I live in a small port city, with one good local fish store that only runs about 15 tanks of Singapore standards. So when I had to drive 7 hours west to visit a sick friend, I thought I'd cheer myself up after by visiting a healthy one after, who had great fish in. What's a few more hours when it's summer and you're already on the road?
I got one of my main holy grail fish - Procatopus similis, a lampeye. I'll attach an old photo from when I used to keep and breed them. I thought I'd never see them again.
I also got Nanochromis teugelsi, who have a thread going elsewhere on the forum - there's a female in photo 2. With them, I got Nannochromis nudiceps, a fish the hobby thought was common 25 years ago, but didn't have available. The ones we thought were nudiceps were the equally beautiful N. parilus. They haven't posed yet.
I couldn't resist Enteromius jae, the old Barbus jae. I do idiotic things, but I'm not an idiot to walk past that tank! Pic 3.
A pair of wild caught Pelvicachromis pulcher, the common krib came home.
Neolebias powelli. a Distochodid from Nigeria went into the box. watching them, they could be an Asian barb/Bororas. It's a beautiful micro-fish that is an awesome example of convergent evolution - different family, different continent, similar environmental niche and looks.
And South America gave me the beautiful Hyphessobrycom citrus, the yellow form of melanostichos (the "Imperial Lapis Tetra").
My tanks are full and I'll be busy. Those big city fish selections are pretty good.
I got one of my main holy grail fish - Procatopus similis, a lampeye. I'll attach an old photo from when I used to keep and breed them. I thought I'd never see them again.
I also got Nanochromis teugelsi, who have a thread going elsewhere on the forum - there's a female in photo 2. With them, I got Nannochromis nudiceps, a fish the hobby thought was common 25 years ago, but didn't have available. The ones we thought were nudiceps were the equally beautiful N. parilus. They haven't posed yet.
I couldn't resist Enteromius jae, the old Barbus jae. I do idiotic things, but I'm not an idiot to walk past that tank! Pic 3.
A pair of wild caught Pelvicachromis pulcher, the common krib came home.
Neolebias powelli. a Distochodid from Nigeria went into the box. watching them, they could be an Asian barb/Bororas. It's a beautiful micro-fish that is an awesome example of convergent evolution - different family, different continent, similar environmental niche and looks.
And South America gave me the beautiful Hyphessobrycom citrus, the yellow form of melanostichos (the "Imperial Lapis Tetra").
My tanks are full and I'll be busy. Those big city fish selections are pretty good.
