Great pics of all the fish and love the goldfish.
See you still keep livebeares, I gave up on guppys couldn't keep them alive for over a year.
Thanks Wilder
. Yeah i've also had some tough luck with guppys too, the bacterial infection which swept the tank a month or so back took a big toll on the guppys and platys and the ones i have now are basically the survivors of the disease (it appears to have gone now)- the male guppys are currently outnumbering the females so i need to get some more females, but i'm a bit apprehensive about keeping lots of guppys again in particular since they seem to be so fragile these days.
Very Nice. Maybe you should tag the goldfish top fin and then catch in a year, take pics, and show how much they've grown!
Cheers
, actually that sounds like a pretty good idea, i will do that
That is a gorgeous plec!
What species is it?
He's a Para pleco (L075)
Awesome pictures. Can you post full tank shots?
Will do when i get the kitchen cleared of laundry
Real nice pics-that guppy is a gorgeous blue
-needs a new life in my tank! (only joking)!
Thanks
, i'm really looking forward to what sorts of fry he'll father if any fry born in the tank survive long enough for me to catch them
you dont see goldfishes in set-ups like that quite often
Cheers Straydum
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Great pics.
I especially like the white goldfish with the one orange scale.
Thanks
! The white goldfish is one my favorite ones (although its really hard to choose a favorite out of all of them!) he/she was pure white when i first got him/her but over the last year or so its been growing its developed a small patch of orange scales and one orange streak in one of its fins which looks pretty cool- i think the goldfish will probably largely stay white for most of its life though
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i'm presonally not a fan of goldfish or livebearers but i have to say that that para pleco is gorgeous! how much did that cost?
and that shark is a right specimin! whats it's behaviour like at that size?
Ah the para pleco cost £20's- its the only one i've ever seen for sale though (although if i saw another i would totally buy it
!), they stay quite small for plecos and are also pretty active for plecos (although when i first got it about 3-4years ago it was seriously shy, however as it grew it become increasingly bold and now its out almost all the time
) and are quite sociable and not territorial for plecos too, so its a pretty ideal pleco to have
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The shark is a grumpy old character but its not too bad- it only really bothers the other fish at feeding time and even then it only half-heartedly chases the other fish during feeding times, its never harmed another fish in the tank. It used to be really aggressive and territorial when i first adopted it off a friend, however over the years its chilled out more a bit (i also stock the tank largely with shoals or schools of very similar looking fish, which the shark seems to get confused about and so doesn't really bother chasing).
The only fish it seems to get quite grumpy about in particular are the yoyo loaches in the tank- Yoyo loaches are unbelievably greedy fish and eat everything that gets chucked into the tank, including the sharks food, so the shark is often chasing the yoyo's off its food- but there's never any real aggression between them, i just don't think the shark likes sharing its meals with other fish lol
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