Fish Folk Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) Got some new fish in my little fishroom. First are those most recently born here: Mountain Redbelly Dace. Adults look like this… Today the 3rd batch all “arose” from the bottom… The dace fry will do no more than 1-month in this tiny tank, then move to larger digs. Now, I also recently reorganized a few things in my Discus tank. I sold the last pair of Rams I’ve bred, and two beautiful but unpairable discus at fish club this weekend... The volume of Discus is much more balanced now, and I think that I have three pairs. But my LFS store asked if I wanted some Apistogramma Agassizii. I got about 8x juveniles, and set up little coconut huts… I’m just going to play a long game. I may eventually sell off the SAEs and BNPs as they mature. Wouldn’t it be crazy to get a colony of Apistos going in this tank?? Now, at fish club Saturday, I didn’t intend to buy anything. But when a bag if Microctenopoma ansorgii went up for auction and no one was bidding, I suddenly realized that this might be a way to break my Anabantid breeding strike-out record. They’re so stunning when adults are in full breeding dress… But size wise, they’re no more than 1.5 inches. If you took a Paradise fish, shrunk it, and added the temperament of a sparkling gourami, with a more Apistogramma-like benthic / cave preferece, you’d have these pegged. They do breed in bubblenests when mature. I had to set this tank up in a hurry, but I think it will be a fun project… Winter is really when I tend to start new projects. Now… I have two 29 gal. cold-water tanks currently unstocked. One I hope to leave grungy, and turn into a Elassoma gilberti breeding paradise… The other… probably _ought_ to stay empty for grow-out… 🙄 But I could easily cave in to the right cold water NANF suggestions! Edited January 9, 2023 by Fish Folk 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 How the heck did you get those Microctenopoma?? I have a friend who’s been looking for those for ages! Now I can wind her up with it😆… Would you say that your LFC does good swaps/auctions? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 On 1/9/2023 at 12:07 PM, TheSwissAquarist said: How the heck did you get those Microctenopoma?? I have a friend who’s been looking for those for ages! Now I can wind her up with it😆… Would you say that your LFC does good swaps/auctions? I've seen Microctenopoma ansorgii for sale _once_ at my LFS. He messaged me, "I've got this little weird fish. You interested?" I couldn't at the time. Then I heard that a guy in my fish club bought a bunch of them online here. He started posting loads of blog posts about them. There was absolutely no way they weren't coming home with me when I realized what was being auctioned off. Yes, our Club does very orderly auctions. We have several auctioneers who sell items very convincingly. I'm actually going to _try_ to start helping as an auctioneer sometime. I'm not paranoid on my feet, and have talked for a living for many years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 On 1/9/2023 at 6:31 PM, Fish Folk said: I couldn't at the time. Too busy with all those NANFs😁. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 I’ve been kind of looking for pigmy suns. They’re borderline stupid prices around here, so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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