Cichlids Outdoors?
#21
Posted 09 November 2005 - 02:16 PM
And i beleive now that i could hook up a refrigerater unit pulled out of a bar fridge with a thermostat to cool the water if i need to aswell... But it would still be darned expensivce to cool if i had too...
I still wouldn't mind seeing someone who has done a large salt tank outside for advice, because for me its a huge expense and i dont wanna screw it up...
#22
Posted 09 November 2005 - 03:18 PM
#23
Posted 09 November 2005 - 06:45 PM
I think you would be better off getting hardy fish!!!!!
Think damsels and stuff.
Maybe goto www.angelfish.com.au
and see whats cheap.
If it was here I would throw you some stripeys.
A moray would be a good call though.
If you contact your local fisheries and find out about getting a private collectors liscense form. Then if you are successful and pay the $60 odd dollar fee you can go capture marine life with standard aquarium nets. Or with a recreational liscense you could catch a few with rods. (not sure on your laws these are nsw)
I think fish that can survive in rockpools around your area will be good choices. Rockpools have huge temp variations and something that can handle that will handle your pond. Heck may even get your eel.
I also do not think you should stock this thing straight up with expensive fish.
Order a box of blue damsels, go fishing and catch some tough fish or fill the dam thing with mollies. Don't test it out on a lionfish unless your really sure it's all stable.
Big marine tanks are really expensive. Take it slow and start with tough cheap stuff. Marine tanks always get better with time but your gonna hafta keep an eye on this one evapouration is gonna be tricky, I think an automatic water top off would save you a lotta hassels.
Even if you just buy some really good liverock you will be surprised at how much awesome stuff come out of it. WIth all the little critters breeding and stuff when you finally do put your fish in theres heaps of live food.
#24
Posted 09 November 2005 - 07:01 PM
Oh and do you know if you can keep coral trout in tanks? I love those fish and it would look pretty sweet... bit of a demon fish too :twisted:
#25
Posted 09 November 2005 - 07:17 PM
Andrea
#26
Posted 10 November 2005 - 01:08 PM
I'll add more when the sun moves over...hopefully lose the reflection.
Andrea
#27
Posted 10 November 2005 - 06:59 PM
If you build it, they will come...
Andrea
#28
Posted 11 November 2005 - 07:50 PM
thefreodockers, dude not sure on the coral trout as a few species that use that common name.
Oh and I still think you should get some mollys. One of my favourite marine fish until I got the occie.
Definitely though if ya get a big predator like that and your doing lots of water changes you should have a pond to tip the dirty water into. Even if it is just mollys a small saltwater pond is pretty goochy in my books, just gotta use plastic plants.... 8)
and go here and have a read.
http://www.mindspear...rete/index.htm:
Getting LR to seed rock is great. Buying a whole tank of the stuff is serious cash.
Make it, leach it well and then seed it with a few high quality bits LR and some handfulls of crud from the bottem of old kick ass marine tanks.
All it takes is time. Lots of time..... oh and an ability to like whatever it is that goes crazy and takes over helps too.
:twisted:
#29
Posted 12 November 2005 - 05:03 PM
Andrea
#30
Posted 12 November 2005 - 10:51 PM
saltwater pond thread.
Rostratus are born to be pond fish.
Wonder if their flee reflex would help them against birds if you gave them a semi thick bottem sand/gravel layer to bury into?
Wouldn't mind living somewhere I could have them in ponds all year round though. That'd be great.
#31
Posted 16 November 2005 - 05:19 PM
Andrea
#32
Posted 17 November 2005 - 02:52 PM
Now if I could only smuggle that pond inside for the winter months and heat it I would be one happy guy! Dont think the olds would love it but.
would make a nice display in the lounge room!
Nivola
#33
Posted 17 November 2005 - 04:59 PM
Andrea
#34
Posted 28 November 2005 - 01:23 PM
After a $500 and then $350 electric bill I had been spending the past month regretting having heated my pond over winter. However after spending the weekend tending to some pond maintence the regret soon faded as I watched a pair of Corydoras swimming in tandem across the bottom foraging and the most spectacularly healthy and colourful central and south American cichlids swimming around. As I walked past yesterday afternoon I noticed a pair of G. steindachneri had cleaned a spawning area in the shallows and were in the process of courting.
I have only thrown some pellets into the pond four times over the entire winter, however the fish are all fat, healthy and have grown really well and the colors are amazing, I think it must be due to healthy natural tucker and sunlight - good old vitamin D.
#35
Posted 29 November 2005 - 08:42 AM
I went back years later the barstards are still breeding away like mad.
I think as long as the pond is deep enough to sustain a regular temp at the middle and lower layers they are fine.
Not to mention spillirum are hardy little barstards.
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