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athens...@gmail.com
about 6 years. I pretty much keep mollies, ottos, and some corys.
Right now I have one otto and 7 mollies. I haven't bought mollies for
I think 5 years. They're all offspring of mostly my original fish.
The tank is heavily planted.
Dan
On Apr 27, 2:08 pm, "athensgir...@gmail.com" <athensgir...@gmail.com>
wrote:
You're in the right place, Summer! Excellent info on planted tanks
here; (I'm sure Altum will say hello). ;-)
Searching the group archives will yield a wealth of info & looking
forward to you adding to that wealth.
Congratulations on the Mollies! When I see healthy, hardy Mollies in
a fish store I always pay closer attention to all of their fish, being
that I see that as a good sign. You might want to start a new thread
& tell us about them.
Welcome to TFA!
Dan
Imran
new with freshwater aquarium world. Most of the time, everytime I see
beautifully decorated aquarium, I always stunned, and stop by for a
while to appreciate the beuty of fish swimming happily in the
aquarium. My hobby with keeping up an aquarium didn't start until I
get an aquarium for my birthday present. And here is my very first
aquarium
http://blog.mohdimran.com/2006/05/my-aquarium.html
The longer I am with keeping the aquarium the more knowledge that I
got about the science of aquarium keeping, and I started to switch my
interest further into setting up planted aquarium. As a matter of
fact, I tried setting up planted nano tank at first. Decided to set up
another one at bigger still, but frankly, being really busy lately
that I haven't started it yet.
Anyway, you are welcome to read about my aquariums at my blog here
http://blog.mohdimran.com/search/label/Aquarium
Hoping to make friends with other fresh aquarium keepers out there ;)
anglerfishuk
pictures as well
edu...@gmail.com
yo, and I have aquariums since I was 12. Now I have some bettas
spreaded in my house, and a 20 gallon (72 L) planted tank. I like
discus, bettas, dwarf cichlids, characids and livebearers.
I have had lots of aquariums, but none was big enough for me :) Now
I'm planning to set up a 50 gallon tank for discus, cories and
cardinal tetras, and another small tank for dwarf cichlids (specially
rams).
Rgds,
Eduardo Starling
Joe
My name is Joe and I live in Dayton, OH. I have had a small backyard
water garden / pond for a long time now and just got finished
renovating it. I enjoy the plants and fish that go into the pond.
Currently there are no fish in the pond but i am going to get some
soon. And i have two lillies, a water cala lillie, a water iris, and a
hardy cana in the pond at this moment.
Joe McKibben
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>
Gill Passman
On May 14, 5:24 pm, Joe <joe.mckib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Joe and I live in Dayton, OH. I have had a small backyard
> water garden / pond for a long time now and just got finished
> renovating it. I enjoy the plants and fish that go into the pond.
> Currently there are no fish in the pond but i am going to get some
> soon. And i have two lillies, a water cala lillie, a water iris, and a
> hardy cana in the pond at this moment.
>
> Joe McKibben
Hi Joe and welcome to TFA.....we hope you enjoy your time here :-)
Gill
>
> On Apr 27, 2:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
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Jesse Joe
I'm Jesse, and wandered this way after a long hiatus from Usenet, only
to discover the sidewalks rolled up in that part of town. Poor usenet,
trolls under every bridge :(
Anyway, about e...I live in the Atlanta GA area, and currently run a
55 with 2 Severums, 2 Syno eupterus (sp?) catfish, and some barbs as
dither. My other tank is a tall 20 plant tank with a few tetras and a
small angel. The current project is getting a crop of glossistigma to
take to the plant tank, and getting the tank looking spiffy, which
will mean going back to being a chemistry nut :-)
I look forward to participating....I worked for a fish store for a few
years, and still remember how much more fun it is to help with other
folks' tanks than it is to get all soggy yourself :D Hopefully folks
will school me on my aquarium keeping as well.
--jjoe
matty s
Hello, my name is matthew (34), im from yorkshire (england). Ive been
keeping fish for three years now. Tropical freshwater tank, 210 litres
aqua one tank. I have seven tiger barbs, four rosey barbs, 3 cory, 3
pearl danio & a brislnose plec at the moment. My plants never seem to
do well but my fish just love all the room they get. Pleasure to meet
ya all.
Sparky
years and have even owned my own aquatic shop selling tropical,
coldwater and pond fish.
I have a 160L tropical fish tank setup which I am very proud of with
an excellent selection of fish.
Mellie
pretty friendly group from all over the world. We are currently
running a photo contest and would love to see your setups if you are
willing to share with us :-) Send to thefreshwateraquarium
@gmail.com. Just remove the space. If you don't fancy sending in
your photos then just join in the discussions or post anything fish
related to us. We'd love to hear from you.
Cheers
Mellie
dkine3
Hey everybody. My name is David Kinas, and I am from South Florida. I
have been taking care of and maintaining fishtanks for almost 10 years
now. My first tank was a little fresh water set up my father put
together for me when I was about 12, and ever since then I have been
hooked. I have had owned the whole spectrum of tank types...from fresh
water to salt water reef tanks. I worked at an aquarium fish store for
4 years, where I learned alot! Everybody knows how frustrating it
could be when you wake up next morning and find half of your fish dead
from an infinite number of reasons. Right now I currently own a 75
gallon fresh water tank mainly populated by oscars and other South
America cichlids. I joined this forum just to get to know some new
people and to see what everyone else is up to in the fish world. If
anyone needs any help with their aquarium, feel free to message me and
ill see if i can help!
Mellie
knowledgeble members here for advice. It makes less knowledgeble
members (me) feel more comfortable asking constant questions :-)
Hope you enjoy your stay here and look forward to your posts
Mellie
Rae
and tropical fish for seven years but this is my first tank with
Cichlids (from Lake Malawi). I still have a lot to learn so I hope
you all don't mind me asking heaps of probably dumb questions.
On Apr 28, 4:05 am, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> below.
>
Gill Passman
On May 24, 9:46 am, Rae <jasminskye2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi my name is Rae and I am from Sydney, I have been keeping Axolotls
> and tropical fish for seven years but this is my first tank with
> Cichlids (from Lake Malawi). I still have a lot to learn so I hope
> you all don't mind me asking heaps of probably dumb questions.
>
Hi Rae,
Welcome to TFA - hope you enjoy your time here. As for questions - ask
away - we'll be pleased to help in any way that we can :-) - I also
keep Malawi cichlids in one of my tanks - interesting and very
colourful fish :-)
Gill
Eduardo Starling
Ask all questions you have on your mind (maybe almost all questions...
:D). Everybody here is learning with each other, and nobody knows
everything.
Regards,
-- Eduardo
RedForeman
My handle is RedForeman, and I've been around for awhile... I've been
gone for a while, but I'm here and there nowadays...
I've got numerous tanks with various wet friends, and some dry
ones.... We call it our farm....
55g planted w/ CLs, Neons, Kuhlis, Cories, Kribs and a chocoPlec...
10g planted "almost show quality" low-tech, almost no maintenance tank
w/Platies and an albino bristlenose plec we call Goldie
29g barely planted because the Jack Dempsey likes to tear them up...
He's almost a year old and he's 5.5" long.... and gorgeous.
29g barebottom with Leonard Shell occupying it's space. Lenny is a
red eared slider that just loves to be talked to and fed crickets...
big fat ones....
3-20Ls with leopard geckos of various patterns, mostly the wife's
hobby....
2 cats, a dog and a guinea pig we call Bilbo...
My first tank was my 10g low-tech tank and it's been up now for 6
years... I like it the best...
Glad you're here,and I'm glad I've came here...
RedForeman
NetMax
~~
MeowKitty68
Hi. Annie here from Ca. <3
arloyola
keep them as natural as possible. Although we are starting we have
already a 20 gal, a 10 gal and now we are setting up a 55 with special
substrate for plants.
We have a blog in where we share our experience: http://aquarium-journal.com
The logo of this group is very cool, congratulation to the designer :)
Mister Gardener
MG
wfpearson
I maintained a planted aquarium some ten years ago. I just bought a
55g tank and am getting it started back up this week.
Mellie
of your posts and please don't hesitate to ask any question here.
Cheers
Mellie
Musi...@gmail.com
I recently purchased a house with a 3000 gallon koi pond - there are 6
koi in the pond ( approximately 12 inches plus) the only information
the prior homeowner gave me was here is a pond book and that he feeds
them twice a day with the pond pearls - I have been trying to figure
out the configuration of the pond and where the filter and pump are
( he has the pump on a switch in the house) but when I switch it on I
see no water movement. The fish look healthy at this point so I must
be doing something right but I'm sure its going to take me a minute to
figure out how this was set up - I was considering finding a local
pond person to see if they could help me with how this was configured
On Apr 27, 2:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> below.
>
Mellie
with us. Also check out some of the 'personal' home pages on 'pages'
section.
I will copy your post into a new discussion so that our ponding
friends can see it. When you post next put POND in capitals at the
beginning of the title. That helps too.
Enjoy your stay with us
Mellie
On May 31, 10:50 pm, "Music...@gmail.com" <Music...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently purchased a house with a 3000 gallon koi pond - there are 6
> koi in the pond ( approximately 12 inches plus) the only information
> the prior homeowner gave me was here is a pond book and that he feeds
> them twice a day with the pond pearls - I have been trying to figure
> out the configuration of the pond and where the filter and pump are
> ( he has the pump on a switch in the house) but when I switch it on I
> see no water movement. The fish look healthy at this point so I must
> be doing something right but I'm sure its going to take me a minute to
> figure out how this was set up - I was considering finding a local
> pond person to see if they could help me with how this was configured
>
> On Apr 27, 2:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> > after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> > guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> > below.
>
jhartshorn
my name is James. I bought my 30 gallon tank about 2 years ago (after
my girlfriend bought me 2 goldfish in a tiny tank for my birthday). I
have an angelfish, gouramis, clownloaches, zebra danios, silver sharks
a leopard plec and two tiny bristlenose catfishes that haven't grown
at all in the 18mnths I've had them. Just upgraded the goldfish (one
oranda and one black moor) to an 8 gallon lighted tank.
Been experimenting with growing java fern in the old goldfish tank in
a peat substrate and loaded with garden ferts and now have dozens of
'baby' ferns after just a couple of weeks!
NetMax
~~
bosing
group. i currently have a small koi pond, 1.40m x 2.30m x 0.60m with
2 kois, 1 carp, & 4 shubunkins. i also have a 1.10m x 0.40m x 0.50m
aquarium for my 6 golden tinfoils, 2 redhooks, and 1 pleco (janitor)
and a small 0.60m x 0.40m x 0.30m tank for my fancy german guppies. i
don't have a picture of them yet but will post some soon. i'm
thinking of adding a cichlid tank in the near future.
Mellie
Enjoy the group
Mellie
kuyper
> Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
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> http://groups.google.com/group/The-Freshwater-Aquarium/browse_frm/thread/b6ac4e8e45c35183
Hi! I'm James. My wife's the true aquarium lover; she tends one as
part of her work in a biology lab, and another at her parent's house,
but we don't have one in our house, yet. My wife is an impulse
shopper, with regard to fish just like she is with everything else.
She bought fish that will, when full grown be too many for her
parent's tank. She bought too few fish of each type, and didn't bother
checking what kind of temperature or water chemistry the different
types require. If and when we have our own aquarium, I'd like to put a
lot more thought into setting it up. That will include many questions
that I hope this group can help me answer.
My own ideas for an aquarium are, as is typical for me, rather
complicated; possibly too complicated for a beginner like myself to
attempt. Nonetheless, if my wife wants to have an aquarium, I want to
use it to try out my ideas. I'll post a seperate message with my
questions about my concept.
Mellie
like. There is always somebody here who has an answer or good idea.
Cheers
Mellie
On Jun 5, 9:08 am, kuyper <kuy...@wizard.net> wrote:
> Altum wrote:
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
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> >http://groups.google.com/group/The-Freshwater-Aquarium/browse_frm/thr...
> >http://groups.google.com/group/The-Freshwater-Aquarium/browse_frm/thr...
Cheryl Merrill
years old though many years it was dry I had used for room lighting.
Since I've had fish in it for the past 1.5 years, there's an
increasing serious algae problem which is why I've joined this group
for advice to solve. My last resort is buying a new aquarium. I hope
that won't be necessary.
http://fishygreengross.blogspot.com/
SFH...@gmail.com
Eclipse tank up and running for seven months. All is doing well with
my Albino Corys, Cardinal tetras, and Angel fish. Mostly have plastic
plants but just started experimenting with 2 Water Sprite. Hope too
switch to live plants if I can get them to grow. My Angels are young
and get along well with the Cardinals. Hope to get a 29 gal. tank
around Christmas for Angels. Scott.
Mellie
I love having live plants. Took me about 10 months before I took the
plunge.
Enjoy your stay
Mellie
On Jun 14, 12:53 pm, "SFHa...@gmail.com" <SFHa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello group. I'm fairly new to fish keeping having one 12 gallon
> Eclipse tank up and running for seven months. All is doing well with
> my Albino Corys, Cardinal tetras, and Angel fish. Mostly have plastic
> plants but just started experimenting with 2 Water Sprite. Hope too
> switch to live plants if I can get them to grow. My Angels are young
> and get along well with the Cardinals. Hope to get a 29 gal. tank
> around Christmas for Angels. Scott.
>
> On Apr 27, 2:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> > after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> > guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> > below.
>
yermej
time ago and now I'm in the process of building a Macquarium --
something like one of these http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/MacAquarium/
-- from a Mac Classic II. I'm thinking I'll start with another Betta
since the tank will be very small and that would be the easiest and
cheapest way to begin. I might add three neon tetra (along with
filtration and maybe some live plants) a little later on, but that
would be the limit of the Mac tank. Later I hope to get a larger
freshwater tank -- maybe 20 or 30 gallons, but that will be a while.
Now I'm off to read old threads and FAQs so I can figure out what I'm
doing...
abjo...@gmail.com
been reading this group for a couple of months, and I've really
enjoyed it -- figured I should take the plunge.
My wife and I have a 20H planted tank with two dwarf gourami, three
orange mollies, nine cardinal tetras, a yoyo (that Petco insisted was
a chinese algae eater -- he only cost me $2), two otos, a bamboo
shrimp, and a bunch of snails (some intentional, others not so much).
We've had the tank for about six months, and it's starting to look
pretty good.
I'm Northern Virginia, so if anyone knows of any good LFS in the area,
let me know!
~ Alex
Norbert
my name is Norbert. I'm from Germany. I have been keeping tropical
fish for round about 30 years.
Tanks: 240L, 112L, 60L, 40L, 20L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 10L.
Fish: Apistogramma hoignei, Apistogramma baenschi, L 104(?), LDA25
Pitbull, Tanichthys albonubes, Hemigrammus bleheri, Hyphessobrycon
pulchripinnis, Fundulopanchax gardneri, Pterophyllum, Ancistrus,
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Shrimps: C. Japonica, Caridina cf. cantonensis var. Bee, Crystal Red,
Red Fire
Plants: different Echinodorus, Cryptocorynne, Alternanthera, Bacopa,
Vesicularia dubyana, Microsorum pteropus, Barclaya longifolia, Anubias
var. Nana
I'm runnig a web site about aquaria in german language since 1999.
Starting as an archive of interesting german newsgroup discussions, it
is now based on a Wiki. Because I have collected some pictures of ill
fishes, I've created some international pages with those pictures:
http://www.drta-archiv.de/wikidis/index.php/Diseases/Diseases
I think these pictures can be usefull in dicussions about fish
diseases.
Norbert
g1234ray
Just found this group, names Graham, Uk, Do noy have any fish at the
moment, but used to have a inherited pond a few years ago, just mainly
goldfish and orfe, but enjoyed it . As I said no fish at moment but
would like to keep up with goings on if thats ok.
On 27 Apr, 19:05, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
Mellie
advise with anything you can add. You might get rushed into getting
more fish soon as this hobby is soooo addictive :-)
Also a big welcome to Norbert. Welcome to the group and thanks for
the link. Looks like you have a lot to share with us especially with
all those tanks you have.
Cheers
Mellie
On Jun 16, 1:42 pm, g1234ray <g1234...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Just found this group, names Graham, Uk, Do noy have any fish at the
> moment, but used to have a inherited pond a few years ago, just mainly
> goldfish and orfe, but enjoyed it . As I said no fish at moment but
> would like to keep up with goings on if thats ok.
>
> On 27 Apr, 19:05, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> > after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> > guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> > below.
>
Laura
Hello,
My name is Laura and I joined the group yesterday. I'm in North
Carolina
I have a small 5 gallon aquarium that has been home to Neon Tetras for
the last few
years and a couple of Platys before that. Right now the tank is empty
and cycling for new tenants.
In the meantime I am trying to decide what to buy when the time is
right, I am considering maybe
platys again, or I have seen a couple of cute guppies. I have been
interested in Corys for a while.
daxm
gallon sump system. I've had fish tanks for most of my life.
Currently I'm working on learning about aquascaping.
Though I doubt I will be of much help to others (since I haven't been
very scientific in my approach to this hobby) I do appreciate you all
letting me join in.
On Apr 27, 12:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> below.
>
Mellie
sure with all your experience you will be an asset especially for
people like me who usually have a dozen or so questions per day :-)
Laura, hope you come up with something exciting for your 5g. I put 5
white cloud mountain minnows in mine (lost 1) and then added a male
betta. Love watching them. They seem so happy.
Cheers
Mellie
On Jun 19, 6:37 pm, daxm <d...@daxm.net> wrote:
> Hello, My name is Dax Mickelson. I have a 125 gallon tank with a 30
> gallon sump system. I've had fish tanks for most of my life.
>
> Currently I'm working on learning about aquascaping.
>
> Though I doubt I will be of much help to others (since I haven't been
> very scientific in my approach to this hobby) I do appreciate you all
> letting me join in.
>
> On Apr 27, 12:05 pm, Altum <Pt.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello and welcome. If you're new to the group, please take a moment
> > to introduce yourself by replying to this post. Google closes threads
> > after three months, so we periodically have to start a new, blank
> > guest book thread. You can read everone else's intros in the links
> > below.
>
Adam
Alex finally came out of the shadows.
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tmasterv
My name is Todd and I have a 250 gallon pond that I built myself. The
pond has been established for 5 years. I live near Boulder Colorado.
NetMax
experience in ponds here, though at 250g, you can benefit from large
aquarium experience too.
~~
newguy
fishkeeping. I have 3 12 gallon and 1 3 gallon aquariums. One of the
12s has Neon Tetras and Zebra Danios. Another 12 has 4 female Betas.
My 3 gallon has a male Beta and the last 12 is empty right now. I plan
on putting corys and something else (not sure what) in that one. My
Tetra / Danio tank and my 3 g Beta tanks have live plants in them, I
plan on adding plants to the other tanks as well. Thats pretty much
it. Go Fishes!
-Brian
NetMax
~~
hemloc...@gmail.com
i have just set up a 30 gallon tank with an eheim canister filter. i
am right now trying to do a fishless cycle using ammonium chloride. i
only have gravel and a couple fake driftwood pieces in the tank now,
but the heater and filter are set up and running, and hopefully the
bacteria are starting to grow.
i'd like to eventually add live plants and a bunch of freshwater fish
to this tank, but i'm not sure exactly what i want yet, and i have a
few weeks until the cycle is finished.
i had a few tanks when i was younger, but that was about 15 years ago,
and i used the "darwinian" approach to aquaria: put stuff in and
whatever lives is what you have. i'm going to try to pay more
attention to the bacteria and chemical levels this time around because
i'd like to keep a healthy tank.
i'm sure i'll have all kinds of newbie questions!
Altum
thread.
--Altum