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Post by Pammy on Feb 24, 2014 0:31:24 GMT
Very late notice, but today Petco has all of their tropical community fish on sale for 50% off, if you use their rewards card (it's not a credit card). You may want to call yours first and make sure it's a chain wide deal.
I bought myself 4 leopard corys to add to the two I had, and 12 glorious little neon tetras to bring my school up to a stunning 23. Well, five of those are the even more beautiful cardinal tetras, but they look quite similar and school together, at least in my tank.
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Post by lisamarie on Feb 24, 2014 0:33:17 GMT
Ah if I knew earlier I would have gotten me a new algae eater!
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Post by Pammy on Feb 24, 2014 0:46:13 GMT
Aww, I meant to post this yesterday and forgot.  Sorry, Lisa. I have 3 algae eaters in my 55-gallon tank. One is a 4 1/2" Siamese Algae Eater who somewhat resembles a bala shark, only a little more golden in color, with a bold black stripe down his body - quite beautiful - and I have two Plecos. One is maybe 5 inches long and the other is a huge 7 1/2 inches! Some people say he's ugly, but I think he's absolutely gorgeous. I drop those algae veggie discs into their tank morning and night, and I also leave the back and sides of my tank covered in algae for them to nibble at, with just the front glass scraped meticulously clean by me, for my viewing pleasure. I love, love, love my fish tank. Very peaceful. Mistletoe sits on my shoulder while I am fish gazing.  |
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Post by lisamarie on Feb 24, 2014 0:55:10 GMT
I had a small Japanese algae eater who died a few weeks ago. They do a great job of cleaning up. It's only a tiny fish, and the next morning after you buy it, the tank is spotless
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Post by rdkntriker on Feb 24, 2014 0:58:23 GMT
I am thinking of setting up a salt water tank for my Grand Daughter
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Post by lisamarie on Feb 24, 2014 1:20:16 GMT
If you do I'd love to hear all about it! Saltt water tanks fascinate me. One day I hope to get one of my own
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Post by Pammy on Feb 24, 2014 5:44:47 GMT
I have never heard of Japanese algae eaters. Where did you get him, and are they aggressive? My community is almost completely peaceful. I have only one angel (of 10) and one pink kisser (of 5) that can be just a wee bit territorial, but peace reigns most of the time.
I too would love to have a saltwater tank someday. They're so beautiful, with such unbelievably colorful fish. Santa, if you do set one up, I hope you will tell us all about it.
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Post by lisamarie on Feb 24, 2014 11:16:44 GMT
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Post by bree1818 on Feb 24, 2014 15:37:46 GMT
I had a pagoda in my little 10 gallon with a little 2 inch pygmy algae eater, and he got stuck in it and died .... Not sure I could go with anything other than my little 1 gallon for my single goldfish after that...
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Post by Pammy on Feb 24, 2014 19:08:07 GMT
Lisa, the fish in the second picture of your link is a Siamese algae eater. That's what I have. They are peaceful community fish. I bought mine when it was super tiny, and he's grown a lot. Bree, I occasionally suffer a fish death, too, and it's hard to take. Very sad, but I enjoy fishkeeping so much that I move past the occasional sorrow and continue to have fishes. Many fishes. |
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Post by lisamarie on Feb 24, 2014 22:47:20 GMT
They must be from the same family. The Japanese is the kind of cheetah spotted one. Very good cleaner!
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Sorry, Lisa. 
