WHEN ?

[cjmaddy]

Perhaps Jim will include Guppies when he introduces the fish feeding feature, they make excellent live food
for Angelfish! ................ sorry, I couldn't resist that!

Maybe Jim could come up with an add-on pack for the Freshwater Aquarium. It could be called "Your Childhood Aquarium," and could include Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies, common Goldfish, a diver that sends up bubbles, your choice of a number of neon-colored gravels for the bottom of the tank, and various colored "crackle-glass" effects for the background. This pretty much describes my first aquarium, except I also had a ceramic castle that the fish could swim through.

[feldon34]

We have a Goldfish Aquarium for Goldfish and which will possibly have a diver.

Freshwater Aquarium has a treasure chest that opens and bubbles come out. Probably the coolest thing in the tank.

Yeah, I can't wait to see the Treasure Chest and bubbles! It sounds fantastic. I won't want it on all the time, but now and then would be great.
My "Childhood Aquarium" post was kind of tongue in cheek, as I really wouldn't want to go back to that bygone aquarium. I remember how excited I was when the Swordtails and Black Mollies had babies, and how devastated I was when they ate them all. Also, when I made the mistake of introducing a 4" Red Oscar into a community tank. Talk about carnage!
It just seems alot of people really want guppies and goldfish in the same tank. Personally I'd rather have a tank with just umpteen different types of tetras, and maybe a plecostomus and a couple of loaches and catfish (the sparkly green ones are my favorites). However, I doubt Jim is going to make one just for me.
But, I'm sure I'll be more than happy with whatever he comes up with (as long as it's not neon gravel and crackle-glass backgrounds).

[IXNAY]

pleaaaaaaaaase jim, add guppies, they are so cuuuute and the screensaver's name is freshwater aquarium and not tropical freshwater aquarium. They are typical freshwater aquarium fish. So pleaaaaaaaase

[Jim Sachs]

It is a tropical aquarium. Someone else might want to do a guppie tank. I like to leave others as much latitude as I can, and not take too much for myself.

[loub516]

Very diplomatic Jim.

[nreimer]

Guppies are tropical fish. They occur naturally in streams in Central and South America, in the tropics. That being said, I would prefer not to have them in Jim's tropical freshwater tank. There are plenty of other tropical freshwater fish that, in my opinion, are much preferable.

[Mountainmaster]

I agree with you, nreimer. Guppies are tropical fish, but they are actually quite temperature tolerant.

As a child I used to catch guppies in one of the Dutch canals, not exactly a place where one would expect to find them. The location was an industrial area in the town of Delft. The canal in question was being used for cooling heavy machinery and therefore would stay warm and never froze over during winter. Now apparently some joker had emptied a guppy tank in there and if you know anything about guppy birthrate you can guess what happened. At times there were so many that food supplies got kind of low. So I would simply toss in a slice of bread, which in no time would be covered with hungry guppies, some even jumping on top of it in their feeding frenzy. Then all I had to do was scoop them up by the dozens.

[patscarr]

That's an interesting story MM. Are the lake and gippies still there? Go toss in another piece of bread and snap some shots for us.

[Mountainmaster]

Patrick, I don't think they are still there. This was some 30+ years ago. It was just a small canal in between a factory and the science lab where my father worked back then. My father has long since retired so even if there is anything recognizable left I would not be able to access this private property.

[searley]

I read with interest the debate about guppies.. personally i hate them, and would not like to see them.. But


i would like to point out here in the UK where i worked for many years as the 'specialist' in the fish house of one of the UKs largest aquatic outlets, that guppies were only ever sold as Tropical fish, and only advised for non heated tanks with perople that had centrally heated houses where the temperature is constant year round..

another thing with guppies, is they seem slow when in cooler tanks, and are most active and interesting in temps around about 75 degrees

[cjmaddy]

Well said Searley, - (and welcome to the forum to another UK member!) - you are quite right!

I have tried making the same point, but these people from warmer climates seem determined to class them as none tropical, - strange! - I too am not keen to see them in Jim's Freshwater Aquarium, but a tropical tank is their rightful home in every book I have ever read!

[searley]

cjmaddy - dont get me wrong, i dont like guppies, just my opinion!

i think is is because they are to common and i like something a little different, this is probably why i changed over to keeping marines..

one fish i would like to see is a red tail black shark, and or silver sharks, as these have always been a freshwater favorite of mine!

[Jim Sachs]

The average person might consider the Ferrari Dino a Ferrari. To anyone involved with the breed, it's a Fiat.

There will not be guppies in the Freshwater Tropical Tank.

Working on fish #4, a red-tailed shark at this moment.

[cjmaddy]

Jim has beaten me to it!

I was just going to refer you to this:-

https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...0&pagenumber=1

[Wizwad]

So does that mean we won't see any Fiats, either, in the Freshwater Tank? Awww...

[IXNAY]

Oh cool, what about clown loaches?

[feldon34]

We seem to be starting another wishlist thread here for some reason.

[Jim Sachs]

One more time....
Yes, there will be Clown Loaches.