Does someone here also have an aquarium?

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I breed fish since I was 9 when my cousin's husband bought me my first aquarium on the occasion of my communion - a small one but I derived a big pleasure from looking at fish

There were few pauses when I didn't have any fish but two years ago I started again. In this moment I have 3 mollies, 2 swordtails, 3 guppies and a sucking loach (my favourite one)

Ive never had an aquarium myself but my brother has one and its great fun to watch. He has these creepy albino aquatic frogs in his, along with some fish.

I keep snakes and enjoy keeping their vivariums as life like and real as possible

Last time I had an aquarium full of fish, the filter was too strong and all my mollies died of exhaustion. It was pretty sad. They were black, white, and the polka dotted ones. Very cute in a little herd. Now I am attempting a little biosphere of sorts in a betta tank. All it has is snails, an aquatic plant, and the occassional lettuce to feed the snails. They don't like eating the plant and the tank is too small to support a different one. Also snails breed like crazy, which is very fun, but not conducive to a self sustaining ecosystem. I love to watch them climb the tank walls and float on the surface, they are very mesmerizing.

I was breeding some snails called ampularias for a year. They were really beautiful - big, with yellow shells - but I had some troubles with them because they had a habit of going out of the aquarium - this kind of snail is able to breathe also with oxygen.

Yeah, I have a fish tank, they were my special interest a year or two ago. Mollies, guppies, zebra danio's and neon tetras. It is a fabulous hobby.

And on that note, I think working in a pet shop may be a fabulous job for an aspie.

When my snails leave, they shrivel up and die. I don't know what kind they are. Some look like ram's horns, some look like unicorn horns, and some are just plain. They were all happily given to me from friends, two of each originally, now there are lots. I love looking at all the stuff in the pet store, but I never buy things for the snails, just the plant they don't like. I love aquariums, I just love building habitats of all kinds. If I had a bigger tank, I'd probably get some fish and have all kinds of stuff for them to play in. The snails are almost no work, which is nice.

I got a plstic bin from the $ store and got about 20 guppies, mostly female, to put in it... they bred, but man, the SNAILS really bred! I think they gave me one for free at the store because they wanted to get rid of them, and two weeks later I had like 0. There were 40, amybe more of them and then the fish and the snails all died off! Because I didn't take good enough care of them. I was going to do social/family/emotional experiements on the guppies, see if they posessed self-sacrifice or protectiveness or any of that, and see how they endured isolation/solitary confinement, but I never really got around to it. I found it sort of cruel anyway so I never did it.

I also had a veritable plague of segmentina nitida in the aquarium for a long time. My cousin whose dad has fish gave me several of them and after not such a long time I realized that those snails's favourite thing to do is, I guess, sexual activity (well... what else interesting can you do living in an aquarium ) - they had PLENTY progeny I still can't get rid of them but the situation is already much better.

I'd love to breed several bettas but I'm afraid they'd start attacking each other

I used to keep tropical fish. I really love watching them, especially loved my Siamese fighting fish and suckerfish.
It is relaxing.

i think i had one when i was little. there such a pain in the butt to clean though

I have had fish tanks since I was about 7-years old. Currently I have a 44-gallon corner tank with a giant Clown Loach and some Black Mollies. One of the Black Mollies is pregnant me thinks, so I could be expecting babies soon. I have had Gouramis and Cichlids breed in the past.

I had my cave rewired a couple of days ago and I'm thinking about a fish tank again. I have always loved the Gourami family, air breathers as well as gill and have had more then a few tanks of them. Really enjoy watching them for long periods, very peaceful and I like the sound of the bubbles. They have the pumps very quiet now, not like the old days at all. Think I would like to attempt the Cichlids, I did say attempt, not real community fish or user friendly. I do like to do the plants, which isn't in the realm of a Cichlid tank, so I dunno for sure yet. Cichlids and where they come from, the water type, it's just so interesting and they for the most part are very nice to my eye. My cats like to watch them too. My current tank is pretty small for them and I just don't know if I want to make that kind of investment, I'd have to save for a good while to do it. Not so easy, bills have a way of getting in the way of my grand plans. The last tank got invaded by some kind of green plant blight, man, never seen anything like it, just could not kill it. I know it came in with a plant and I was being safe about introducing it too. Guess not safe enough, live and learn.

We have a small fish tank with some tiger barbs, we love them and eventually want to expand to a bigger tank with some more fish.

I love watching sucker fish on the side of the tank. Their mouths are so mesmerizing. If I get a bigger tank, there will definitely be an algae eater type fish. Are there any fish that eat the snails, at least baby ones? Then I wouldn't have to get rid of them as competition for the sucker fish. This thread has totally renewed my interest in aquariums, by the way.

Yes!

I've had them since I was little (3). I used to breed Angles (Pterophyllum scalare), I had a silver and a zebra lace and they bred to give 3:2 zebra lace:silver. At one point I had 4 tanks and spent ages looking up angelfish genetics and making measurements of growth on the fry.

Now I just have an 80 litre with only mechanical filtering but because of the dense platage the balance is perfect: no algae because the snails eat it; not to much snails because the algae runs out and the bacteria absorb the ammonia quickly. Its a bog-wood community with isn't ideal for the swords (xipophorus helleri) as the hardness is too low but it suits the neons (parcheiron inessi) and cherry barbs (barbus tittyus). One of my favorite things is getting the balance just perfect and getting every plant to be it's best by experimenting with light intensity and flow and place in the tank.

I breed endler's guppies in it, a small, rather uncommon, species of guppy. I started with 6. I now have more than 20! I love watching the fish swim when it's dark in my room and only the aquarium light is on.

I have an aquarium.
It is 350 LTR and semi-circle with cabinet underneath which has two cupboards.

There is 37 fish in there, but they are mainly quite small so there is plently of room.