Posted by Sarah on April 28, 2008
We made it back safely from the Tropical Fish Show – I still can’t believe that it snowed so much here.
Jeff is a raffle addict, and he won enough fish stuff to fill a huge bag – and I’m sure he’ll tell you about it later.
I got some purple shells for my bumblebee gobies from the show, and some moss balls from Terrequatics, a fish store in Champlin, MN.
Here’s a picture of one of my Bumblebee Gobies perching on a shell a few hours ago. I still haven’t seen any of them in the shells, but I’m hoping they’ll get in there soon.
I want some Bumbleebee Goby fry!
Jeff got a cave system from Tiffany of Salty’s Digz, a gorgeous piece of driftwood, and some Ultra Color Fish Food from Pretty Bird (the fish part of the website is still under construction).
We also saw some beautiful fish – I was really impressed with the discus!
They are a lot larger than ours are!
I was a little disappointed in the one talk we attended because I didn’t fully understand what it was supposed to be about.
Since the talk was titled “Oddball Fish for Aquaria” I thought that it would provide information about fish that aren’t commonly found in aquariums, but it mainly focused on breeding fish that are commonly found in aquariums, but aren’t commonly bred. I think we have or have had most of the oddball fish that were mentioned that aren’t commonly found in aquariums, like the Australian Desert Gobies, Bumblebee Gobies, and Dwarf Puffers, although he called them pea puffers.
Since there were weather problems (the roads that normally take to get from Moorhead to Minneapolis were closed Friday, and Saturday, but we managed to get through ok while they were open, we decided to leave early, so we missed the Plants in the Aquaria talk, which I was looking forward too.
If you made it to the show this year, I’d love to hear what you thought about it, so leave a comment and tell me.
Here’s a picture of Jeff’s driftwood in the Discus tank.
The Discus really seem to like it, and are trying to figure out who gets to live behind it.
Posted by Sarah on April 25, 2008
Here’s one of our Adult German Blue Rams.
I think this is a female, but I’m not really sure, I was so surprised one sat still long enough for me to take a picture that I didn’t check after I took the picture.
There’s still a big difference between the adults and the fry and the fry – in size and color.
Posted by Sarah on April 18, 2008
While browsing at The Tropical Fish Shoppe last Friday, I came across a tank filled with adorable Green Spotted Puffers.
Jeff and I had originally considered getting green spotted puffers when we decided to get a puffer, so I was already familiar with their care requirements.
I’d just decided that I didn’t want any Shell dwellers, so I had a fish tank open, with no prospects.
We ended up getting two green spotted puffers, Spot, and Stripe.
I recently read that most dogs are now named “people” names, and the old fashioned names like Spot and Rover aren’t used any more, so I thought it would be funny to name one of the fish Spot.
Besides, they do say puffers are the dogs of the fish world.
Rover just didn’t seem like a good name for a fish, and Stripe has a little line of connected dots along his right side, so Stripe seemed like a good name.
I do keep calling him Spike (Spike is our male adult bushynose pleco), so we might have to change Stripe’s name.
Spot and Stripe are doing very well in their new home, although we are going to have to get some more plants to break up the line of sight so they don’t see each other as much.
Spot tends to chase stripe around, but we haven’t seen any evidence of biting yet.
Biting ususally causes black bruises where the puffer was bitten.
The day after we got the puffers home, Jeff decided he should hold some krill in the tank and wave it around to see if the puffers would eat it.
Spot wouldn’t come near it, but Stripe came out of nowhere to get the krill.
You should have seen how fast Jeff dropped it!
Now both of the Green Spotted Puffers will eat out of Jeff’s hands, although he is careful, since the puffer’s teeth could wound him.
Our Figure 8 puffer, 8-ball doesn’t eat out of Jeff’s hands yet, so Jeff is happy that the Green Spotted Puffers Do 
.
The picture above is a picture of Spot a couple of days after we got him. Isn’t he cute?
Do you have puffers?
What kind, how many, what are their names?
Leave a comment and tell us about them!
Posted by Sarah on April 3, 2008
Here are our two female Australian Desert Gobies sitting together on a cave.
The cave is painted green and blue, but it does have some algae on it.
