Just curious

I keep fish! We have a 55g tank of fancy goldfish; another 55g with tropicals; gourami, bala sharks, mollies and platies. We also have a 125g tank with Oscars, catfish, plecos, 5 clawed frogs, a Livingstoni cichlid and a redfin. I love fish and talking about them!

Recycling Goddess, I love your giraffe cat, too. Don't they get quite big?

yes they do... waaaaaaaaay too big for a tank. when we bought it, it was sold to us as a dwarf... within a couple of weeks... it was obvious it wasn't a dwarf!

so we'll keep it until it's too big and then see what we can do at that time... i never would have bought it, had i known it's true genetics though :(

I keep fish :)

I have a 75 gallon with discus, angel fish, some cool plecos, bala and iridescent sharks, spiny catfish

and a

65 gallon with at least 10 different kinds of gouramis and some plecos

and I'm about to start an Oscar tank. I actually need some advice about that... gonna start a thread.

I just started keeping fish a few months ago.

Weve got a 10 gallon tank with
1 Fancy fin tetra
3 Zebra Danios
3 smaller tetras (dont know the name)
1 Dwarf clawed frog
and a snail:)


20 gallon tank with
1 Gold Gourami
1 Pearl Gourami
1 Paradise Gourami
1 Cherry Barb
1 Albino Cherry Barb
1 Otto Catfish
1 Hatchet fish

30 gallon tank with
3 Blue Gouramis
1 Red Tail Shark

and our newest is a 55 tall with one Pink Convict Chiclid. Im loving chiclids now;), so weve got a few others we are looking at getting.

10 - 20 - 30 - 55 ... so what's next aric? 135? :P

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

10 - 20 - 30 - 55 ... so what's next aric? 135? :P

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Who knows, I want something BIG. If I had my way we would turn an entire room into a huge tank.:cool:

we kinda have *blush* so i hear ya on that one!!!

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

yes they do... waaaaaaaaay too big for a tank. when we bought it, it was sold to us as a dwarf... within a couple of weeks... it was obvious it wasn't a dwarf!

so we'll keep it until it's too big and then see what we can do at that time... i never would have bought it, had i known it's true genetics though :(

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I know what you mean. I was sold a "whale cat" that may turn out to be a Rita rita that will be as long as I am tall one day(5'). I haven't admitted to myself yet, that that's what he may be.

And it's not just fish stores themselves that are misleading, it's wholesalers, too. I ordered what was listed as a "redtail jaguar cat" for the store once that was about $6. When I unpacked the fish order later, I thought he was the cutest little thing and brought him home for myself. Kinda' looked like a shovelnose cat, but with S.A. redtail markings. I had no clue what he was until I asked someone on another forum. Guess what, he IS a cross between a tiger shovelnose and a S.A. redtail!! :eek: Oh, gee, another 5 footer. Anyone up for catfish BBQ in about 5-10 years? ;)
I'm actually kind of glad I took him home myself instead of unleashing the horrible unknown on an unsupecting customer. :oops:

ya it's amazing what the wholesalers think up to sell fish... making up their own names so you say, "hey that sounds new... let's try that one" LOL

:P