Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Is this a green terror ? or Jack Dempsy ? These fish are very aggressive.

 

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We never had a common name for them and they were too aggressive for keeping with other fish twice their size. Both you mention were different species. I only got two of them but both were females. They laid infertile eggs several times but I never saw a male until we had dropped out.

 

Glad to see that I am in good company here both with fish and coins

 

A 55 liters low tech, low maintenance, low everything...

 

This was quite a while ago, but I still have the tank and a few fish:

 

I had a 1/2 gallon tank for a single beta fish.
Rip- Gillman
February 2015-October 2015

 

In my teenage years I had several fish tanks. I bred fancy guppies and sold them to the local pet store.

 

I just like to bitch and complain lmao

 

Antiques . I once collected girl friends but my wife put an end to that hobby decades ago . LOL

 

Do you have a collection of the old metal AA recovery coins?

 

In addition to participating in Cointalk I am Co-Administrator of an Astronomy Forum, which takes up some of my time...

https://theskysearchers.com

It soft-launched in May of this year and is increasing in popularity. We aim to offer an alternative to Cloudy Nights and The Stargazers Lounge, two of the highly popular astronomy forums on the web.

 

I love fishies!

My nanny sent us some money for Christmas and we used it to buy a fish tank and put some tropical fish in it. Just random tetras and other common fish.

About 3 days after we got the fish in, the ice storm of ‘98 hit. So, guess what happened to the fish?

So, when we set the tank back up in the spring, we got gold fish. I had one of the cool googly eyed ones, it was pretty sweet.

True story, bro.

Erin

 

Beautiful. What's that carpeting plant that looks like grass in your tank? Looks real nice.

 

Nice panda cories, and what type of pleco is that? Looks like a big fella.

 

Looks as if I am in the wrong Forum, but, yes, I once had a tank with sparkly fish, but growing children took up their time and fish slowly died and so did my passion for tropical fish.
What always stayed with me is archaeology: once a hobby, but for the past ten years my profession.
Archaeology in the Netherlands is quite something special as we hardly have any stone structures from Roman times, apart from the southern part of our country (Limburg) where there have been villas and baths. The northern part of our small country was part of the 'Barbaricum' = all the lands beyond the Roman frontier which was situated along the main rivers (Rhine principally). North of there people lived as in eons before: woooden houses and a simple agricultural existence. Yet there was interaction between the Romanised part and the 'Barbaricum' and that is where my specialist knowledge lies: locally made pottery from between 500 BC to 500 AD.
So, yes, I live in the present, but with history round every corner.

Frans

 

Honestly, I can't remember what kind of pleco he was, but should have heeded the normal advice about not buying them - they're small to start with, but grow and grow. He grew to about a foot long, so I found a pet shop that would take him (the tank is 180l, so too small for the beast).
Unfortunately, while I was thinking the logistics of moving him, I had some kind of disastrous bacterial bloom which turned the water milky overnight and killed the pleco and most other fish. I carried out lots of water changes, but was left with only a few platies and a lot of snails. It hadn't happened before and hasn't happened since, but was a sad few days. That was eight or nine years ago.

Right now, I have only shrimps and neon tetras (and snails). I need to clean the tank a bit and restock - but only with small fish. I like the panda cory catfish, so probably a few of those. Platies are nice as long as they don't breed out of control.
Maybe some Pakistani loaches to try to eat some of the snails. And some tiger barbs, I've had those before and they were nice and active.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

When I first started with a 55 gal in my mid 20's, I was in the Natl Guards and had to leave for summer camp. I had just spent over $100 on fish which was a lot in the 70's. My roommate promised faithfully to take care of them while I was gone. When I got home all of them were dead. I was so ticked off I froze them. I took them out once in a while to glide them thru the water. I wanted to at least get a little use out of them for the money. And, to annoy my roommate. Ok, mostly to annoy my roommate. Then they all went on the ride called "Flush".

 

Tiger barbs will eat the heck out of your snails, but you wont have any left at the end! Well, small snails anyway.

 

Well, that would be a good thing The snails outlasted the barbs the last time, but I'll try again!

ATB,
Aidan.

 

One of the easier plants for the front.
https://tropica.com/en/plants/plantdetails/Eleocharisacicularis'Mini'(132BTC)/4571