Link For Resa (and Sue!) - And General 'I Want This Fish' Chat!

Ooh I had no idea you were a teacher Colin, great stuff! Haha they do look very strange. I was looking them up out of pure curiosity, one site said they were a 'de-evolved' (but a more scientific word for it!) form of salamander as you said that doesn't mature. How strange. Such a strange choice of a pet but I can see the appeal now I've been looking at them for 20 minutes (I really need to tidy my flat, so you can see why googling these is a better and more appealing use of my time :p). For some reason I've already seen this creature before but I can't for the life of me remember why!

I really want another fish tank now... every thing I see I'm intrigued by! 

Anyone seen an axolotl before? The same LFS is selling them with a tank for £100 - they're such funny looking things!

Oh Jesnon, he's wicked! A face only a mother could love! My son is now pestering for one of these chaps....honestly, you'd think he was 5!

Good news!


If space is a problem, you could go for the bigger Edge which has the same footprint as the one you already have. You would still be restricted to fish that don't need a long tank, but you could have more of them. Of course, a betta might not be suitable......

Ooh I could do. I need to look into bigger tanks really.

With my very hard 8.2ph water is there any pretty fish that you'd suggest to tempt in a not particularly big tank? Say a few bigger fish?

And Colin thanks for the links, think marine will have to be something I try after lots of saving up then!

Hmmm now that is tempting! Though I read nano tanks for marine are the same as nano tanks for tropical in that they are harder to keep as stable environments (not that I've had that problem really with my little edge). I'm guessing due to the size of that tank you can't actually keep any fish though like our beloved B&W angels. Hmmm. It would still make a fine introduction to marine tank keeping though... *ponders*. You know - it's my birthday coming up in a month or so too and my parents were asking after what I wanted :-P

Looks like I need to get reading! A pain when I only have a dongle since Sky are being daft about fitting our internet since our flat apparently doesn't exist!

Edit: thinking about it, I'm sure this tank was at my local MA. Gorgeous little thing!

OK.... I'm back!

Quite a few people seem to have used the 55litre AquaOne 40 cube (the same I have for freshwater) as a marine tank.... and a pair of Clown fish seem to be the popular addition - along with live rock and inverts. The tanks are £100 (tho' I've occasionally seen them for £75 at P@H), but if you want to keep corals then the light needs upgrading.

Here's a thread (plus piccies) in another forum about it, and googling aqua one nano 40 marine pulled up loads of links. I was/am sort of interested, but unsure, about turning to the salty side. More difficult it is.  ....but you know that!

I've been pondering it over and I think I will have to put my salty fish desires on hold for a while longer. Since I'm still only renting my current flat contract is only for 6 months so the possibility of moving is always quite imminent - it was stressful enough with my little fish tank let alone a whole marine tank too! It looks like the costs would also soon stack up unless I went for a cheaper 'all built in' model like that little one you posted Colin, so I need to get saving! Hopefully when I'm more settled and not prone to move at the drop of a hat then I can finally get a marine tank!

I still have the Bristol fish shop on my Facebook - I think I'll keep it as it means I get to see things like this guppy:



Thought Sue might want to see this 'blue pearl' fighter too!

Ha yes I hope so! I think I'll get researching and planning the perfect tank, hehe. It was definitely stressful enough moving my little tank, without having to worry about expensive delicate fish and scary sounding corals too!

Yes he does look more like a fighter doesn't he!? Very pretty. I'm still quite tempted to get another small tank, though where to put it is still questionable!

Our bathroom is actually quite big so I'm sure a tank would fit nicely in there ha, but we don't have any windows in either of our bathrooms unfortunately :-(

Hmm actually thinking about it, I guess if the fish have their own 'light' maybe it doesn't matter? I guess at least you won't have any excess algae problems caused by sunlight ha! Though again thinking about it I don't have any normal non-shaver plugs in my bathroom anyway ^^; (I'm not doing too well with this ha!)

But I'm still intrigued by the answer to this!