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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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why


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: Delyrium]
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they are bubble nest builders


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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so where are the nests they build


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: Delyrium]
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On top of thr water


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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i don't remember the exact species that we have, but there's a total of 9 fish currently [3 goldfish] and an 8-year old algae eater which you can see on the left hand corner.

picture was taken today:

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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: dnL]
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Platys...


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Texas is humongus compared to France
Our Gair, who art in Texas,
Paw Paw be thy Name....
My friends are thirsty


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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In the mid-Eighties I bred Discus while my girlfriend bred Bettas. Discus are magnificent fish, but very sensitive to water quality and temperature. Not the easiest to get to breed.

Bettas are a lot more tolerant and tons of fun. The whole mating ritual is fascinating. My girlfriend did really well with hers -- she had loads of perfect solid red and solid blues, but she eventually got into the rarer types like the doubletails and odd colors like yellow, white, black. One of her doubletail black females sold for about $55 US at a fish show in Buffalo. Believe me, that was a LOT of money for a female Betta back in 85 or 86, doubletail or not.

I can't in good conscience recommend Discus breeding for the neophyte, but Bettas are a hoot. That bcbettas.com site is a pretty good one. He's got some spectacular fish, but you can have tons of fun with the ones you buy at any pet shop or even at KMart for a few bucks. Give them good water and live food and even most of the abused ones will bounce back quickly. Bettas are pretty hardy.

Breeding them is a fascinating process, too. We were always searching the pet shops for good solid colors -- especially the females -- but it is possible over several generations to breed back to a solid red, for example, if you select the mates carefully over several generations.

pinky


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: Phred]
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Discus are very hard to breed but they are a cool fish...
I think the first fish i ever got to breed were Marbeled Angelfish...
Breeding Cichlids are very easy and mainly you need a high alkaline water w/ salt and some rocks for the mom to let the kids go so they dont get eaten....


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Texas is humongus compared to France
Our Gair, who art in Texas,
Paw Paw be thy Name....
My friends are thirsty


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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I "accidentaly" bred some fish when I was about 12. We had these little minnow-type-thingies that lived naturally in an old storm-water runoff ditch near my house.  Remember, this is Las Vegas, and I'm not sure what kind of fish is hardy enough to survive the extremes of this desert.  The water would almost be gone in the summer and what little was left was usually very warm.  But for some reason these little fuckers were always there.

Anyway, after having no luck with pet-shop fish I just went and scooped up some of these guys and threw them in my 10 gallon aquarium with about 3 gallons of water and a couple rocks from the ditch.  I never fed them, never changed the water, never did shit.  Just came home and looked at them each day.  I'll be damned if those little fuckers didn't thrive like they was living the high life!!  Before I knew it they had moss growing on the rocks (I'm assuming that is what they ate) and they started having babies!  It was like my own little ecological experiment.

But alas, eventually my mother made me throw the whole mess out.  It had begun to smell quite stagnate.  So I returned the fish (including the new additions) to the ditch and threw my aquarium away.

I never had fish again until I was in my mid 20's, but I can say that I did breed fish at some point in my life! :grin:


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: OldSpice]
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Yay!!
Alounacara, I have an OB Peacock a little bit like him, but not as yellow.

I have a 3ft tank with Malawi cichlids and we just put discus in our 5ft tank. The discus are such graceful fish, very relaxing to watch, while the Malawis can be pretty psycho, but they are very smart fish.

We just bought a big Blue Turquoise discus to encourage the smaller fish to come out of hiding, and it's the most awesome, beautiful fish. It swims in these big arcs and loops and even swims upside down sometimes.
But yeah, I really haven't even thought about breeding them yet.
It's not that discus are not incredibly difficult to keep but you just can't afford to be lazy when it comes to maintaining water quality. And they are mega-expensive so if they die early it's extra bad!


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: Fina]
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Here's my OB Peacock, Roger..



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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: Fina]
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Discus are so gorgeous.

They love big tanks, too, so a five foot tank would be just the thing to get them in the breeding mood.

Apart from water quality they are also very sensitive to temperature. This is one reason why it's best to keep Discus in a tank of their own -- the abnormally high temperature they require doesn't sit well with most other fish. The high temperature also makes algae growth and bacterial bloom more problematical, so even with a killer filtration system frequent water changes are a must.

In almost every pet store I've been in which sells Discus, the temperature is too low, causing the Discus to turn dark and hide, facing the back of the tank. They also get a real "pinched" look to them, and they "clamp" their dorsal and ventral fins.

pinky


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Re: Pet Fish - Fighting Betas - Small Sharks - Colorful [Re: felix]
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When I was very young my parents used to have a HUGE fishtank that went all around the walls of our living room. It must have been three big tanks, all connected together, each maybe 10 or 15 feet in length... salt-water, of course :grin: shit that was an amazing aquarium. But of course it was a TON of work, and with two small children, my parents didn't want to deal with it, so they got rid of it. I think it is actually still sitting in pieces in my parent's garage...


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