My Id me thread.

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

good idea picked up stuff like that, I found an interesing little Bujurquina-like acara mixed in with rams and apistos at big als some years ago, now i skim through tanks at the store looking for oddball contaminants in their shipment

 

[chefjamesscott]

not a bad idea, buying baby oddballs in tanks at the lfs. i might have to give that a try. my lfs always have tanks with leftover oddballs they're unloading for cheap

I do not really know how to tell which is male or female, yet my thoughts on this batch is this. Since there are 7 of them left I am most certainly going to get a pair out of them and I will set up a tank for them to live and breed in so that I will have my own stock makers. I have since found that this fish is not so easy to come by here in regina and having a pair will make money.

good idea picked up stuff like that, I found an interesing little Bujurquina-like acara mixed in with rams and apistos at big als some years ago, now i skim through tanks at the store looking for oddball contaminants in their shipment

After I came to find MFK, I got inspired and started talking to some people who had big set ups and some people who ran fish stores and other things.
A strong suggestion was made to me to go to the various stores and look for fish that were improperlly labled and by them because I could very well come up with diamonds in the rough. Or at the very least have some fun raising mystery fish .

The sick thing about being located here in the middle of canada is that there is a waste land when it comes to getting nice oddball rare fish. So far I have about 30-35 pairs of fish that are producing fry, though I usually let the fry become food because I have not got my fish room and hatchery set up yet.


The way I figure it if I can get it going here in sask, who is going to order fish in from 3 provinces away when you can get it local and have it used to local water parameters?

I am very much going to be interested in seeing what the single out fish turns into. His bud that I got I knew was a red devil have to make sure to keep pics of what he grows out to be. I have 3 pairs of red devils presently, so when the little ones grow a bit I will put them in with the others.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

After I came to find MFK, I got inspired and started talking to some people who had big set ups and some people who ran fish stores and other things.
A strong suggestion was made to me to go to the various stores and look for fish that were improperlly labled and by them because I could very well come up with diamonds in the rough. Or at the very least have some fun raising mystery fish .

Good info. Thanks for sharing

 

[chefjamesscott]

Now these next 2 fish I know what they are, but, I wanna see if yall can put an id on them.

There was a tank with 12 of these. They were brought in by mistake and they simply wanted to get them out to free up the tank so I cut a deal on them at $4.50/. I picked up 3 of them tonight and will pick up the other 9 most probably this sat. They are roughly 1 1/2 inch long.

I got 4 of these but they were super tiny when I got them from the guy so I only have 2 left and they are about the length of the first knuckle on your index finger. I paid $15/ for them I have never had one of them and people rave about them so I thought I may as well see what the big deal is. They tell me that they do a wicked transformation from baby to adult.