Re: Suggestions for decorating a Fish Bowl.

scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 7/28/2014 garmer said:
Scotty, second try. I've dabbled a bit with salt water tanks but, never tried breeding any marine animals. The tanks are gorgeous and, of course, expensive to start up.

I'd say my favorites are probably South American cichlids and African rift lake cichlids. I love Severums, Discus, Kribs, and every fish that lives in Lake Malawi, lol. Don't like the eye-biters, though. Eeeewwww. I've bred severums, discus, kribs, and some of the African mouth brooders...talk about cool. I've bred other species, too...even Bettas, lol.

My all time favorite fish was a wild caught male green severum. I got him at the pet shop I did business with, four of them actually, two males and two females. They were little babies, smaller than a quarter when I brought them home.

The one male would bite me, draw blood and everything if I dared to put my hand in the tank when he was caring for fry. He'd stare at me from one corner of the tank when he wanted feed, he would eat out of my hand...except when he had babies, lol. He had a personality, I swear. My dh thought I was crazy. Said to me one time, "I wish you cared as much about me as you do about those fish". LOL, poor baby.

Now that you have me thinking back, my list of favorites is getting longer and longer. As I said above, I could go on all night.

Money made selling fish always goes to more and fish and cool "stuff", at least for me it does. Oh well, at least my hobbie pays for itself. The stores I sell to prefer my stock to the farm raised, they know what they are getting, well cared for healthy quality fish. They aren't stressed by long distance travel, either. Only a short car ride from my house to the shop.

Scotty, do you keep fish?

garmer, no, I don't. The most experience I have had myself is with goldfish won as prizes at school events. Now that I am reading all about these fish, I don't think that's a very good way to treat the fish==as prizes.

Your hobby sounds very rewarding. I have always admired beautiful well cared for aquariums. My late stepfather used to keep one. Your story about the fish with personality made me smile. Stepdad had this really ugly fish (no idea what it was) but he named him "handsome" . My mom did not like that fish. She said he "didn't like her". Can you imagine?? I know you will understand since you talk about your fish having "personality" qualities. Anyway one time that fish jumped right out of his tank and landed on my mom and scared her half to death!! ${#emotions_dlg.lol}$

Also, my British gramma used to have a small tank. I loved to hear her talk about her fish. With her accent the different types of fish names sounded musical.

I have really enjoyed reading about your fish hobby.

RibbonsRosesRainbows · ‎05-12-2014

Thank you ROMARY and everyone. Right now the Betas will be in a tank at his home...one for each of us it is a tank that has three places for Bettas and walls dividing each Betta......a gift I got for his son........so I have had one before and it was nice but I got tired of cleaning the bowl but if this relationship does not work then I am getting a cat.

RibbonsRosesRainbows · ‎05-12-2014

The Bettas are at Petco.......they have some for $3.99 and the beautiful ones are $14.99 and $19.99.

BaileyandBella · ‎03-10-2010

On 7/28/2014 RibbonsRosesRainbows said:
Thank you ROMARY and everyone. Right now the Betas will be in a tank at his home...one for each of us it is a tank that has three places for Bettas and walls dividing each Betta......a gift I got for his son........so I have had one before and it was nice but I got tired of cleaning the bowl but if this relationship does not work then I am getting a cat.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

Hoping the fish thing works out for the prospective cat's sake.

biancardi · ‎03-10-2010

On 7/29/2014 deepwaterdotter said:
Hoping the fish thing works out for the prospective cat's sake.

If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane ~ Max
Look, I don’t like the taste of broccoli, but it doesn’t get tastier if you call it “Broccoli!”!
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. ~ Eames

Yuban3 · ‎03-10-2010

On 7/29/2014 deepwaterdotter said:
Hoping the fish thing works out for the prospective cat's sake.

Agreed. I just wonder who would get custody of the fish when they break up?

I feel sorry for any cat that the o/p gets.

Was Yuban, then changed to Plaid Pants due to forum upgrade, and apparently, I'm back to being Yuban.

sylviahomeatlast · ‎03-11-2010

gardenman---what!!! a great thread!!

sylviahomeatlast · ‎03-11-2010

cat?---------oooooh nooooo----poor kitty

garmer · ‎03-16-2010

On 7/28/2014 scotttie said:
On 7/28/2014 garmer said:
Scotty, second try. I've dabbled a bit with salt water tanks but, never tried breeding any marine animals. The tanks are gorgeous and, of course, expensive to start up.

I'd say my favorites are probably South American cichlids and African rift lake cichlids. I love Severums, Discus, Kribs, and every fish that lives in Lake Malawi, lol. Don't like the eye-biters, though. Eeeewwww. I've bred severums, discus, kribs, and some of the African mouth brooders...talk about cool. I've bred other species, too...even Bettas, lol.

My all time favorite fish was a wild caught male green severum. I got him at the pet shop I did business with, four of them actually, two males and two females. They were little babies, smaller than a quarter when I brought them home.

The one male would bite me, draw blood and everything if I dared to put my hand in the tank when he was caring for fry. He'd stare at me from one corner of the tank when he wanted feed, he would eat out of my hand...except when he had babies, lol. He had a personality, I swear. My dh thought I was crazy. Said to me one time, "I wish you cared as much about me as you do about those fish". LOL, poor baby.

Now that you have me thinking back, my list of favorites is getting longer and longer. As I said above, I could go on all night.

Money made selling fish always goes to more and fish and cool "stuff", at least for me it does. Oh well, at least my hobbie pays for itself. The stores I sell to prefer my stock to the farm raised, they know what they are getting, well cared for healthy quality fish. They aren't stressed by long distance travel, either. Only a short car ride from my house to the shop.

Scotty, do you keep fish?

garmer, no, I don't. The most experience I have had myself is with goldfish won as prizes at school events. Now that I am reading all about these fish, I don't think that's a very good way to treat the fish==as prizes.

Your hobby sounds very rewarding. I have always admired beautiful well cared for aquariums. My late stepfather used to keep one. Your story about the fish with personality made me smile. Stepdad had this really ugly fish (no idea what it was) but he named him "handsome" . My mom did not like that fish. She said he "didn't like her". Can you imagine?? I know you will understand since you talk about your fish having "personality" qualities. Anyway one time that fish jumped right out of his tank and landed on my mom and scared her half to death!! ${#emotions_dlg.lol}$

Also, my British gramma used to have a small tank. I loved to hear her talk about her fish. With her accent the different types of fish names sounded musical.

I have really enjoyed reading about your fish hobby.

Thanks Scotty. I go on too long, I figured I was boring everybody. Your stepdad's fish, yep I get it. Your Mom was probably right, it probably didn't like her if she wasn't the one who fed it, LOL!

The British are known for some beautifully set up tanks. I get some magazines from GB, it's still a popular hobby over there.

I spend hours and hours fiddling with my tanks. Some would consider it a chore but it's a great stress eliminator for me. I get lost in my own happy world. Same with gardening...

I wish RRR success and hope this goes well for her. Sometimes it's the little things that make us happy, maybe this will be the beginning of a nice hobby for her.