Picked up some new fish today!

[mg6682]

Got the following: 2 x Electric Blues (wild), 1 x Blue Orchid (wild), 1 x Maulana Bi-Color (wild) and 4 x Astatotilapia Calliptera (gonna be my host fish in an attempt to get my Syno. Multipunctatus cats to spawn). Heres a few shots (pay no attn to the dirty glass ).

 

[Mgamer20o0]

very nice.

 

[mandy-2007]

love the blue !!

GREAT looking fishies

 

[Rbishop]

Great coloring!

 

[balton777]

Awesome fish and pics.

 

[mg6682]

I'm back into fish keeping now after a lay off - this tank is sort of a hodgepodge until I can get a few more tanks out of storage and running. In addition to the Syno breeding, I'm trying out some plants in the tank. So far I've been having great luck with a few Anubius and Java Fern. The second pot from the left was a bulb seven days ago - I forgot the name, but its growing like a weed. Heres a few more shots (crap photos). First is a Red Shoulder, second is a Blue Orchid (photo doesnt do it justice - jet black, with a solid white stripe on top and solid yellow spots on the anal fins) and some plants

 

[mike dunagan]

great fish... what do you have in the pots with the plants? gravel, sand what?

 

[mg6682]

The pots are filled with Eco-Complete and a Flourish tab. Lighting is one 48" All-Glass 110watt PC.

 

[grannylvsfish]

awsome fish!! what kind of subtrate you using? and I love the pots!!!

 

[mg6682]

Substrate is a mix of a few different very fine gravels I had in storage and about 10lbs of crushed coral. The pots are nice - the plants get good soil, fish wont uproot as much and its easy to move them for cleaning.