FULL3R - New fish?

[William]

So which new fish did you end up getting?

[Full3R]

To my dissapointment they hadnt had a good ship in of fish for a while so my choices were VERY limited, they did not have and of which we named except the salmon tail and the red devil, they had a gorgeously coloured jack dempsey the same size as my oscar but was unsure of the conflict between them, i ended up purchasing a small red tiger oscar, i plan to check a back yard breeder i know possibly tomorrow who carries alot of cheap fish, and then another pet shop
(i have pictures of the red-tiger oscar with the barra which i shall shortly upload they arent good pictures actually)

[William]

Sorry to hear that. Hope you have better luck at the breeder.

[Full3R]

i should he has alot of large fish id never even seen before

[DemonShark]

weird looking fish?

[William]

Nice. Do you think he would alow you to take pictures there?

[Full3R]

i dont know, he might, ill ask him when i go

[William]

Thanks. Always nice to se pics.

[Full3R]

i have a few pictures of my red tiger oscar and barramundi together and my two albino oscars but they are rather blurey lol

[William]

Post them anyway. A pic is a pic is a pic.

Mail me them if you want me to upload them to the server.

[Full3R]

Ok, But when i say Blury i mean blury, plus i aint the best photgrapher, plus theres a nice flash in the side of the tank and ya gunna hate me for this but how do i send them to you?

[William]

LOl. I won't hate you.

Just email them to Admin[at]aquaticcommunity.com replace [at] with @

[Full3R]

lol thanx

[Full3R]

There a bit big so you might have to down size them, ive just sent them using a different email then i signed up with sorry

[William]

Doesn't matter which email you sent them from ;-)

I haven't gotten them yet but I will hopfully get them soon.

I will scale down the pictures in everyway so the size now doesn't really matter.

[William]

How big was the total size of the email you sent?

[Full3R]

umm the sending stuffed up ill try again, i down sized the pics a little so it would be quicker

[Full3R]

I just sent them, not sure if it worked tho

[William]

I got it. Looking at it now.

[Full3R]

i got a back message saying it didnt send the pics, so i sent the six pictures again sorry

[William]

Ok. you were right. Not the best picture in the world but nice to se none the less and I got the following out of it.

Full3Rs Oscar
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscarfull3r.jpg


Full3Rs Salmon shark
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/salmonsharkfull3r.jpg

Full3Rs Gouramis
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/gouramifull3r.jpg
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/gourami2full3r.jpg

However I didn't se the barra in the picture.

You can post the images in other topics by using the codes below


[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscarfull3r.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/salmonsharkfull3r.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/gouramifull3r.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/gourami2full3r.jpg[/img]

[William]

Ok. I got a bunch of new pictures from you in the mail now.

[Full3R]

in the picture titled Barra and oscar the barra is featured in the background also in the full fish set up the barra is hiding in his barrel

And in the picture titled barra and gourami the barra is right in the middle of the pic
you can see a white stripe which is actually the barra

ill get better quality pics asap sorry

[William]

Don't worry: I got one mail only containing one picture from you first. I got the second mail with more pictures a few secs ago and there I an se the Barra.

That said I do look forward to better pictures. But is nice seing this and than perhaps we can follow how your photo skills improves over time.

[Full3R]

yep lol

[William]

Ok. here are the rest of the pics:
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscar.jpg

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscar2.jpg

and togheter
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/AlbinoOscars.jpg

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Barra_Oscar.jpg

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Barra_gourami.jpg

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/BlueGourami_Oscar.jpg


The pictures to show that you have nice fish. The oscars look great.

Codes to post them in other threads.


[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/AlbinoOscars.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Barra_Oscar.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Barra_gourami.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/BlueGourami_Oscar.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscar.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/oscar2.jpg[/img]

[Full3R]

Thanx the large albino only has his right eye :(

[William]

Sorry to hear that. Whats the barrel like looking decoration you have. The one with the fake polyps on it.

[Full3R]

That Blue gourami until about the oscar got 7 inches lived with him and they got along fine infact they shared a pipe together but i had to move the gourami into the other tank as my other oscar needed to go with the 8 inch one

[Full3R]

the barrel like dedoration is a fake barrel mounted on a fake ocean rock which the barra lurks in and when it sees a mosquito fish with less then a second his out caught the fish and back in the barrel waiting for the next

[William]

Yeah. OScars often make strange friends. I know of one that Always swims with a rope fish.

[Full3R]

My oscar protected the gourami and when i removed the gourami the oscar was dperessed for about 2 weeks

[William]

thats cute.

[Full3R]

yeah, i still have both fish only in different tanks, also i just wanted to let you know i bought 2 convict cichlids for $8 each and they are about 2 inches in length, not sure if its a pair but i guess ill find out soon enough

[William]

Yes. You can also often se some red on the belly of females.

[Full3R]

one of them has yellow coming from the base of all its fins?

[Full3R]

Ok with the barramundi in the larger tank i dont have to worry about buying larger fish for my community tank, these are the fish i remember that are available

Blue Rams
Blue Acaras
Black Ghost Knife Fish
Red Tiger Oscars
Silver Dollars
Angelfish
Bala Sharks
Pakistani Loach
Bronze Cory Cat
Albino Cory Cat
Salmon Tailed Cats
Neon Blue Dwarf Gouramis
Bumble Bee Catfish
Pink Kissing Gouramis
Convict Cichlids
Clown Loaches
Male Bettas
Firemouth Cichlids
Swordtails
Mollies
Neon tetras
Hatchetfish
Glowlight tetras
Black Widow Tetras
Gold Severums
Freshwater Archer Fish
Elephant nose Fish

There Are more but i can remember what they are sorry but there will be all different breeds there but those are the ones i can remember wha would use choose out of those

[William]

How large was your community tank again?
and which of your fish is in it now? you keep moving fish ;-)

[Full3R]

ok in the large tank contains my 8 inch and 5 inch albino oscars, 5 inch green severum and 5 1/2 inch barra
In my small community tank which i plan to upgrade to be larger i have a 3' red tiger oscar, 4" blue gourami(male), 2" white gourami(female), 2" blue gourami(female), two 2" Covict Cichlids and my salmon tailed catfish i plan to move the salmon tail and red tiger into the the larger aquarium with the albino oscar barramundi and green severum when they are bigger

[William]

But you plan to keep the covicts in the community tank?

[Full3R]

is that bad
cuase the arent a pair and they get along fine with the other fish but if need be i will get another tank set up for them

[William]

Well it might be and it do limit you choices. A convict, even a small one, easily kills most of the fish on your list if they for some reason whats so ever get pissed.

They are more suitable for your oscar tank once they get bigger.

[Full3R]

well ill move them into that coz im working to move my computer onto the desk where the community tank is then move my oscar tank over the otherside of the room and put a 4 foot (55gallon) tank in place of the oscar tank and the computer and put the oscars green severum barramundi and convicts in the 55 gallon and then put my community fish in the old oscar tank

[William]

I just noticed that you had blue acaras on the list. and those could be kept with convicts.

Other wise I think I would have angels, rams and 1-2 black ghosts in the community aquarium.

[Full3R]

nice thanx for the advice

[Full3R]

is Julidochromis a pike cichlid

[William]

No. Its a Tanganyika cichlid. ITs require high pH levels to thrive. Nice fish but mostly suitable for a Tanganyika community tank.

[Full3R]

owell the guy that backyard breeds had those, he had

jewel Cichlids
Oscars
Julidochromis
Peacock cichlids
Bumble bee Cats
Dimidiochromis
Black Ghosts
Honey gouramis
Blue Gouramis
Angelfish
Red Tailed Sharks
upside down Catfish
Sailfin Pleco
Pleco of some sort and others

I was unsure of most and only had $20 So i bought a 3" Black Ghost which is doing fine

[William]

3 black ghost for 20$. Thats nice !

Jewel cichlids would work with the comvicts and are quite nice. How nice depends on the species of jewel cichlid.

Read Jewel Cichlids (http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/universal-viewid277.html) for info on the most common species.

How did the peacock cichlids look. The term can refer to both a group of south american cichlids and a group of malawi cichlids.

[Full3R]

when i said 3" black ghost i meant it was 3 inches, but he does do a deal of 3 black ghosts for $25 but he only had one left so i just bought the one

they were red jewel cichlids

and what do u mean how did they look colour wise or health wise?

[William]

Yes of course. Sorry I missed the "

Colour wise will tell me plenty ;-)

[Full3R]

there were summ that were plain in colour that had flat colours like shady whites and greys
but in the larger tank they were colourful with blues blacks browns and oranges all patched on the body why do you ask?

[William]

Well because there is one group of cichlids from lake Malawi and a group of south american cichlids and I think you would like the south american type. the Malawi kind should only be kept in malawi setups.

The Malawi looks like this
http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aquarium/aulonocara_stuartgranti_x.jpg
Copyright jjphoto.dk (http://www.jjphoto.dk)

another one
http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aquarium/aulonocara_species2_x.jpg
Copyright jjphoto.dk (http://www.jjphoto.dk)

They exist in numerous colours.

The south american looks like this
http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aquarium/cichla_ocellaris2_x.jpg
Copyright jjphoto.dk (http://www.jjphoto.dk)

which type did they looks most like.

(the pictures are by the way examples of the kind of pictures the site will be getting.)

[Full3R]

well there were some like the first one and the rest were i think were like the bottom pic

[William]

WI think you could like the ones below. but they do grow big

Read info about cichla cichlids to learn more about them.

[Full3R]

yeah i like the ones below but how big are they when u say big

[William]

Depends on the species but 60-70 cm. ocellaris seldom reach more than 35 in normal aquariums.

[Full3R]

Tomorrow i reluctantly am trading in my 7 inc pink oscar due to its violence towards my peaceful 9 inch albino and 4 inch red tiger oscar and 7 inch green severum, when i make the trade what fish should i get in return they have to be able to go with

tank 1
9 inch oscar
4 inch oscar
7 inch severum

tank 2
6 inch blue gourami
4 inch blue goruami
3 inch white gourami
5 black skirt tetras
4 inch black ghost
comet
shubunkin
guppies
plattys
telescopes
fantails

tank 3
Breeding pair of Black Convicts

[William]

Hard to say. Do you have any clue to what fish they have at the moment?

[Full3R]

Silver dollars, texas cichlids, varies tetras, oscars, peacock cichlids, varies gourami, bala sharks, rams, ghosts, guppies, plattys, swordtails, archerfish, elephant nose fish, large barra, pleco, slamon tail, clown and zebra loach, convicts, angels(which i want), goldfish, gold severums, discuss, bubmle bee cats, blue acaras, kuhli loaches, hatchetfish, rainbow sharks, Male and female bettas,

and thats all i can remember at 1:23am

[William]

How big is tank two. I am asking since that tank might be suitable for angels which you wanted.

[Full3R]

right now its only about three gallons but when i said tank two i meant the 20 gallon because we are going to move them into different tanks

[William]

Still a bit small for angels. I think I would consider getting some rams for tank two (the future one)

[Full3R]

oh, well i purchased to small 1 inch long angels and a 1 inch silver dollar, and ill put the angels in a bigger tank when they get bigger and the silver dollar i plan to put with the oscar and get more silver dollars

[William]

ok. where will you keep the angels for now?

[Full3R]

well RIGHT NOW they are in my small community tank but when we have the upgrade ill have that spare tank i was telling u about in another article and then theyll live by themselves i guess then ill have to buy another tank

[Full3R]

id also like to add i bought the angels before i read what u wrote about it being a bit to small

[William]

OK. It will take them some time to grow out it so you might have a new tank by than.

[Full3R]

yeah thank god

[Full3R]

I got my betta, hes not in the best condition but we'll work on it for him i have a tendancy to feel sorry for the sick fish at the shop and take them home, all my fish were pretty much sick or dying when i bought them sept like 10 of them

[Full3R]

Can i buy a blue acara female?

[William]

For which tank?
You could keep her with the convicts or perhaps the oscars (depending on relative size). I would however recommend getting a pair. But than again I always think one should keep fish in pairs ;-)

[Full3R]

well would they hang around each other heaps if tghey were a pair
but if i kept her with the convicts wouldnt they try and kill each other?

[William]

They might fight a little but if will most likely work out unless the tank is to small. (whats the size of the convict tank)

A air would likely hang around eachother and breed.They are as easy as convicts to breed.

[Full3R]

The convict tank is rather small, but they bred in a smaller one, but ill put the acaras in a small section of the oscar tank till they get a bit bigger then ill let em free throughout the tank

[Full3R]

But than again I always think one should keep fish in pairs ;-)

Then in that case do you think i should get my lone Shubunkin and Lone Black Moor A friend each?

[Full3R]

BTW i bought two blue acaras about 2 inches long for $12

[William]

ok. Congrats on the acaras.

No. I don't think you have to get more goldfish since they don't live in pairs such as acaras and many other cichlids do.

[Full3R]

My larger blue acar is agressive towards all the other fish even larger then it any ideas what to do

[William]

try changing the decore a litlle.

[Full3R]

kk
the larger agressive one always swims and hides with my ghost