lol I dont know what else to call it. Its an aprox. 30-35 gallon rubbermaid tub. I just couldnt let it sit around empty. I have a sick SICK feeling this is just the start. :o)
Frogbit, duckweed, a betta, and 2 (one pictured) pink kissing gouramis. And a couple snails that traveled along with the floaters.
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Oooh, you've got the bug! Do you have an indoor tank in which you can overwinter your fish?
Yes we do.. DH loves the indoor tanks. I have to admit I do too. I think 99% of the fish are ones I picked out :o) I was thinking about getting some Mollies for the outside tub, but we started with Mollies.. and had more, and more, and still more Mollies! :o) I would love for somthing to breed in there tho. Maybe I got lucky with the gouranis, and one is male, and one female. Altho, they are big ol things! One is about 7 inches long, and the other about 9. I sware while fishing, I have caught smaller bluegill than those things!
We have a 55gal tank we need to restock. It's been sitting empty (save for the water and gravel) since we moved our goldfish outdoors in early spring. I just can't decide what to put in there. I like cichlids, especially the colorful African cichlids, but don't want to have just a species tank.
Yep, Shelly, it's just the start. ;) I started out with an antique Coke box (the coolers that have the little box on the side for bottle caps), then got a whiskey barrel tub, then stole one of the horses' 285 gallon watering troughs this spring. I started whining about not having enough room for all the plants I was getting in trade, so Kenny brought home another galvanized watering trough ~ 2' or so tall and 8' in diameter.
Of course I'm outgrowing that, too. ;) So he drug home an old 5000 gallon water tank that a friend gave him. He'll be cutting it in half for TWO MORE ponds for me! *Happy Dance!* That should do me for a few more months, 'til I get the 9000 gallon in-ground one planned and start in on him about digging the hole. *Giggle ~ snort ~ guffaw!*
Cute little tank you have there! I like the betta in it. Frogbit ~ is that another name for Floating Hearts? Or is that a totally different plant?
lol Wingnut! I thought about a trough also.. It may look a bit odd in the burbs here tho.
I dont know about the frogbit, and floating hearts. I think they are 2 different things. I looked it up in the PDB, and I didnt see floating hearts with the frogbit.
Kim, we thought about the chichlids also, but we decided on a more community tank. We have 3 balas, a clown loach, 2 green kissing gouramis, 2 yoyo loaches, 2 kuhli (?) loaches 2 eels, 2 skunk loaches, a yellow finned botia, a red finned botia, a rainbow finned shark, a 14 inch pleco, 3 pink cory cats, a bumble bee gobi, and I think thats it. We love all the different ones. Their behaviors are neat to observe.
Ooh, now I'm on a Google Images search to see what all of these look like. We've had a Columbian shark (Arius seemani - I had to look it up!), gouramis, sailfin mollies, swords, angelfish, neon tetras and a few others. We love fancy goldfish, but think we're done with them indoors - too prone to disease and so much more of a bummer to lose one of them!
Just found this fella's site; I bet you'll enjoy it. http://www.riebesell.net/aquaria/
Very neat site! Thanks Kim! Gosh I think we need some more fish! I saw a few I liked! :o)
Have you ever bought them through the mail? I've seen such varieties at places online that I don't see locally (especially within a radius I can justify gasoline-wise).
I have bought from http://www.aquariumfish.net/index.html The shipping is high, but there were some I just couldnt find anywhere even right in Denver. The fish came in great shape.
www.aquabid.com
Like ebay but with fish/supplies only. :)
How big is your tank Shelly?
The gouramis should breed rather easily. Especially in a pond enviroment! :-) Beauiful set up you have!
The tank all the fish are in is a 50 gallon. Oh no!!! Crim!!!!!! Off I go to check!
Thanks for saying its beautiful.. lol its really not that beautiful (looking) but the sound is wonderful, and the fish seem happy!
