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Just curious who has had fish as pets before.
I used to have ten fish tanks years ago, I really got into fish tanks and it became a hobby of mine. But some of my fish mated and I ended up with more fish and more tanks, aaah!! And it is a decent amount of work to maintain a fish tank. You've got to clean it, monitor the water's PH and hardness level, water temperature has to be right depending on the type of fish, have to have an air pump, gotta keep the filters changed and cleaned, but not cleaned too much or too often because of the beneficial bacteria... So anyway, I was able to give a good 200 fish away to a large pet store in the area, I lucked out that the babies were rainbow colored and very sellable. Was funny, they said two different species of Cichlids would never mate LOL, WRONG! They did mate, several times even LOL, and the combination of their colors made some gorgeous offspring, which is rare, trust me I know, other babies from other of my Cichlids turned out rather brownish and dull, and the petstore only took em cause of the nice pretty rainbow donation LOL.
I have so many fish stories from having so many tanks.
As of now, I have one 55 gal tank, with only two African Synodontis (sp?) Catfish in it. Had them for a good 10 years now. One recently got a white film over his/her eye (I have no idea the gender of my fish, but one is bigger than the other). I upped the water temp to 80, changed the filters. Two days later I added some regular sea salt, though not much, not the recommended dosage (this is that salt that is only like a dollar and looks like it comes in a small milk carton). Three days later I did a 1/3 water change, maybe slightly more. Eye got cleared up after a week, so that's good, but it still doesn't look 100% gone though to me. I still have the temp to 80. Now its looking pale tonight, and the other one is nosing it a lot, not sure if it is biting or not. That's one thing that sucks, when a fish gets sick in tank, the other fish attack it without fail.
Bah fish! Has to be one of the toughest pets to keep really, not incase you get goldfish, which can take a lot of neglect.
So post if you have had fish! Just curious about other's thoughts and experiences. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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