that is empty as Im not there enough for the upkeep.
And I have a 7fter at my parents but dont want to set that up just yet as may well sell the apartment and move to my own house soon if I can find somewhere I like. And dont want the hassle of emptying the big tank, moving it, and setting it back up again on the same day - doing that with my 5fter was a big enough job!
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drunkenfool
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Depends on the fish and your set up.
£100 on one in a shitty tank is too much, £500 on one in an amazing tank isnt.
Well said 
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