all me tanks

[Paul_MTS]

nope won't beable to have cookie for about 2 weeks as i'm going to use the tank as qurantine for some catfish i'ved ordered from peru, hopefully they will be nice and healthy and can move over almost straight away after they start feeding.

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

creiky paul is there any room for you in your house, there all looking good

 

[jflowers]

and Tanks.

What have you got in the 30 Brackish Paul?

Jon

 

[Paul_MTS]

Cheers

in the brackish there is....

1x Dragon Goby
2x Gynothorax Tile - Moray eels
3x knight gobies
2x moray food....i mean baby mollies

and from tomorrow a siamease tiger.

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

isnt your brackish tank too small for your eels? ive done research on them because i wanted to get them, and they should be in a 75 gal minimum, but im guessing your just keeping thim in there as a grow out tank. And your probably doing the same with the siamese tiger fish? just growin them out?

 

[Paul_MTS]

You got it in one!

i was only going to have 1 moray but i bought mine then told a good customer about the shop i bought them from, and when he bought it the guy said they were freshwater.

so my good customer guy comes and tells us about what he bought i say they are brackish etc etc and he wants to make sure it has a good home so I give him a few squid and moray No. 2 arrives!!

there all getting along fine at the moment and havn't bulked out yet so there like 12" worms!

The siamese tiger is also quite small to what I'ved been told. will find out today though.

 

[Fishy411]

is the siamese tiger a datnoid or another species? I'm pretty sure they get up to a foot. Also what catfish did u order? Also how big are your beardies now?

 

[SirMinion]

i was only going to have 1 moray but i bought mine then told a good customer about the shop i bought them from, and when he bought it the guy said they were freshwater.
so my good customer guy comes and tells us about what he bought i say they are brackish etc etc and he wants to make sure it has a good home so I give him a few squid and moray No. 2 arrives!!
there all getting along fine at the moment and havn't bulked out yet so there like 12" worms!
The siamese tiger is also quite small to what I'ved been told. will find out today though.

I visited there yesterday Paul (how nice it is to have a car again!) and they have three more small morays in a freshwater tank now.
Darren wasn't there but I discussed it with Dave, the owner, and he is is fully aware that they require brackish to marine conditions as they mature, and makes sure his customers know it.
So it must have just been Darren who was misinformed (his specialist area is malawi cichlids)

They had a ray too. A fantastic looking fish.

 

[CFC]

you'll never break me

algae....nope thats my greenish brown custom background...

although if your referring to the hair like things thats the bubbles rising from the venturi, without it on the morays start gasping.

Morays are supposed to do that gulping action, its part of their natural behaviour.

Nice tanks

 

[Paul_MTS]

yeh no worries about the size of the ST, i'll need a big tank to have the morays in there....and a couple of shark cats!

the guy that brought the moray in said it's the guy with the dread locks. they had the stingray there when i went, makes sense as he uses the same fish supplier to us!! although i think he said he had another

yeh they do the gulpy thing all the time but without the venturi there opening there mouths alot wider and is more of a gasping!

the ST didn't come in today though

cheers!!

 

[Paul_MTS]

oh and here's the cats i should get some time this week.....hopefully!!
1x Megalodoras irwini
5x Hemosorubin platyrrinchys
1x sorubim lima
1x platystomatichthys sturio

and the beardies are doing great, the smaller female, Gonzo has over taken Zipper the male in size now!

 

[Paul_MTS]

yay i now have a siamese tiger he's the C. Microleps (sp ) very nice colours.

the aclimatising process took quite a while so he first found a home in the flower pot then moved to under the wood he's about 2", i'll try and get some pics of him soon.

 

[CFC]

Remember that C.microlepis cant handle brackish water above 1.010 and will start to show visable stress signs if kept above 1.007, unlike the morays which will need to be taken up to at least 1.010 and probably higher. I recently had to re aclimatise my 10" C.microlepis back to freshwater as it really wasnt happy in the brackish tank, which is a shame because it will probably have to be sold as it cant compete for food in the big tank and gets picked on by the arowana

 

[Paul_MTS]

oh crap!!

i thought he could take quite strong brakish will whip him out and put him back into freshwater instead.

he should get along in the 4ft for a while, then maybe he will be accepted into me big tank.

 

[Paul_MTS]

just realised him back into freshwater.

seems alot happier now already swimming about, no ones touched him yet, i think the bright yellow puts them off and he's already had some live bloodworm and showing his colours off.

will go about getting some pictures tonight i think.