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The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
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DreaminginBlue
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Wow! It's fantastic! I love all the vibrant colors and the starfish in the third picture.
There was a huge serpent star too. He was about 18"
DreaminginBlue
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You've had so many beautiful tanks and amazing pets. I especially like the stingray! How hard was caring for it, and how big of a tank did it need? I can only imagine how much time and effort you spent on your animals. I admire that level of dedication.
Thanks! Yeah, tons of work. The stingray was the easiest fish I had! Toss some shrimp or fish in every 2-3 days. He was in a 220, but needed bigger. The reef was an hour and a half every couple days, the octopus would only eat live crabs or shrimp, the moray had to be fed with a stick. Every day was water change day.
Funken_A
Aquarium Advice Freak
Unfortunately I couldn't deal with the constant red algae, so I went freshwater. 1988
Will it out grow the tank ???? What's your plan here.. Curious
That was 1988. The gator is long gone. Yes he outgrew the tank, was put in an indoor pond till he was about 5', then traded to a gator farm in Florida for another baby. Did that 2 times over the years. The farm got Gators used to being handled for their shows, so they were happy. I got tired of them, so I switched to turtles.
Mdmike52
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
How did you like the turtles? I had a couple of red Sliders in the 80s that I raised from babies in a 100 gallon on my porch. Boy were they mean. Almost as dangerous as a gator. If you stuck your hand in there when they were hungry it was fair game as far as they were concerned. Wish I could find the underwater pictures I took of them. Really scary. Look like they wanted to bite your nose off. I stuck an underwater diving camera in there and snapped a bunch of shots while they were attacking it and my hand. Those guys were great. Watching them tear a large feeder goldfish to shreds was pretty gruesome but also pretty cool if you know what I mean.
I still keep turtles. A pair of southern map, a painted, and a diamondback terrapin. My first turtles were red ear sliders. Had them in the 180 with a pair of 10 year old oscars. Mine were mellow, and the oscars would bite the edge of their shell and push them around the tank till they dropped their food. The oscars were over 10", the male turtle was 8", and the female was 16". I gave them to a buddy with a huge pond.
Mdmike52
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Nice. I really like my turtles but having a pet that was always trying to bite me and could do some serious damage if it did got old after a while. Or maybe I just got old after a while. I had to move and gave mine away to a young guy who like to watch them eat.
