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[Whispering_Meadows]

Hello!

I would like to introduce myself! My name is Laura and I am from oklahoma. I have a 125 gallon tank, with a variaty of cichlids. I am still working on getting all the scientific names and I will list them soon.

I was wondering if anyone could point in in a good direction on the care for compressercieps and someone that sells them online. Either the orange or blue in color.


I am also a new mother of boy girl twins ! So I really have my hands full. Speaking of which, I need to attend to my motherly duties!

 

[wuvmybetta]

Welcome to the board,WM. Congrats on your twins

EDIT~ I just noticed the red devil in your avatar. I certainly hope he's not one of the fish in your tank If he is,he will more than likely soon be the only one so no need to worry about compressiceps (they're African and he's NW anyway,so a definite no-no with mixing)

 

[Whispering_Meadows]

No worries Big Bert as I call him, has his own home !

and thanks !

Bert here is just about 1 foot long now. I have had him 11 months! Geesh he grows just as fast as my kids! considering I had him when he was 1 inch...

 

[wuvmybetta]

Good and... he's cute . I have one but unfortunately he was a moose already when I got him. I'd love to raise one up from a tiny fry.

Anyway,hopefully someone can help ya out with your compressiceps questions in Africans. I know some AquaBid sellers have them because I've contemplated over them a few times. I keep a small trio of black calvus right now. I must say you have excellent taste in fish

 

[Whispering_Meadows]

Thank you again, gosh you are trying to make me blush. HEHE

I try to get fishies that are both rare and, as my husband likes, young. I feel like if someone can't handle a fish and he is a bigger guy, I would take him, but my husband feels he likes to raise em up! So I guess that is what we do now is raise... gah... I love to watch the tank, I can stare into this thing endlessly for hours.

Right now I have 16 cichlids which are doing very well together. I also love peacocks! Maybe its the girl in me who knows. I did some research around a year or more ago, and that is how I came onto the "red devil" who has killed many fishies in his day. My husband had one before we met and he had a red devil, oscar, * I know a sissy fish compared to the DEVIL*eepp!, a Jaguar and someting else and well, they alllived together, untill his younger brother brought home a snake head... and one night he ate all the fish. YUCK. I am glad that was not MY TANK! I would have been pissed. That goes to show you though, DONT BUY ANYTHING BECACUSE IT LOOKS COOL !

oops I hit the tab key... anyhow..

he thought that mine could live with our other fish.. needless to day, he does live with a jag and a dempsy. They are around 4 inchs but they seem to have it out some days and others do ok with each other.

but anyhow, I seen your tanks... I like your 120 set up. Let me post a picture of my 125. So you can kinda see what I have here...

 

[Whispering_Meadows]

You can double click the pic to get a very big up close picture. Though, the fish was pretty small still, and hard to see in the picture. I will take more and upload them soon!

 

[Sasha]

Hi Laura and to the forum!