I'm going to kill my fish.

[Fawke]

I think you should consider getting a couple more pictus cats and either some more mollies or guppies

I couldn't agree more.....
Pictus are one of my most active fish. They are always active and swimming "in the current".
When i first had my 1 pictus, he always swam up and down the glass. When i added some more he was alot happier and stopped acting so dimented...!
They like to loosly shoal and still form a small terretory of their own....
As bunjiweb said, i would recommend getting some more pictus

 

[squidlips]

Actually, it's a black joke designed to make you read this, however, it is sort of fitting my mood.

Can anyone tell me ove any fish that breed like rabbits and could fit in my thirty without killing any of the current fish and have some personality? Don't mention livebearers because I already have tried that with guppies and mollies and am not having a good time.

If not can someone tell me a good fish that is big and could go in there that actually has some personality to it? Cause if not I'm getting rid of the pictus, dumping everything else in the thirty and the five into a ten gallon and setting up a coldwater tank with a sunny and some freaking minnows or something.

I'm sorry if I sound like a real pisser but this is my first tropical tank and I am highly dissapointed in it. My fish do nothing but eat, screw and poop. They don't even pick at the gravel or swim in the current, they just swim up and down against the glass constantly, or just hang out at the top waiting for me to feed them yet again. As it is my tank seems to be nothing more than a glass box with some water in it and a few things moving around it that I hardly ever look at longer than the time it takes to feed them. I can not tell you how depressing that is.

id say get a dog

 

[Ben]

How can people reccomend convicts for a tank with guppies, mollies and bettas? Convicts would rip apart these fish in a matter of days.

i missunderstood then, i thought he wanted to get rid of all his fish because they were boring him. oh well. silly me

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Squid, I'm already working on the dog thing, trust me.

The problem with getting more pictus is that the only place I can get them is a walmart about an hour away in a town I rarely get to go to (since I can't drive yet) and I barely lucked out on this one, every time I've managed to go back there I've looked at more pictus but they are always either really sick or dead This one cruises around the bottom and all, which is cool, but is sort of lacking the kind of 'hey, who are you, what do you want?' thing. He's practically blind to the world until I put some food in the tank, then he flips out trying to find it, then is back to swimming back and forth. I love my bettas, since they both actually jump out of the water to try and get food from me, and they have personality, but I do not want anymore livebearers!!!! I've had enough trouble from these, once they are in the ten gallon and actually having babies, I might like them more, but at the moment....

And it's not that my fish aren't active, au contrair, they are super active, it's just that they seem super dumb too. I could do jumping jacks all my life but that doesn't make me an interesting person. I don't even know If I'm going to keep the pictus at the moment, I'm still in a real debate with myself over that... I mean, if he'd be better with more of his own, then shouldn't he be with more of his own? And If I cna't get that, shouldn't I give him to someone who will? I've read they can be fine by themselves, so I got one (that and the other one in his tank was having spasms, see the luck part?). Ahg, I have no idea anymore.

 

[squidlips]

well i have a 60 cm mangrove jack . if i sit and look at him he is looking back at me .eats fish prawns taken very fast and without mercy . my son is 4 and could stroke and pat him . now he is a bit shy for some reason . dunno what fishes would suit you .. can you get mangrove jacks where you live? where do you live ?i couldnt work out pa