I’m Baby Sitting

[anewbie]

Me too! View attachment 379436

Species - can't be a Indonesian snakehead as they get 3 meters long. There is a Channa andrao but it is a colour marvel.

 

[anewbie]

I think a good fishkeeper realizes quickly this is a lot like growing flowers. You can buy cut flowers for instant gratification, but it's fun to grow your own even if it takes a seaso, or in some cases, a year to see the full flowering.

I'm very pleased today because I put some Nothobranchius palmqvisti eggs that had been incubating for 3 months into water, and what did I get? A couple of dozen fry.

Since I wasn't quite sure how I'd do, I have a dozen more more bags of wet coco coir I had in various tanks of adults, hoping they'd breed. This first hatch is already more than I could have hoped for, but I'll hatch them all over the next 3 months, and the local pet stores will profit.

One store sells them at $60 a pair, and so I can change that market pretty fast. These are pretty pretty fish.

In trruth i don't like killi because many species have short life span and it makes me sad when a fish die. I prefer fishes that can live 5 to 50 years. The longer the better

 

[gwand]

Species - can't be an Indonesian snakehead as they get 3 meters long. There is a Channa andrao but it is a colour marvel.

Julidochromis transcriptus Gombe. Lake Tanganyika

 

[anewbie]

Julidochromis transcriptus Gombe. Lake Tanganyika

Thanks. There are a lot of pretty fishes from those lakes but alas they all want liquid hard water and i spent my life scrubbing the hardness out of my water

 

[BanjoFish]

One person I know started with 3 and ended up with 80.

 

[gwand]

One person I know started with 23 ended up with 80.

I have a lfs that will buy as many Full red guppies I can generate. lol.