Got Fish?!?!?

[ThingsGottaChange]

Hi all! I live in the northeast corner of Iowa. I currently have 3 freshwater tanks running. Right now I am looking for people in my area that are interested in some albino bristlenose plecos. I have at least 6 I need to get rid of. I do not want to ship them and can't seem to find anyone close enough to pick them up. Price is very negotiable! I just need to find GOOD homes for them. I'm running out of room!!

Of course, I'm also interested in talking to other folks that keep fish. It's really my only hobby. Well, besides my two Tortie Girls!

If anyone wants to talk fish, please post! If anyone wants fish, please pm me.

:hi:

[Jo March]

1. You might want to post this in the Iowa forum

That might help.

Good luck! :hi:

[ThingsGottaChange]

2. You mean the one

I have saved in My Forums?!? :silly: Doh!

Thanks!

[Kashka-Kat]

3. I love my goldies!

I have 5 pond fish - 4 sarassa comets, Big Red and Fluffy, and their off-spring Fluffy Jr. and Little One. Also, 1 shubunkin named Spot. I'll be building a bigger pond for them in spring and get 2 or 3 more shebunkins--I've seen some amazing ones w/ metallic blues/reds/black coloring. I was amazed at how aware and responsive fish are. I thought they'd be like earth worms or insects, totally oblivious, but they recognize me and come to be fed (while hiding from people they don't know). They follow me around the pond just like little puppies. The guy I get my pond supplies from has a big pond, his fish come when he whistles for them!

Gardenweb.com has some pretty active pond and aquarium forums, you might be able to find some homes there for your guys.

[ThingsGottaChange]

4. I envy you, Kashka-Kat

I would love to have a pond. But, alas, I am but a poor renter. Goldies are quite the little piggies! And anybody that says fish are stupid has never had any!

I've already posted in a bunch of forums. I'm just too chicken to ship them. Although, they were shipped to me when they were about 1/2 inch long!

Good luck with the new pond next year! Post pics of your pond if you have any.

[Kashka-Kat]

6. no pics now but

will definitely post photos when pond is done-- right now they're in a 100 gal stock tank because their old pond sprung a leak. BTW thats 1 way of not having to dig a pond--some people get a large plastic stock tank and pile up rocks around the side or decorate it some other way. They come in all sizes up to 1000 gals.

About your plecos-- good for you for caring about their welfare. It's got to be hard on them to be packed in little boxes and I think some are less tolerant of stress than others. Do you have Freecyle there? It's amazing -- the minute something is free, then hordes of people want it. Of course I'd be VERY selective about who I gave them to.

[ThingsGottaChange]

8. "Of course I'd be VERY selective about who I gave them to."

Well, that's the problem! I have no way of knowing if the people that get my fish are going to be as neurotic about them as I am!!! I should have started getting rid of some months ago. Is this separation anxiety???

[Kashka-Kat]

11. we have ways of finding out...

you can grill them (people applying to adopt your fish I mean!)

in a nice way of course-- ask questions to see how well they know fish and how to take care of them. Or if they don't know fish then what are they doing to learn. Who knows maybe you can be someone's fish mentor!

Ask for visiting rights and say you will bring the fish to their house. Not to harrass them, just to know where they're going. It's a good way of weeding out questionable people. If anyone gets huffy then cross them off the list. Anyone who loves and cares about animals is going to understand perfectly why you're doing that and know about the bonds between people and pets, even if "just a fish."

I've never given away fish, just a bunch of homeless cats and kittens over the years and I think people were actually more likely to want the cat knowing it had been well taken care of and that I wasn't going to give it away to just anyone. Ive never given away fish but on the Freecyle I've seen fish being given away and people will make it very clear in their ads that it's not first come first served but go to whoever will give it the best home. Nothing neurotic about caring about animals--its those heartless ones out there who've got the problems...

[purr]

5. I have a 75 gallon saltwater tank!

I loooove it. I have a blue regal tang, scopas tang, volitan lionfish, a mated pair of clarkii clowns, scooter blenny, some sort of goby (rainbow??) and a bunch of corals.

[ThingsGottaChange]

9. Pics, Purr! Pics!!!

I love saltwater tanks. They are so colorful. I'm too cheap and don't have the patience for one, though. Would love to see pics of yours!

[purr]

13. See my pics below. I really need to learn how to post :)

nt

[AValdoux]

7. 55-gallon community freshwater

I started with cichlids, firemouths. They get along with other fish so I've been adding catfish. I have 5 ghost catfish, a pictus, an eclipse, an upside-down & a couple others I can't remember their names.

I have two dwarf puffers, they are so tiny & cute. Haven't seen them puff up though. My betta is probably the happiest betta ever. I feel so sorry for those in tiny little bowls. Also (3)tiger bars, (3)red minor tetras, golden dojo loach, & black molly

My cichlids spawned a while back. We didn't remove them, thought we would let nature take its course. If I ended up with a few more cichlids, okay. Well the parents were so protective I ended up with 64 babies around 1/2 inch long. I didn't know what to do with them so we put them in our stock tank.


AValdoux

[ThingsGottaChange]

10. That sounds like a great community tank!

I've got a 55 planted with (1) Opaline Gourami, (3) Otocinclus, (5) Cherry Barbs, (5) adult Checkered Barbs and (2) babies that were born in the tank, (2) Schistura loaches, (6) cories (I have cory eggs I'm trying to hatch right now) and I think (7) young bristlenose.

My 29 just has (2) Bolivian rams (I think males) and 3 bristlenose. I also have a 10 gallon cool water tank with (2) Hillstream loaches and one bristlenose. Yeah. Gotta get rid of some of these plecos!

Cichlids are quite the little breeders, aren't they? But they make such awesome parents, don't they? My ex has Jack Dempsey's that produced a couple of batches of fry. We ended up taking them to 2 different fish stores just to get rid of them. But, they were so darn cute!

[purr]

12. here's some: (dialup warning)

Tried to do a panoramic but it didnt turn out right.


The Regal:


Female Clown:


Scopas:


and a group shot of them (can see the male clown very faintly)

[ThingsGottaChange]

14. AWESOME!!!

The tank is laid out beautifully. Excellent rock work. Is this considered a "reef" tank? I've never been able to understand the difference between "reef" and "saltwater" tanks.

Thanks for the great pics!!

[purr]

15. yes its a reef!

Thanks!!

You can have a FOWLR (Fish Only With Live Rock), FO (Fish Only), etc.. the reef has corals and anemones in it. Anything w/o the corals is just a saltwater tank.

We need about 20 more pounds of live rock and the tank will be set. We're FINALLY able to keep soft corals alive after 4 years of this tank being established. THe last picture I have the metal halide bulbs on so it looks brighter and bluer (is that a word?? lol)

[purr]

16. Oh forgot about my volitan lionfish... you can see him in the top pic

all the way on the left. Striped brownish fish with really long fins. If he stings you it could be fatal!!

[Samurai_Writer]

17. Look! It's Marlin and Dorie!

Is that Nemo in the background? ;)

Nice tank!

[purr]

18. Thanks:)

The clowns are different than Nemo and Marlin. I have Clarkii Clowns I forget what type Nemo is. I did have a Nemo fish when we first started our tank as a tester fish. Poor Fred got eaten a few months later :(

The smaller Clown is the male - go figure :rofl: