Any fishkeepers here?

[Tigergenesis]

Good luck with the seahorses! Do you plan to feed live food or try to convert to f/t? 80% mortality rate in captivity scares me - I'm such a wienie.

[Bambi]

I'll be buying from a breeder. That way they are already on frozen food. I've already had pipe fish and they aren't that different from seahorses. If you want more info on sea horses go to www.seahorse.org The people there are great and they will definitely answer any questions about them----- even if you aren't going to get a SW tank We have had a few people on there just wanting some info on them even though they didn't even own a SW tank. I've had SW tanks for a year now, and like I said- they aren't too different from FW tanks.

[Tigergenesis]

We recently acquired Shedd Aquariums seahorse collection at our zoo, so I had to reseach them quite a bit (that website was very helful at that time). Already on frozen food - bonus! It's sad that the real reason that mortality rate is so high is because of people who go out and buy them 'on a whim' w/o any research. If I ever did SW I'd love to have some anenome, anenome fish, coral banded shirimp, chocolate chip seastar and a crab. Heck, I don't even know if any of them can be put together. But they're all some of my favs. Of course I'd love a stingray.

[sophie42204]

Bet you can find some species at petstores in Florida that maybe you couldn't really get where you used to live.

Actually we used to keep what is commonly called a 'snake head' fish in NY but they are illegal to keep down here. They are voracious eaters and can live in the waters and disrupt the natural ecology (these fish get rather large, and as with the burm problem, irresponsible, uneducated keepers let them go--gotta love it!d: ). However, I believe they can survive up north as well but they haven't banned them yet.

In any case, I haven't really looked closely at the fish down here, but have noticed all the same as are available up north, I'll have to start looking closer....interesting, hadn't thought of that before!

[SatanicIntention]

I keep 3 HUGE fancy goldfish, 2 ryukins and an oranda. For fresh veggies they get the occasional spinach, some frozen brine shrimp, some krill. It brings out their colors so well and keeps them "regular" All three are probably around 7-8" long. One I get them in a 55g, they should get a bit bigger and a little more robust.

[Brandon.O]

Gold fish are cool , me and my mom are setting up a koi pond in the back yard soon and plan to get lots of differnt gold fish. And of course some koi

[Tigergenesis]

I'd love to set up an outdoor koi pond. They're so cool.

[Marla]

My mom has outdoor ponds front and back with koi, goldfish, and volunteer snakes and bullfrogs that come up from the creek behind the house. We have a 20g tank with a pleco, some platys, zebra danios, a scissortail rasboa, and something I'm forgetting at the moment. We've had the pleco for years, but have had two disasters that required replacing all the other fish twice: a bala shark went nuts and ate all his tankmates but the pleco (gave him to mom), and just recently Jessica accidentally dumped almost half a container of fish food in the tank and killed all but one zebra and the pleco. Those guys are hardy.

[sophie42204]

We just bought a pond for the backyard and hopefully will have it up and running w/in the next week or so (been so darn hot haven't wanted to do any yard work lately!)...I plan on having a Koi pond, can't wait until it's ready for fish!

We had a Pleco in our 75g community tank and he was awesome, got HUGE though. My favorites were the Discus and Severum...and the Angels and the....guess I loved 'em all!! Now I really miss my tanks, it's just moved to the #1 spot on the 'luxury' list!!

[Ironhead]

Was wondering what you guy's think of certain tropical fish being injected with a dye, or dipped in a dye to make them colorful? Hopefully none of you here support this but it is a free world. I just cant imagine what kind of stress and problems this causes the fish that have been injected. My Dad has made it his life mission to let the owners of pet stores that have these dye colored fish know exactly how he feels about it everytime he goes into a pet store. This is one of the few things that I know that can set the ole man off.

Was just curious!