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March 9th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| AAAA Auction W/ NEW Pictures
The auction today was awesome! I had a blast.
I sold 40 Bristlenose Pleco Fry.(4 bags of 10 each) for over 100 dollars!!!!
I bought:
4 Julies with Hetero Albino Gene
1 Large Amazon Plant
1 Rotala Indica
16 FAMA (1991-2005 assorted)
1 10 gallon stand
2 Nets
1 Algae Scraper
1 10G (20") Light
Spent $55 total.
Waiting for my angel fry to grow out and be sold at the ACA Auction/Show ( http://www.cichlid.org/) in July.
Last edited by Coryd55; March 10th, 2008 at 09:44 PM.
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March 9th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| Awesome man! Too far for me to drive, would love to find something like that near my area.
Sounds like ya had a good time and got some good deals! | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Master Of Fish Poo!
| Welcome back.. you spent less than you sold? wow - what willpower!  Congrats and looking forward to the pics of those Julies.  | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Master
| Wow! You made out well! Congrats on all of your findings and for selling your bn pleco fry. I have been wanting to go to a fish auction, but I never seem to have the time. What's it like? | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | ID master
| Wow, you have much better stuff there than at the ones I go too. Congrats.
Tom | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| Here is everything I got. Julies tank outside is dirty. I am picking up a lot of rocks today and will be washing the outside so it doesn't look so dirty.
Will be setting up the 10G on the stand( betta tank) because of the uneven desk and because of the large amount of algae due to being by the window. | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| Rest of the stuff: (Didn't think taking pic of 2 nets and algae scraper was necessary) | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Master Of Fish Poo!
|  Great job! ..and love those Julies. They're really such great cichlids!  | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Master
| I want some Julies too Dickfeldi species.
Nice fish and the auction sounded great! | |
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| The dickfeldi are really cool also! Now cichlids are starting to interest me!!!! Haha.
Here is the julies tank, the new row of tanks on that wall(moved 10G from desk to my nice new stand over there), a FTS of 55 for kicks, and the angel fry(may be a few guppies in there to but they are normally on the left hand side).
Last edited by Coryd55; March 10th, 2008 at 09:04 PM.
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March 10th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| Sorry forgot to post rest of pics couldnt edit them in for some reason?
Oh and sorry for bad pics(poor photographer without a tripod) | |
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March 11th, 2008
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| | Master Of Fish Poo!
| Great job there, i love the rocks and the fry.. working on starting a fish shop too, huh? tanks everywhere.. i love that decor in any room.
do you use photoshop for the pics? | |
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March 11th, 2008
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| | King of Curt
| Cory,
One method I use to get clear and crisp pictures, since I don't own a tripod, is to inhale right before I snap the picture... for some reason that stops the minor shakes, in some people, that they have when trying to focus a camera.
Some cameras you can press the picture taking button halfway and it tries to auto focus.
Your pictures are fine though.
Your tanks look like they're doing well... I remember when that 55g was a baren sandy-bottomed tank with a clay pot and only bristlenose plecos. For having bred the angelfish and bristlenose and setting up tanks so well so early on in your fishkeeping career, I will venture to say you may have a knack for fishkeeping. | |
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March 11th, 2008
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| The julies tank cleared up and is as clear as my other tanks.
Thanks Dave, I can't wait to see the fry get nickel size! Don't know that they will all fit in the 10G though. An excuse for a bigger tank  I don't use photoshop. I go to www.picresize.com and just resize photos thats it.
I will try that next time I take the pictures. Mines does the halfway thing but I never use it. I remember when the 55 was just a pot, guppy grass, anubias, sand, and the plecos. Haha. It has develpoed enormously from that point. Still not to my satisfaction though. can't find that perfect driftwood placement but I don't like to bother the fish more than necessary so I can deal with it for a while.
Thanks for the nice words Ross =). Hopefully I can add julies to that list pretty soon! | |
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March 11th, 2008
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| | Fish Mentor
| Not bothering the fish goes a long way to getting them breeding. | 
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March 11th, 2008
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| | Master Of Fish Poo!
| You might want to try out a free program called Gimp. It's pretty nice and a very good alternative to expensive programs like Photoshop.
I hope we both get our Julies breeding. Quote:
Originally Posted by Coryd55  Thanks Dave, I can't wait to see the fry get nickel size! Don't know that they will all fit in the 10G though. An excuse for a bigger tank I don't use photoshop. I go to www.picresize.com and just resize photos thats it. | | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Addict
| So how do you find out about auctions in your area? | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| I did a search of 'aquarium societies florida' and that gave me the best idea of what was available in florida. | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Addict
| lol I dont think there is an 'aquarium societies florida' here in MD...just googled all I can find are auctions for the kind of fish you eat | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| Well duh !  lol
try 'aquarium societies maryland' ;p
wow... just googled it myself and tons of hits..
This one seems to be a 'listing' of several, though the original google search has many specific hits. http://fins.actwin.com/dir/clubs.php?c=1&r=33 < - MD aquarium clubs | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Addict
| well duh I didn't look up florida I did a MD search but I can never find anything...lol gracias on the tip | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| hahah ok. I can never tell around here sometimes. Some folks are very literal, and some are quite sarcastic ;p | |
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March 12th, 2008
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| | Fish Addict
| Oh no you can be quite sure I am sarcastic...Unfortunatly most of those clubs are on the other side of the state..the only one that is near me is marine | |
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