Keep 'em and catch 'em ??

How many of you keep fish in an aquarium as well as catching them ? I have a 50 gallon heavily planted setup with a small shoal of red bellied piranhas. Anyone else ??

I used to have a corner tank in the lounge with loads of neons, they look pretty good in a big shoal of em. I have recently bough a bigger tank off a mate for a ?100 and have added the neons and red tail sharks and angel fish and all are getting on ok. They say having fish in a tank in your house brings you luck. I have been called a lucky ba*tard many times.

I used to be into fishkeeping in a big way 6ftx2ftx2ft tank with oscars,a pike cichlid,geophagus daemon,jaguar cichlid,cichlasoma labiatum,aequidens rivulatus all of these were at least 12 inches and kept with a 16inch snow plec there was also a 4ftx2ftx2ft tank with a solitary fish i was told was a snakehead 18 inches of bad mood with teeth would ram the glass when you walked by and would try and eat anything put in the tank with it.I am just thinking of starting again with a couple of 5ft tanks with a couple of pairs of large cichlid in as they are my favorite fish .

I had a 6x2x2 with a osphronemous gourami...an 8x3x2 tropical marine reef set up...under tank trickle filters and skimmers, loads of corals, anemones, crustaceans, and a few small fish...tidepool fish, damsels, clowns, and a silly tame lionfish. The stand gave way and flooded the house with 400 gallons of salt water [oops]...suffice it to say that 'er indoors wasn't best pleased.

richard , are marines difficult to keep as i think the are magnificent to watch but have been put off by some articles i have read

No Chef, they are not. You've had a good grounding in fishkeeping obviously, so you'd have no worries in keeping a reef tank. It's common sense and technology nowadays mate...with all the advanced hardware that's available you can't really go wrong. Some hard corals are still a bit iffy to keep, but 80% of the marine life that's available in the shops will be quite happy as long as the water is {a} wet and {b} salty. I found a native marine tank harder to keep than a tropical reef tank...bass are pretty hard to keep over long periods. The best place to start is a shop called The Watford Aquarium...they specialise in marines, and will be more than happy to put you on the right track as a reef keeper. They sell a small booklet, very cheap, which contains all the info you could ever need. Email me your address and I'll send you my copy, mate....have a study of it and make your decision after reading it.
The only REAL problem in reefkeeping is what system do you choose ? There are so many out there, some filtered, some not, some filtered naturally....some cost the earth, some cost no more than a decent tropical tank. The main thing is, once you've made your choice of system...stick to it like glue, you'll only end up totally confused and out of pocket if you try and change systems during the life of a tank. Oh...one more thing. Make sure you when you set up your big marine tank, for gawds sake make sure the tank is sitting on something sturdy. Salt water and carpets don't mix...been there, done that !!