Bought my first fish that came in a bucket.

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My wife asked me to take our daughter out to give her a break. So I said okay I decide to take her to petland so I could buy some anbus or a sword plant. I get there and the guy wants to sell me a 9 or 10" Jag Cichild for 30 bucks, he looked awsome. But I was worried he would eat my firemouth or my jewel, so I declined.

As I was looking at the plants I saw they had what looked to be 7 or 8" Bala's, so I had to ask if he would make me a deal. I got both of them for 20.00 each and got two sword plants. I ended up walking out with two fish and two plants for less then the marked price of the fish.

I know you might think that was to much to pay for the bala's but I love bala's and I know they will play nice in my community and they are big enough my Oscar will leave them alone.

They instantly started schooling with my existing two bala's, although I was off on the size one of them was right at 7" - 8" but the other one is smaller then my other two so I am guessing he is about 6".

So I had to come home and figure out how to tell my wife that a trip to the store just cost me 50 some dollars.
 
Chizzle;4987267; said:
im confused man your title says you bought the fish that came in the bucket, but your post says otherwise? lol

He must have had to place them in a bucket to get them home.
We need some pics of these Bala's
 
Cant beat the feeling of bringin home an awesome fish in a bucket! :D

Then explaining to the wife.... I happen to be getting some pacu tomorrow...... Ill figure out an explanation to my wife later....... :ROFL:
 
The two balas where too big for a fish bag, so they had to go in a bucket. I don't have a monster 500G+ tank yet so I buying a 7-8 fish is big for me now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yjGGhVkc4

I have no idea why these tags never work for me I just copy the embed code from youtube and put them in the youtube brackets

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Wait until you get to the stage where you need a cooler lol.
 
nice :) the only thing that goins into the yt bracket is the last bit after the equal sign (F8yjGGhVkc4)
here ya go..

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