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Rank: #1 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 7.17

Number of Votes: 12

Photo Caption: Yellow labs in fish village

About Yourself: Like most, I expect, I started off with a "funfair prize" goldfish and wild cought Sticklebacks. I've now been keeping fish for about 35 years, moving on from the goldfish to a freshwater community tank in my bedroom as a young teenager. This community tank eventualy developed into a 4 foot Oscar and Black shark tank which moved with me into my first house. (The tank was 4 foot, NOT the Oscar). I sold the tank and fish when I moved again, soon setting up a 3 foot brackish tank. This contained half a dozen Monos. 2 Silver cat sharks, an Archer fish and a small Scat. In the mid 1990's the brackish tank naturally developed into a marine hobby. I kept a variety of hardy marine fish. Yellow tang, Regal tang, Lion fish, Clown fish, Various Damsels over the course of about seven years. Most successfully a "wimple fish" which I had for about 5 years. And a few less hardy ones, which didn't last very long. Expensive lessons leaned. After moving house in 2003 I took a reluctant enforced break but have now set up a small, low cost, freshwater, easy maintenance malawi cichlid tank. I think they have a similar "Wow" factor colouration as marines , but are much less hassle to keep. Check the website (http://www.beardwell4.com/fish.htm) for frequent updates.

Advice: Think of keeping WATER instead of fish. If the water is good, the fish will be good.

Fish Kept: 3 x Yellow Labs (Labidochromis Caeruleus) 2 x Psuedotropheus Elongatus cichlids.

Plants Kept: 7 Marimo balls / Japanese Moss (Google it). Some bits of dead corals, rocks, shells and three (£1 shop) houses for the fish to live in.

Tank Size: 18

Description: 30" clearseal basic tank holding 80 - 85 Litres of fresh water. "Hang on" filter loaded up with Siporax and an Interpet Prime 10 external filter loaded with Carbon and filter wool. 200W heater. 2 x 11w white light units and a submersible 6w blue tube. Check out http://www.beardwell4.com/fish.htm for full details

Rank: #2 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 6.71

Number of Votes: 14

Photo Caption: Front, at 10 inces, male, his name is moto-moto!

Quote: do what you know you should

About Yourself: I love what i do.

Advice: Have fun with this hobby.

Fish Kept: Dolphin moorii, flameback hap, electric blue, red shoulder peacock, and assortment.

Plants Kept: assortment

Tank Size: 120

Description: Newly set up 120 tall, malawis cichlid tank. Using aquaclear 110''s x2, and basic powerglo lighting.

Rank: #3 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 6.67

Number of Votes: 15

Photo Caption: Red shoulder cichlid

Quote: do what you know you should

About Yourself: I love what i do.

Advice: Have fun with this hobby.

Fish Kept: Dolphin moorii, flameback hap, electric blue, red shoulder peacock, and assortment.

Plants Kept: assortment

Tank Size: 120

Description: Newly set up 120 tall, malawis cichlid tank. Using aquaclear 110''s x2, and basic powerglo lighting.

Rank: #4 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 6.55

Number of Votes: 11

Photo Caption: Amanda tucks her babies in for the night - she digs a hole in the gravel during the day and at about 11 o'clock each night she lines them all up in bed with the help of her husband Randolph to control the rebels

About Yourself: I first got into fish keeping 2 years ago when I got a 50l fish tank for my 12th birthday. A few months later I also bought a second hand 130l tank which recently gave up on me - the filter stopped working, then the light, so this summer I have replaced it with a 200l fluval roma which is much bigger and better. The original 50l tank is still running, with an angelfish, two gouramis and a catfish living in it now. Last christmas i got a 30 l goldfish tank and i have 2 comets and a fancy goldfish living in there.

Advice: Don't buy too many fish for your size of tank - They are still small and young in the pet shop but you have to remember that they will grow a lot bigger and could cause overcrowding in your tank if you're not careful. Also, consider which types of fish will be compatible - when my severums decided they wanted to start a family, they evicted all the other fish and we had to quickly rescue them and transfer them to another tank. As they are naturally quite aggressive fish, I should have been more clever and realised it wasnt a good idea to put lots of other fish in with them.

Fish Kept: Big tank nowadays (tank pictures are old) contains a breeding pair of severums - a green male and golden female Small tank now-Opaline gourami, honey gourami, raphael catfish, one angelfish I also have a 30l goldfish tank, although i don't have a picture of it at the moment - this contains two comets and a fancy goldfish.

Plants Kept: On the pictures, the small tank contains valisneria spiralis and amazon swords. The big tank contains only amazon swords. However, as I said, the tanks have changed since these were taken. The big tank now has only silk plants due to my severums' apetites and the small one has amazon swords and a strange red plant.... The goldfish tank has a really nice one that i found in Ikea, with lots of small round leaves.

Description: Most of my pictures need to be updated at the moment as they are quite old and tanks and fish have changed. My pair of severums are now living in a 200l fluval roma tank with a fluval 205 external filter, umm... light tubes.. and a fluval heater. Will get pictures soon, however I am currently battling with a bacterial bloom in this tank which will supposedly settle down once the balance is right, but for the time being it isn't too pretty, so i'm not putting it on the website.

Rank: #5 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 6.09

Number of Votes: 11

Photo Caption: 75 gallon Malawi Rift Lake tank with low light life plants. There are: Zebra Obliquidens, PS Acei, Yellow labs, pearlmutt labs, Rusty cichlids, Bristlenose pleco and Synodontis multipunctatus.

Quote: We read to know we are not alone!

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Advice: Regular water changes and be patient. learn about the nitrogen cycle the single most important thing about aquaria

Fish Kept: 6 aquariums: Africans 75 gal, Discus, rams, apistos 65 gal, Tiger Barbs & Rainbow Shark 33 gal, Celestial Pearl Danios 15 gal , Cherry Shrimp colony 15 gal, Apisto Vijieta 29 gal

Plants Kept: One hi-tech CO2 pressurized planted tank to many plants to list, all other tanks including Malawi tank have life plants

Tank Size: 75

Description: Malawi rift lake aquarium setup.

Rank: #6 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 5.82

Number of Votes: 11

Photo Caption: Looking mad, frontosa.

Quote: do what you know you should

About Yourself: I love what i do.

Advice: Have fun with this hobby.

Fish Kept: Dolphin moorii, flameback hap, electric blue, red shoulder peacock, and assortment.

Plants Kept: assortment

Tank Size: 120

Description: Newly set up 120 tall, malawis cichlid tank. Using aquaclear 110''s x2, and basic powerglo lighting.

Rank: #7 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 5.73

Number of Votes: 11

Photo Caption: blue turq discus

Quote: -

About Yourself: Hey, how are you. my name is nathan, i live in south australia. ive been in to aquariums for about 12 months now. its kind of become more of a obsession, than a hobby.

Advice: keep trying

Fish Kept: Discus, Blue turq, blood orange Catfish, peppermint, bristlenose, bournio sucker, whiptail

Plants Kept: java moss. Hygro. Corymbosa. Dwarf Blyxa. Thin Val. Ambulia

Tank Size: 300

Description: 300 litre juwel rio 300, with 4 X 54w T5lights. co2 set up, manual use, using drop checker, 1 bubble per second, Fertilizer is dupla drop form plant 24 every day, with dupla tablet every water change + flourish excel every two days.

Rank: #8 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 5.67

Number of Votes: 12

Photo Caption: Electric blue

Quote: patient

About Yourself: this tank is almost 3 months old and i am a beginner any commends OR advices welcome.

Advice: I am a beginner i need advice

Fish Kept: 24 cardinal tetras 08 silver tips 03 ramirezi 04 discus 04 amano shrimps 04 Banana shrimps

Plants Kept: many types

Tank Size: 51

Description: 120cm x 44cm x 47cm 4x 36 watts of lighting Fully automatic CO2 system

Rank: #9 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 5.45

Number of Votes: 11

Photo Caption: peacock bass

About Yourself: I am 37 have been doing the fish thing over the past 15 trs off and on.This last time im going 6 yrs strong.It started with a 39 gallon tank and 2 tiger oscars the size of 1 inch.II now have 3 55gallon,1 75 gallon,1 120 gallon 1 10 gallon and 1 5 gallon.I love fish!I love to go fishing also.I figured if I cant live with fish I will have them live with me.The only thing closer to me than my fish is my Tree Service and my dog(my best friend).

Advice: NONE

Fish Kept: ARCHERS OSCARS PEACOCK BASS JAGUAR CICHLID BLACK KNIFE,Electic blue Jack Dempsies

Plants Kept: HARD TO WITH THESE FISH

Tank Size: 5

Description: I HAVE 8 (5 GALLON TO 120 GALLON)

Rank: #10 out of 26 freshwater fish worldwide
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Ratings: 5.44

Number of Votes: 18

Photo Caption: Barrel Row! LOL, Albino Zebra Cichlid.

About Yourself: Im 21 years old, Im A father of a little boy who loves my fish tanks! Im also A active member of the Kentucky Army National Guard!

Advice: RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH! The internet is full of helpful advice on keeping aquariums. Find out what is best for your fish and make sure to mimic there habitat as close as posible! GOODLUCK!

Fish Kept: Melanochromis auratus- Adult male and a very large female. Also I have 18 mixed African Juviniles and a pelco.

Plants Kept: None.

Tank Size: 55

Description: This is my 55g freshwater tank, Im using a Cascade 700 canister filter and a 300w heater keeping the water at 82 F. Rocks are limestone with some sandstone. Substate is natural river rock from Wal-mart.