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Indigenous Aquatic Pets, minnows and eels| altF4 |
Posted: Jun 1 2012, 08:50 AM
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First, thanks for the information!!! Some really good entries. I have five aquariums. four fresh and one brackish. The eels (gobies) are getting along with the green spotted puffer. The eels are shy and mostly nocturnal. I plan to add a few indigenous eels (saving them from the fate of bait). I understand that disease could be a problem, so i will institute a short quarrantine. As for the minnows (killin/bullhead), they go in with the carp, coy, and comets. Similar diets and attitudes toward cleaning the gravel. I will jeep you posted to events as they occur. As for puffers, make sure that if you have a crab in the tank, it can find a place to hide for a bit. The puffers eat shrimp. pellets, flake, worms, and of course anything with fins or claws, They are curious and intelligent, much like a betta in a large aquarium. I have plans to build a pond next spring and dream of keeping an octopus in an aquarium in the house. The problem with octopi is that many of the smaller species are venomous. The turtles are hatching down south as i write, so by mid-June, there will be another aqwuatic guest in my house.
Feel free to comment. Saludos y felicidades, Dave -------------------- AltF4
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| Robyn |
Posted: Jun 1 2012, 05:55 PM
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Welcome to the forum!
How big are your tanks? Where do you live? I've heard that the biggest problem with octopi is that they are experts at escaping a tank and then drying up on the floor. -------------------- Robyn, Former Analytical Chemist, Zone 6/7, Maryland
Servant to 4 cats, 2 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 3 chickens, 1 redbellied turtle, 3 freshwater aquariums (65, 50, & 20 gallons), 2 saltwater aquariums (6 and 12 gallon nano cube reefs), 7 outdoor ponds (1800, 153, 50, 30, 20, 20, & 12 gallons), 1 indoor pond (50 gallons, winter only), crickets, mealworms, six-spotted roaches, and hundreds of fish (of about 18+ species), amphibians, snails, shrimp, corals, crabs, worms, and so on in those aquariums and ponds. A mostly full list of my current animals is at http://www.fishpondinfo.com/animals/animallist.htm   http://www.fishpondinfo.com http://www.pondshowcase.com |
 
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| altF4 |
Posted: Jun 10 2012, 08:15 AM
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Newbie Group: Full Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 5,922 Joined: 1-June 12 |
Thanks for asking, and the welcome. Nice to be here. My friend Andy of 30 + years pegged me correctly---"You have no life so you surround yourself in it!" He thought he was kidding. You should see the houseplants watered from aquarium changes. It's a jungle in here and I am happy about that.
OK Tank 1 brackish10; (ex goby eels, 2) pleco, cory, fiddler crap escape artist, puffer (curious and clever, digs shrimp) will transfer balas when grown to tank 1. Tank 2-10; carp/goldfish/redfish/coy (eat everything, twice) Tank 3-5; betta (curious and clever, digs space to move), pleco, cory Tank 4-5; balas, teras, mollies, platties, cory Tank 5-10; (open for turtle, coming soon) Tank 6-20; (coming soon, a friend lost interest in killing his fish, no time for it) Me? I teach American English as a 2nd Language and live in the middle of the Atlantic Coast of the US, swamp central, (by car, 12 hours to Canada and 12 hours to Florida) Delaware, a small place with interesting tax laws and lots of YAWN. |
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| altF4 |
Posted: Jun 10 2012, 08:30 AM
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Newbie Group: Full Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 5,922 Joined: 1-June 12 |
How could I have forgotten the frogs? They hide well I guess.
Tank 7: 2 albino african dwarf frogs (male maybe, albinos tend to be smaller), 1 female african dwarf frog, pleco, cory. Did I mention the dog? No? Good, she doesn't like me much. Joking, Parson Terrier named Lexi, and too clever as small dogs are. All the birds, squirrells and rabbits, herons, owls, seagulls doves, hawks, buzzards, and etceterati, are outside, but they get an assist from me too, no matter the weather. -------------------- AltF4
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