Well I thought I would start a thread on keeping fish.
I have never had an interest in fish keeping and always considered keeping fish as expensive and time consuming. Well I was right, but about the wrong kind of fish.
Andrew, my youngest son wanted to keep reptiles but I really didn't want him to because I understand how much time and expertise this would need. However, he did win me over with the idea of getting a fish. I insisted that he had an easy to look after fish and we ended up with a 17 litre tank and filter. That's it we filled the tank with water a threw to blackmores in and waited. Soon after the tank started to turn misty and then we couldn't find the fish in the murky water... it was time to read up about fish!
Realising that we should be changing some of the water and perhaps upgrading the filter system we started to take fish more seriously.
A friend offered us the chance to buy a bigger tank (85 litres) with a built in filtration. Apart from that this tank was heated.
Once again I wasn't enthusiastic about the idea because I didn't think we had the right fish keeping skills... but Andrew insisted so we gave it a go.
Since then we have brought another tank from the same friend and this ones a 120 litre tanks and also heated.
We now have sharks, angel fish, neon tetras, platies, mollies, gupy's, siamese fighting fish and many more.
We've really enjoyed the task of fish keeping and are finding that tropical fish are really quite fun.
We are looking to move on up to the more expensive area of marine fish soon and wondered if anyone has any experience with them.
We are looking to harbour living coral and other marine aquatics in a larger tank (posibly custom built).
Any thoughts?
I have never had an interest in fish keeping and always considered keeping fish as expensive and time consuming. Well I was right, but about the wrong kind of fish.
Andrew, my youngest son wanted to keep reptiles but I really didn't want him to because I understand how much time and expertise this would need. However, he did win me over with the idea of getting a fish. I insisted that he had an easy to look after fish and we ended up with a 17 litre tank and filter. That's it we filled the tank with water a threw to blackmores in and waited. Soon after the tank started to turn misty and then we couldn't find the fish in the murky water... it was time to read up about fish!
Realising that we should be changing some of the water and perhaps upgrading the filter system we started to take fish more seriously.
A friend offered us the chance to buy a bigger tank (85 litres) with a built in filtration. Apart from that this tank was heated.
Once again I wasn't enthusiastic about the idea because I didn't think we had the right fish keeping skills... but Andrew insisted so we gave it a go.
Since then we have brought another tank from the same friend and this ones a 120 litre tanks and also heated.
We now have sharks, angel fish, neon tetras, platies, mollies, gupy's, siamese fighting fish and many more.
We've really enjoyed the task of fish keeping and are finding that tropical fish are really quite fun.
We are looking to move on up to the more expensive area of marine fish soon and wondered if anyone has any experience with them.
We are looking to harbour living coral and other marine aquatics in a larger tank (posibly custom built).
Any thoughts?