MAD EVO 4

Decided to give my tank a good clean today & purchase a new bulb along with a new buddy for the fish





I love my plec


Here is my new buddy - A soft shell turtle called Herbert




Also in my tank I have clown fish, silver sharks, golden loach & nimos

Had it going now for over 4 yrs

adam.d

Does a turtle not need to be able to get out of the water? I'm also into tropical fish, I'll go get ya a pic of my monsters!

MAD EVO 4

He just puts his head above the water line for air now and then, this breed stay in water constantly

adam.d

Red16

Canny little setup you got there couldve cleaned the glass before taking the pics tho

i'll get a few pics of my tank up soon

MAD EVO 4

I like a little green on glass as I hve 4 Allegy eaters

e30cossie

This is my fishtank i have a few small frogs in there and other fish .

Red16

just admit it... you're a lazy bastard like me

MAD EVO 4

Rick

i'd love a turtle, how big does he grow? Will he eat my baby livebearers?

MAD EVO 4

He will grow pretty big, and got told today that he may eat little fish

Its Dave

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Hope Herbert have moved in ok?

MAD EVO 4

Yep settled in well

RONNIE AMIS

iTrader: (17)

very nice mate, my old soft shell turtle grew to desert bowl sive, and they eat more than just small fish

RichieST

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Nice turtle He should have a small area for him to get out the tank, you can get flating bark etc with suckers that attach to the side of the tank. He'll soon be the size of a dinner plate too

MAD EVO 4

cheers guys

I wonder how im going to do an area for him to get out ?

Fiddy

Looks canny mate. ive had mine for about 6 months, got all the usual fish, platties, guppies, swordtails, glass cat fish, ghost knifetail, sharks, a big sail fin plec, etc etc. ive just got a royal plec this week, there quite rare and not cheap, but its a cool fish. ive got a smaller tank i use for my babys aswell, use it for live barers, ive got over 80 babys in there at the minute.

MAD EVO 4

Your plec is the same as mine mate

they grow to a great size , my wifes dads plec which is also the same is huge

JTECH James

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i got a royal plec like that

Fiddy

Aye, there nice fish mate, my sail fin is about 8 inches at the minute, he's the king of the tank lol. apparently the royal plec ive just got could grow to about 18 inches, i was talking to a lad who used to have one, his grew to 18 inches in 4 years. think ill need a bigger tank if thats the case, my big tank is only 3 foot.

MAD EVO 4

yes they do grow to a good size

what do u feed your plec ?

pa_sjo

I used to have a nice Loricariidae tank (plecs and peckoltias).. they're my favourite fish

Had a bullnose, bristlenose, golden nugget, and more ++ forget the L numbers of the rest.. very cool fish!

Red16

golden nuggets are lovely pleco's i had one but he died last year


the most recent decent pic of my tank (which is still out of date)



my juvenile motoro stingray





here's a couple of vids of my tank before the stingray became too big and i had to move the smaller fish out of his way

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q559PHDRf0E

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcOv52RXDQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NICo_ZE435o

these dwarf aquatic frogs are cool and they get along with anything

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLoVPTJ0i4

and the last of my videos, one for the pleco lovers http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQWBy2DQdo

MAD EVO 4

give me all the info on the sting ray mate please

sizes
what it eats
etc

whosyadaddy

Nice tank's guy's my tank cracked earlier in the year and i lost all my wee friends, got a bit disheartened with it all but last couple of weeks ive been thinking of buying a new tank.

Seeing all those great plec's makes me want another tank even more.

MAD EVO 4

you should get one going again mate

silky16v

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got 3 tanks in my house

1 with a blue lobster, 2 large red tipped sharks & 2 silver sharks and a common Plec

tank in lounge has 32 fish in it mollys, platties, tiger barbs, green barbs, danios, great danios, neons, red eye tetras, hoplo catfish, glass catfish & a Golden Nugget plec

and a coldwater tank with 4 goldfish, 2 sucking loaches, minnows & golden dojo

cossiemanden

Some nice fish tanks in here
We have just bought our first one for cichlids small mbuna ones in blue and yellow, and if it goes well then we will buy a big 3-400liter one
Just want the fish in now

Stampy

Mbuna are great fish mate

Here's some of mine:

MAD EVO 4

very nice mate

Red16

These buggers are funny to watch, but unbelievably greedy, they eat anything and everything



It's a Motoro Stingray, i gave 95 quid for it when it was a bit smaller than in the pics above, he's fully grown now at around 12" diameter plus another 4/5 inches of tail. It eats bloodworm, shrimp, prawns, muscle, pretty much anything in the tank that is small enough to fit in its mouth.

Im planning on trading it in and getting a load of small mollies, guppies, neons, tetra's etc, back to the simple life of dropping a bit of flake food in the top every now n again.

Another old photo, showing how he likes to hid every now n again after he's eaten

Stampy

That ray is awesome - are they freshwater?

Also, what size tank do they require?

JTECH James

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belive it or not, thats a 7ft x 3ft x 3ft tank hes in lol

JTECH James

iTrader: (13)

this is my 400litre setup,

Red16

yeah theyre freshwater, as big a tank as you possible, my tank is 5' x 5' x 2' and i think its about the smallest i'd say you should have for something like that.

i can believe that, those redtail catfish grow pretty big!!

I've got a pair of Pangasius Sanitwongsei which are starting to get to a decent size now, nothing as big as that redtail but they will be one day, they look quite shark like with the pointy dorsal fin and wide head/mouth.

JTECH James

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ive had a load of big uns, the red tail was over 27inches when he got rehomed, (eric)

i had a 25inch tiger shovelnose, (george)

a 16 inch giraffe catfish, (zippy)

a 18inch pacu, (ernie)

a 14inch giant gorami (victoria)


ive gone smaller now due to house size lol.

ive also had arrowana, lungfish, fookin alsorts really



but the red tail was the best fish ive ever kept, he was truley amazing, like a proper pet, he would greet you when you came home, watch tv with you sat next to you in the tank, hand feed, and loved being smoothed down like a real cat lol. i miss him every day tbh