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Hello all, I have been so busy reading everyone elses posts, I didn't realise I hadn't posted anything yet, until someone in the chatroom pointed out my error.

My first ever tank is a beauty. It is a 4ft wide by 3ft high plastic stock trough which I filled with gravel, water and plants so the local green tree frogs had somewhere to breed. I put in some mozzie larvae eating fish and a couple of sucker catfish. Then I fell in love with a couple of bn catfish and the lfs assured me they were hardy enough for an outdoor pond. Wrong! The poor little things froze in Winter.

I hastily rounded up the 3 suckers and 7 of the fish and bought an 18" tank. Hardy little fellows cause I didn't know anything about cycling a tank. To my credit I did use gravel from the pond, water from the pond and plants from the pond.

Now I just had to get a bigger tank. Those guys are just so entertaining. I now have a 3ft tank. Sorry, I haven't put the backing on yet in the pic.
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Also, can anyone tell me what sort of fish I have? I spent hours going through google links on fish but I couldn't find a pic like my fish.
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Hey Brengun welcome to posting

Looks to me like you've got white cloud mountain minnows pictured in that second photo. Known around here as WCMM for short.
Some of my favorite fish, I got some at my first fish auction here in oz.

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Bebelfish you are so clever.
Crikey! They can withstand a low temp of 8C. Told you they were tough.

I love these little guys, I had them in my tank back in the states and they didn't flinch at all when I was without power in the middle of winter for 14 hours. The house had dropped to around 10C and they were fine. They can also handle the higher temps that the tank got in summer.

Plus they would chase my zebra danios around . Any fish that can give those guys a swim for their money is great in my book. Forgot to mention but you may have figured it out from the additional photos in their profile, but you have both the standard and golden variety.

^_^

Well, they had better behave themselves when my new fish arrive or back down to the fish pond they go. They are terrific mosquito larvae eaters.

hello and welcome Brengun... nice to see you here.

Look forward to seeing you on the boards here.

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welcome to the FP site Bren! Nice looking tank!

Nice tank Brengun

Hope you keep at it. If you need any help give us a shout

Thanks for your input as always, Shane
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