Christmas fishies?. I have just started looking again.<br><br><br><br>
Emailed my killifish breeder in NY, but it looks like he doesn't have killifish listed on aquabid anymore. That was my first choice....I could get killifish eggs off aquabid and try and hatch them but since I've never kept killifish before that seems too risky. Plus I'd have to find homes for most of the "litter".<br><br><br><br>
Actually there is a fish already that I would like to rescue. Here's the story. I went to hospital yesterday and checked out their two large ( 135 gal?) tanks.<br><br>
As usual the fish selection looked like it was done by someone blindfolded<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/sad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="
">. Some fundamentals of fishkeeping, get fish that won't outgrow your tank and get fish that won't eat each other, which meams matching their sizes since logic dictates bigger fish eat smaller fish.<br><br><br><br>
One of the tanks had three iresdescent "sharks" I need not tell anyone that they need a 500 gal tank and will start bashing themselves bloody if confined, these are big aquarium fishies if they don't die prematurely first.<br><br><br><br>
The other tank had: a foot long pacu, some medium sized tetra species fish that I was unable to idenify, three medium- large sized predatory, pimolodella species catfishes and one rasbora ( this is the fish I'd like to adopt off of them). I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they purchased more rasboras which were eaten by either the pacu or the pimlodellas.<br><br><br><br>
At first I wondered why this frightened looking single schoaling fish wasn't hiding in the plastic plants from the big pacu ( ah, predatory catfish) down there. This is a miserable fish. Schoaling fish feel insecure alone and this fish is in constant danger of being eaten, a fate worse then living in a predator infested wild stream I dare say.<br><br><br><br>
I'm thinking of trying to find out who keeps these tanks and ask if I can buy their lonely looking rasbora off of them. I dunno, I feel kinda shy about trying this( trying to buy a fish from a public place?) and I doubt I will find them, probably get an answer like the person who takes care of them comes in once a month.<br><br>
The catch is that if I was able to rescue this rasbora, I would be obliged to aquire at least one more from the petshop as I think the chances of me picking up another rasbora who needs a new home are slim to none or keep a lonely schoaling fish myself.<br><br><br><br>
I have two twenty gal planted tanks setup, though thanks to the rules I am only allowed to keep fish in one ten gal, so I'd either have to keep them half filled so break the rules and hope nobody checks.<br><br>
One is a twenty gal high and is filled with root systems of pond plants and lucky "bamboo" and the other one is a standard twenty filled with a creeping/wandering jenny. I think either tank would suit rasboras.
Emailed my killifish breeder in NY, but it looks like he doesn't have killifish listed on aquabid anymore. That was my first choice....I could get killifish eggs off aquabid and try and hatch them but since I've never kept killifish before that seems too risky. Plus I'd have to find homes for most of the "litter".<br><br><br><br>
Actually there is a fish already that I would like to rescue. Here's the story. I went to hospital yesterday and checked out their two large ( 135 gal?) tanks.<br><br>
As usual the fish selection looked like it was done by someone blindfolded<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/sad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="
">. Some fundamentals of fishkeeping, get fish that won't outgrow your tank and get fish that won't eat each other, which meams matching their sizes since logic dictates bigger fish eat smaller fish.<br><br><br><br>One of the tanks had three iresdescent "sharks" I need not tell anyone that they need a 500 gal tank and will start bashing themselves bloody if confined, these are big aquarium fishies if they don't die prematurely first.<br><br><br><br>
The other tank had: a foot long pacu, some medium sized tetra species fish that I was unable to idenify, three medium- large sized predatory, pimolodella species catfishes and one rasbora ( this is the fish I'd like to adopt off of them). I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they purchased more rasboras which were eaten by either the pacu or the pimlodellas.<br><br><br><br>
At first I wondered why this frightened looking single schoaling fish wasn't hiding in the plastic plants from the big pacu ( ah, predatory catfish) down there. This is a miserable fish. Schoaling fish feel insecure alone and this fish is in constant danger of being eaten, a fate worse then living in a predator infested wild stream I dare say.<br><br><br><br>
I'm thinking of trying to find out who keeps these tanks and ask if I can buy their lonely looking rasbora off of them. I dunno, I feel kinda shy about trying this( trying to buy a fish from a public place?) and I doubt I will find them, probably get an answer like the person who takes care of them comes in once a month.<br><br>
The catch is that if I was able to rescue this rasbora, I would be obliged to aquire at least one more from the petshop as I think the chances of me picking up another rasbora who needs a new home are slim to none or keep a lonely schoaling fish myself.<br><br><br><br>
I have two twenty gal planted tanks setup, though thanks to the rules I am only allowed to keep fish in one ten gal, so I'd either have to keep them half filled so break the rules and hope nobody checks.<br><br>
One is a twenty gal high and is filled with root systems of pond plants and lucky "bamboo" and the other one is a standard twenty filled with a creeping/wandering jenny. I think either tank would suit rasboras.
