Went Shopping Today!

I took today to myself and went fish shopping.

I came home with 5 rainbow cichlids, 5 blue acara, 5 angelfish, 5 salvini, 6 rainbow wag platies, 5 jewel cichlids, a pair of convicts, a pleco, a betta, and three red-eye tetras.

For those who don't know, I have 27 tanks and everyone will be in a species tank except for the pleco and the tetras.

Would've come home with scarlet badis, but they were out.

 

Wow...you definitely did go shopping today

Can you post a picture of your Angels pretty please ;-)

 

I wish I had 27 tanks I only have one. But i'm young and am determined to have a room of tanks and one giant one in the living room

 

I will definitely post pics of the angels once I get them acclimated, AmazonPassion.

Hoping to get pics of everyone sometime this week.

 

Jewel Cichlids! I wana see pictures of those Are they showing much red yet?

 

Awesome! I read that before finishing and said "oh my goodness someone ought to tell her not to put so many fish in at once!" Then realized the 27 tanks. I love the look of convicts.

 

Jewel Cichlids! I wana see pictures of those Are they showing much red yet?

Not much. They are from Petsmart, so now that they are in a proper tank, they will be able to color up. That's the goal anyways.

Awesome! I read that before finishing and said "oh my goodness someone ought to tell her not to put so many fish in at once!" Then realized the 27 tanks. I love the look of convicts.

ROFL! I went to 5 different stores. The first store is a sponsor of our local aquarium club. They always have good stuff! I am so glad I brought 2 coolers with me so the finned kids wouldn't get overheated while I was shopping.

All stores asked what size tank I had. I was pleasantly surprised. I let them know the number of tanks I had and what fish were going in what size tanks.

 

Here are a few pics. The angels are a bit stressed. They are the striped (what I call altums) and leopards.

The rainbows are also stressed.

Once everyone is comfortable, I will get pics of them all, but it will be a few days.

 

When I started feeding my Jewel Live Earth Worms and Live Super Worms, he really started going red!

 

Angel Envy

 

When I started feeding my Jewel Live Earth Worms and Live Super Worms, he really started going red!

I have some molly fry going and hopefully will have convict fry within a month. Right now, I also have freeze-dried blackworms, daphnia, frozen bloodworms, all kinds of stuff.

Looks like the cons have settled in. The male is chasing the female. Guess we'll know in a few days if they will be a pair or if one of them get killed. I have REALLY missed these fish! Haven't had cons in 2 years and they were the first species that bred for me. Taught me a lot about cichlid breeding behavior.

 

I can't imagine having 27 tanks... you must be doing water changes all day! That must have been fun to get so many fish.

 

What kind of betta did you get? I would love to have that many tanks I read your post to my fiancé and he just looked at me and said no lol

 

I can get all tanks done in about 8 1/2 hours. Working on getting another drain hose since that takes the longest amount of time. Refilling is fairly quick.

I bought a red dragon betta with black edging on his tail. May be fin rot, may be his natural coloring. We'll know for sure within a few weeks.

 

He sounds beautiful hope it is his colouring and not fin rot can't wait to see some piccies I'm a betta addict

 

LOL! Me, too! He's #4 in the house currently. Tried to take pics of him earlier, but he turned around in typical betta fashion so I couldn't get a good pic of him.

 

Lol HoudinI does that all the time I've had him for over a week nearly two now and still haven't got a good picture of him I was told he is a dragon but have since been told he is a copper I don't mind what he is he is gorgeous Malcolm has mood swings sometimes he will show off and other times he will spot the camera and disappear wish I had room for more of the little beauties

 

If it was up to me, I'd have a small menagerie of bettas ;D However my boyfriend does not share quite the same love for them that I have, but I still have a halfmoon, Archimedes, who sits on my desk and watches me work. Once we move to a larger place though, there will be more bettas, mark my words...

 

I've already told Oliver when we move into a bigger house I am having a betta room the response is always hmmmmmmm it's better than no though

 

LOL I don't need an entire room, but I think a nice long tank, divided in thirds or quarters maybe.. My boyfriend would rather have a couple big tanks than a million little tanks.. I say, why not some big tanks AND a few little tanks?