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[hunnysnax]

OMG!!! i just got back from the fish store and they can get in 4 types... one is brackish so i can't get that... and the others are like $30 each!!!! EACH!!!! how they he!! is someone supposed to by a school at $30 each!?!?!

i guess blue eyes are out ... any suggestions for a 10 gallon guys?? anything but livebearers (had evough of them)

hayley

 

[Ghost_knife]

Dwarf Gourami, those are pretty and easy to care for and no Live youngins! I love my gourami!!

 

[hunnysnax]

do you think a pair of blue/gold rams would go in there and be happy? hmmm i don't know... i got a few ideas by searching for less than 11 gallons on aquariacentral's profiles... out of the ones it gave me i like

blue-barred barb
cochu's blue tetra
kuhli loach
dwarf gourami ( you better believe it northstar lol)
flame tetra
harlequin rasbora
jae barb
marbled hachet fish
bettas
redbreast acara
serpae tetra
three-striped dwarf cichlid

they are all pretty but i do't know much about most... i assume the tetras would be fine... but does anyone know wnything about the others?

i'm thinking about getting 3 kuhli loaches tomorrow... so i don't know how much room will be in the tank...

maybe
2 dwarf gourami
3 kuhli loach
1 hillstream loach

oh i don't know...

anyone have ideas or other fish i should check out???

hayley

 

[Roan Art]

OMG!!! i just got back from the fish store and they can get in 4 types... one is brackish so i can't get that... and the others are like $30 each!!!! EACH!!!! how they he!! is someone supposed to by a school at $30 each!?!?!

Hayley,

Which one is it that they say is brackish? There's one that's been incorrectly listed and I wonder if it's that one.

I find it rediculous that I can get the same types of fish here and pay 32$ for SIX of them, and yet you live where they come from and they are 32$ each.

See if there are any online places in Aussieland where you can buy them much cheaper than that.

Roan

 

[RTR]

Locally, DNRs range from moderately priced very small fish up to the lower 20s for half-grown (and thus very easily sexed) fish.

The first that I bought - many years ago and part of the first shipment of both males and females brought in from Germany where they were introduced to the hobby - were priced at ~$50 for males and & $65 for females. Prior to that, only males came in. Later the prices crashed, but the last year or so have been climbing again. I won't complain - that helps support my fish room.

 

[Roan Art]

Locally, DNRs range from moderately priced very small fish up to the lower 20s for half-grown (and thus very easily sexed) fish.

The first that I bought - many years ago and part of the first shipment of both males and females brought in from Germany where they were introduced to the hobby - were priced at ~$50 for males and & $65 for females. Prior to that, only males came in. Later the prices crashed, but the last year or so have been climbing again. I won't complain - that helps support my fish room.

Ohhhhhhh, you have some of the first ones? Boesemani? The "aggressive" BIG-growing ones? Still have them? Wanna sell some? Doyahdoyahdoyah?

Sorry

I hear tell that there are two strains now. The originals that came in and a strain that's been bred in Asia from the originals. The Asian strain tend to be smaller and much less aggressive. The originals from Germany, if they are true, are bigger and more "Boesemani" like -- semi-aggressive towards their own kind.

If true, I must have the Asian ones 'cause my guys are little pussycats. I think I'd rather have the true strain.

Roan

 

[hunnysnax]

neon rainbows here are about $8 each and most of the other rainbows are well priced...

roan, the brackish one is the blue back blue eye (cyanodorals) looks kinda like a neon tetra except clear where the red should be and thats the only reasonable price one ($8 each)

i went out and bought three little kuhli loaches. they are strange little things. at first i was like "eeeeeew" but now i think they are cute in a bizarre way. sometime sthey go crazy and swim all over the tank and sometimes they are quite still (i got them yesterday... maybe still settling in?) i didn't tell my mum to see how long it too her to realise they were there... i think it was on her 3rd or fourth trip to the tank and she was like "what... is THAT???" hehe

i quite like the serpae tetra... how many of those do you think i could get in my ten gallon now with the kuhli loaches... is there enough room for a small school of say 6?

or should i just get a pair of something small like dwarf gouramis? i want something active and lively, and a little quirky if possible hehe

toodlez (i moved house today too... argh! the tanks are still at my mums for another month and a bit though so i'll be visiting alot might move the ten gallon a bit sooner though... if i start going through withdrawals)

oh by the way... do you think if i got some peaceful tetras of sorts that my little neon rainbow will school with them? that would be sweet

 

[RTR]

Nope, sorry, I only keep the Dwarf Neon Rainbows. The others are too large for my current setups. Being a bit conservative, I only keep the full-sized Rainbows in a big tank, and they are all idle right now.

IME, Rainbows are too fast for Tetras. I don't like the mix. But do remember that I keep mainly species tanks. At the moment I have only one (to please my spouse) and it is diurnal catfish.