splinteredmind

Fish are all sold - thanks for the interest everyone

I wish some of the display peacocks/haps had a price tag on them

$2million for a comic? what a joke. That's pathetic lol

Having collected comic books for a little bit, that one is basically the holy grail of comics... especially in the condition its in, market value is actually just shy of $3million...

Cool topic, this will hopefully be the first meeting I'll attend as a member

Saw this on Reefbuilders the other day, thought I'd share

One company is using fish cannons to safely get migrating fish through man-made obstacles. Salmon are curious creatures going from the saltwater ocean to travel hundreds of miles up freshwater rivers and streams to return to where they were born to spawn. Along the way, the salmon navigate through some serious obstacles with head-scratching amazement, but occasionally run into dams and other obstacles they can’t get around or over and that is where the Whooshh Innovations fish cannon can help.

http://reefbuilders....me-fish-cannon/

Of course haha (:

Hahaha check this

http://www.gumtree.c...s-ad/1054016769

 A Yellow Tang in a Red Sea Max 130D... that's just outright cruel, even for a small one.

edit: Not trying to start a fish keeping ethics debate, but pretty much all marine Tangs are wild caught, to see a creature that will swim *miles* per day (cant find an exact source for this) looking for algae to graze on confined to a 2ft long tank just makes me a bit sad.

Haha I've caused enough trouble already without talking about catsharks...

Hey all,

Setting up my 60L planted tank today just finished with the scape, what do you all think?

Cool picture I've had in my marine fish folder for a while

edit: I believe its a comet and panther grouper

http://www.gumtree.c...-x-2/1053554120

Ford fan anyone?

I'm definitely enjoying the overall aesthetics of freshwater tanks - planted and non-planted, only thing I think freshwater cant match is the colour of some marine fish... but I guess this arguable (I'm yet to spend more than $30 on a nicely coloured FW fish... I once spent almost $300 on a marine Sohal Tang). Corals are another thing individual to marine, but they too are a bit challenging (depending on SPS or LPS)... I guess this can be paralleled to some FW plants... though no freshwater plant has cost me $150+

Not having to mix and/or collect saltwater has been great, and I certainly agree about FW being much less a pain in ass.

As to what I have my sights set on next, my Rio 240 peacock/hap has been running about 5 weeks now, so I'm concentrating on that at the moment and also ramping up my youtube channel - will be doing some reviews, unboxings - all with an Aussie/WA spin (way too much american bias on all youtube FW aquarium stuff). Also I've got this gear sitting around itching to be set up:

Cheers guys, when I look at the old tanks all I see is $$$ down the drain... but its a fun hobby and really enjoying the freshwater stuff so far

By popular demand, a tour of my tanks... past and present.

Past tanks:

First marine tank 72x14x18 (circa 2004)

Tank was way too narrow so sold it and bought the next one

Next one 6x2x2

Lost total interest in the hobby and sold about 4months later

First brief flirt with fresh water, some Jebo tank.

Sold this and jumped head and feet back into marine

Second 6x2x2...

Had this one well over a year, but decided to sell it after losing all my coral and fish in a summer heatwave/chiller failure.

Red sea max 130D, nice little tank to get back into the hobby, and probably my fav marine tank.

This ran for well over 2 years, sold it and bought my last marine tank...

Aqua Reef 300

Horrid tank, leakey everything... tank got nuked with a bad strain of whitespot and then a dinoflagellete outbreak. Sold this one and the end of last year, and got into fresh water.

Present tanks:

Fluval Ebi, was briefly a crs tank.

Now a small planted tank with a few neons in it.

Juwel Rio 240, my current pride and joy... Check out my youtube channel for a stocklist and details

I've got a bunch more pics of each tanks, and a wealth of knowledge, so just ask if you'd like to know more!

Cheers guys/gals.