My Fish And Tanks

[always4lora]

Here's some of my pics of my fish, ill start of with the small tank first:

Full Tank shot showing the divide as well, snakeheads on the right and platys on the left

Channa Orientalis

Platy's

Large Tank

Full Tank shot's

Left hand side showing plants

Right hand side showing bog wood and weeksii

Unknown Plant with big stalk thing coming out of it (anyone care to ID?)

Bosemani Rainbow

L190 Royal plec

Polypterus lapradei (just got this so should colour out a little)

Polypterus ornatipinnis

Polypterus weeksii

<-- weeksii and ornate

Polypterus senegalus senegalus

Old pic of Senegal when in old tank , it had just eaten some crickets

Wild Oscar, growing really fast now! getting a red tinge around the sides of the fins(looks a bit white on the photo's but its actually red)

Sorubim lima
It stays vertical until night

Excuse the mess of the tank the L190 poops constantly, the fish had just been fed (bichir;s had there 2nd feed of the week and the pics were taken yesterday , i clean on Sundays!

All pictures taken with an Olympus e-520 with no flash mostly in macro mode.

 

[indigoj]

love the bichir collection. Tanks look fab.

 

[england]

great selection of fish dude,nice tanks...esp love the Channa Orientalis

 

[DAlmond123]

Your "platies" look like mollies to me.

 

[dave_oddballs]

like the bichirs! just got 2 wild oscars of my own, about 6" they are, very nice and settling in nicely, ate some prawns before!
the platy's look more like molly's to me!
liking the orientalis aswel, it would annoy me having the nice sorubim and it just sitting in one corner all day lol
my oscars kept intimidating the tigerfish when i got it today and kept nudging it but the tigerfish must of got annoyed and charged at them until they moved and now they stay at opposite ends of the tank lol!
does the oscar never mess the plants up? i have a few in my big tank, like a massive anubias on rock and mother plant java fern on wood but i feel if they were loose plants they would spend the majority of there time floating around!!
how big is your tank with the oscar and others??
looks good!

Dave

 

[always4lora]

Hmm maybe the white un is a molly then , thought it looked diff! i know one deff's a platy as i used to have em in my old old tank. No good with Liverbearer's . Just asked the shop for something easy to breed , plan is to use them as an occasional treat for the bichir';s and to put a bit of colour into the tanks.

The tanks about 100-120 G 4*2*2 , Saving atm , not sure what size for but when i have some space ill get whatever can fit then i can get the larger bichers.

As for plants they occasionaly get uprooted by the weeksii bichir but thats only when it decides to lash side to side when another fish wont get out of it's way. As for the Oscar it just stays in the wood side most of the time , only venturing out every once in a wile to anoy the other tank mates.
I do have some floating plants in there for the senegal to float in when its tired.

As for the Sorubim lima staying in the cornor i do wish i could just prod it and make it active during the day but when it comes out in the night its looking really cool !

 

[~T~]

Nice fish. You defo have mollies and not platies though (well the 3 in the picture are mollies).

 

[DAlmond123]

All four of those "platies" are mollies. The one that is speckled with black & gold is a young gold dust molly & it will eventually change over to all gold as it gets older (the plain gold one you have is what it will look like as it gets older), the black & white one is a dalmation molly, and the white one is a platinum molly.

 

[Rust]

Dave, the oscars you got off me are out of the same tank as 'always4lora' lol....looking good mate.... you added more plants since i last saw it?? (4ft tank)

 

[always4lora]

Yeh i got another 48"inch set from plants alive. Brightens it up a little.