Do any of you wonderful people keep tropical fish?

Just goldfish, but even they are a lot of work to keep properly, I find. Still, we've had ours for about five years, moved house with them four times, and they've been through health scares that would have led to their deaths in the days before I could look things up on the Internet. Tails fell off. Eyes came out. There was bullying. All very unpleasant, and it put me off anything more advanced in the fish department.

Post pictures of yours!

Oooh I will, they are very photogenic! My goldfish Anna Fride lived for 12 years, she had a little friend but she died after a week. They were fairground fish.

Ditto - we put the surviving fish in our outdoor pond after a while, whereby it grew to the size of a small mackerel and had hundreds of babies.

We've got tropical fish. We did really well keeping them, for a long while, but then they started to die off (probably age related) and we didn't replace them because we knew we were moving, so we've got three left (moved with 4, but one of the cory's carked it over the weekend)

We have a 96 litre tank and a smaller one in our bedroom. In it's heyday the 96 litre had:

5 cories
5 black phantom tetras
5 red phantom tetras
5 white cloud mountain minnows
1 Indian Gourami

And it looked like this:

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In the smaller tank we had 5 cardinal tetras and a betta - the first one managed to cook himself on the heater:

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But now we've only got two cardinal tetras and a cory left in the small tank. We're hoping to set up the large tank again, Chris is very keen to get cichilids.

Fish keeping is ace, but it's really quite hard work to keep on top of water changes etc.

It would be great to have a marine tank, but it's so much hard work and so expensive that I don't think we'd be able to look after it properly, and I have issues about the fact that hardly any marine species can be bred in captivity so most are caught in the wild.

This forum was absolutely fantastic for help, advice, ideas etc. Also for drooling over amazing looking tanks, and being amazed at how seriously some people take their fish keeping: Tropical fish centre

I have a great big spherical biorb cold water which is great at keeping it clean if you swap the filters every few months...

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Gorgeous fish Vicky!

Our tank is tiny, it's only 30 litres - practice tank. Once we're more adept we'll move that tank into the spare room and get a bigger one. Marine fish are so good looking - Lion Fish etc, I could watch them for hours.

My guppies are pretty cool though.