Check out this fish!

[voss345]

lol cam.

very true. Big Guppy Cam is not alone on font issues.. he is not hating on the OP's fish just said it was low grade... which it looks to be.

 

[toomanyfishes]

Bigguppy thanks for coming to my little ugly fishes defense. Although, I do agree with some of the others in that the mama is an ugly fish who should never have been allowed to live to breed. But like I said it was never intentional, just an unplanned accident and we happen to be pro life here. Besides my nieghbor would have been very offended if I told him his fish was an ugly accident that needs to be destroyed.
She may be ugly but she has a great personality! I can't tell you how many times I heard that one when I was single and dating Anyhow,the wife, kids and I have grown a bit attached to her antics so we will keep her for a while.
As for the offspring we have decided to keep a few of the decent looking ones just out of curiosity. Also it is interesting to watch them grow and observe there tanacious attitudes; these little guys are survivors and tough as nails. But like I said, mostly they are kept for feeders. (had an 18" TSN that I just got rid of to make room for some new fish; he just loved to snack on them)
Anyhow for all you guys that are still interested in our little experiment in ugly, here's a few pics of dad, who is up for sale actually. Any takers?

 

[BIGguppy]

well... i tried to defend her little hookin a** but ohwell if thats how you feel then my bad camph for barking on you i guess im a little to passioned about fish! and what's the deal with the font

 

[jmersel]

think it's a female

 

[Camphilophus]

that's a nice carpinte, I wish you were closer. How big is he?

and big guppy I'm not mad you yelled at me. It happens from time to time when you just straight up tell people they're keeping ugly fish. I've got a few ugly fish too but I'll admit that they're ugly LOL. You should see the giant gourami with HITH I rescued..

 

[orbit]

that's a nice carpinte, I wish you were closer. How big is he?

and big guppy I'm not mad you yelled at me. It happens from time to time when you just straight up tell people they're keeping ugly fish. I've got a few ugly fish too but I'll admit that they're ugly LOL. You should see the giant gourami with HITH I rescued..

LOL Yeah i agree... he is ugly.

 

[toomanyfishes]

that's a nice carpinte, I wish you were closer. How big is he?

He's pushing 10" and he's not happy that his girl is gone. He beat the living daylights out of her a few weeks ago. I had to move her to another tank; we almost lost her. She is a tough fish though and is healing up nicely now.

 

[Camphilophus]

that's a nice carpinte, I wish you were closer. How big is he?

He's pushing 10" and he's not happy that his girl is gone. He beat the living daylights out of her a few weeks ago. I had to move her to another tank; we almost lost her. She is a tough fish though and is healing up nicely now.

wow thats big. I can't seem to keep texas or carpinte alive in my hard water.. I've got 1 survivor and I think it's a she but she's about a year old and only about 5".

 

[toomanyfishes]

wow thats big. I can't seem to keep texas or carpinte alive in my hard water.. I've got 1 survivor and I think it's a she but she's about a year old and only about 5".

He's in a 125g with 2 oscars and a royal pleco so he has a lot of room. His other tank mate that you see in the pic is a 12" P Bass who is spending some time over at my nieghbors in a 180 with a silver aro, 2 tarpon, a large gibbecep sail fin pleco and a pike chiclid.
We have great water here in Rochester, NY, I believe our water supply is from 2 of the nearby finger lakes, Hemlock and Canadice. My fish thrive on it and I use no chemicals just straight from the tap.

 

[toomanyfishes]

think it's a female

Are you referring to the Texas cichlid pictured above?
He is definately male as I watched him produce many fry over the past couple of years