jpmtotoro

must have been two tadpoles. you know, the generic ones. "oh cute... tadpoles... maybe they'll turn into cute frogs..."

i have them in a vivarium with some newts and other critters. they turned into decently-sized frogs... and by decently-sized, i mean "able to swallow a firebelly newt." i fed them crickets and bloodworms pretty frequently... but i think one day i forgot or something and i heard this very loud splash while i was watching TV and i darted to the tank just in time to see a firebelly newt tail get slurped up. i felt soooo bad for my little newt (it was a newt tank! i had about 6 or so in there plus some dwarf frogs for entertainment) so i was scared the two big frogs were going to eat everything!!! yeah... they went bye-bye that night...

oh ok... and this other one doesn't count as a "purchase." this was a "gift" from my (now ex) girlfriend. it was a baby red-eared slider turtle! oh yes, terribly cute... but i of course had no interest in a TURTLE. so i had to toss him in my vivarium for a while. he happily ate bloodworms and anything else i put in there. then i noticed one day he was eating my PLANTS. and he was getting big, fast. and i was grumbling the whole time... then one day i heard a loud splash, and i instinctively darted to the aquarium... just in time to see him swallow a yum-yum eel! the eel was probably about 6 inches long, and the silly turtle was only about the circumference of a coke can. poor eel the turtle is now somewhere in illinois with some nutty pet-lover. it was a cute turtle... but not suitable for a 65 gallon planted vivarium.

Grayum

Every time I hear of someone buying any catfish to use as a "worker" fish, I cringe. Almost ever time they end up living off of fish food, algae chips and fresh vegtables, and not really carring about algae. If you have ever looked in to their natrual enviroment, you'd understand. Any of the plecos coming from the lower amazon (royas etc) pretty much live in murky tannin stained water, devoid of almost everything but logs. Pretty much like throwing them in to a food paradise. Algae is the last thing on their mind

slickwillislim

I havent seen an otto eat anything but algae in my tank, same with amano shrimp. Maybe I am lucky and got some hard working fish.

MiSo

mine was the rummy noses or the cardinal tetras that i bought.

i bought these fish a week apart. i dont remember exactly which fish was the cause but i didn't quaranteen and ich broke out in the tank. lost about $50 worth of fish.

Blacksunshine

My tiger fish. I had bought 3 of them. and altho they are the most awesome FW fish you can imgine. Their requirements at full size are insane. I would be up at nights pondering how I was going to provide them 1-2000 gallons of swimming room in my appartment.
Sadly 2 died shortly after getting them and the other had died a couple months ago. They never got to the size where I needed the upgrade. (luckly) But They would have driven my hobby into an obsession... well more so.
So altho I was deeply sadded by the last one's death it was also quite a releif.

Ironically I still want another. But have to force myself to wait untill I buy a house that I can have a large tank built into. Or a heated pool.
that and they go for about 200 a peice around here because all the stores try and sell them as goliaths when they are really vitattus.

yellowfox

my marble angle, bought 2 tiny angles put them out side in a 35 galon tub for the summer . one jumped out .the other got as big as my hand, whin i moved it in to the 55 gal. he wouldn't let me keep any other fish, would heras them till they dided. had him for 5 years.he dided this summer

Greeblies

ooh, violet (dragon) goby added into a planted tank. What a mess =(

Kitishane

I have two:

Chinese Algae Eater (CAE): The first one I had was great, but died prematurely. I figured since the first one was so awesome, a new one would be too. Lord was I wrong. I ended up having to move him out of his original tank and into a new one because he was terrorizing my poor Betta to death. Shortly after being moved in to the 30g, he took out two blue gourami, and all but obliterated our two bala sharks. We took him to our LFS, and when they asked if we wanted store credit, we told them no thank you, taking him off our hands was more than worth it.

Fancy Guppies: I bought these to fill the void in my office tank when my Betta died. However, I have come to realize that I'm not terribly fond of the two I have, and would prefer to see something different in there.

I know it's been said before, but I've never heard of agression issues in SAE. Often times CAE are labled as SAE, and many people walk away with the wrong fish. CAE tend to loose interest in aglae as they get older, and often become agressive as they grow. Most of the time, it's your chain stores that will happily sell you CAE under the SAE name.

DLOBREAKS

Must ask y? They're so cool. .. .



Mine's the three long-finned black skirt tetras i have that constantly fin nip each other

Greeblies

Well, it's like this..

1. Mine seems to only be happy in a sandy substrate, any kind of rock and he seems to have problems because he slithers around on the bottom of the tank like a snake, and he "wiggles" his whole body a lot to mark his territory, in the rocks this just tears his belly up.. in the sand it mooks the water up and is heck on my filters.

2. He LOOOOOVES to root, my daughter calls him a "piggy fish" because.. the way they eat is they scoop sand into their mouth.. and sift through it to get the food they want and spit everything else out. Sooooo.. all that work you put into placing your plants is thrown out the window when you wake up the next morning and find them all floating at the top of the tank.


Now.. don't get me wrong, I LOVE that fish, enough so that I bought him his own tank to live in. It's just that.. well, he wasn't a good addition into the 'planted' scene. (read: bull in a china closet)

As far as mannerisms.. he's one of the most entertaining (when he's out) because when he goes to wiggling around the tank his whole body moves, and it really does have some amazing colors and it really is an unusual fish.

However, like I said, just not good for the planted scene =)

He's 11 inches long right now, heres a pic of him when he was 'only' 5 or so. If you look in the back, you can see evidence of his "rooting".. that plant had been properly covered just hours before he exposed its roots to see what it was =)



Back when I him in a sandy community tank.. he burrowed a cave underneath an oddly shaped piece of holey rock.. he'd stay in there, and stick his big head out going "Gloop gloop gloop" at me.. tell me dragon fish wasn't an appropriate name.. sheesh



Ohyeah, the haze in that picture near the mouth of his cave is him rennovating.. possibly clearing some sand out of the living room for his new big screen?