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Freshwater Cardinal Tetras. Saltwater I have always liked the Royal Grammas. I actually seen one the Ocean by the pier in Key West. So cool.
Oh, no... there's quite a difference between those two...Mii said:That looks alot like an endler.
I said it looks like an endler not that it is an endler.emeraldking said:Oh, no... there's quite a difference between those two...
I know what you've meant. But I don't see the resemblence. That's what I meant.Mii said:I said it looks like an endler not that it is an endler.
the colors are different, but the body and head shape are very similar at least from the pictures I looked up online. I bet with some selective breeding you could make a very good Micropoecilia picta look alike out of the endler, at least to the untrained eye.emeraldking said:I know what you've meant. But I don't see the resemblance. That's what I meant.
These fish are amazing. I bought mine from the breeder in AZ a couple years ago and she's a sweetheart (although Potato is techincally a male hahaha). She became bestfriends with my gourami. They hunted shrimp together, slept in the same plant, and literally sat within 2 inches of each other ALL DAY. Unfortunelty the gourami passed due to age and genetic issues. I want to get another gourami for Potato but I wonder if she'll get along with that one as well. Potato doesn't take any interest in any of my other fish, just the gourm. It was amazing.Zach72202 said:I would have to choose a puffer myself and honestly I would enjoy having many Tetraodon schoutedeni, or the spotted congo puffer. They are fairly peaceful and can be kept in groups. Just the thought of 100 little faces bumping the glass everytime I come near seems very appealing.
If I couldn't do that, I would do like 1,000 amazon puffers in a blackwater river biotope. Something about schooling puffers sounds mesmerizing.
You have a spotted congo puffer from Preston John I take it. I wish so bad I could get them! I live in Michigan, and relatively speaking getting anything 'rare' in my neck of the woods is just about impossible unless you drive 2 hours one way and then pay an arm and a leg! I am jealous lol.ystrout said:These fish are amazing. I bought mine from the breeder in AZ a couple years ago and she's a sweetheart (although Potato is techincally a male hahaha). She became bestfriends with my gourami. They hunted shrimp together, slept in the same plant, and literally sat within 2 inches of each other ALL DAY. Unfortunelty the gourami passed due to age and genetic issues. I want to get another gourami for Potato but I wonder if she'll get along with that one as well. Potato doesn't take any interest in any of my other fish, just the gourm. It was amazing.
Hahaha I do! He's an awesome guy. I was visiting family in Phoenix and called and asked if I could check the puffers out before buying. He gave me a whole walkthrough of his fish room and the breeding process and we talked puffers and fish for a couple hours. It was a fun afternoon.Zach72202 said:You have a spotted congo puffer from Preston John I take it. I wish so bad I could get them! I live in Michigan, and relatively speaking getting anything 'rare' in my neck of the woods is just about impossible unless you drive 2 hours one way and then pay an arm and a leg! I am jealous lol.
Oh yes I am familiar with puffer fish! I wish I could meet the fellow. Puffer fish are my wet pets, but I do want to get about 5 spotted congos and try to breed them.ystrout said:Hahaha I do! He's an awesome guy. I was visiting family in Phoenix and called and asked if I could check the puffers out before buying. He gave me a whole walkthrough of his fish room and the breeding process and we talked puffers and fish for a couple hours. It was a fun afternoon.
After setting up my snail breeding tank a couple weeks later, I ordered one from his retailer (The Cichlid shack). It came in a day later and Potato has been my prized fish ever since!
I misread your previous comment. I thought you already had some spotted congo puffers! You can still get one. They're not cheap ($250) but worth every penny. The Cichlid Shack sends them through SouthWest Freight right to your local airport. My only complain with the whole process is that I didn't get a tracking email until 1 hour before she landed and that was at 11:30 PM. If I wasn't awake, she would be in a box all night at the airport. Scares me just thinking about how horrible that would have been.
They're amazing fish though. She gets along with every fish in the tank and even makes friends like I mentioned earlier. They're bond with you (or whoever takes care of them). She'll swim right up to me and interact with me but is indifferent to everyone else. The funniest thing is that sometimes my Cories will be sifting through the sand next to her and and swim over her. A couple times they "landed" right on top of her and sat on her back for like 10 seconds. It was the cutest thing.
that is not one fishRcslade124 said:I'm planning on upgrading my saltwater in a year or 2 to a 300g. I want to add a shoal of tangs and a marine betta. As for freshwater I plan to turn my 120g into a large freshwater and want to do a gang of discus with my ram and cardinals.
Well, not just the colors or pattern but also the body shape is different if you look closely. But I get your point.Mii said:the colors are different, but the body and head shape are very similar at least from the pictures I looked up online. I bet with some selective breeding you could make a very good Micropoecilia picta look alike out of the endler, at least to the untrained eye.
Ok the discussMii said:ystrout I like your dwarf gourami in your profile pic. Are they good fish to keep?
that is not one fish
*discusRcslade124 said:Ok the discuss
Dwarf gouramis are great fish and very intelligent. He was one of my favorite fish and I miss him SOOOO much.Mii said:ystrout I like your dwarf gourami in your profile pic. Are they good fish to keep?
Oh you're part of the puffer crew too! That's awesome you have a Fahaka! I want a large puffer species as some point too, maybe a saltwater one like a porcupine or something.Zach72202 said:Oh yes I am familiar with puffer fish! I wish I could meet the fellow. Puffer fish are my wet pets, but I do want to get about 5 spotted congos and try to breed them.
The current puffers I have:
1 Fahaka- still about 3" but he has a 120g tank hes going in soon
1 Green Spot Puffer
6 Figure 8 Puffers
7 Pea Puffers
the way I see it, no fish should be bought as just a "clean up crew". to me the fish are pets, and if they do some cleaning, that's a useful bonus. I just keep corydoras because they're wonderful fish.Michelle2468135 said:I think I would say Cory Catfish. This sounds like a weird choice because a lot of people just view them as a clean up crew or a background fish but something about them is so cool. They root around and are really cool to watch when they are comfortable and in a school. In addition, they are one of the hardiest fish I have kept and have never failed me as a clean up crew. In some tanks I don't even use them for this, I just purposefully feed them their own special food because I love them so much on their own.