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I heard Flip & Flop.

But are they this good?

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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:

How did you find the secret location of my tank filter Sir Cracked?

My son's fish is named Nemo and my daughter's is named Bubbles.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

UPDATE!

The water is clearing up. I tested the water with the dip sticks and the tests were all ok.

The fish are swimming quite nicely.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Yeah, the tank will figure itself out over time. There's a lot of crap that can cloud the water in a new tank (including sealants and such on cheap tanks), but most of that will be pulled by the filter. The balance just takes time as the system establishes itself (thankfully freshwater is a lot more forgiving than saltwater), and the water will clear up as the balance is established.

Either way, you should still get a sucker fish. They're cool dangit!
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks, but I will just work on keeping the 2 alive for now....
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Sucker fish help clean the tank, and are all but indestructible themselves. They grow based on the size of the tank, and we had one get to over 8" long in our pond. The pond froze solid for over a month in the winter and that fish survived it hehe. You shouldn't rush out and get one yet anyways because they survive by cleaning your tank. Your tank is too new to have the algae and stuff they eat so you'd have to feed them algae tabs or normal fish food (I think they both eat that too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plecostomus

They're still too cool to not have one. Plus they clean your tank for you, pfft!

You could get a rock-sucker instead, they're just not as cool hehe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancistrus

I learned something from those articles. I didn't know that having something made of real wood in the tank helps them. Cool.
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Michelle · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:

It sounds like there's something fishy going on here. #ni-1

Well done with the feeding and stuff, John. I have a tendency to overfeed the goldfish, and unfortunately the last lot didn't last very long.
Embarassed

I might try again as a housewarming pressie to ourselves when we move.
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jbyram2 · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

We kept our goldie in a little round bowl for a year... just changed out 2/3 of the water every few days.
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mohrorless · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

Good luck with them Michelle!

The kids love them. Today we had my son's 5th b'day party and all the kids (especially the littlest ones) got excited by them.
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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

*UPDATE*

I have the sad duty to report that Bubbles (my daughter's fish) died yesterday. He had been acting rather suggishly for a day or 2. Hardly moving and barely eating. The only real time he moved is when Nemo would chase him around and it would ony last a few seconds.

Nemo is doing fine.

My daughter was heartbroken. She is better today and I promised her that we would go get another fish (if she wanted to) tomorrow. She does. So it will be a Daddy/Daughter trip to the pet store.
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Michelle · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject:

That is sad news about Bubbles. Sad

Did you get your daughter another fish?
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mohrorless · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:53 am Post subject:

Michelle · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

That's great, John. #ni-1

If they get along well enough you might end up with some baby fishies. Wink

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mohrorless · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

That is one of my wife's concerns.....

I don't think it will happen. I'll worry about that if/when it happens. I'm more concerned about keeping them alive. I changed about 30% of the water today and tested afterwards and came up with a lot of ammonia. I put thte neutralizer in and added the bacteria kick start stuff (cycle) and wondered why it was taking so long for the natural bio cycle to kick in.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:

Well lit happened agin (sort of)....

Last night I checked on the fish and Nemo (my son's fish) decided to join the original Bubbles. This was after the kids were in bed, so there was no telling them then.

My wife is not going to mention to him this morning. I say it's cause she does not want to have to tell him and deal with it, she says it is because she doesn't want to deal with it in the morning & that I will have to perform the funeral rites and dig the grave.

I've decided to hold off on getting a replacement for a couple of weeks to make sure everything is ok with the tank. The water has been a bit cloudy for a week (I have been doing the partial water changes, neutralizing the ammonia, testing the water (everything has been ok - the ammonia has been high, but I neutralized), minimal feeding (no more then a little 2x per day, the last few days only 1x per day)).

I am at a loss as to what is going on. Confused

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Michelle · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:12 am Post subject:

Oh dear. That's the sad thing about having pets.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject:

Turns out my wife did tell him this morning and he was upset for a little while. My daughter comforted him and then he was ok.
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KWSN Im Not Dead · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

Just drop $1200 and get an African Gray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_grey

They live up to 60 years and can learn to speak. Plus if you have someone you dont like that keeps coming over, invite them to pet your bird. When they pull back 1/2 a finger they might get the hint Smile

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Pfft, parrots are for sissies. What you really need is a peregrine falcon.

All you need is a federal falconers license, which requires you to become an apprentice falconer for 2 years first and build an inspected and approved enclosure. Then, having become a general falconer, just 5 more years, when you become a master falconer, you can get your own peregrine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry

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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject:

Waaaaayyyy tooooo tempting. THere are a few I would turn into food, just to be a prick.

Fish update:

There are none. My daughter's second fish (Bubbles II) dies a couple of days after Nemo. They were buiried together (next to Bubbles I).

Then I drained the tank, cleand the heck out of it. Got new (bigger) stones for eh bottom (the original was small enough where the fish could scoop them up with their mouths (these are the size of marbles, no worries there).

I also acquired a second castle and a colered plastic flower attached to a lava rock.

Cleaned the heck out of everything again and reset up the tank. It has been 2 weeks and no fish loss....of course I have yet to get any fish, so it would have been hard to lose any. I figured (and read) that a couple to 4 weeks for the tank to run on it's own would be a good start for any new fish we do get.
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