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Are there any other fish keepers out there? Like, not to eat the fish, but to keep them as pets. I keep a range of fish from guppies to bettas. I was curious if any other people enjoyed keeping fish as pets?
 
Used to when I was a kid.. had a lot of 'em.. It was fun but the cleaning and their diseases was less fun.
 
I had a 7ft long salt water fishtank in my bedroom for a couple of years, we had all sorts of awesome fish but a lot of them didn't get along and a few of them committed suicide, and cleaning it was a HUUUUGE process that took forever and smelt god awful. My favorite was a naso tang who was a real sweet heart she loved nori so so much so we would feed her big chunks of it from our hands, none of the other fish really liked the nori. We also had two puffer fish at one point but they both passed sadly. It was a really neat experience having them for a while and honestly I can't say any night light will ever compare to having that beauty to look at all night.
 
KaydeeKrunk said:
I had a 7ft long salt water fishtank in my bedroom for a couple of years, we had all sorts of awesome fish but a lot of them didn't get along and a few of them committed suicide, and cleaning it was a HUUUUGE process that took forever and smelt god awful. My favorite was a naso tang who was a real sweet heart she loved nori so so much so we would feed her big chunks of it from our hands, none of the other fish really liked the nori. We also had two puffer fish at one point but they both passed sadly. It was a really neat experience having them for a while and honestly I can't say any night light will ever compare to having that beauty to look at all night.
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omg salt water tanks are soo so cool. i remember going to this huge aquarium store north of here and damn yes they are so cool.. but yea they are a bit demanding and needs lotsa careful cleaning..
 
Oh yes, I have a 20 Gal fresh water tank. The fish are years old now and none have died for a long time(expect maybe the guppies, but they're so many I wouldn't know).
The tank has
A 5 year old Pleco who has grown so big, it keeps the tank clean.
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A 4 year kissing gourami who's pretty big now too.
GloFish(the Barb breed)who I think I got 2 years ago. I bought a blue LED light that really shows of their color at night.
Guppies, a ton of guppies.
2 Siamese Algae eaters who are like a year old. They eat the black algae that grows on the Amazon sword plants we have and Sade now fat because of it.

And that's about it, because the plants and fish are getting so big, a bigger tank(55 a Gal probably) is needed soon. It's just a jungle!
 
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My school has this Biology Club where we plant(ed) and take care of plants and 4 goldfish which have gone quite fat as of late. I dubbed them Mr. Gold (yellow), Moomoo (white with orange spots that looks like a miniature koi and yes, it's a very childlish name), Beauty (Orange one with a pretty, long transparent tail) and... Someone (regular old orange goldfish).

It's a pretty huge pond-like structure, perhaps more of an indoors fountain, where we keep them, they have a couple of plants in there. We don't have sand for them because it'd probably go down the drain (because the fountain has a drain-system which you need to crank open to let the water pass) and it'd be a pain in the butt to change something like 14 kg of sand to a place like that. It'd also get expensive fast.

But the peeps in the club feed the fish every day expect on weekends. I think the club's a great idea, since I've never had any pets of my own and the fish have brought joy to teachers, foreigners visiting my school and students. In the early days of the club some guy tried to tease/snatch a fish... He did get scolded by the teacher who runs the Biology Club.

I'd love to have a pet of my own one day, maybe a lovebird, dunno. A fish or a few would be ok, too but I'm not so sure since I've never had to take care of animals so much. It makes me a bit nervous if the animal dies because of bad caretaking.
 
I used to have a crap ton of fish. I don't anymore, though. My mom thinks I have enough pets ;_;
I used to have betas, goldfish, guppies, neon tetras, tadpoles, and a few more that I can't remember xD
I think the worst part is that when I was little, I named all of them after Scooby Doo characters. I was an interesting child.
 
i got two beta fishes last christmas. c:
i've never had beta fishes before, so i got a small tank with a divider (asked the person selling if that was ok, they said yes) and put the fishes in the tank.
the male keeps trying to unsuccessfully bite my other female beta fish from across the divider. @-@ i'm considering getting another tank to separate them.
 
I just brought this handsome betta home on Saturday. His name is Roan (rhymes with bone). :)

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I used to have a male betta fish for a while, the halfmoon betta fish are so beautiful and it's crazy how resilient they are, a lot of them get shipped from Thailand in plastic baggies and just arrive through standard postal mail
 
Call me Daniel said:
He's pretty, do you have a proper tank for him yet?
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He's in a four gallon tank currently.

p e p p e r said:
I used to have a male betta fish for a while, the halfmoon betta fish are so beautiful and it's crazy how resilient they are, a lot of them get shipped from Thailand in plastic baggies and just arrive through standard postal mail
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Oh gosh they are. We're looking at hopefully getting a halfmoon in the summertime. Wish I could afford to do so now.
 
Tina said:
Oh wow, he is gorgeous! What is his name?
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Isn't he? I spent like 15 minutes looking through every single betta in the store til I found him. I've never seen one with those colours before.

He was nameless for a couple days but then I came up with Bubble Ghanouj and that's his name now :p
 
To be honest, fish aren't really pets really but more of a decoration. They basically just sit there all day and swim around, taking care of them isn't really enjoyable or fun.

Plus my turtle always eats my fish anyway lol

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jinico said:
I have a betta, he's my beautiful fish son
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He likes to play hide and seek :v
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Although, Fish like these are pretty cool let me say.
 
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