shoot me...

[AquariCam]

If this is posted in the wrong place!

Is this the right place to say "hi, just joined"?

if so...

Hi, just joined your forum and will be spending some time just reading all the info in here before posting any of my own!

In brief....

Juwel 180 Vision
Interpet prime20 external
planted (cheap CO2 system)

5 adult silver dollars (don't tell me off, I know)
2 pim pictus
1 bristlemose
2 Golden Barbs
6 Pristella Tetras
2,4,6,8 Guppies

Am fairly new to tropical fish (after a break from them) and only recently re-housed the pair of Silver Dollars I've had since babies (they were in a 10gall hex). Now I have 5 adults in my 180ltr bow. I believe I have 4 girls and 1 boy - but he doesn't seem to want to be a daddy:(

Stay tuned and after I've had a good look around I'll tell you more about them

http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album02/sd2.thumb.jpg my first pair, had them 2 years now

[NJ Devils Fan]

Welcome to AC! :)

[mt_marcy]

hi :D Welcom to Aquaria Central and I hope u have fun reading the posts!!!
mt_marcy!

[wetmanNY]

Don't believe everything you read at AC. Sometimes we're just babbling here, eh gang?

[NJ Devils Fan]

Yea, only listen to the people from NY. ;)

[Dangerdoll]

welcome to the boards!! You'll be guaranteed to learn much and laugh often!! :D

[Harry Tolen]

Welcome to AC. Sounds like a nice tank. Of course, with plants, the Silver Dollars will give you a run for your money, but I keep quite a few and find them to be excellent schooling fish for large tanks. Please post more pictures when you have the chance, we LOVE pictures. Much easier for some of us than those little, um, word thingys...

[AquariCam]

Thanks for the welcome, did someone actually ask me to post pictures? Harry, on your head be it!!

Header on my website....
http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/aquaricam/gallimages/slimtank3.jpg

Share and share alike......

http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album02/thats_my_algae_wafer.jpg

The tank xmas 2002
http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album11/Tank_09_01_2003.jpg

Peter & Pat the pims...
http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album01/pim_028smll.sized.jpg

Barry the Bristlenose....

http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album07/Bristlenose_17_12_2002.jpg

The son of my lonely (deceased) guppy. he is now brother and father to 6 fry from 2 births.
http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album03/Young_Guppie.jpg

Sadly I lost the albino(ish) Golden Barb at the top - these fish have great characters
http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/albums/album06/Golden_Barbs.jpg

Now, wheres me camera? If I'm online you might catch my AquariCam (http://cgi.andnora.plus.com/aquaricam/article.php?sid=7)

[kveeti]

Welcome to AC. Those are all beautiful pictures, but I have a soft spot for guppies. He's gorgeous!

[AquariCam]

Thanks kveeti, and yes he is gorgeous (I'll get a pick of him now he is older).

As the topic title says "shoot me" cos I have decided to breed my guppies 'au natural' and don't put fry in a birthing tank. I'll let them give birth in the main tank and wait to see how may survive - so far 6 from 2 births. IMHO and in the words of an old favourite "only the stong survive" maybe thats why he is a good specimen? I hope his fry look as good, though its definatley going to be interbreeding. Maybe I should cycle my 10gall hex and turn it into guppy heaven?

[125gJoe]

Nice pics! Welcome aboard.. :)

[kveeti]

Originally posted by AquariCam
I have decided to breed my guppies 'au natural' and don't put fry in a birthing tank. I'll let them give birth in the main tank and wait to see how may survive - so far 6 from 2 births. IMHO and in the words of an old favourite "only the stong survive" maybe thats why he is a good specimen?

I did that at first. Yes, only the odd one or two would survive the first few months.... I don't know what happened, whether the adults now are just too "used" to having babies around, or they're getting tired of the same old dinner.... but now I have way too many and they're not getting eaten; my betta can't even keep up any more.

But you have bigger fish than I do, so you probably won't have the same problem.

[AquariCam]

I'm not after loads of guppies in the tank so I'll just see if nature takes it course, will wait and see. I did go through a phase of losing fish a while back and one day saw one of my pim pictus cats swallowing one of my pristella tetras - he had 4 in total and a couple of adult guppies.