Off Topic Fish Tanks

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Milk said:
Hundreds. They can get really expensive. People go wacko over any new colour bred. King Kong shrimp were closer to $1000 when brand new... Looks like they've really come down in price now substantially... I'm out of date- they won't cost you hundreds any more.

But when the next fad colour comes out- the same pattern will repeat... the first few will go for close to $1000- the next generation a couple hundred... until eventually they're selling for $10 or so each.

The very oldest colour patterns like cherry red you can get $1 each now.


Here's a crayfish currently being sold for $100
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwinverts&1401532802

50 Shrimp for over $1500 ... not too bad I suppose... $30 each for a 2cm shrimp! ;)
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwinverts&1401632345
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That's all well and good... but do they taste nice?
 
Milk said:
How about $100 (~£65) for a pair of (admittedly beautiful) guppies.

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwguppies&1402460620

You can buy regular guppies for under $1 at the regular fish store- they breed like friggin' crazy with no experience.... and guppies take no experience to house/breed/feed.



Or $80 for a single washed out looking Betta: (most colours are about $3)

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwbettashm&1401413278



Plecos constantly go for insane amounts... here is an ugly grey one for $750
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcatfishp&1401817912




... these are all freshwater fish. I don't know anything (much) about marine fish- except their prices normally dwarf freshwater fish by a huge margain.
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At the moment I have about 100 guppies, 30 adults and 70 80 fry from the 5 I bought 5 months ago they wont stop ****ing breeding, get all all male or females. Otherwise you will have many in a short time.

if you must get male and female get 3 females to every male ratio otherwise the males will harass the females and stress them and they eventually die.
 
Sisu said:
At the moment I have about 100 guppies, 30 adults and 70 80 fry from the 5 I bought 5 months ago they wont stop ****ing breeding, get all all male or females. Otherwise you will have many in a short time.

if you must get male and female get 3 females to every male ratio otherwise the males will harass the females and stress them and they eventually die.
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It was guppies we used to breed. Thing is the female can get pregnant up to five times from one contact with a male so separating them doesn't solve the issue straight away.
 
Gerrez said:
It was guppies we used to breed. Thing is the female can get pregnant up to five times from one contact with a male so separating them doesn't solve the issue straight away.
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Yes that is true, they store it for months. You can't help that, you let them grow for 2 months so you can sex them and take out as well as the grown females and keep the males
Either way, have at least 3 females for every male. Otherwise it's like your missus having to put up with a horny you 8 to the tenth power 24 hours a day. <laugh>

With Sword tails, if you have all females one grows a dong!<yikes>
 
This is apt timing.

Tmorrow I've got the worst ****ing job in the universe - got to drain, clean & seal our pond which hasn't been used for months.

It started losing water (don't know where fom yet - it's all concrete), all the fish died and the pump stopped working, and the wife wants it all back up & working again <doh>

So spare me a thought tomorrow afternoon, I'l be knee deep in fish ****!!!
 
Jonesey said:
This is apt timing.

Tmorrow I've got the worst ****ing job in the universe - got to drain, clean & seal our pond which hasn't been used for months.

It started losing water (don't know where fom yet - it's all concrete), all the fish died and the pump stopped working, and the wife wants it all back up & working again <doh>

So spare me a thought tomorrow afternoon, I'l be knee deep in fish ****!!!
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Koi pond was it?

The pump might be broken because no water ran through it because of the piping being a **** job in the first place, would explain the leak too.
Would never build a concrete pond, **** that. Good luck mate.
 
Sisu said:
I love shrimp, awesome little buggers. What's the red one with the white spots?
I've only ever kept bee or red crystal shrimp, and Cherry shrimp
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That's one of the ones from Sulawesi- about 5 or 6 years ago the Germans led an expedition to study the aquatic life in Indonesia and found a bunch of gorgeous inverts, Shrimp, crabs, snails, that no-one in the west knew about. Most of them have adapted well to breeding in captivity- so should their limited habitat get messed up- they will live on. The Sulawesi shrimp tend to be more fragile and finicky than some other shrimp- but they breed well.

The red ones with white spots are Cardinal shrimp. There is a similar looking species with gold dots called "gold flecked shrimp".

I've kept cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, mandarin shrimp (won't breed in fresh water), and the only species I currently have are Malawa shrimp. Malawa are one of the least colourful of the Sulawesi shrimp- almost transparent. Those buggers breed like crazy... much faster than cherries even. Have thousands of them... fish, and the frog eat them- but the breed fast enough to replace their own numbers.
 
InBiscanWeTrust said:
That's all well and good... but do they taste nice?
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Never tried... and at that price, I wouldn't want to. I have eaten plants that have grown in my aquarium though! ;)

Sisu said:
At the moment I have about 100 guppies, 30 adults and 70 80 fry from the 5 I bought 5 months ago they wont stop ****ing breeding, get all all male or females. Otherwise you will have many in a short time.

if you must get male and female get 3 females to every male ratio otherwise the males will harass the females and stress them and they eventually die.
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If you get all females- don't get 'em from the store- they will already have mated. Also, the stores don't separate them very well- so you may not really have all females.

Every once in a while a female guppy looks like a male unless you look very closely... and males can often look like females. If you get 5 males from a store, and don't check them yourself... almost certainly one of them will be a female.

Gerrez said:
It was guppies we used to breed. Thing is the female can get pregnant up to five times from one contact with a male so separating them doesn't solve the issue straight away.
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Sisu said:
Yes that is true, they store it for months. You can't help that, you let them grow for 2 months so you can sex them and take out as well as the grown females and keep the males
Either way, have at least 3 females for every male. Otherwise it's like your missus having to put up with a horny you 8 to the tenth power 24 hours a day. <laugh>

With Sword tails, if you have all females one grows a dong!<yikes>
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I hate most livebearers because they breed so much. Mollies, Swordtails, Guppies, Platies; they've all driven me bonkers with their constant breeding.

Partially, because I felt the need to "Rescue" the young. Finally- got sick of them and let the other fish eat the young.
 
Jonesey said:
This is apt timing.

Tmorrow I've got the worst f**king job in the universe - got to drain, clean & seal our pond which hasn't been used for months.

It started losing water (don't know where fom yet - it's all concrete), all the fish died and the pump stopped working, and the wife wants it all back up & working again <doh>

So spare me a thought tomorrow afternoon, I'l be knee deep in fish ****!!!
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If you need help building a pond I posted a helpful tip. Will be on either page 1 or 2 of this.

Should def have a look <ok>
 
Milk said:
I hate most livebearers because they breed so much. Mollies, Swordtails, Guppies, Platies; they've all driven me bonkers with their constant breeding.

Partially, because I felt the need to "Rescue" the young. Finally- got sick of them and let the other fish eat the young.
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Breed platies too. If you don't "rescue" them, the mother bloody eats the babies lol
 
Just picked up 5 Black Ruby Barbs (would have got more... that's not really enough for a shoal... 5 is all they had) and 9 Tiger Barbs on my lunch break today.

They are resting in their bags in my work tank at the moment to maintain a steady temperature until I go home. The resident Betta in that tank is MAAAAAD! I feel quite sorry for him- he keeps circling the bags flaring like crazy. He does not like having other fish in his territory.

He accepts the dwarf pleco because it sticks to the sand... but he doesn't like other floating fish.



Male Black Rubies in breeding condition (not my photo- mine are all female except one... females lack the red)
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Tiger Barbs (everyone knows these fish! Again, not my photo)
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I got two more nerite snails too... were for my office tank until I remember that my nerites at home sometimes climb above the water level... and my office tank doesn't have a lid- so they're going home too!
 
Gerrez said:
Want one...

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what an awful looking contraption.

Cleaning that will be a f**ing joy<laugh> Especially the lower sections, or fishing a corpse out, looks like it would be awkward at best.

I'd avoid that thing like the plague if I were you, that or put plastic fish in it.
 
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