Oh My God....

So, there was a mini disaster at my lfs when i went in there on monday. they had problems with their piping. so they lost a lot of their fish. fast forward to today and I went in there to see if all was back to normal...

Well, they had gotten a bunch of fish in including wc frontosa, red empress, cherry red zebra's etc... The cool thing was their local yellow lab breeder, who I have gotten some of my recent labs from the store, had taken down his tanks as he was moving away. This included a 100g that he bred the labs in. So, there are some pretty full grown awesome labs. I had to scoop them up. One male I picked up is STUNNING. he almost glows, with a lot of black in the fins and no barring. the other one I picked up is very nice as well, but doesnt have the same glow. I also picked up an adult cherry red female for my main 55g tank, as I was wanting to switch out one of the females as she has gotten really bossy lately... I will try to snap some pics or video before I release them. They are pretty big at 4-5''. My only concern is that I just moved my small nhkata bays into the tank....sigh. This will be interesting.

well, I have tried 3 times to post, but my browser keeps messing it up for some reason... 37 views and one post, lol. u guys want the pics...

heres the uglier of the 2


red zebra


red zebra




a shot


size difference between my other labs


size and u can see the colors on the little guys


cool shot




one of the nkhata bay colored down. u can see the spots in the dorsal coming in for the blaze.

oh, upon release, I was worried they would pick on the others, but this was not the case. The maingano took it upon itself to chase them relentlessly for a few min. I couldnt take it, so I caught it and put it in "the box" lol. This is the maingano who has been coloring lately. I decided to vent it as I had caught it and its a female! I was def caught off guard. goes to show, early coloration and aggressive attitude doesnt always mean its a male. Now that that maingano is seperated, the rest are happy as can be. My nkhata bays are comfy already and nobody bothers them, yay!