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Auratus

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Well, I like when other people's stupidity works out to my advantage :p . I went to a new lfs today and they had a lot of rare and exotic fish, even some that I had never seen before. Lots didn't have ID tags and so I wasn't going to buy anything I didn't know about. Then I saw these guys. Just three darting around with some Apistos and other fish I had never seen in my life.

I ask the guy cleaning "How much for the glowlights?"
$1.99.
"WHAT?!?!?!" I'm thinking he thought I meant tetras. So I say, "The danios?"
And he goes, ya.
So I'm like, " :kana: " So I get the lady to bag me some fish and I said, "These are a $1.99 right?"
And she's like, no.... and that was it.
"Welllll how much are they?"
I don't know, this is the special tank and everything in here is usually expensive.
"Damn :X "
Let me go look it up.
So I stayed quiet because I knew the lady had no freaking clue what they were :shifty: and 7 minutes later after shuffling through papers she comes back with the owner who also has no clue what they are and goes, $2.99. So I'm like, " :lol: :flex: :hyper: " trying to contain the joy and not laugh at these people. Then the stupid lady drops one on the floor and it's flopping around the store for like a minute and a half before she catches it :rolleyes: , but he's okay. So I got 3 for $9 which I think is pretty good considering you can't really find them anywhere... EVER...

They have really good color and markings but my camera sucks.
More pictures tomorrow when they color up a little bit more, they were still in the bag for these photos. Even though they aren't at full color here my mom still thought they were dyed :rolleyes:
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Then I found him at Petco and I was like, " :hyper: :D :drool: " I had to take his picture without flash because he shows up green.
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those are really nice looking fish, so did u figure out the acutall name

plus did u check them under a black light to see if they glow?

nice betta too man

nice overall find

BLASK
 
Haha I love stupid LFS people most the time.. Except when they attempt to sell my 25 pound bags of sea salt and tell me its aquarium salt (last week, Petcetera) :rofl:

Nice pick ups thats a sweet looking betta
 
Yep, they are Danio Choprae. I knew what they were the second I saw them and almost did a back flip into the next row of tanks :lol:. They are perfect for smaller tanks because they don't get any bigger then 1.25 inches usually.

These things are like non-existant in most of the US. Too bad I can't go back later to see if they have more, the store is 40 minutes away. And I certainly can't call, they would have no idea what I was talking about :p
 
very nice. I'm glad that you have come over to the darkside :whistle:
 
very nice find Auratus :nod:

nice betta too :thumbs:

DD
 
Pity you don't live here, there are tanks full of them, which would cost about... 25 US cents per fish.

If it's rare there, nice find though :thumbs:

P.T.
 
Phantom Thief said:
Pity you don't live here, there are tanks full of them, which would cost about... 25 US cents per fish.

If it's rare there, nice find though :thumbs:

P.T.
That's because all the cool fish vacation in Malaysia :p

Thanks for all the comments guys, I'll have (hopefully) better pictures of the betta in the morning.
 
They look great Aur! I've never seen them before. :wub:

Have you decided to name this betta? :shifty: :dunno:
 
Ya, I've decided to name him..... ...... ...... Cutechic...... :D
Believe it or not, all of my bettas have names! I just call them all "cute little betta" and then a bunch of squeeks and clicks that you can't understand and I make kissy noises at the glass :wub:

But seriously, they all have names. CC, you can pick this one's name :*

Edit: And no.... it can't be Bob.
 

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