Any Fish-Keepers Out There?

Andromeda, yes they can. But like Oswin said, be mindful of the species you want to live together. Peaceful, less bright fish are better. I had success with tiger barbs, danios, and gouramis with my betta. BUT some of my fish were aggressive species and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a HUGE tank so they don't feel like their space is being invaded. My tank was well over 100 gallons and my different species preferred different 'levels' in the tank (that's a tip I like to give; different species prefer being at different depths, so you can stagger to try to prevent unnecessary confrontation).

I have limited space to work with but am a huge fish enthusiast, I keep planted tanks with koi swordtails, cherry shrimp and a few guppies. Then we also have two bettas one male and one female. I currently have three tanks running and a fourth in progress. We have a 10g in my daughters room, a 15g fry/shrimp tank and then 2 26g bowfronts.

If I had a bigger place I would love to have a couple bigger tanks so I could really expand and work on my koi colour swordtail varieties on a larger scale. I love swordtails and plan to keep working with them. I had originally started with albino platinum guppies with a large import order but they were really super sensitive and I had problems with the whole ordering process and I'm not going through that again. Then I discovered koi swordtails and never looked back so to speak,  I'm just in love with them.






Last edited on 2018-01-06 at 17:11:54 by Forevermore

Forevermore - your aquascapes are beautiful! Are the bettas together? 

Thanks, and no. The male is kept in the 10g and the female is in the 26g. Our male is older and very chill and would likely be fine with our female but he has a lot of finnage and has a hard time in the current of the 26g, he does a lot better in the ten gallon which just has a sponge filter where as our female is very active and does well with the activity in the current main tank.

Last edited on 2018-01-06 at 17:33:29 by Forevermore

My dream is to eventually have a huge aquarium (talking around 2,000 gallons) so I can keep koi. It would probably be the centerpiece of a room. Unfortunately I can't do that right now. Far too expensive and I don't have the space.

That would be amazing, my daughter loves koi but we definitely won't have the space for them in our near future. She plays the phone game zen koi to help her relax.

My grandfather kept koi. I loved those fish.

Zen Koi is such a fun little game, but I get stressed out because I'm a completionist so I need to get every variant XD

@Vos I've always wanted a big aquarium to. I've always thought it would be so cool to have one of those rooms that basically is a built in aquarium. 

Koi would be so cool to keep, in a huge aquarium or a pond. They're really pretty, along with goldfish. Someday in the far future I'd like to have a fish pond, but with our winters I'll probably have to invest in a heater or something. Not sure how fish would do in a pond that freezes over. xD

I wonder if it would be possible to McGyver some sort of 'base' for the pond that can be heated when the water gets under a certain temperature?

*Slides in* 
Hey!!! In my most recent community tank, I have a school of neon tetras and a couple of albino corys, but I'm slowly adding more fish, and plan on adding a betta last (he has territorial issues and if we add him in last, he just has to go with the other fishs established territory) At one of my other houses, I'm getting ready to transfer my bettas + other fishies into a bigger tank on a stand, and I'm saving up for another tank for my dresser (first saltwater one!!!!) 

Last edited on 2018-01-15 at 11:18:07 by The Gaiaphage

Aww that's neat, what sizes are your tanks so far? 

Have you ever had saltwater fish before? I've always had fresh water fish myself and haven't had the interest yet to do a reef tank.

I haven't owned a salt water tank before, but I did babysit my friends tank for half a year while housesitting for them when they went away, so I know the ropes :D Any for our most recent community tank I think it's about 40-45ish? It's an older model which was discontinued, so I can't find the exact size anywhere, but I'd say my guess is pretty close. And the stand one is 420l, which i think is roughly about 100 gallons?? 

I used to keep fish, mainly bettas, and I usually had an African Dwarf Frog to keep my bettas company. I just had a larger fish bowl that I kept on my dresser, but then life starting getting in the way, and when the last frog died I just sorta gave up. I would like to have them but i'm gonna be busy this summer sp it wouldn't be fair to the fishies.