Fish Rescue Failure

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African Mooneyfish

I’ve only ever heard them called Mono’s
You taught me something today.

 

[BichirKing]

are those like scats? look cool!

 

[Ulu]

I don't know about scats.

The Monodactylus sebae or Mooney will live in freshwater then migrate to salt water. I have them in a heavy brackish water with mollies and guppies. The Mollies and guppies are breeding well, but not the Monos. I think these are all wild caught, and very few folks have bred them to my knowledge.

Motumbo was my first Mono and is only 1.5" tall in this photo.

I now have 6, between 6" and 7" tall.

 

[twentyleagues]

My mother always had gold fish so I guess it just come from there.
The first memory of fish that I can clearly remember I was about 6.
I’m 46 now.
I guess keeping fish that were totally mine that I picked and bought I was probably 10.
I hauled wood and cut grass to earn fish money.

My mom used to sell tropical fish as a young adult, but we never had them.

I was mowing yards and delivering papers back in the late 1960's, but I spent my money on model airplanes, rockets, bicycle gear, electronic parts and phonograph records. I couldn't have an aquarium because of my Dad's job. We traveled around way too much.

I didn't get my first little 10g from Whitie's Pets until 1975. I was 20 years old.

I was working with a fancy HP calculator (programmable!) at a drafting table, drawing trusses and walls and pe-fab things made of lumber. I'd been pumping gas and fixing cars during school, but this was my first engineering job. To celebrate, I bought some guppies and a gourami.

45 years later . . . .

We have had this current house for 18 years, and it's been paid off for years. We own a hundred fish now, but half of them are just guppies and mollies. The rest are mostly rowdy cichlids and Mooneyfish.

I wish you all such fun.

Count me in that group also. I think my first personal tank was a 90 with a couple Oscars, I was about 8 I think.
i had a paper route, mowed lawns and once I was about 12 I started cleaning the dealership lot my mom worked at once a week.

im right there with you! 47 now got my fist tank at 7 or 8. dad had fish when I was growing up. I had a paper route and also mowed yards to support my hobby. I've always wondered how many have the same story. sorry for the hijack....