Things I know

[Three Trees]

1) not to isolate 2 or more sultan plecos together... they will fight to death
2)Green Terror's mouth is larger than it seems... be careful with the size of the fish you add to it's tank
3)formika is poisonous and deadly to shrimps and bottom dwellers
4) Japonica shrimps are excellent climbers, but lousy air breathers

 

[ae2359]

I like number four, pretty funny

 

[water_baby83]

LOL I am guessing this knowledge came from trial and error???

 

[FishHeadSoup]

LOL I am guessing this knowledge came from trial and error???

i think thats how most of us here have learned! the hard way!

 

[water_baby83]

i think thats how most of us here have learned! the hard way!

yep yep, LOL maybe we should all make up our own "things we know..........now" list and post them here, ha ha ha!

-Em

 

[hoss62773]

you mean like... piranahs will eat each other if you starve them long enough just to watch the feeding frenzy

 

[ae2359]

5) Stingrays love cichlids, and not in the buddy buddy kind of way
6) The only thing more important then waterchanges is frequent water changes
7) In fishkeeping if something can go wrong eventually it does
8) If an LFS tells you a fish might fit in a 75 eventually your going to need an indoor pond

 

[davo]

lol- never had the problem with shrimps climbing out but:
9) red claw crabs-good at climbing-good at getting through miniature holes in lid-fine at breathing air- crap at finding a way back to water- amazing at dying out of water.

and all "medicines and treatments" may kill algae eating bottom dwellers (eg plecos) as becomes concentrated in the algae.....pleco eats........pleco dies

 

[philliptobin]

Rushing a tank kills the fish

Don't trust medicine info from the workers at the LFS read the instructions before you buy

RTCs eat anything that they can fit in there mouths and don't know when they are full. Over feeding = foul tank

 

[Casey Norris]

1. Tanks seem to grow exponentially in number once your roommate has given in to getting a second tank.
2. There is no such thing as a water change without getting water on something it’s not supposed to be on.
3. Sometimes your fish eat better than you do.