Scuba Divers that Own Aquariums

[chip104]

As much as I'd love to keep a saltwater aquarium, I don't have the resources (time, money, space) at this point in my life to maintain one. Instead I lurk over on RC and enjoy following the tank journal threads. Some of them are real works of art. For now I keep 2 freshwater tanks - a 29 gal community and 90 gal for my oscar.

I have a few aquariums. Right now I have a 220g, 125g, 90g, 75g, 35g, 2 25g, and a 10g. I use most of them for breeding Oscars, and a few of them are for breeding Platies, Mollies, and guppies, most of which are used as food for the Oscars.

sup oscar keeping buddy. Mine's a 7.5 year old albino oscar (I'm pretty sure halfbred fantail) kept in a 90 gallon aquarium. I adore her.

I also have a 29 gallon community tank that I'm setting up: 6 zebra danios, 6 marble cory cats, 2 pearl gourami's, and 9 tiger barbs.

That sounds like a lot of work!

..says the aquarist with a 90 gallon reef tank...

 

[rsilva708]

sup oscar keeping buddy. Mine's a 7.5 year old albino oscar (I'm pretty sure halfbred fantail) kept in a 90 gallon aquarium. I adore her.

I also have a 29 gallon community tank that I'm setting up: 6 zebra danios, 6 marble cory cats, 2 pearl gourami's, and 9 tiger barbs.

I've had my oscars for a long time now. Most of them I got as rescues. My local pet shop will take in fish people cant take care of any more, and a lot of them tend to be oscars. People don't realize how big they can get, so I stop by his shop from time to time and see if he has any. Normally He will sell them to me for about $10 because by the time he gets them they are in pretty bad shape, But I nurse most of them back to good health. That's how I got most of my breeding pairs.

 

[chip104]

I've had my oscars for a long time now. Most of them I got as rescues. My local pet shop will take in fish people cant take care of any more, and a lot of them tend to be oscars. People don't realize how big they can get, so I stop by his shop from time to time and see if he has any. Normally He will sell them to me for about $10 because by the time he gets them they are in pretty bad shape, But I nurse most of them back to good health. That's how I got most of my breeding pairs.

That's good of you. Sometimes I wish I could get my oscar a breeding mate cause she produces eggs on a fairly regular basis but that means getting a bigger tank. That's nice of your LFS but I'm guessing they win out if you produce fry and they ever run low on juvenile oscar stock.

 

[Drewdive]

I dive and have a 20gal mixed reef and buying equipment for my 200gal in-wall that will also be a mixed reef.

 

[captndale]

The couple of times I have tried to have an aquarium they ended up with dead fish and brown water. I have much better luck with the big natural ones.

 

[Straegen]

I had a large reef aquarium a few months back that housed a nice collection of acros as well as some other SPS and LPS. I broke it down and sold it off. The money went toward putting a bar in its place and a new motorcycle to replace my old one with quite a bit when the dust settled. High end reef tanks makes diving look very affordable.

I have snorkeled for years but selling the tank is what got me interested in diving actually.

I love zoanthids

 

[divezilla88]

i am had a big tank at one point