Another newbie

[STONEMAN]

I've been visiting this forum for a few weeks and I liked the look of it so I just joined up so I thought I'd say hi, hi, aussie natives are my passion, got 2 tanks a 6x2x2 with a barra 55cm (due to go home soon), 45cm sleepy cod, 35cm aussie bass, 15-20cm spangled perch, and a 50 cm salmon tail catfish the other tank has some livebearers in it (platies, mollies, sailfins, swords) also a couple of white clouds, 2 bristlenoses a cray and a freshwater crab, yeah i know they arn't natives but the missus wants a tank with some colour, it works out okay cause when there's too many in there they beome feeder fish. looking forward to talking to you guys in the future.

[wombat1100]

Hello and welcome Stoneman
are all your large fish in the one 6 footer?
would love to see some pics, i once had a 35Cm Salmon cat, was like a family member, hand fed it , came up for a pat, must have thought it was a dog! lol
great fish

[Woodsy]

Hey mate, and welcome to the forum :)
Yeah, we looked after a massive one at work once Dazz, his name was the General, he used to do similar things. They're awesome fish if you're looking for more of a "pet", I guess you'd say.

[STONEMAN]

Yeah they are all in the same tank. I don't have any dramas with them all together as they have all grown up together, out of all of them the spangled perch is the most aggresive, sometimes he even has a go at the barra but most of the time they all get along nicely. I can hand feed my barra, salmon tail and my sleepy I give them frozen prawn, i buy a couple of kilo from woolies, freeze them defrost what i need and away we go, lasts me for a couple of months. On the weekends they get live food, goldfish, gudgeons, crays and shrimp, As soon as I get a camera that can take decent pics I will post some

[Benny]

hey:)
how long you had all of them for?

[STONEMAN]

Ive had them for a couple of years unfortunatly my barra died about amonth ago (really spewin), slowly had to progress up in tank size as they have all grown, got a new barra (about 10cm) he is in a tank by himself at the moment until he gets abit bigger to be able to handle himself and also so he doesn't end up in someones belly

[joz]

Hi Stoneman welcome to TFT...enjoy your stay.