# Who shops at Eddies Aquarium on route 9? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 18, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405 "2008-08-18T12:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/61 "2008-08-20T10:56:50Z")
you can get like 5 of each color and a few plecos and cats and some snails with a few shrimp in there and itll be fine. u dont have to cram your tank full. put in a few neons and itll be very colorfull. especially if u plan a bunch of things and wrap the back with a dark blue or a dark green background. get a nice light on em as well. i got a 50-50 light and its quite nice. it makes algae explode in growth, but its not a problem in my tank, so its ok. i got an otocat(not sure how to spell it, but sounds like auto cat) for that. those lights are great, they provide two kinds of lighting in one. one is good for growth and one is for color. so u get the plants and algae growth(some algae is actually not a bad thing because it occurs in their natural habitat, so its allright) and the fish colors just POP. mine arent really that colofull, but i can see blues and green in their bellies when they zip around under the light, so i can only imagine how bright the stripes on neons will get. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/62 "2008-08-20T10:59:22Z")
I wish I could put in a beta and not have to worry about him. :sad They are so pretty. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/63 "2008-08-20T10:59:48Z")
> [@votblindub](#): > > big tanks are easier than small ones, like i said. so i’d get a larger size tank. 40+ will be good. It will require are lot of attention at first, in the initial setup phase. the first few weeks will need a lot, but after the tank establishes itself, its pretty smooth sailing. So, i’d estimate the first month being a pain in the ass and then its okay. If you want the least maintenance, youll have to do some reading and legwork in the beginning to make it easier later on. say if u get a tank and it needs a buncha lights, then youll need to get a tank cooler as well as the heater. do reading about fish you want, to make sure they can live together okay. definitely get plants in there to make plenty of oxygen and make it looks nicer and more alive. try to replicate the fish’s natural habitat so theyre not as stressed and wont requre as much care and attention. for example if you get fish that live around driftwood and you dont put any in there, they will be stressed all the time and will die faster, things like that. > > my tank doesnt require a lot of attention. i can leave it alone for 3-5 days without checking up on it constantly. i feed my dish every other day or every two days. dont believe instructions on packages because they say to feed daily. if you do that your fish will eat too much and its bad for them. theyre pretty stupid so dont just keep feeding them as long as they keep eating, theyll just eat themselves to death. i actually look at my fish as i feed them. when their bellies get distended a bit, i stop putting in food. i feed mine algae tablets. i can post the picture of the package if u guys want. the fish go NUTS over that kind of food for some reason. ive landed on that one after trying a couple of different ones, but mine tend to just LOVE that one, so i stick to it. so at first youll need to pretty much watch everything. feed them a little bit and look at em. keep in mind that you cant see how much the fish ate, not all of them have a flat belly that distends down. obviously dont just throw in gobs of food in there. you want to make sure you are not putting in so much that a lot of it goes onto the floor and just floats around. it can cause a bacterial infection to break out in the tank, it will change your pH levels as well. also, when you feed your fish a lot they obviously crap more and that increases ammonia levels in the water and that can kill fish and do it FAST. so watch your pH and ammonia levels the most. With a new tank you will need to test water once a day at least. find one variable thats off and fix it, retest the next day. once its fixed, fix another and keep going in that fashion till its stable and is okay for fish to live. Have you even owned a big tank before? There not easier to take care of. I’ve owned everything from a 5 gallon all the way up to a 55 gallon tank. I owned a 29 gallon salt water tank and the big tanks are NOT easy to take care of. Right now i’ve down sized all the way to a 10 gallon tank with 1 african cichlid in it. I add water to it when it gets low and clean every once in and a great while. Small tanks are **much** easier to take care of. You put one bad fish in any size tank and it’ll kill off just about everything in your tank. I know first hand because it happened to me once. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/64 "2008-08-20T11:01:05Z")
And that’s why there are four fish in a 55 gallon tank at my house right now. :lol ---
**Author:** ![JClark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jclark/32/6309_2.png) [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/65 "2008-08-20T11:04:52Z")
How often do I have to do the whole drain, clean, and refill thing? Sounds like a pain in the ass for a cool room decoration. ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/66 "2008-08-20T11:05:43Z")
> [@JRubino](#): > > You put one bad fish in any size tank and it’ll kill off just about everything in your tank. I know first hand because it happened to me once. i had experience with that as well. i came back once to a fat looking fish alone in the tank. i stick to smaller fish now. my biggest one is like 2-2.5 inches long. theres nothing in the tank that fits in its mouth, so its ok. it actually tried nipping at the new small cat last night, but it noticed that it cant fit in its mouth so it just left it alone. > [@n!cole](#): > > I wish I could put in a beta and not have to worry about him. :sad > > They are so pretty. bettas are agressive, so id keep it in its own tank/bowl ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/67 "2008-08-20T11:06:26Z")
I know, it sucks. But they are one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/68 "2008-08-20T11:09:56Z")
Honestly, if your looking to do a small 10 gallon tank I hardly ever do it. The tank isn’t very clean at the moment but this fish I have in there has been kickin for 2 years strong in it now. You drain about half the tank down with a tank vacuum that you can pick up for like $15.00 from Eddies or any other pet store and it takes literally no time at all. The 55 I had required hours of cleaning and it was on a very regular basis, atleast twice a month. It all really depends how many fish you have in there. I would definitely recommend starting with no more then a 10 gallon tank. You can put a nice arrangement of fish in it too, to get you started. ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/69 "2008-08-20T11:17:43Z")
> [@JClark](#): > > How often do I have to do the whole drain, clean, and refill thing? > > Sounds like a pain in the ass for a cool room decoration. clean the glass when it gets dirty from stuff floating around or algae growth. u can do a water change every few months. dont obviously just drain the whole damn thing and add new water. i take out like a 1/5th at a time. dont just dump in new water. slowly put it in. you will need to clean the substrate as well. that one you can do as u change the water, actually. u get a bucket or a plastic tub or something like that and get a 2 inch tube or hose. put one end in the dirty water basin, this will be the water u drain out and throw away. put the other end in your tank. make sure not to suck in fish. what you do is get the water flowing from the tank into the basin. you can just suck the water out of the hose, kinda like siphoning gas. then stick the hose into the substrate and pull it up about half inch to an inch over the area you put it in. then hold it there a bit and move on. what that does is get all the crap floating in the water and the hose will suck it out with the water, but because the hose or tube youre using is big, the substrate falls back down and sinks instead of getting sucked up into the hose. follow me? do that around the bottom till uve drained about 20-25% of the water and replace the lost volume with new water. you basically end up vacumming fish crap doing that. which helps reduce nitrogen and ammonia build up. you dont have to do it as often if those levels are low, but every now and then you still have to do it. the bigger the tank the more time youll spend cleaning it obviously. like JRubino said, the more fish u have the more u have to clean it. goldfsih are actually pretty dirty fish. they tend to raise nitrogen and ammonia levels more than other fish. JRubino, i dunno man, my friend had a 65+ for a while and it didnt require that much work actually. it was way less than my 5 gallon. once we got his stable, it was quite nice. he had it for close to a year and it recently sprung a leak that he couldnt fix so he had to empty it and give the fish away and stuff. we actualyl got our tank at the same time and his requred less attention than mine. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/70 "2008-08-20T11:23:44Z")
I’m giving my first hand experience. I personally have owned a variety of different size tanks and my 10 requires hardly any work. Like I said before, to get someone started, a small 10 gallon tank is a very good starter. It’s cheap too. It’ll cost a lot to fill a 55 gallon tank. ---
**Author:** ![dubnix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dubnix/32/6392_2.png) [@dubnix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dubnix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/71 "2008-08-20T11:26:22Z")
Still partin out my 01 mk4 , swap some parts for that 55gal tank…LMK, ---
**Author:** ![tdi\_logik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tdi_logik/32/6310_2.png) [@tdi\_logik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tdi_logik)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/72 "2008-08-20T11:30:12Z")
> [@dubnix1.8](#): > > Still partin out my 01 mk4 , swap some parts for that 55gal tank…LMK, whats wrong with it? ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/73 "2008-08-20T11:36:29Z")
> [@JRubino](#): > > I’m giving my first hand experience. I personally have owned a variety of different size tanks and my 10 requires hardly any work. > > Like I said before, to get someone started, a small 10 gallon tank is a very good starter. It’s cheap too. It’ll cost a lot to fill a 55 gallon tank. it definitely costs way more to fill up a 55. 5-10 is a very good starter, so i have a 5 right now. i definitely want to step it up later on, though. i really like shrimp and crustaceans more than fish, so im going to see if i can get a large shrimp colony in mine. see if i can get em to breed in captivity. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/74 "2008-08-20T11:38:36Z")
> [@votblindub](#): > > it definitely costs way more to fill up a 55. 5-10 is a very good starter, so i have a 5 right now. i definitely want to step it up later on, though. i really like shrimp and crustaceans more than fish, so im going to see if i can get a large shrimp colony in mine. see if i can get em to breed in captivity. I used to get these neon blue lobsters. They look like little crayfish and their south american. Not sure what you have. I used to mix them in with African fish and they always did well until the fish got bigger and wripped them apart. You should try them out. I know Eddie’s always them in stock. ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/75 "2008-08-20T11:45:37Z")
> [@JRubino](#): > > I used to get these neon blue lobsters. They look like little crayfish and their south american. Not sure what you have. I used to mix them in with African fish and they always did well until the fish got bigger and wripped them apart. You should try them out. I know Eddie’s always them in stock. for sure! all my fish are at the size theyre normally at in the wild, so i wont have anything nipping at them. i have a bamboo shrimp right now. for a long time i had ghost shrimp, but they basically died of old age. ill definitely look into some small lobsters for my next tank. i might actually just get one from price chopper or something. nothing HUGE, i want like maybe crayfish. something in the 6-8 inches in range and some smaller ones ---
**Author:** ![GranMassaX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/granmassax/32/6299_2.png) [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/76 "2008-08-20T11:47:12Z")
> [@n!cole](#): > > I wish I could put in a beta and not have to worry about him. :sad > > They are so pretty. I had a betta in my tank with various little cleaner shrimp, some neon tetras, and many other fish MUCH smaller than the betta and never had an issue. Son’ bitch lived for about 4 years too and never bothered any other fish. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/77 "2008-08-20T11:48:51Z")
Maybe that’s the trick. Put him in with all my little guys. ---
**Author:** ![GranMassaX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/granmassax/32/6299_2.png) [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/78 "2008-08-20T11:49:52Z")
> [@votblindub](#): > > i might actually just get one from price chopper or something. nothing HUGE, i want like maybe crayfish. something in the 6-8 inches in range and some smaller ones :confused… you actually think they sell lobsters that small at PRICE CHOPPER?! :idiots their lobsters are for consumption. Smallest they may have would be just over a pound. I don’t think it’s even legal to catch that kind of lobsters when they are that small. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/79 "2008-08-20T11:50:36Z")
When I had my first tank I put my beta in with the rest of them and had no problems either. ---
**Author:** ![dubnix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dubnix/32/6392_2.png) [@dubnix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dubnix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405/80 "2008-08-20T11:53:39Z")
motor popped,turbo LESS. Clean body ,int mint. Longbeach wheels ,All the goods.It has 140k ,not worth much, so i figuerd i’ll just part it out, [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-shops-at-eddies-aquarium-on-route-9/238405.md?page=5)