Chuckie Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Hi guys I am the proud and happy new owner of 20 of these gorgeous little fish, from Aquaristic. Thanks to Phil, Mike and Ricky for going along with my suggestion that we undertake yesterday's spontaneous LFS crawl! And Brad for telling me they were there. I am not able to post photos of them but here are image results from google if you're interested :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Sounds like you had a good time Lisa! A swarm of those little clowns sound like an interesting tank.... one LFS had a few of them last year and was almost tempted but didn't want to start up yet another tank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted July 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 I actually split them 10 per tank, rather than put all my eggs in 1 basket! . I think one actually has 11, as I asked for 10 per bag but that would have meant one lonely fish left in the store. They're really colouring up in the tannin-rich rain water! I have some mozzie rafts hatching for them, as they are very devout surface dwellers! These have taken over a couple of betta spawn/grow-out tanks. I'm having a break from raising splendens. All the jarring and sparring was wearing me down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yanagi Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Wow, they're certainly funny looking, in a cute way. Congrats on your (Brads?) find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Ooh, I love them. But I've never been able to look after them very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiguy Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 Great choice Lilli These are perfect fish for the permanent set up,in a biggish tank (10 gallon with lots of plants)you end up with dozens of them even in a 2 gallon but not as many.They fry are very small,make Betta fry look like guppies and a pain to raise with paramecium/green water for weeks so do it the easy way. They love BBS,mozzie etc not big on flake/granules.Good luck with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNGLE Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 What a coincidence! I also have 20 and from the same shop. I agree the colours are beautiful once they settle down. Have noticed a few fry at times but wasn't set up to feed them. My adults get Mossies,Daphnia and frozen Daphnia and frozen Brine Shrimp. Such tiny mouths but well worth the extra trouble of providing live foods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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