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Title: How many pets do you have?
Post by: knny187 on March 19, 2008, 10:34:00 AM
 ;)
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: Butterbean on March 19, 2008, 10:36:08 AM
now I can vote ;D
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: G.R.H. on March 19, 2008, 03:26:07 PM
none!  if i lived alone, i'd have lots!  :(
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: ~flower~ on March 20, 2008, 06:21:31 AM
none!  if i lived alone, i'd have lots!  :(

 I do not see any votes for '0'?  
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: E N A N T H A T O R on March 20, 2008, 08:49:36 PM
0 right now, near future 2, My wife gets to pick what she wants and I already know I'm getting another English Bulldog.
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: webcake on March 20, 2008, 09:08:00 PM
I guess i don't count fish, so just 1
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: beatmaster on March 20, 2008, 09:24:47 PM
I guess i don't count fish, so just 1

same thing for me, i have 2 tanks
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: E N A N T H A T O R on March 20, 2008, 09:29:39 PM
same thing for me, i have 2 tanks
Would love to have a salt water tank one day. I imagine they require alot of upkeep.
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: Vet on March 20, 2008, 09:40:06 PM
Would love to have a salt water tank one day. I imagine they require alot of upkeep.

It depends on what you have in the tank.  My grouper tank requires very little maintenance.  The grouper basically eats everything in the tank, I change the water, we both watch TV. 

Reef tanks can be extremely labor intensive depending on your setup.  My large anenome died not too long ago.  I missed it for the first few hours it was dead.  That basically set off a chain reaction until the entire aquarium shit the bed.  It looked like a nuclear holicost and smelled like stinky rhino ass for a few days.  I lost my breeding pair of maroon clowns, my coral beauty, about half my leather corals, most of my mushroom polyps, and a few other things.  I've got the tank back stable and am rebuilding things, but the death of that one animal was pretty bad for the tank. 
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: E N A N T H A T O R on March 21, 2008, 08:25:31 AM
It depends on what you have in the tank.  My grouper tank requires very little maintenance.  The grouper basically eats everything in the tank, I change the water, we both watch TV. 

Reef tanks can be extremely labor intensive depending on your setup.  My large anenome died not too long ago.  I missed it for the first few hours it was dead.  That basically set off a chain reaction until the entire aquarium shit the bed.  It looked like a nuclear holicost and smelled like stinky rhino ass for a few days.  I lost my breeding pair of maroon clowns, my coral beauty, about half my leather corals, most of my mushroom polyps, and a few other things.  I've got the tank back stable and am rebuilding things, but the death of that one animal was pretty bad for the tank. 
A reef tank is what i'd like, I guess you need to have it professionally maintained.
Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: ripitupbaby on March 21, 2008, 10:12:26 AM
A reef tank is what i'd like, I guess you need to have it professionally maintained.


We looked into reef tanks and did alot of research before we decided against it.  VERY labor intensive. 

Things like what Vet mentioned can be big problems....but just feeding the fish can be a problem.  If you get a large variety of fish, some like live food, some like frozen food, some like to be fed by hand like 3 times a day, others in the morning, others in the middle of the night...We thought about wtf we would do when we travelled anywhere and concluded that it would be damn near impossible to have someone come over and take care of the tank while we were gone.

Title: Re: How many pets do you have?
Post by: beatmaster on March 21, 2008, 10:23:19 AM

rip you should start with a nano tank, get a pair of clown, live rock and live sand, pretty easy to keep!

small, easy to take care of, doesn't cost a lot of money and pretty nice, that way you'll know if you really like it or not.

check this site out: http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/index.php