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January 30, 2005
New changes and additions...
Took a trip down to The Pet Shanty to see what it was about. They have a pretty good selection of freshwater fish although conditions seem to be less than optimal as they cram way too many fish into too small of a tank it seems in most cases. Prices are pretty good compared to Absolutely Fish but that's not too surprising. Apparently they just got in a new batch of koi swords and they looked good. The males actually had noticeable sword extensions to the tails as opposed to the last batch at Absolutely Fish that had none. And they were priced at $8.99/pair while Absolutely Fish was $6.99 each. The employees seem pretty nice and friendly too. Their selection of plants could use some work though. Mostly potted stuff.
I was ecstatic to find that they actually had pygmy cories available. Have been searching high and low for these guys for AGES. Took a while to actually find them in the tank that was labeled cause they were so small. Picked up a dozen cause I was going to put 6 in my 5.5 gal and the other 6 in the new 3 gal. On arriving home later though, I discovered that I seemed to have been shortchanged by 2 cause there were only 10 cories. Oh well, probably shouldn't try to cram that much into the 3 gal anyway. Also picked up a decent piece of driftwood and 2 Java ferns but haven't had the time to prepare them yet. Erin doesn't seem to be too keen on the idea of adding the wood to the 5.5 gal. Says she likes how I have the tank planted as is. Hrmm...
Anyhoo, looped around and swung by Absolutely Fish on the way home. Picked up:
• 1 sparkling gourami (hopefully female)
Above is a pic of the biggest sparkling gourami currently in the tank doing what it normally does, peaking out amongst the plants.
• 1 red honey gourami (male)
Above you can see my new honey gourami, part of the Elite Stingray filter, and the hornwort and sagittaria plants.
And some more plants:
• 1 tropica sword
• 1 potted glosso
Hmm... looking at that glosso site, just realized I planted the darn thing wrong. Ah well, gotta go back in sometime and fix it. Need to get tweezers first.
Anyhoo, the 5.5 gal tank is coming along quite nicely I think. Besides the unfortunate chocolate gourami, all the other fish seem to be doing ok. The Endler's had no problems ever since they were put in but the sparkler's seem to be settling in more slowly. Anyway, keeping my fingers crossed.
Posted by ronin at January 30, 2005 9:49 PM