My Oscar Is Checking Out...

[OTGBOSTON]

that sux MB....rip Mr oscar

 

[Jonseredbred]

Are you gonna eat him?

 

[No_Bivy]

prolly a good fighter on a fish'n pole


RIP......what was his/her name?

 

[NeTree]

That sucks.

Looks like me may have had ich?

 

[woodworkingboy]

Too bad. Don't get depressed now staring at his empty tank.

I poisoned all my tropical fish once. I drained the water to clean out the algae, but I didn't get all the detergent rinsed out before I refilled it. The whole lot went belly up. Major sadness.....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Looks like me may have had ich?

No, he was dead. I just left him in the tank too long.

Jay, under NO circumstances do you use ANY type of detergent to clean ANY aquarium stuff. Never, no way, no how. Just warm water.... or cold, if you want to save the good bacteria.

 

[woodworkingboy]

There is good bacteria in the tank? I never knew that.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just like the naturally occurring bacterial flora that exist in our body and Nature, so goes it for an aquatic biosphere.

There is good bacteria in the tank? I never knew that.

That's why your fish died, lol.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Thanks. It was a painful lesson. I had some money tied up in the more exotic species. I saw it happening and didn't know what to do, just sort of panicked.

 

[rumination]

Sorry to hear about your buddy passing on Butch.

 

[gf beranek]

Tough to lose a pet for so many years. Sorry to hear, Butch.

Get a couple of guppies, in a year you'll have so many you wont know what to do with them all.

 

[Al Smith]

My ex wife was the best I've ever seen for creating a "balanced "aquarium .Meaning you didn't have to feed too often nor clean the tank often .

You get the right balance of prey fish,food fish and bottom feeders along with snails etc .The tank stays clean ,the system is healthy .

It may sound stupid but I used to watch those danged things for hours,very relaxing .

Like Butch said though ,you have to have an oscar by himself or things will happen . They often jump clear out of the tank for unknown reasons .

 

[NeTree]

"Good" bacteria in your tank eat the ammonia from the fish urine.

 

[MasterBlaster]

You're partially correct, but it's WAY more complicated than that.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It may sound stupid but I used to watch those danged things for hours,very relaxing .

Not stoopid at all, that's exactly what they're intended to be.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I hate when you get a new fish and it turns out to be stressed out and bites the other fish. I prefer all the brothers in harmony. That's one reason why I went to keeping one beta, and then a burger eating piranha. I don't think you can buy a piranha anymore, the authorities being afraid that they will get dumped in lakes and multiply.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I hate when you get a new fish and it turns out to be stressed out and bites the other fish.

That's odd, it's usually the other way around. The best case scenerio is to introduce the fish together, all at once.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Funny about that, at first they are inhibited, then they can get territorial, or just become touchy. There needs to be a boss in the tank to keep it under control.

 

[Al Smith]

I know, Butch.

I used to have 3 huge aquariums. Very relaxing.

--and comical .I've never seen such a "go getter " among the male gender as a male molly .Those things are the minks of fishdom .Seems they have plenty of lead in their pencils 7 and 24 .

 

[Che]

Sorry about your Oscar. That's one BIG fish!!

I've never done a salt water aquarium. I read how complicated it was and that was enough for me.

My cousin in Louisville had a huge tank, like four foot long....full of anemone and starfish, stuff like that. He backed it up to a spare room and kept the pumps and air filters there, out of site. During the ice storm he lost it all.

 

[Blinky]

I missed this thread.

My brother had a badass oscar in a tank with an electric catfish, he had saltwater tank with a lion fish and some other cool critters. Orange sunshine and fish tanks... that was a lot of fun.

I kept native stream life for a few years... more hours of staring.

Sorry about the oscar but small cichlids are cool too. We have firemouth cichlids that were introduced to control vegetation in one lake but they've spread into several drainages.

 

[MasterBlaster]

During the ice storm he lost it all.

Tell me about it, I had the same set-up. but instead of an ice storm, it was a parasite.

 

[vharrison]

Lights out.

RIP

 

[sotc]

Wow, I had no idea it was that big!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, they get big alright - that's part of the appeal. You should see them eat another fish. First they scale it, then they start chomping. You can actually hear the bones crunching if you silence everything.

I didn't feed this one live food, or he woulda been even bigger.