GREG 1
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Originally posted by Matty G
There is a big catfish at one of the aquatics places near me. Its about a metre long at a guess. Its the only thing in the tank on its own. All it has is gravel in the bottom of it. The tank looks like its about 0.7m wide, 1.7 long and 1.5m high so its big but not very big considering the size of the fish in it! It cant turn round without touching sides! Poor thing.
Exactly the same as a shop near me!
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Ally
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Richie tank is looking nice, had a top to bottom clean and gravel vac last week
Mine is going, looks odd here it is in the living room atm  so barbs will be donated to Richie/fish shop and tank disassembled and put in the loft
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Cosmo
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Why does it look odd Ally?
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Ally
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I have 2 chimney breasts in my living room on the left hand wall, tank is on a cabinet at the end between them and sticks out too much, plus its at the end by the bathroom as there was no where else to put it and gets in the way of the door (only slightly, and a tolerant person wouldnt mind)
Just wanna take out every piece of junk thats not needed as i think its looking abit cluttered in there
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Ally
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Might even move it into my bedroom, but the house is still a building site and im waiting for a friend of ours to fit our internal doors
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rustyarchs
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bugger i wanted a piranah in the same tank as the rtc, cant win  rtc when small would get eaten by the piranah and when big would eat the piranah
bloody fish
back to the snakeheads again then
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Robbo
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Originally posted by GREG 1
For me it has to be either the Regal tang so classy and delecate (although hard to keep) or the powder blue tang for its style and colours.
DORRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY   
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rustyarchs
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quote:
Originally posted by GREG 1
quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
There is a big catfish at one of the aquatics places near me. Its about a metre long at a guess. Its the only thing in the tank on its own. All it has is gravel in the bottom of it. The tank looks like its about 0.7m wide, 1.7 long and 1.5m high so its big but not very big considering the size of the fish in it! It cant turn round without touching sides! Poor thing.
Exactly the same as a shop near me!
black and white ones? if so then its a rtc, big beasts that grow to 1.7m and need massive tanks when they start getting big its a shame when fish shops keep them at that size as they really need to go to the pros, even ones the size in the fish shop could eat a 10inch fish whole
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mwg
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Looks like this
There is a sign on the side of the tank that says its 20 years old and the fish shop has had it for the past 12 years.
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GREG 1
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Yep exactly the same!
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mwg
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Not called Rosie is it?
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Simon
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Got a question for the you fish people, my girlfriend has a tank about 60cm long 30cm high and same wide. Shes moving back home next week which is approx a 4hour drive to wales. She has 3 swordtail fish in it. What would be the best was to move and transport the fish and tank? It would obviosly be best to save as much water as possible. Should we bag the fish up?
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rustyarchs
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bag fish up and put as much of the tank water as possible into a container type think to carry it. Only 3 in that tank
kirst
[Edited on 06-10-2006 by rustyarchs]
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rustyarchs
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
Looks like this
There is a sign on the side of the tank that says its 20 years old and the fish shop has had it for the past 12 years.
Thats the same as ours
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Simon
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Originally posted by rustyarchs
bag fish up and put as much of the tank water as possible into a container type think to carry it. Only 3 in that tank
kirst
[Edited on 06-10-2006 by rustyarchs]
Thankyou, think shes got the bags we got the fish in, so if we got them in there, would we not need to put the air in like they do in shops? what about the temperature drop that will prob happen in car?
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mwg
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I think you can get heater pads that keep the water warm for a certain amount of time. Not sure where you would get them.
I've decided what fish I am going for.
Pair of these
Pair of these
Pair of these
Going to start building the rock formation and putting the sand in the tank tomorrow then get it cycling 
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drunkenfool
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How had i not read this thread before?! Nice one guys, id love to have an aquarium somewhere too but far too much to be getting on with at the moment. Least i know where to come for advice though now 
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gasman dan
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this is how mines lookin now, gettin on for 2 years old now. pictures taken just before the lights go out when the tanks quite quiet, hence why spike the starfish went for a climb
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Russ
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whoa, how i miss this thread 
gave mine a good clean saturday, and bought 8 cardinals, my pictus cat fish fukin love them, only got 1 left thanks to them
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Dean_W
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Heres some pictures of mine. The camera is crap, so excuse the quality.
In there I have: -
2 Silver sharks
3 Flying foxes
2 Silver dollars
1 Cichilid
1 Cory pepper cat
1 Agazzizi cat
1 Albino cat
1 Oppolo cat
2 Plecs
3 Scissor tails
1 Platy
1 Columbian tetra
Most of them are dwarf fish, so they don't grow very big.
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Simon
Got a question for the you fish people, my girlfriend has a tank about 60cm long 30cm high and same wide. Shes moving back home next week which is approx a 4hour drive to wales. She has 3 swordtail fish in it. What would be the best was to move and transport the fish and tank? It would obviosly be best to save as much water as possible. Should we bag the fish up?
bit late with my answer...
Youve no need to transport the water in the tank, aslong as you use dechlorinator on the new water going in and get it the right temperature then it will be fine.
Just bag up the fish and put them in a box surrounded by rugs and stuff to keep the temp up. 4hrs isnt too bad to transport them as I did this when I picked up one of my old fish.
I would consider putting the filter media into a bucket of old tank water though, as otherwise the filtering bacteria would start to die off after an hour out of water.
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