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[sbsociety]

Hiya. Name's Sandra, live in California. Well... I love everything that has to do with Marine life. Fishing, fish, you name it. Matter of fact, I'm also a Marine Biology major in college. Also trying to get a transfer to California DFG (Department of Fish & Game) so I can work in the field before graduating. Anyway, I'm an avid fisherwoman, and hobbyist. Something about marine life has just always fascinated me since I was a child.

Anyway, I have 1 big cichlid/aggressive (and a few others) tank and 3 small "others" tank. My 55 gallon has 1 kenyi ciclid, 1 autatus cichlid, 1 rainbow looking cichlid (forgot the name), 2 red pacus, 2 tiger albino barbs, 2 oscars, and amazingly, a freshwater moray eel that has lived in this non-brackish water for about a year!

The oscars and pacus are getting large pretty quick so I'll be setting up a 100+ gallon pretty soon.

I have a 10 gallon that I use for a molly breeding tank. Right now, I have 5 mommy breeders and 2 daddies. There are 2 breeding nets in this tank, now housing two of the 5 which should soon release some fry. I'll be buying more mollies to breed, possibly today and adding them in that tank.

These fry are then transferred & raised in another 10 gallon tank until ready to be fed to my oscars, cichlids, eel, and unfortunately, my carnivorous turned pacus. I think my pacus are piranahs in disguise. I had them in a smaller more docile tank before. Which I threw in feeders for another fish, but ended up getting eaten by the pacus instead. So much for the "pacus are herbivore versions of piranahs" theory. And yes, I do know that they can turn carnivorous if given the chance. So I guess that was my fault.

I have another 10 gallon that I house all my feeder comet goldfish. But I think I'll be setting up that tank for community fish soon. I may just give up the comet feeders and stick strictly to the mollies. Problem with that is they don't really produce a lot of fry that quick, that's why I still buy comets. And breeding comets require a bigger tank that I don't have... I may try breeding them in a bigger tank one day though. I have an empty 80 gallon in the backyard that I've been eyeing to set up for my ever growing oscars and pacus...

So there. That's my 4 tanks in a nutshell. Whew, that was long.

[Hamm3592]

welcome to the board

[fish_doc]

Welcome,

And we look forward to hearing and learning from your expertice in the field.

[Lexus]

Welcome to Fish Forums!

[fishfreaks]

welcome!!!