what you keep?

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  1. Quakeszn

    Quakeszn

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    hi to all,I would like to make a survey of fish kept in tropical fresh water aquerium.(more of show and tell) please post all fish and pics of ur fish.Does not have to be only common (most used fish)exotics are welcome,(marine also fine, but primarrely just a rundow of ur tanks and fish 1 or 10 common or exotic marine or fresh (yes turtles , mudskippers, and shrimp count)bare bottom, biotype or planted.eagerly waiting
     
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    Quakeszn

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    Can someone please post some pictures off what you keep in your tanks and tell us about your fishies
     
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    Shame man, seems like everyone is ignoring you. ;)

    I'll start it off then.

    My Unmentionables
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    A.agassizzi dwarf cichlids
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    Bristlenose pleco (excuse the algae)
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    Silent Bob, aka tiger bichir
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    Malawi Ice Blue, M. Greshaki
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    Beckford Pencil fish
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    Otto
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    Dont have pics of the following fishies.
    Gertrude rainbowfish
    Featherfin rainbowfish
    Red Siamese fighter
    Panda cory
    Lots of Malawis Mbunas.
     
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    Here is the list will post some pictures later

    Angels
    Rosy Tetras
    Black Phantom Tetras
    Banjo Catfish
    Ancistrus
    Ancistrus sp ucayali
    Betta
    Dwarf Puffers
    Bumble Bee Gobies
    Oto
    Abei Puffers
    Green Spotted Puffers
    Figure Eight Puffers
    Mollies
    Oscars
    Vieja Zonatus
    Zonatus hybrid
    Flowerhorns
    Polleni Cichlid
    Convict Cichlids
    Guppies
    Lots of snails and some unmentionables
     
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    Quakeszn

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    I thought id also post some pics on my wifes thread.I dnt have pics of all at present,Albino Convicts,Parots, Red Head cichlids, Electric Blue rams,30cm Pleco,Oscars,discus,Swords,Guppies,danios, bettas,goldfish,bumble bee malawis,Albino pleco,
     
  8. Caudelia

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    Ok here goes:
    A.agassizzi, guppies, sterbai cory, goldfish, malawis, hifin leopard pleco, albino pleco, angels, glass ghost catfish, albino rainbow sharks, flying foxes, black khuli loach, striped raphael, hoplo cat,
    Will try to take decent pics
     
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    Hi
    Will also try taking pics and post of whats currently in our tanks.
    Various Cichlids, Convicts with babies, Ghost Convicts with babies, figure 8 Puffer, Swordtails, mollies, Bristle Nose plecos, several Plecos, Glow light Tetras, various strains of Guppies, Endlers, 3 x Discus Breeding pairs, +- 70 Discus babies, 9 x Angel breeding pairs, +- 1600 Angel babies, Kribs, several Spotted Talking Cat fish, Huge African Knife fish, Polypterus, Tyre Track Eel, Silver Dollar, Huge Clown Loaches, Algea Eaters, plenty Apple snails, few Shrimps in my 1 st attempted planted setup.
    I think that's all
     
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    +- 1600 angel babies :blink:
    @Brandon&Lize pls post pics of the clown loaches
     
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    Yip. +- 1600 baby Angels. We breed with them.
    So far we doing great. Have a 95% hatch and survival on each batch.

    I will post the photos of the loaches asap.
     
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    wow that's impressive
     
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    20140503_160527.jpgsome of the Baby Angels
    (Excuse photo quality please)

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    Durban-20140510-00133.jpg have about + - 30 malawies , 2x clown loaches , 2x plecos , 30 abino zebra malawie babies

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    20140302_095118.jpgMy Malawis

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    ok I love the pic - awesome but doesn't your PH drop with the drift wood?
     
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    Strangly enough my PH is stable an they happy. They breed like bunnies. There is about 100 fry that are in the tank an growing fast. I have managed to catch some fry that are in a 3ft tank. They keep breeding. Lol. I don't have any issues
     
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    I'm no good at taking pics of our fish so only the best ones are posted...

    We have 3 freshwater tanks.
    First one:
    Rainbow shark
    Kribensis
    Tiger Barbs
    Rosy Barbs
    Odessa Barbs
    Synodontis
    Otocinclus

    2nd one:
    Bolivian Rams
    Honey Gourami
    Red Eye Tetras
    Leopard Danio
    Kuhli Loaches
    Bumblebee Goby (experimental)

    3rd one:
    Lone Betta Splendens.

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    @Brandon&Lize where did the Killis go?:sad2:
     
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    The Killis are still there but I sent them to Wilfred that was in Klerksdorp who is now in PE. He is hatching breeding etc etc for me down there.
     
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