SF Aquarium Fanatics!

[Bartholomew]

Are any other forum members into the aquarium hobby?

Just curious how many out there enjoy fish (not for dinner!)lol

What's your tank set up and the fish that you have?
Post pics if you can

[patrickwm68]

I enjoy fish..................usually breaded with a splash of malt vinegar, mmm mmm good.

[boons88]

i got a 155 oceanic fish tank. its salt and has a regal blue, a unicorn tang, and a purple tang. i run two massive canister eheims and have about 5 poweheads to make current. I have about 65lbs of live rock and its on a live sand bed.
what is your setup ?

[Jesse321]

Here's mine







I'm getting rid of this tank and starting a species tank with just Seahorses and Mandarins.

[JadeGiant]

I am an aquarium enthusiast on hiatus right now ... I have a 75 that is torn down presently. I also have a 300 sitting empty that never has seen water.

Too many darned expensive hobbies

[Alex655321]

Jesse, that really looks cool
Have you ever thought of putting the Sub-Mariner Full Size in the tank for display?

[Jesse321]

Originally Posted by Alex655321

Jesse, that really looks cool
Have you ever thought of putting the Sub-Mariner Full Size in the tank for display?

Noper, the paint would be toxic and the natural algae and coraline algae would ruin the statue.

[Bartholomew]

Sounds cool boons! 5 powerheads is A LOT of current.
I have a 55 gal salt water fish only tank with a canister filter and a power head. I want to add a protein skimmer and perhaps another filter, but this acrylic tank doesn't have a small enough gap between the opening and the sides to hang any additional filters or protein skimmers.

Anyways it's loaded with a coral beauty angel, a yellow tailed damsel, a hermit crab, a dot dash butterfuly, a cinnamon clown, and a bursa trigger. They all get along pretty well. Before this I used to have only an 8 inch lionfish named Simba, but he got some weird infection where his eyes glazed over and he stopped eating. He was about 3 years old.

Aside from that I have another freshwater 55 gallon with 2 full grown Angels, 3 clown loaches, a red tailed shark, 1 platy, 3 tetras and 2 rams. this has 2 Penguin 400 filters on it.

Nice pics Jesse!! I love Mandarins but I heard they're fickle and it's very hard to provide enough for them to eat...a lot end up starving.

[pablocruze]

I have my fish in a pond in the back yard...a mix of Koi and goldfish...

[Jesse321]

Originally Posted by Bartholomew

Nice pics Jesse!! I love Mandarins but I heard they're fickle and it's very hard to provide enough for them to eat...a lot end up starving.

They do prefer live food, in that they are a bit more fickle than most fish, but once acclimated they'll eat pretty much anything. The real problem is like seahorses, they're very slow moving so they can't compete with faster fishes in a community tank. They're also foragers, not binge eaters, so there has to constantly be live worms and shrimp in the tank for them to eat.