what pets have you got

Post by **petavius** » 20 May 2006 12:10 am

Two ferrets - George and Edmund plus a tropical tank with 3 neon tetras, 2 clown loaches, a sucking loach and 2 mollies.

Post by **garethreece** » 20 May 2006 10:55 am

Cool gem, can i come fishing now i got my fishin' licence??

We only have one pet, a jack russell terrier called holly (unless u count my sister

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Post by **RandomHero** » 20 May 2006 01:10 pm

We have a cat. It can be annoying sometimes. But mostly they are kinda cool animals. Bog part of the day she's liying around, doing absolutley nothing.

Post by **petavius** » 20 May 2006 01:10 pm

Gareth...I'll tell her you said that!

Post by **Chris_C** » 20 May 2006 04:48 pm

I've just bought a fish tank for my uni house

Post by **garethreece** » 22 May 2006 12:37 pm

U can tell her if you like, it wouldn't be the first time ive said it

Post by **petavius** » 22 May 2006 07:27 pm

I bet

I'll keep it to myself then

Post by **garethreece** » 23 May 2006 10:42 am

If you would be so kind

Post by **Chris_C** » 01 Jun 2006 10:00 pm

I've got my tank nearly fully set up now (well... it was a good distraction from exam revision and coursework...) Just a few more things to sort with it, but heres a few pictures

Tank:

School of neons (currently 7)

Couple of guppies

And a pair of pygmy puffers

Post by **petavius** » 01 Jun 2006 10:02 pm

That looks great Chris - very pretty set up.

Post by **Chris_C** » 01 Jun 2006 10:07 pm

They're great, really relaxing... now just wish I'd had them for the difficult part of this year!

Post by **ebdl** » 01 Jun 2006 10:35 pm

Do you find your guppies get a bit tetchy with each other? We used to have tropical fish and the guppies used to chase after each other and take chunks out of their tails. They ended up looking rather bedraggled.

Post by **Chris_C** » 02 Jun 2006 01:06 am

I've only had them in there since saturday, but they are more aggresive than I was expecting. I knew the puffers were going to be fin nippers, but seems the guppies just keep them at bay. I have 3 males, but luckily nothing serious yet, all fins are still intact.

Post by **redline** » 02 Jun 2006 08:12 am

ah ha ,you see Chris the guppies are very randy little so and so's .

iirc its best to have more females than males so there is plenty of pootang to go around then the males tend not to bother with each other to much.

its even been suggested that the males nip the other males fins to make them look like females,

How big is the tank ?
are you going to introduce any cat fish to help keep the glass clean ?
I had a couple of plecostomus cats

and bronze corydoras

that was in a communal tank with guppies , neons ,cardinals ,silvertips and a few gouramis another favourite of mine

trouble is the plecys grew to about 12 inches long and even though it was a four foot tank they kept stirring up the gravel

I have also kept oscars

which grew to well over a foot and piranha

Post by **Chris_C** » 02 Jun 2006 10:04 am

Yeah, tis true about the guppies Mick, I was going to get 2 females and one male, but the shop was shy on females

The tanks a 2ft one, so I could possibly put some females in after those lot have settled a bit.

I will get a cat of some kind, but I reckon a plec would outgrow th etank too quickly, great beasties they are though, used to have a hoooge one at home. Never kept gourmis, but do have oscars and red bellies on the island, I did really want one or a pair of oscars, they are an amazing fish, but again I thought they'd outgrow the tank too quick. It's also the first time I've kept the tank, and not me Dad, so thought probably better to stick with something easier!