FishTank

[reaper]

Got new fish tank brewin!

[haunted]

clown fish and.. the other two are blurry but look like a type of hog or trigger.

[[BTF] Reflex]

Looks like enough $$ to feed the fam for 2 months.  I spent a bundle just on a freshwater ten gallon never had the balls to do saltwater.  Looks really nice.

[The Dreaming Dragon]

I had freshwater fish as a kid...and they are entertaining,to my cat especially.

But I found this screensaver and I must admit its as fun as the real thing,with none of the work.

http://www.serenescreen.com/

[haunted]

I know you didn't indicate this exactly, but that's a salt water aquarium in reaper's pic(the good kind). As a child and the son of a commercial fisherman, my dad would drop all sorts of cool stuff from work in there; octopus, crabs, lobsters, seahorses, living sand dollars, various fish, etc...

when the blue crab and the lobster finally fought to the death it was epic.

[yahoo]

crabs and lobsters.. hmmm yummm.

[reaper]

Looks like enough $$ to feed the fam for 2 months.  I spent a bundle just on a freshwater ten gallon never had the balls to do saltwater.  Looks really nice.

thanks, my other tank is a fresh water 10 gallon with some live plants and neons.  When you don't know what you're doing it sucks, and I started with a 5 gallon salt water tank, which is way harder to take care of because there's so much less room for error.   The only problem I've found with it is it's expensive, and you'd definitely want to read up on it or ask a friend who had one how to maintain it.  I use a method which uses lots of live rock and live sand, with minimal biological load.  So bacteria in the rock and sand breaks down "bad stuff" and a protein skimmer (mixes air into water, and that type of surface collects crap) and catches stuff before it breaks down.  From reading it's an effective way to simulate ocean like water, and it seems to work good.  The problem is with such a low volume of water compared to the ocean, the waste and food breaks down into ammonia and other harmful compounds.  Plus I way overdid it for a 30 gallon tank, I put a 15 gallon sump tank with a 500gph pump , which takes the water through bags of carbon : ).

The problem is now I'm addicted and that's just the beginning.  Eventually I'm going to put up clear plastic shelves in that tank and put some cool corals up there, under the high straight flow, then cover the rock in some cheap mushroom corals I'll get online.

I know you didn't indicate this exactly, but that's a salt water aquarium in reaper's pic(the good kind). As a child and the son of a commercial fisherman, my dad would drop all sorts of cool stuff from work in there; octopus, crabs, lobsters, seahorses, living sand dollars, various fish, etc...

when the blue crab and the lobster finally fought to the death it was epic.

I like having all types of things in the aquarium myself.  Some octopus are very poisonous.  From what I was reading you never know what you're gonna get with the creatures in the ocean, even common creatures sold in aquarium stores can be very poisonous depending on the batch.  The mantis shrimp is pretty tough for its size.

[yahoo]

 

never had the balls to do saltwater. 

IDK if im mistaken but I think you can convert salwater creaters to freshwater by gradual diluting the salt content.


BTW, i used to have a Godfish but one day idk what happened it just swam belly up.. never knew what caused it or how to treat it. Did live for few months though b4 it died.