Some New Arrivals

[Synirr]

I went to Fish Paradise in Fort Worth, Texas on my way home from Plano today (well ok, maybe it's not technically on the way, but still...) Since I so rarely get to visit a shop with stock I haven't seen at my LFS, I took advantage of the situation. My wallet is now empty, but it was worth it
Acclimating...
New rope fish

Huge 3-4" freshwater prawn that will get even larger... he has devil eyes

Can anyone ID these for me? They were an impulse buy and I can't seem to find a proper ID Googling...

Settling in...
Loach... thing.

Rope fish -- he's my new love

Prawn, being nice so far. I hope he doesn't pick someone's eyes out while I sleep tonight, they are rather aggressive . I think the fish in this tank are too large for him to mess with though

Eligos, my cow of a senegal bichir, pictured just for kicks

The 29 gallon, full tank shot. It needs some pruning. I'll post more once I add the new driftwood to it tomorrow
Angels are going back to the shop soon as they breed all the freakin' time and cause chaos. I keep procrastinating, but I mean it this time!!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Beautiful fish, don't know much about them though, be careful of the prawn/shrimp as it looks like a fish eater/killer to me.

 

[Ben]

stunning tank Sam!
that rope fish is just awesome!

DD

 

[Synirr]

Beautiful fish, don't know much about them though, be careful of the prawn/shrimp as it looks like a fish eater/killer to me.

He absolutely is, but everything in the tank is bigger than him, so I *think* it'll be ok. If I start seeing torn fins he gets a kritter keeper inside the main tank

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

Niceeee...

I want to swim with the Prawn.

 

[onemisterchristian]

Agreed, the ropefish is striking. I also really enjoy your senegal though. He must be on the atkins diet!

 

[Animation]

I have a 27Gal, will this be big enoigh for rope fish?

 

[Synirr]

I have a 27Gal, will this be big enoigh for rope fish?

Not in the long run, as they can reach nearly 3 foot in length. I'm planning to upgrade to a 55 gallon in the none too distant future, which should be suitable, and if not there's always my 80g

Things to come?

 

[bunjiweb]

Good that you know how big they get, although I really don't think a 55G would suit, it would be much happier in your 80G. I have been tempted with a rope fish quite a few times but never actually taken the plunge. They are a great fish though.

As for your prawn, be careful if it does get big. I have seen many horror stories of people keeping prawns/shrimps in their tank that get big and start feasting on their fish.

And the loaches, well they certainly are different! They could be a colour morph of the Queen Loach, Botia Dario, but other than that I have never seen ones quite like yours. I'm sure a loach expert will be able to better identify them than me...

Ben

 

[Synirr]

Hmm... they're a bit more elongated than Botia dario, judging by the Google pics, but it's a good guess!

All I know about the prawn is that he was cheap, and he gets one chance... should he cause any serious problems, he has a date with Mr. Oscar.

 

[astroboy]

Love tghe prawn, i heard, depending on the species, that they like to spear and eat fish.

If only i could get my hands on one of those suckers

 

[timmystood]

Cool! I want a prawn that size!

 

[CFC]

I had one of those prawns, firstly it was in our sons community tank after we were told it was community safe but it ate his corys so i moved it to one of my grow out tanks with some medium sized predators but there is ate a catfish twice its own size so i moved it to my largest tank where it was promptly eaten by my arowana

Dont keep it with fish, it will eat them no doubts about it.


Oh and nice fish.

 

[bunjiweb]

Blimey CFC I had no idea that it would be that severe, looks like that prawn needs seperating right now!

I guess you could feed it on lance fish or some other small fish then?

Ben

 

[karen84]

Wow great fish