After a 6 hour road trip...

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the_deeb;4684056; said:
Do you happen to have links to those pics? Archers are one of those fish that are frequently misidentified in pics on the web. I've personally never seen microlepis with horizontal stripes and, AFAIK, horizontal stripes are a pretty unique feature of T. blythii (though up till now there have only been 2 pics of blythii on the web and Fugupuff's recent pics show that juvenile blythii have vertical banding quite similar to some of the other species).

T. jaculatrix are pretty easy to identify because of the even bars. T. microlepis and T. chatareus both have alternating large and small bars but the bars on T. microlepis seem to be more uneven. The best way to distinguish T. microlepis is probably the presence of two distinct blotches on the back of the dorsal fin. Neale Monk's page is almost certainly the best resource on the net for IDing these guys: http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/Projects/FAQ/3c.html

Anyways, here are some more pics of my guys from this morning.

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probably mis-identified..
http://www.google.com/images?oe=UTF...tle&resnum=1&ved=0CB4QsAQwAA&biw=1262&bih=745
 
oooooh
:drool: :drool: :drool: awesome :drool:
 
nice i took my fish this summer on a 16 hour car drive from south carolina to new york and everyone survived! there were an oscar, jack dempsey, senegal bichir, red devil, and 2 plecos
 
Yeah, I did sort of the opposite trip when I moved down here last year. Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Not quite as far. You definitely went in the better direction from the perspective of fish keeping prospects :) I think portable air pumps are a great tool for transporting fish. Sometimes I also float a couple of established bioballs or plant stems in the buckets to provide a little bit of nitrifying bacteria. Haven't had any transportation losses yet.

taelee;4684399; said:
Looking good! What else are you keeping in there?
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Thanks again for these awesome little guys. I've also got a pack of 14 clown loaches, a flag tail prochilodus and a geophagus abalios in there. Oh, and a little tiger botia that I need to figure out how to catch and remove at some point. The archers are now definitely my favorite occupants. The biggest archer is really outgoing - already seems to be associating me with food and dominates the others at feeding time. The smallest one is still pretty shy and isn't getting much to eat because he's always late to the party. Hopefully he'll get bolder as he settles in.

My clown loaches seem to be enjoying their new tankmates and are starting to venture out a little more during the day (as I had hoped). The tank is looking pretty well stocked now, but I'm still considering adding a couple more outgoing fish to coax the clowns out more. They're getting better but are still pretty reclusive during the day. Maybe just more loaches. Or maybe just toss in some more floating plants. Still undecided.
 
I unfortunately did lose my red devil about a month after i moved here though =/. I had to set up the tank as soon as i got here and i was just hoping the water i was using in the buckets would help to cycle it so i did all that and it was all good but then a really bad fungus broke out and started to form a what looked like cotton thread over all my fish. Also it was sunday so i couldnt get anything to help it. I came home the next day with stuff to get rid of the fungus and by the time i got there the red devil was on the ground dead =/. which really sucks because I knew he had just died acouple hours before i came home and the stuff i used only took about an hour to kick in and get rid of all the fungus on the fish
 
I've read ur Paludrium thread before and wow!! The archers will look amazing in there! sweet fish too.. Too bad they are brackish :( I would KILL to have a pair.
 
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