Hi everyone, my name is RJ Kellerman. I saw this site and read a few posts then decided to register. I started keeping fish when I was 11 years old, but lost my tank when we moved. Its been a few years now and my flatmate in STB got a small tank with a fighter and few guppies. Well after I cared for them the holidays I decided it was time again. Got a small tank by a friend of mine that he was going to throw away (Jebo 338 without lid). I fixed it and it works great. Then I got a special and bought a 100l long tank. Now i have 3 Rosy barbs(1 male 2 female), 4 khuli loaches, 2 angelfish, 1 albino rainbow shark, 1 dwarf gourami (m), 1 siamese fighter (f), 1 african butterfly fish and a common pleco. Recently I also purchased a figure 8 puffer that is now in the custom jebo tank that I made brackish. I also have been searching for a few months now and I finally found a striped red eye dwarf puffer(carinotetraodon salivator) female. Ok so thats all my fish, I hope to learn alot from this forum.
Welcome dude. Im sure you will learn many things on this forum (as i have done so), as this is a great community forum.
Welcome RJ, hope you enjoy your stay at TASA. I'm also in a flat, and the lack of space is a bit frustrating for people with MTS!
I have three tanks, it used to be more before I moved to my flat. I have a 100L community tank with various characins such as emperors, black neons, lemon tetras, rio tetras and cardinals, and some kribs, synodontis and a three-spot gourami. These fish are mostly very old and in various assortments of shoal numbers but they're still going strong. We've also got a 60L which we want to start breeding the lemon tetras in at some point, after the polypterus endlicheri we have in there is large enough to live in the 250L, which currently only houses a orange marble pleco and a stripe talking catfish. My two prize inhabitants of the 250L, a silver arowana an a tiger shovelnose catfish, ha to be move to a new home in a friends 850L tank where they're doing very well. We're currently looking at options for expanding the fish collection in the 250L while keeping in mind the possible need for space from the breeding of the lemon tetras.
Wow @Nirv that is a lot of water!!! How did you keep the arowana? What food does it eat? How big was it? @Luis pics are at: http://s1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd487/rjkellerman/ Photos were taken with my phone...
Heh, it wasn't enough water for these guys, hopefully I can have an 850L or similar one day. The arowana at first only ate live insects, bloodworms and chopped hake, but he got used to pellets and actually developed a taste for Nori (the algae wafer thing that goes around Sushi, which he would gulp down when I added it to the tank for our pleco). I also caught Gambusia affinis to feed to him (mosquitofish, an invasive livebearer introduced to control mosquitos by eating their larvae, but is quite destructive for our native fish) from various locations that I've found it. The tiger Shovelnose pretty much ate what the arowana ate and it was always a big even when people were around and I was feeding them . The arowana was around 25cm when we sold him, he's probably growing quickly in his new tank. I've had to "wrestle" him off the floor twice, once when putting him into the 250L when he was 10cm or so and again when we moved him out, when he was 25cm; they really are super powerful jumpers. I kept a fat textbook of fish health on top of the canopy to help prevent him throwing the lid off the tank. A picture we took on the day that we gave these guys to a friend can be found in this thread: http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?7946-250L-Suggestions-for-fish-composition.
Welcome rjk, also living in a flat, but i make space for more tanks, lol, even have one on the balcony
