I use to kept severum, ram, apistogramma and discus, after I moved from my old house I just gave them all away. now I'm too lazy to get back to fish keeping. specially the later, I have no time to do the water changes required for healthy discus. if I were to get back to fish keeping, I probably go back to keep a group of frontosa instead.

That is one of my fishkeeping goals down the road, establish an awesome Tanganyikan tank with frontosa and a calvus or two. A male, few female, and a few other fish to enhance the colors. A 125 or 150 gal should be enough Just the physical space requirements is too much right now. As for maintenance I like the process of water changes and stuff, lets me interact with the fish more. I have all the tools that make it a breeze to do, I just watch it drain then watch it fill.

I hate discus now. Too much work. Fuck them. They were never that friendly either...never felt like I was dealing with an intelligent creature when I was with them. Severum, blood parrots, oscars, are like dogs.

Old pic of my red belly piranhas... Gave these bad boys away last summer

Those guys look like they've never missed a meal

Cool looking tank. I got a tank off a guy who was getting out of the game...he was having anxiety attacks when I was draining his tank and packing up his fish. Pretty sure his wife was making him lol.

Hah they were eating good!! food was expensive for these suckers....was like 10-20$ per week lol....I forgot to feed these bad boys the day my friend came to drain the tank to get them out and unfortunately one of the piranhas bit his finger tip was hella gross... now his finger is missing skin lol... I've never had this happen to me and dipped my hands in the tank plenty of times

**Note** Always feed ur piranhas before cleaning tank

Is that an oscar fish above?

This post was edited by Monkeykid on Dec 13 2015 07:05pm

That is a flowerhorn above, which is kind of the mixed breed of the fish world. He has a lot of amphilophus trimaculatus genes in him

I have a tiger oscar that is still a baby, he is growing out in a safer place than the big tank.

I've been bit by one of my blood parrots, it was very cute. I was attacked by jeweled cichlids when cleaning an area they were breeding in. I also got bit pretty hard by one of my jack dempseys, but I think he was just testing the water.

This post was edited by Skinned on Dec 13 2015 08:17pm

ahhh that orange fish under the flower horn aint an oscar fish?

Nope, it is a Blood Parrot. They are a standardized hybrid breed that is part midas cichlid and part something else...they are real hush hush about it. They were breed within the past decade or two in Taiwan I think. They do a high amount of crossbreeding in Asia, that is where the flowerhorn craze originally began.

The idea, if you grow a masterpiece flowerhorn, is that the hump (kok) of the fish actually has a Chinese alphabet on the hump. They are supposed to be good fung shui because of their relationship to dragons (same with arowana).

I have a female bloodparrot full of eggs right now, and the flowerhorn male, blood parrot male, and the green texas have been fighting over the area she is laying them in for about 8 hours now. It has chilled out since last night, when the texas and FH were liplocking a little bit. It was intense.

I've been trying to move my severum into my semi-aggressive 75g community tank (2) but they know I'm trying to catch them, and they're just too smart. Three days I've been trying to catch these fish, and I don't want to rip apart my 150g to catch them. I have so many territories and hiding places to displace aggression and they know where I can't reach them at. I spent an hour at least yesterday trying to fish them out. I'm going to not feed them for them until they're begging and then grab them. I even waited until the middle of the night, when it was dark for awhile and they were asleep, and the second I put the net into the water BOOM those two were gone.