Marine Fish tanks...
Alison
I'm after advice on where I can get the cheapest fish and especially
salt water from.
Thanks
Alison :)
Anthony Shipley
>Anyone here keep marine fish??
>
>I'm after advice on where I can get the cheapest fish and especially
>salt water from.
I hope this isn't going to start another of your endless threads, Al.
anthony shipley
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Patrick Hamlyn
>Anyone here keep marine fish??
>
>I'm after advice on where I can get the cheapest fish..
The Indian Ocean is best here. If you are not a diver, then go North to where
you can snorkel on shallow reefs, just don't do it in the protected conservation
areas.
>...and especially
>salt water from.
Once again, the Indian Ocean is hard to beat. If you don't want to use 'live'
stuff, which needs changing frequently, make up your own mix, any salt water
tropical aquarium fact book will have the correct formula, else buy it ready
made, there is a monster shop on Albany Highway just South of where it crosses
.. can't remember the name of the freeway...quite far South, anyway, maybe 4 or
5 km from the causeway
--
Patrick Hamlyn, Multiprogramming Pty Ltd
Posting from Perth, Windsurfing capital of Australia
Nama Gua
> salt water from.
>
Erm cheapest fish = blowfish :P
Fredy
JT
>I didn't know you could get fish that were un-marine
marine \Ma*rine"\, a. [L. marinus, fr. mare the sea: cf. F. marin. See
Mere a pool.] 1. Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the
ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine
productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
therefore all of the Freshwater species of Fish are "un-Marine"
JT
Dave
as per the original request
Cheers
Dave
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Dave
Dave
Alison <aw...@student.cowan.edu.au> wrote in message
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>Anyone here keep marine fish??
>
>salt water from.
>
>
>Alison :)
>
Nama Gua
> I didn't know you could get fish that were un-marine
>
Erm Dave, I guess Alison is talking about fish that takes snorkling
course :P (Unmarinely fishy type).
Fredy
JT
>Point taken, but can you clarify the saltwater species that are un-marine
>as per the original request
I didn't realise you were specifying saltwater species so no I can't.
I do know that many species of Saltwater fish live in Esturies and
Rivers at some stage of their life though.
>>
>>>I didn't know you could get fish that were un-marine
JT
Alison
> Point taken, but can you clarify the saltwater species that are
> un-marine
> as per the original request
> Cheers
> Dave
Dave I think you misunderstood what I was saying, I was asking if anyone
knew where to get the marine fish as well as the salt water that they
swim in.
Alison.
Alison
> I hope this isn't going to start another of your endless threads, Al.
>
Nah it's only cause of all the idiots here that endless threads get
started.
John Blahusiak
Mobius dicks. So to speak.
(On topic and everything! Am I good? :)
Rgds,
John.
Remove the 'ay' and the 'ee' to e-mail me.
Anthony Shipley
>(On topic and everything! Am I good? :)
Not if you have to ask :(
Jason Cornelius
aw...@student.cowan.edu.au says...
> Anthony Shipley wrote:
>
> > I hope this isn't going to start another of your endless threads, Al.
> >
>
> Nah it's only cause of all the idiots here that endless threads get
> started.
I think people are misunderstanding what you are asking.
You want to keep marine fish in a tank? What type of fish are you talking
about? Do you mean tropical fish? Goldfish?
People associate marine fish as being Snapper, or Blowfish, or Yellowtail
etc.
Anyways, I used to keep tropical fish, but I'd just get them from the
store closest to where I lived. It's a Bird/Fish place on Welshpool road,
right at the bottom of the Hill towards Lesmurdie/Kalamunda.
One other place that sells fish/aquariums is a pet shop in Belmont Forum.
Jason.
John Blahusiak
>>(On topic and everything! Am I good? :)
> Not if you have to ask :(
I figured as much. The smiley was there to poke fun at myself
before anyone else got the opportunity ;)
Rgds,
John. (still average)
jas
>Anthony Shipley wrote:
>
>> I hope this isn't going to start another of your endless threads, Al.
>
>Nah it's only cause of all the idiots here that endless threads get
>started.
IDIOTS??
I resemble that remark!
jas.
Jeffery Elkington
John Blahusiak wrote:
>
> Anthony Shipley <ast...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > John Blahusiak <jay...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >>(On topic and everything! Am I good? :)
>
> > Not if you have to ask :(
>
> I figured as much. The smiley was there to poke fun at myself
> before anyone else got the opportunity ;)
It's more polite to let everyone else go first :-)
> Rgds,
> John. (still average)
> Remove the 'ay' and the 'ee' to e-mail me.
--
Jeffery Elkington
Standing in the Sunlight Howling at the Moon.
http://www.iinet.net.au/~westjim
Alison
Jason Cornelius wrote:
> I think people are misunderstanding what you are asking.
> You want to keep marine fish in a tank? What type of fish are you
> talking
> about? Do you mean tropical fish? Goldfish?
> People associate marine fish as being Snapper, or Blowfish, or
> Yellowtail
> etc.
>
Ok. I see I need to do some education for all the non-fishy types who
insist on replying to a thread they don't know much about.
In the fish world (as in those fish we keep in tanks) there are
generally 3 types.
Goldfish, you know the ones that everyone owns as a child and then
illegally flushes down the toilet when they start floating upside down.
Tropical Fish, this term generally refers to any fresh water tropical
fish. Basically fish that live in goldfish water but need a heater.
Marine, this term refers to saltwater fish including snapper, yellowtail
etc whatever takes your fancy they also include corals and stuff like
that. If you want to see a marine tank go to Redheads (the downstairs
bar) and you'll see one. When it comes to marine tanks you need to buy
the saltwater that the fish swim in. you can't just go grab a couple of
bucket fulls out of the ocean, I don't think your all blind to concept
of polution, So you buy the water generally from the aquarium shop
where you also buy the fish and the corals.
One other point you should all note is that almost all the fish you buy
at the pet shop are actually shipped over from the eastern states
because no one here breeds them. When it comes to marine fish and
corals they are actually farmed from places on the reef (yes, like the
great barrier).
So to make my request really really clear to all those people who really
don't have to know My boyfriend is send his marine fish home from sydney
and so I have to set up a holding tank for them here until his tank
gets shipped over (no you cant just ship the tank over with the fish in
it) and so I was asking if anyone knew where to get the water from since
I havent dealt with marine fish over here before and wasn't sure where
to get it.
I hope the situation is clearer to you all now and you'll stop trying to
turn this into one of the threads that Anthony mentioned.
Thankyou
Alison.
Jason Cornelius
aw...@student.cowan.edu.au says...
>
> So to make my request really really clear to all those people who really
> don't have to know My boyfriend is send his marine fish home from sydney
> and so I have to set up a holding tank for them here until his tank
> gets shipped over (no you cant just ship the tank over with the fish in
> it) and so I was asking if anyone knew where to get the water from since
> I havent dealt with marine fish over here before and wasn't sure where
> to get it.
Well not many people keep marine fish, and judging by the thread so far,
no one can help.
All I can suggest is phoning a pet shop that sells tropical fish and
seeing if they can help. If they are a good shop, then they should be
able to give you some info on marine fish. They are usually pretty
knowledgable.
Look in the yellow pages under "Pet Shops".
Specifically, you might like to try Marine West in
1 Walker Place,
Gosnells.
PH: 9398 3127.
I think they might even rent out aquariums, which might be useful in your
situation, but I'm not 100% on that (I've never done business with them).
Hope that helps a bit more :)
Jason.