I can't stop watching my fish (part 2)

Quite off topic than the usual I thought I'd post up what has become of my new hobby of fish keeping. A while back in 2006 I posted up that I had got my first aquarium and set it up in my office. It's been a bit over a year now and I've now got 4 aquariums in total! It's crazy.

So without further ado, here are a few pics of them:

That first aquarium now has 2 angel fish in it that spawn every couple of weeks. Pretty much every time they end up eating the fry but this time I think I may give it a go to raise them artificially. You can't see it in the pic I think, but over on the right they have a batch of about 250 eggs.

All pictures can be clicked to view the bigger version:

Then there is a smaller aquarium with a female guppy that just pushed out about 20 fry.. crazy stuff. This tank also has 3 shrimp (freshwater ones) which are kind of cool to watch skitter around:

Then a slightly larger aquarium that has a fish called "German Ram" which are beautiful fish. The picture almost does them justice. I managed to get good close ups of the female and male. The male is more colourful:

And last but by far not least, the big 55 gallon aquarium:

A lot of people find aquariums a pain to deal with and too much trouble to do water changes and stuff. I don't find that at all, it's kind of like just having a bit extra to vaccum up or dust in the house. With lots of plants there is very little maintenance that goes on. The plants essentially take all the fish waste and convert it into nutrients which then in turn creates oxygen and so on. Fascinating in my mind because I'm so keen on learning about different ecosystems. I've considered a salt water aquarium but don't think I have the money or quite the patience for it. Fresh water is very easy as long as nothing drastic happens like changing out all the water or something.

Anyways, I thought they were good pics so I hope somebody else enjoys them :)

Posted by Graeme at December 20, 2007 11:30 AM