The other sis is back.


Like Aimank said, paddlefish would be nice, or sturgeon.

Or this:




Or this: Tamandua


Or any sort of knifefish. They're awesome.





Just to share, I found these photos of great looking tanks











Unrelated, but this photo is too awesome. Nature's aquarium.

Same here. I tend to feed my aba-aba almost every other day. The moment it looks at me or follows me around when I walk past the tank, I have to give it some food. Right now, it can finish off two 15cm feeder catfish at one go.

Wow,, quite a lot of people here like the Oscar.


Here, some photos for you Oscar people







More photos to liven up this place

(Where did they find giant driftwood like that? So jealous.)










I want a tank like this:


Or at least like this:



Or like this

Mr. Amano has the best job in the world.





Planted tanks look great to house monster fish.

By the way, do any of you have problems with your monsters? Do they "redecorate" the tank?


Mine has uprooted all the plastic plants, pulled off the ones I secured to the driftwood and moved the stones about the tank. It even moved the foot long air stone.
Is it possible to make it stop doing that?

Sad news....
I was away on a company trip and when I returned home last Thursday, my parents told me that my tank was leaking.

The poor fish had to be transferred back into the 4ft tank. It seemed pretty upset.

There is no repairing the tank. I got it second hand and I guess the silicon had dried up and all. So I had to order a new tank.

Damn it.

Please be careful when buying secondhand tanks, that's all I can say.

Thank you for all the support. It was really frustrating seeing that I had only just set it up and the fish was getting used to a much bigger tank.

There aren't any visible cracks. I think it has to do with the silicon. My elder brother checked it, he said the water is leaking out of the back and two other places in front. Water just drips out like a leaky tap.

The things is, the water volume is 1040 L, which equates to 1040 kg. To re-slilicon it would not guarantee that it will not leak again. Plus I'd have to fill it up with water to test it. That's a lot of water involved. And the sheer size of it, I don't want to take any chances.



Also, do you think it's possible for me to get the aquarium maker to cut up the faulty 8 ft tank and reconstruct it into a smaller tank, say about 5ft?
Because to just throw it away seems like a big waste. Plus the glass is still in good condition.

Unless anyone knows people who'd want to buy it. Please contact me.

OMG! Self-made pond!

Do share all the technical details.

I would love to make one. There are currently 2 huge water tanks (from the house renovations) sitting in the garden. My dad was planning on keeping tilapia (to eat. Yucks...). I was planning on moving my lungfish into it.



Why are you all so mean to Genie, huh?

Hahahahaha, I didn't know.

Tanks are precious. Cannot simply give away. But no time to set it up right now. The new 8ft tank has arrived and it's currently being filled with water. Gonna transfer the aba-aba back this Sunday evening. Cannot wait!

I got the lungfish from one of the forumers here. Khairulanuar. Lately, he's been seen selling off all his collection. He had quite a good collection too.

I saw this ad on Mudah:
http://www.mudah.my/Rare+Pre+Historic+Fres...sh-23716796.htm

Anyone know what type of fish that is? It looks like a loach.

And somehow, I feel like getting it.

My tank is more like barren and empty. I need to get more driftwood. Any one willing to sell to me? (Cheap, cheap okay )
Need more plastic plants too. I put in some real one (the seaweed type) and it destroyed and uprooted everything. ~sigh~
So messy.


Why you call me bro now? I am a sis, okay.
I not tok to you anymore.

http://www.mudah.my/Rare+Pre+Historic+Fres...sh-23716796.htm

This rare prehistoric fish has been identified to be a Saddleback Loach.

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/homal...a-orthogoniata/

I don't think I'll be getting it for RM 150. O_O

Sungai Buloh? Okay, I'll make a trip there one day. I need at least 3 more pieces. The tank still looks so bare now.

Nice fish! I used to have a shovelnose too. Grew really fast.

How did you construct that pond? Any tips?

Fish logic:

I just fed you two huge @ss lampam, your tummy is bulging, and yet you still chase all those tiny guppies and gulp them down.

Fish, now how can you still be hungry?

@_@

Add some gravel too. Bottom looks so bare. And cold. And shiny. And cold.


I'm planning to start a tank like this too. My dad recommended neon tetras (because that's the only fish he likes).
I was thinking of getting killifish.

Guys, my aba-aba injured its mouth.

I noticed that it was behaving strange on Saturday evening, it wasn't swimming around the tank like usual. I thought that it was hungry, so I plopped in a catfish. It would chase after the catfish, corner it but then let it swim away. This has never happened before. It would normally just kill it on the spot.

On Sunday, the catfish was still there. On Monday, the catfish had eaten up the cleaner shrimps and has gotten fatter. The aba-aba seems to be leaving it alone.

I noticed that the aba-aba's mouth was slightly open, like it's saying "O". It's usually closed, and it has the smiling face appearance. Now, it just looks in pain. And there is also some whitish skin in its mouth.


Just now, I sat there observing it and it opened its mouth and shook its head violently to try and get rid of the skin in its mouth. I saw that its tongue was injured and there was blood on the inside of the bottom jaw.



Pictures:






















I don't know how this could have happen. It does like to move the sand about in the tank, but so far, for years, nothing like this has happened. And it usually eats up the catfish whole, so it can't be the spikes on the catfish.

The aba-aba seems to come close to the glass and lift its head for me to see the injury.


What should I do? Is there any treatment or something that I can do?


There aren't any fish vets that I know of.

I don't want it to die.

Yeah, the driftwood looks rather pointy. But I don't think it's because of the wood. The wood has been in the tank for 2 - 3 weeks already.
It would only move the sand about with its mouth. I've thoroughly washed the sand and checked for bits of glass before I placed it into the tank.

Maybe it's the catfish. That stupid catfish.

I asked a few people and they said it would heal naturally.

I emailed Aquaria KLCC for advice too. I kinda panicked when I saw the blood.


Thanks for your response.

Hopefully it heals soon.

This pond.. OMG!

Is there any way to keep the water in these kind of ponds crystal clear?


Aba-aba has begun to eat lampams. It's mouth looks less swollen too. I didn't add any salt as I had no time to stop by the LFS. I guess fish kinda heal on their own. It did have me panicking though.

The catfish is still there in the tank. The aba-aba seems to be scared of it. =_= I've to start clipping off the spikes before I feed it.


Bloat?

Ask the LFS to get their people to carry the tank. Road side lorry people aren't very experienced. They may crack the tank during transportation. Should cost about RM500.

About RM 90 - RM 100. This is the submersible type. I think mine is 9W. Or 12 W. I can't remember,









Anyhow, an electric eel (about 1ft long) was spotted at Irene's. It's going for 1.2k.
Tempting.

There are 2 tigrinus catfish going for 1.2k too. So beautiful but no more tanks to keep them.

My tank is under the porch. It get's some evening sun.
Thinking of getting another UV.




Nice lap. Wanna let go?

Sharing pictures:









Feeder fish buffet.



The result of redecorating the tank. It's such a rascal.




Lots of poop



What other fish can I put in? The tank looks so bare with just one fish.

Your fish has no problem with bullfrogs? My fish will bite and spit out. My brother said it's the taste. Normal frogs taste smoother, bullfrogs taste rubbery. (Maybe he actually tasted it, I dunno. Hahahahaha... )

Which LFS do you go to?


Which one is Franky? And honestly, I am quite scared to put any other fish into the tank with the aba-aba. Later Franky gets eaten or something ..
I've tried sebarau. Its tail was eaten. Left half of the body. I put in puyu, it got eaten whole.

I put in a crayfish. Crayfish kena attacked and it attacked back, aba-aba's mouth was injured. Had to take the crayfish out.

Was thinking of getting cheap stingrays, but knowing the aba-aba it'll disturb it and maybe get injured.

That's one beautiful endli. I understand the makan banyak part.

Right now I spend almost RM 40 per week on the aba -aba.

RM 10 for catfish (10 tails)
RM 10 for lampam (20 tails)
RM 10 for the white fish, seluang (at Irene PJ it's RM 1 for 10 or 12, at this other LFS it's RM 1 for 20 tails but depends on your luck, usually it's all sold by the time I reach there.)
RM 5 for baby carp
RM 5 for shrimp or longkang fish


I have 2 Polypterus senegalus. One is a surviving 13 year old. The other one is 1 year old. Bought it to keep the older one company. The older one has spots. I think it's liver spots. I've trained them to eat pellets. Live feeder were costing a bomb.

Have to start breeding my own feeders.