Fish Forum

[Madhavok]

Long story short, my new place has a 20 gallon fish tank with filter and thermometer. My new roommates said the tank was last used a month or so ago and being the fish n00b I am, I have no idea where to start. Buying new filter cartridges is at the top of the list along with running the filter for a couple of days to cycle the water. It already has 'gravel' in it along with fake plants, but I'd like to get real plants soon.

So, SJ Fish Nation, where do I go from there (or start). Thanks!

 

[Unibomber]

Go to an independently owned pet store that specializes in fish. You will want to do the gravel (wash it well first) and fill it and get a few chemicals (Stability, stress zyme etc.) and add as directed.
For the first few weeks, just get some boring fish that you can afford to lose because you will lose some as water gets settled.
After you do all this, take a sample of your water into the pet store after about 2 weeks and have them see where the algae levels are and whatnot. They will advise you along the way. In about a month, you will have optimal water and can get some cool fish.

 

[JR]

I thought this was going to be a thread about how to cook salmon

 

[Moderator1]

We got the same advice. Get cheap fish first, don't get attracted. They're gonna croak.
We got four fish and they all lasted two years and through one move.
Once they started dying, though, damn. We couldn't keep them alive.

My aquarium is out in the garage somewhere. Might be time to get it going again.

Oh, get an algae eater or something. We got an Otiscinclis. Named it Otis. Dude was cool and he lived a long time.

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

I thought it was going to have pix of babes in bikinis -- holding up fish someone else caught. Phishy photo ops.

 

[lennon231]

There are many water filter for your acquarium in the website. My suggestion is check the different website.



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[KYSportsWriter]

We had an aquariam a few years ago, but it just took up too much space in our already undersized living room.

We had nine or ten fish, and one algae eater. Every one of them died in a week's time my senior year, and we gave up on getting more.

 

[RossLT]

We got the same advice. Get cheap fish first, don't get attracted. They're gonna croak.
We got four fish and they all lasted two years and through one move.
Once they started dying, though, damn. We couldn't keep them alive.

My aquarium is out in the garage somewhere. Might be time to get it going again.

Oh, get an algae eater or something. We got an Otiscinclis. Named it Otis. Dude was cool and he lived a long time.

My algae eater ate all my other fish, and the algae, so I guess it did its job.

 

[dargan]

I thought this was gonna be a fishing forum. But I guess that's why it didn't have the -ing at the end. I fail.

 

[buckweaver]

I thought this was going to be about the tilapia and jambalaya I cooked tonight. Mmmmmm ...

All the fish we had when I was a kid died quickly. So, I got nothin'.

 

[dargan]

I thought this was going to be about the tilapia and jambalaya I cooked tonight. Mmmmmm ...

All the fish we had when I was a kid died quickly. So, I got nothin'.

Is tilapia the en vogue bargain fish now? I hear about people eating it all the time.

 

[buckweaver]

No more of a bargain than a few other species I find regularly at the grocery store, I guess. When I cook fish, it's usually orange roughy or tilapia or salmon. When I feel like splurging, it's catfish or trout (which I can rarely find, seems like.)

 

[ArnoldBabar]

I thought it was gonna be about Phish.

But damn, fish are good to eat. Trout, tilapia, salmon, grouper, halibut ... just all so good. And that's without even getting into shellfish.

 

[dargan]

Interesting. I guess price by species depends on location. I think catfish is far more readily available and cheaper here than salmon. Orange roughy and tilapia are both good. Tilapia seems like it's gained popularity lately.

I'll eat anything that comes from the water.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

No love for catfish, arnie?

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Interesting. I guess price by species depends on location. I think catfish is far more readily available and cheaper here than salmon. Orange roughy and tilapia are both good. Tilapia seems like it's gained popularity lately.

I'll eat anything that comes from the water.

Yeah, I'm in Seattle. Salmon here is like catfish in the South. I love both in different ways.

 

[dargan]

I've eaten by far more catfish than any other kind of fish, and it's not even remotely close.

But, fried catfish is my favorite food, too, so, take that with a grain of salt.

 

[buckweaver]

Yeah, I'm in Seattle. Salmon here is like catfish in the South. I love both in different ways.

Bingo. I could find catfish everywhere in Georgia. Not so much out west. Same with trout.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Fried catfish is its own delicacy, but a well-prepared salmon is something else entirely. Like comparing a really good chicken fried steak with a great ribeye.

 

[dargan]

The question is ... have you had fried crappie?

When prepared correctly, blackout good.