Minnesota Aquarium Society Tropical Fish Show Review

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.