What's the next fish you're getting?

Are you sure?
Yes my 3 are quiet, the one young one keeps to the left plant and the other keeps with the older one on the right and never had any problems but I have tonight and i've gone mad.

I added 3 Amano shrimp to my tank and they have got big in no time, well I found 2 going for my small baby neon and he had the good sense to move and tonight my hubby said look at this quick, all 3 off them had caught an otto at the front and by the time I got my extension in my poor chap had died those won't be stopping in my tank for sure.
 

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PascalKrypt just look at these 2 video's who's waffa does it belong to


 

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Those are some bad, bad hombres!

Yeah, they can be pretty daring. Mine would steal the bloodworms out from under my dojo loaches and hold their front legs like up a praying mantis, ready to strike at any fish who'd dare with it taking the worm. My dojos are genuinely intimidated by them and leave them alone.
... I haven't seen them since I introduced my apisto male to the tank though Though there'd be other times when I didn't see them for a month or more, I'm started to wonder if they ended up as someone's bloodworm.

Killing a healthy fish though, that seems pretty bad! I've heard of it before but it isn't very common.
 
Those are some bad, bad hombres!

Yeah, they can be pretty daring. Mine would steal the bloodworms out from under my dojo loaches and hold their front legs like up a praying mantis, ready to strike at any fish who'd dare with it taking the worm. My dojos are genuinely intimidated by them and leave them alone.
... I haven't seen them since I introduced my apisto male to the tank though Though there'd be other times when I didn't see them for a month or more, I'm started to wonder if they ended up as someone's bloodworm.

Killing a healthy fish though, that seems pretty bad! I've heard of it before but it isn't very common.
Daring is not the word and i've seen that with them, front legs up but the trouble with that as they mature and get bigger they could actually control a tank like mine with what fish I have so they need to come out as I love my fish I have in. Your apisto male as most likely seen them off as sunday lunch
Well I read up on it later after getting my Otto out and they can do it and no way am I putting my other last 2 otto's at risk or my other fish...just for desert meal for them
 
Daring is not the word and i've seen that with them, front legs up but the trouble with that as they mature and get bigger they could actually control a tank like mine with what fish I have so they need to come out as I love my fish I have in. Your apisto male as most likely seen them off as sunday lunch
Well I read up on it later after getting my Otto out and they can do it and no way am I putting my other last 2 otto's at risk or my other fish...just for desert meal for them
Oh yes, I have seen videos of it before. My own amanos (also have some with RCS in a shrimp tank) are not quite that bad. But it can happen indeed. Sorry for your horrific experience

Now I sympathise with you. Catching those buggers is going to be tough....
 
Oh yes, I have seen videos of it before. My own amanos (also have some with RCS in a shrimp tank) are not quite that bad. But it can happen indeed. Sorry for your horrific experience

Now I sympathise with you. Catching those buggers is going to be tough....
I just got angry tonight as i've lost 3 otto's which can happen with this breed of fish and MacZ told me it might happen, he never mentioned they could be eaten though

Yes I know as they're fast plus adding new tetra I don't want to scare them to much...oh well best of luck for tomorrow
 

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I had a Von Rio Kinda floating around and one of my Amanos grabbed it and started hauling it away. That's the only time I've seen them do anything like that.

I may get some more RCS this weekend.
 
I had a Von Rio Kinda floating around and one of my Amanos grabbed it and started hauling it away. That's the only time I've seen them do anything like that.
I may actually finally regret buying my amano.... mine never hauled away any load before, not yet at least.
 
I may actually finally regret buying my amano.... mine never hauled away any load before, not yet at least.
I like my Amanos. They don't bother anyone. That fish was laying on the gravel and it probably thought it was dead.
 
Oh, oh well. Nothing is dying in my tank, not yet at least.
I don't think you have to worry about a dead fish mucking up your water with Amanos though

I got 2 RCS on Tuesday and they are still alive. I don't know how, but I think I may get more tomorrow.
 

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I like RCS though I've never kept them before, I think they're pretty.
 
I like RCS though I've never kept them before, I think they're pretty.
I never have either until Tuesday. Still kinda waiting it out because of my parameters.
 
I'm kind of in a conundrum. The 5 gallon the Cherries are in are my "GBR fry tank" When I actually get non eaten fry. So I can't make it a dedicated shrimp tank. My tap Ph is 7.8, and my Gh is 13 in the 5. So the RCS are on the very danger edge. I need to keep the 5 kinda close to the 55 if I get fry. So far it's working?
 
Well I. . . Accidentally? . . Got a few fish. Found them at my local petco and for a good price. . . How could I say no! Gotta change up the fish room To accommodate them. . . Assuming they survive.
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but I’m hoping my next fish will be some electric blue acara from DarkOne!
 
Nice looking EBJD's. I kept a male & female. Both lived 5+ years. I did lose two others for unknown causes.
Might add a limestone rock into the hardscape. JD's are Central American Cichlids & thrive in hard water. EBJD's need all the help you can give them, due to their weaker genetics.
 
At the LFS I saw something cool and then did some research. Those poor things are doomed.
Freshwater moray eels. Not actually fresh water. Keeping them in fresh greatly reduces their lives.
 

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Nice looking EBJD's. I kept a male & female. Both lived 5+ years. I did lose two others for unknown causes.
Might add a limestone rock into the hardscape. JD's are Central American Cichlids & thrive in hard water. EBJD's need all the help you can give them, due to their weaker genetics.

yeah was thinking of giving them their own tank, kind of treat them like my discus. . . But don’t really have the room. . . Not sure what I’ll do long term, but they seem ight for now. Will look into the lime stone, thanks.
 
No need to baby the EBJD's. They behave just like standard JD's & can be kept with other big Cichlids & XL Tetras. I kept mine with a Rivulatus - GT, Firemouths, Salvini, various Silver Dollars, Columbian & Buenos Aires Tetras. Just make weekly 50% WC's, keep temp at 80 degrees & try to keep the PH between 7.8 - 8.2 if possible.
 
Pictures? I've always considered keeping these myself but never actually bought one because the small tanks went to bettas. Wonder what it's like to keep them.

Well I. . . Accidentally? . . Got a few fish. Found them at my local petco and for a good price. . . How could I say no! Gotta change up the fish room To accommodate them. . . Assuming they survive.

but I’m hoping my next fish will be some electric blue acara from DarkOne!
Oh, I'm usually not a fan of cichlids but that is one handsome fish!

At the LFS I saw something cool and then did some research. Those poor things are doomed.
Freshwater moray eels. Not actually fresh water. Keeping them in fresh greatly reduces their lives.
Yes, it's sad isn't it, when they sell fish and you just know it won't end well for them. Tbh that's also what I think when I see arowana, I feel like only a small percentage of people who buy them are true enthusiasts who give them good care and even then it often ends in tragedy. I've seen a video of one jump through a glass lid, breaking it into smithereens and then dying on the floor as it was recorded on a security cam and was in the middle of the night. Yikes.

Same with all of the puffer species. Aside from the pea puffer virtually none of them are true freshwater once fully grown. And still many people buy them without researching this and in some cases just not caring, thinking they can make it work somehow.
 
Pictures? I've always considered keeping these myself but never actually bought one because the small tanks went to bettas. Wonder what it's like to keep them.
Try it! I LOVE them, I am so glad I finally took the plunge.Pea Puffer 1.JPGPea Puffer 3.JPGPea Puffer 3.JPG
 
ok. so, not good. the smaller one died.
Aw, I'm sorry.

I'd heard that they shouldn't be kept together because they can be aggressive and territorial though. Not sure if that is true..
 
HI PascalKrypt I got the shrimp out early this morning took half hour with the big net but finally got there and my hubby took them to a small aquarium shop by we, as they quarantine them before selling them on.
 
HI PascalKrypt I got the shrimp out early this morning took half hour with the big net but finally got there and my hubby took them to a small aquarium shop by we, as they quarantine them before selling them on.
Grats on your succesful extraction! Curious how difficult it was?
I've seen shopkeepers stuggle for over 15 minutes to get at least one successfully in a net out of a large group when they're swimming in a 5G tank... they jump the net when they see the surface coming.
 
Curious how difficult it was?
I've got 3 different sized nets and the ones black but resembles a fishing net well I put that in and lodged it in front of the middle statue and feed my fish and the shrimps always come to the front of a morning so I caught two straight away but the others came separate as a waiting game for over half hour.

To be honest i'm quite emotional today with crying on top as I love my fish but adding those Silver tip Tetra was the worst thing I could have done, my guppies tried their hardest to calm them down but there was two out of them attacking one another and chasing my guppies, tetra's. Never will I add fish again when told they are fine, to find out that they can't stand tailed fish and chase tetra fish bigger than themselves.

I woke to a living nightmare this morning, found one of my large black neon tetra floating on top hubby got his spying glass out and examined it nothing wrong so died of stress, my large blue neon out the 5 was dead and it had took a right bite to the left gill, so my husband took over then as he loves the fish while i'm crying as I known that sounds stupid for my age.
He cleared the tank out got that large net in with another and worked them till they slowed down, our neighbour mark 2 doors down as had them for his new 20 gallon tank to help with his cycling and he told him how aggressive they are.
After the tank being put back to order my red fan tailed guppy died about an hour later...I feel destroyed with my stupidity and killing my fish
 
I've got 3 different sized nets and the ones black but resembles a fishing net well I put that in and lodged it in front of the middle statue and feed my fish and the shrimps always come to the front of a morning so I caught two straight away but the others came separate as a waiting game for over half hour.

To be honest i'm quite emotional today with crying on top as I love my fish but adding those Silver tip Tetra was the worst thing I could have done, my guppies tried their hardest to calm them down but there was two out of them attacking one another and chasing my guppies, tetra's. Never will I add fish again when told they are fine, to find out that they can't stand tailed fish and chase tetra fish bigger than themselves.

I woke to a living nightmare this morning, found one of my large black neon tetra floating on top hubby got his spying glass out and examined it nothing wrong so died of stress, my large blue neon out the 5 was dead and it had took a right bite to the left gill, so my husband took over then as he loves the fish while i'm crying as I known that sounds stupid for my age.
He cleared the tank out got that large net in with another and worked them till they slowed down, our neighbour mark 2 doors down as had them for his new 20 gallon tank to help with his cycling and he told him how aggressive they are.
After the tank being put back to order my red fan tailed guppy died about an hour later...I feel destroyed with my stupidity and killing my fish
Ah I'm sorry you had a terrible hobby day. We all get them and we all make stupid mistakes that cost us fish. It feels terrible, I know bearhug?

I hope things manage to calm down now ... two bad luck streaks in a row. Bleh. Treat yourself to something nice.
 

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My worse mistake was adding a passive but sick otto to my tank; the next day I went on a 3 day vacation; came back and 4/5 of the tank was dead. Even the robust upside down cat - worse my beloved myersI kulI (I can never find these guys in the shops) caught the disease but took another two days to die. I had two - the other was not outgoing and always hid - I guess hiding is what saved his neck. Pretty much the only thing that lived was 1/2 the cardinals; 2 swordtails (can anything kill them?) and the bn pleco as well as the one kuhli.
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I know otto are delicate but do they also have to wipe out the tank ? Anyways this was nearly a year ago - i've only had one death in the past 4 months and - you guess it - another otto but at least it was in a qt tank. Even my new rams are doing well (i'm really bad at killing rams - was so **** when the last pair died since it was due to a sloppy water change - who sez water changes are never bad?)

Ah I'm sorry you had a terrible hobby day. We all get them and we all make stupid mistakes that cost us fish. It feels terrible, I know bearhug?

I hope things manage to calm down now ... two bad luck streaks in a row. Bleh. Treat yourself to something nice.
 
Once my tank is finished, I'll be getting a betta, and possibly some schooling/shoaling fish. I really like cories, and also think it might be cool to try some schooling fish. I know so little about them, it'd be cool to try something out.
 
You could kill two birds with one stone and get some schooling pygmy cory.

Once my tank is finished, I'll be getting a betta, and possibly some schooling/shoaling fish. I really like cories, and also think it might be cool to try some schooling fish. I know so little about them, it'd be cool to try something out.
 
You could kill two birds with one stone and get some schooling pygmy cory.
Yeah, that was my first plan, but then I thought of how cool it would look with a blue betta and some school of small red fish. My bedroom has a very heavy ocean theme, (on purpose. My username means 'the blue sea' in japanese - I really like the ocean) and I thought of how cool it would look to have the one water feature in the room to have a 'fire' theme to it. So now I'm torn between cories and something else. It's just a 10 gal, although I have a 5 gal that I could move the betta to if he can't get along with the other fish. I've spent way too long on this, and I keep changing my mind lol.
 
Well - after two more of my gold zebra made a run for it [jumped out] I picked up 5 more little ones. No pictures - the little ones never jump but I qt them in the guppy tank for 4 to 6 weeks and then I'll move them in with the other four. Also order some screen door netting to put on the very back of the tank as the loaches love that little slit by the filter intake/outtake - it isn't big as I have the plastic strip covering most of it but those tricky devils know where to go when they want out.
 
My next fish will be a Pygmy puffer for the 3.5 gallon that’s awaiting pickup!
 
I should be doing homework rn, but I'm bored and procrastinating.
So, what fish would you want to keep in the future? What are your favorite fish?
I want to keep a female betta, pea puffers, bumble gobies, sparkling gouramis, (maybe rainbow fish, badis, and killifish), or black paradise fish and definitely more bettas lol. Bettas are probably my favorites .
 
Not a single species, but cichlids have always been my jam. I'd love to try an African cichlid tank some day.

Good call Raf, I've wanted KuhlI loaches for a good bit as well.
 

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I want to breed angelfish, but I dunno if I'm ready yet. Still only new enough to breed guppies and platys. I also like discus and my mom wants oscars. There was some really nice rasboras at my lfs last time I went there. Emerald Eye? But those look pretty cool. I want kribs but not enough space.

My fav fish is always gonna be a guppy
 
I agree with everyone else. Dwarf puffers, crayfish, loaches, shell dwellers, otos, a colony of dwarf shrimp, and some big fish! (someday.....)

Btw, I can relate. "I should be doing homework rn, but I'm bored and procrastinating." Like literally same.
 
I want to keep kuhlI loaches :3 and also wild type bettas are really cool!
I forgot about kuhlI loaches! I definitely want to get those too!
This is a fish I've kept before, but can't currently keep. GOLDFISH.
My first fish was a gold fish lol. I think I was 2 or 3 at the time. We sadly kept it in a bowl though .
 
I forgot about kuhlI loaches! I definitely want to get those too!

My first fish was a gold fish lol. I think I was 2 or 3 at the time. We sadly kept it in a bowl though .
Yeah goldfish were my first fisht too. Its still alive, but its in china so yeah I can't keep it I only take care of it when I go on vacation there. Otherwise, my grandparents do.
 
I just realized I don't think what I posted earlier was meant for this thread. Hmm I wonder where it was supposed to go.
 
I just realized I don't think what I posted earlier was meant for this thread. Hmm I wonder where it was supposed to go.
Lol I think you might have meant to post it in a thread called what fish do you want next or what is your favorite fish(if those threads even exist).
 
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