Very nice Steve :cool: I love the one with the rainbows.

No doubt, if I could get my FW to look like that, I'd be .... well ... um ... more satisfied with my FW tank (couldn't think of something to go with the first part of that sentence)

In regards to Steve's 5 reasons: wow, wow, wow,wow, and, um wow.


My reason: breeding
With FW you get to study mating, spawning and rearing behaviour and have the opportunity to raise fish from an egg to an adult.

Breeding? Really? With fish? Wow man, we gotta get you a woman, pronto :lol: :lol:

Best reason is cost - way cheaper. (by a factor of 10)

Especially since I have access to the local FW wholesaler. I set up a beautiful 35 hex FW with about 50-60 fish. Never a problem. Almost no cost. All the fish (including gold pearl angels & congo tetras) cost me less than 3 SW fish.

On the other hand, as soon as we set up a SW tank (after watching NEMO), we never looked at the FW tank so I sold the fish & the tank. From 7 small - medium FW to 4 medium - large SW.[/quote]

FW=Boring fish
:mrgreen:

You're not playing by the rules of the thread, Emily! And you aren't keeping the right FW fish.

IMO, both have their pros and cons, can't really say which is better. That's why I have both.

I LOVE THE FIRST PIC.


(5 works or less ;)

hmm I don't see how you can say that :mrgreen: lots of fish that are colorfull in FW also.

Steve

Yup. They're called guppies. I think we should all have guppies. And we can put them in our reefs. Best of both worlds kinda. We can have SW AND have pretty little guppies. I think I'll get one this weekend. :lol:

I have to admit, being from Malaysian where you can catch them in ditches & rice paddies (at least when I was a little tyke), I have a weakness for common guppies. That's why for my b-day I set up my little 5g to breed them. :biggrin:

I also used to keep balloon mollies, but I converted them over to full SW over a period of several weeks. When I traded them into King Ed, the owner saw that they were selling for twice the price so he caught up a whole netful & tossed them in his SW tank, with predictable results. I wasn't there so I couldn't stop him from shocking his FW fish like that. :cry: