rare freshwater tropical fish
This is our 85 gallon community aquarium which we set up in October 2007. We bought all the fish as babies last year and they’ve grown huge. As a result, the fish tank is very overcrowded. I am diligent with water quality and try to change 60% every 2 weeks or so. I know I’ll be criticized for the number of fish in this fishtank. Here’s the list of fish: 4Black Bar Myleus “Tetra disco” “Blackear Pacu” (Myleus Schomburgki) 3 Common Silver Dollar (Metynnis Hypsauchen or Argenteus) 2 Mystery Silver Dollars (Metynnis Mola or Luna) 1 Flagtail (Semaprochilodus taeniurus) 1 Silver Distichodus (Distichodus affinis) 1 Chinese Hi Fin “Hifin” Banded Shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) 1 Earth Eater Cichlid (Geophagus jurupari) 2 Fancy Goldfish (Carassius auratus) 4 Rosy Red Minnow (Pimephales promelas) 3 Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) 1 Keyhole Cichlid (Aequidens maroni) 4 Pleco (Plecostomus) 1 Royal Pleco (Panaque nigrolineatus) 1 Blue Gourami ((Trichogaster trichopterus) 9 Bumblebee Goby (Brachygobius xanthozona) 8 Black Neon Tetra (Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi) 3 Rasbora (Rasbora heteromorpha) 2 Albino White Cloud Minnow (Tanichthys albonubes) 2 Darter Fish 1 Bluefin Killifish? (Lucania goodei) 4 Hillstream Loach (Beaufortia kweichowensis) 1 Weather “Dojo” Loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) 2 Horseface Loach (Acantopsis choirorhynchos) 1 Neon Blue Australian Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia praecox) 6 Kuhli Loach (Pangio kuhlii) 8 Ghost Shrimp (Palaemonetes) 5 Apple Snails (Ampullariidae …
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:53 pm
@degal13
Thanks. Yeah the largest are now 8 inches. Here’s a more recent vid:
watch?v=DQjTwjaFXww
February 4th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
what is that shark looking thing
February 5th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
probably a shark
February 15th, 2010 at 11:02 am
i love that anglefish looking one
February 16th, 2010 at 1:05 am
your tank is amazing!
right now i’ve got my own 29 gallon aquarium, and would like to know what you think of it. It’s the featured video on my channel if youd like to take a minute to look at it. I’ d appreciate it a lot! Tell me what you think
February 16th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
@stopmotionrevolution
o.k.
February 27th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
i dont think those fish are very rare, either way nice tank
February 27th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
are tropical fish saltwater?
March 1st, 2010 at 7:28 pm
dude to much fishes in this thank
March 12th, 2010 at 12:15 am
No, tropical means warm water. Marine would be the term used for a salt water tank.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:24 am
yep
March 13th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
rare?
March 13th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Ever seen black-barred myleus before?
March 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
60%/2 weeks is not a lot…that’s 30%/week.
if you want HIGH quality water, try 50% everyday or every other day. that’s what many people growing out discus do.
March 14th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Yeah, well……big job, little time.
March 14th, 2010 at 6:38 am
keeping so many fish in one tank is not forced on you…give some fish away…
or spend $50 on a python water changer and all u need to do is sit down for 2 mins on sunday while the water drains. then u flip the switch and sit down for 2 mins while the tank fills. and then u spend a minute measuring out water conditioner. 5 mins total. and if you can afford all these fish, you can afford $50 for a water changer.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:21 am
@irbenson
pithon won’t work with our sink
March 16th, 2010 at 3:54 am
u can build ur own(really just a long plastic tube), or u can buy some kind of adaptor to attach to your sink or python
March 17th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
i noticedyou have a heated tank with tropacail fish but yet you hve a gold fish how is that how did they survie? what do they eat? i want to no becuase i always wanted a goldfish in my tropical fish tank
March 19th, 2010 at 1:00 am
I don’t recommend you adding a goldfish. I removed mine. They’re happy with dry goldfish food but don’t overfeed.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
hly monkey
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:56 am
that is what I would call a FISHSOUP
xD
April 24th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
hmm whats rare about it other than you mixing cold water with tropical fish, not rare, I would say it makes you unfortunately look like you havent a clue about keeping fish
April 24th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
lol rare? what is rare about it?
Why are you mixing cold water fish with tropical fish, cant be good for the poor fish!
April 25th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
@8inary
The black bars are faily “rare” in fish stores. Others like the silver dist are also rarely seen.
Goldfish no longer in the tank. The Hifin is not technically a cold water fish. They can tolerate temps easily to 80 degrees.
Two most commonly asked questions. Answered over and over….(sigh)