Posted by Sarah on April 30, 2009
We finally started moving some of the tanks back after our never ending flooring project, and we ended up turning the 55 gallon into a discus and german blue ram grow out tank.
It’s so much fun to be able to see the German Blue Rams and the discus every time we walk them, but it’s hard to resist their begging.
The fry seem to be getting along great together.
There is a huge difference in the size of the discus – one of them is at least three times as big as the other ones are.
The rams all seem to be about the same size, although I still think they are a little small for their age.
We still have to move one more fish tank, and move the Australian Desert Gobies upstairs.
I can’t wait for that!
What’s going on in your fish room these days?
Posted by Sarah on February 17, 2009
I normally research my fish before I buy them – sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes there just isn’t enough information available about the fish – there were only a few places with infomration on Badis buxar when we got them.
With some fish there’s so much information available that it can become overwhelming to determine what’s right, and what’s wrong.
In those cases I just pick a couple of people who I think know what they’re talking about, and follow their advice.
Of course individual fish are different – what works for one aquarist might not work for another.
We heard over and over again that if you have discus you have to have RO water, and you have to do large water changes twice a week.
We did that for months, and got no eggs, even though our discus were breeding for their previous owner (he bought 7 discus, and ended up with 3 pairs, and he didn’t have room for all of them, for those of you who think no one in their right mind would sell a breeding pair of discus).
As soon as Jeff got too busy to keep up with the water changes, we had eggs.
Of course I’m not trying to say that you shouldn’t do your research.
There have been a few cases where we saw cute fish and bought them with no research.
Most of the time it worked out.
Sometimes it didn’t.
We saw a half black angelfish (marine) in a store with lots of fish health problems, came home, did some research, then ordered one from another store.
I looked at several sites, and they all said half black angelfish were easy to care for, blah blah blah, and did great in aquariums, or we wouldn’t have got one.
When we got the fish home and it started having health problems the first thing Jeff found said that the fish were picky eaters, and it’s hard to keep them alive in the aquariums.
The fish only survived two weeks in our tank – so even though I did my research, I didn’t do enough research.
I can’t remember if the only places that I looked for information sold the fish, or not, but I’ll definitely look for information from places that don’t sell fish from now on.
Do you research your fish before you buy them?
Have you found anything that’s contrary to most fish keeping advice?
