What do you get out of keeping fish??

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Stress Relief - for sure. I don't even have cable TV, why bother when I'd rather sit in front of my fish tanks for hours! Nothing calms me down more.

And as for the maintenience, for some reason I really don't mind. Probably because of the satisfaction I get when I test my water and look at my fish and everything is nice and healthy.

As far as big fish, I guess I'm just drawn to large predators. I've kept zillions of different species of reptiles, but all I have now and probably all I'll every keep again are Tegus. There's just something about watching a giant, tame lizard crush a mouse's bones with it's jaws and swallow it whole .... It just does it for me.

I'm relatively new to fish keeping in general, but I've quickly progressed to predators. It started with two senegal bichirs, then an oscar and now an arowana. It just works for me :drool:
 
They're monitors but, not any specific type. A friend of mine keeps monster lizards. He has a savannah, a red tegu, and another type of tegu (forget the name) in his collection. All are distinctly different lizards.
 
Actually, no, Tegus are not monitors. :nono: They do bear a passing resemblence in apperence and biology, kinda like cats and dogs do...

Tegus (Macro-teiids at least - Red Tegus, Argentine B&Ws, Blue Tegus, Columbian B&W tegus) are large predatory lizards from south america. It has been established that Wild Argentine Tegus consume fruits and vegetables as around 40-60% of their diets, however captive ones generally accept very little if any herbivorous food. Mine eat Mice, worms, mealworms, pieces of fish, steak, chicken, turkey (just about any table scraps) and cat food.

Here's picture of Master Chief, my largest at about three feet long and 4 lbs. He's estimated to be about 8 months old.

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U NEED TO UPLOAD FRIST TO THE GALLIERY :NEWBIE:
 
whoops, thanks for the advice
 
cenecker said:
Actually, no, Tegus are not monitors. :nono: They do bear a passing resemblence in apperence and biology, kinda like cats and dogs do...

Tegus (Macro-teiids at least - Red Tegus, Argentine B&Ws, Blue Tegus, Columbian B&W tegus) are large predatory lizards from south america. It has been established that Wild Argentine Tegus consume fruits and vegetables as around 40-60% of their diets, however captive ones generally accept very little if any herbivorous food. Mine eat Mice, worms, mealworms, pieces of fish, steak, chicken, turkey (just about any table scraps) and cat food.

Here's picture of Master Chief, my largest at about three feet long and 4 lbs. He's estimated to be about 8 months old.
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do this in this order:

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or you can upload to mfk gallery or photobucket type website
then do it how u did
 
p- killing tham softly is the stand up in sf or dc?
 
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