My New Guys
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 12:29 am
First off, let me say that I'm very satisfied with ThatFishPlace and will be ordering live fish from them again. I got some beautiful fish, none of them malnourished or in any other way injured.
In the order, I got three puffers:
One male dwarf puffer. He took to Eenie immediately and she warmed up to him soon after. (I'm hoping there's a love connection there.) Meenie, the biggest one, but oddly shyest, doesn't know what to make of him yet, but she's not too aggressive and I'm sure she'll get used to him. He is completely uninterested in the otocinclus but is as personable as Eenie. He had little fear of me from the beginning and lost what he had when he saw Eenie coming up to me freely. His name, of course, is Moe.
One SAP, named PPG (I'll let you guess what that stands for). To make sure he'd be good with a community, I quarantined him with the non-puffers that were going in the same tank as he. He did well there and is doing excellently in the new tank. One really good thing about him is that he is as tiny as the dwarf puffer I got, which is awesome because that means I'll have him longer if all goes well (knock on head). The two rainbows in the tank were as curious and friendly as most rainbows have been in my experience, which I think helped him settle in. At first, the black skirt tetras were stupid and would chase him if he came near. Well, now that he's comfortable, they're regretting it, lol. I was planning to move the rainbows to another tank as they're the only non-South American fish in that tank, but I'm leaving them in for the reason mentioned above. I was going to move the black skirts, as well, for obvious reasons, but thus far, PPG only chases them lazily and they're too fast for him. (Don't know why I'm using "he".) I'll have to see how things go as he gets older. Oh! And one more thing. As soon as I put him in, he started after the nerite eggs on the walls of the aquarium. This is excellent as they're hard and will do well for his beak. He also ignores the big snails. I dropped some smaller ones in, but thus far, I don't know if he's gotten them or not. I guess I'll find out when I get an explosion of pest snails.
And finally, my new irrubesco (as seen in my avatar, taken by a really crappy camera) went straight into her tank, since it was set up and she's the only one. She's a bit shy, but not to the point where she hides when I'm near. I'm still trying to find a name that suits her. She was the biggest that I got, almost fully grown, I'm thinking.
So there's my news.
In the order, I got three puffers:
One male dwarf puffer. He took to Eenie immediately and she warmed up to him soon after. (I'm hoping there's a love connection there.) Meenie, the biggest one, but oddly shyest, doesn't know what to make of him yet, but she's not too aggressive and I'm sure she'll get used to him. He is completely uninterested in the otocinclus but is as personable as Eenie. He had little fear of me from the beginning and lost what he had when he saw Eenie coming up to me freely. His name, of course, is Moe.
One SAP, named PPG (I'll let you guess what that stands for). To make sure he'd be good with a community, I quarantined him with the non-puffers that were going in the same tank as he. He did well there and is doing excellently in the new tank. One really good thing about him is that he is as tiny as the dwarf puffer I got, which is awesome because that means I'll have him longer if all goes well (knock on head). The two rainbows in the tank were as curious and friendly as most rainbows have been in my experience, which I think helped him settle in. At first, the black skirt tetras were stupid and would chase him if he came near. Well, now that he's comfortable, they're regretting it, lol. I was planning to move the rainbows to another tank as they're the only non-South American fish in that tank, but I'm leaving them in for the reason mentioned above. I was going to move the black skirts, as well, for obvious reasons, but thus far, PPG only chases them lazily and they're too fast for him. (Don't know why I'm using "he".) I'll have to see how things go as he gets older. Oh! And one more thing. As soon as I put him in, he started after the nerite eggs on the walls of the aquarium. This is excellent as they're hard and will do well for his beak. He also ignores the big snails. I dropped some smaller ones in, but thus far, I don't know if he's gotten them or not. I guess I'll find out when I get an explosion of pest snails.
And finally, my new irrubesco (as seen in my avatar, taken by a really crappy camera) went straight into her tank, since it was set up and she's the only one. She's a bit shy, but not to the point where she hides when I'm near. I'm still trying to find a name that suits her. She was the biggest that I got, almost fully grown, I'm thinking.
So there's my news.
