Hey guys, my fish!

My name is Marshall and I have a 10 gallon freshwater tank in my apartment at college. I am looking to get rid of some of my dalmation mollies, roughly 1-2 months old. Love to trade for anything!

where do you live and WELCOME!

I live in Georgia...I just started my tank and was not expecting my 2 dalmation mollies to have babies so soon and now I need to get rid of the babies...(i may keep 1 or 2 )

well i live in ohio i dont know if there is anyone from georgia on here....

yeah, I came across this website through a random Google search in trying to get rid of my fish...

I hope you'll continue to participate in our forum even after you sell or trade a few fish. Have you looked on Aquabid? It's free or cheap to advertise there, and it gets quite a bit of traffic from people wanting to buy aquarium fish, plants, etc.

Welcome to the forum!

Johnarthur,

I have never heard of aquabid, but I am on the site now checking it out. So far, so good!

aquabid is amazing

Wonderful place to buy and sell!!!

Hey guys, I am interested in starting a saltwater aquarium too. I have heard some things about live rocks and live sand, and was wondering that after the aquarium was established, would any creatures come from the addition to either of these, I mean creatures that you could visibly see?

i dont have any salt water but i know you can get A LOT of different thing from it

If you get some good, really live... live rock then yes! You get all kinds of hitch hikers... Neat things that you really can see!

Now that being said... You may also get some bad hitch hikers... Things that you really don't want in your aquarium.

It's worth the risk for the good it does a saltwater aquarium.

I know you're in college, so you probably don't have a lot of room, but bigger is better, as with any tank, it's easier to make the water the way you want it in a bigger tank.

Also... Quarantine is especially important in an expensive saltwater environment... Heck it's super important in ANY environment... But it is something you might want to think about for your live rock. That way you can let it grow, and check to make sure you don't have any baddies in there before you put it in your tank.

Good Luck! I've been wanting to do saltwater, but I just havent' had the time or resources... Of course... I'm waiting for my 8 ft, 180 gallon saltwater show tank for in the bedroom... but with the live rock on the $5000.00 price range for it... I'm in limbo! LOL!

Saltwater aquariums, I'm told, are much more difficult to maintain than freshwater ones. The fish are also quite a bit more expensive. Still, saltwater tanks are something to behold. I'd just like to have a small one with sea horses.

So what types of "bad" hitchhikers are there? and good? I saw where you could get sponges and starfish, but i am just wondering. thanks

I've always wanted Seahorses too, but I've heard that they are very hard to keep. They have small mouths and the food has to be alive, or so I'm led to believe.
I admit that saltwater is awesome, but I'm just not prepared to spend that much to set something up that may or may not work, and then you have the costs of the fish!
The closest I will get is my brackish tanks, they are easy to deal with.

Another negative side of marine aquariums is that most or many of the fish are collected from the wild. Some collectors use reasonable techniques, and some don't.

I've been hearing alot about collectors using cyanide to get fish!! And I had a conversation with someone about the many hundreds, if not thousands of fish that don't make it through the transit period from point of collection to the UK or US, etc.
It's nearly enough to make me feel guilty keeping fish.

A few species of freshwater fish are also taken from the wild, but habitat destruction and the introduction of non native species are bigger problems.

I have wanted to do a seahorse tank for a while now and from what I have read they do have special requirements like slow moving water. As for food, if you get captive bred species you should be fine. Most are adapted to eat frozen food. Only the wild caught ones need to have live food and they are also likely to come with diseases you would not want to introduce to captive bred fish that are not immune. I am all about getting captive bred fish. They are just as good if not hardier than wild ones and they do not negatively impact the natural balance of things in the wild because you do not have to pull them from an established habitat.

I'm a total fan of captive bred species... I captively breed like 10+ species right now... LOL!!!

me too!!