Finally added sand and two new fish

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Hoyo12

Hoyo12

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So, yesterday I went off to a Pet Store that we found about 30min. away, and when we arrived, it looked a bit.... 'scary', lol and so did the people who worked there. (Looked like a bunch of bikers to me, lol) so we left, and our journey was for nothing, but I did stop at a Petsmart in the area (Needed Mealworms) and saw these two in one of the tank. Now, one of them had a badly bitten tail (Missing the top half of his tail) So I thought I would take them back home in better care. They are two juvenile Parrot Cichlids, and fun to watch.
I as also able to stop and get some Play Sand for the aquarium. Added the sand after being cleaned, and the entire tank went brown. Could only see about an inch into the tank. So we drained it and filled it back up with good results. Its not completely clear, but much better than it was. After we drained it and went to fill it back up, I put the rocks on the bottom of the tank all over so that when water would be poured into the tank it wouldn't stur up the sand. lol, using one Gallon buckets the process of slowly filling a 60-Gallon tank began. After in was all filled, I decided to leave the rocks where they were. Looked kind of cool. Plus all of the fish in the tank had begun to make tunnels under the rocks and many other hiding spots in the sand around the tank.
Pics of the tank along with the two new Parrot Cichlids. (And others)

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The E. humboldtii looks really good! How did you get it? was it a special order..??

But yeah.. The parrots look really good :D Goodluck with them
 
Eoibio;3340631; said:
The E. humboldtii looks really good! How did you get it? was it a special order..??

But yeah.. The parrots look really good :D Goodluck with them
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Thanks! The E. humboldtii Knife was just luck. I walked into my LFS and they had it listed as a Centipede Knife. Knowing that it wasn't a Centipede Knife, I purchased him. I came back the next week and they had two small ones in stock listed as Glass Knife fish. Then the next week they didn't have any more, but they did have the real Glass Knives in stock.
 
Hoyo12;3340664; said:
Thanks! The E. humboldtii Knife was just luck. I walked into my LFS and they had it listed as a Centipede Knife. Knowing that it wasn't a Centipede Knife, I purchased him. I came back the next week and they had two small ones in stock listed as Glass Knife fish. Then the next week they didn't have any more, but they did have the real Glass Knives in stock.
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I am jealous of how good of luck you have of stumbling over cool knife fish
 
svang55;3340861; said:
cool man, such a huge tank for small fish. i'm sure they love it
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The only Monsters in the tank are three Catfish, but they are always hiding.

Catfish Keeper;3340861; said:
I am jealous of how good of luck you have of stumbling over cool knife fish
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lol
 
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