There is a larger privately owned fish store about 2-3 hours from where I live, I've been putting off making a special trip there since it's on the way back from a cabin up north. Well this weekend I finally made it up north and on the way back I decided to stop in and see what they had.
It was amazing - they had some salt stuff - mostly corals then the rest was all fresh water. Had about 8 isles of fish, and about 80% of them were cichlids and of that 80% about 60% was new worlds. I was in heaven. They had this GORGEOUS Red Texas that was fading and was just beautiful, but it was too big for the others in my tank.
My tank is just juvies, 2-4.5" and that RT was 7"+ - so not a good fit size wise. In my tank I'm going to try the overstocked route, and then thin where needed as they grow up/out together.
Anyways, I picked up the following - Thorichthys aureum "red", herichthys carpintis escondido and and beautiful 'Cichlasoma' salvin female.
This store is known in the TC area of Minnesota for having an outstanding cichlid offering and now I see why. They even had like 4-5 species of Gymnos which I thought I was going to HAVE to order online to get. Pleco offering was limited (no shocker there) but other then that I'm really excited to go back there and spend some more time looking.
Kinda OT - but does anyone know of a good SA besides a Gold Suam that can hang with CA cichlids?
It was amazing - they had some salt stuff - mostly corals then the rest was all fresh water. Had about 8 isles of fish, and about 80% of them were cichlids and of that 80% about 60% was new worlds. I was in heaven. They had this GORGEOUS Red Texas that was fading and was just beautiful, but it was too big for the others in my tank.
My tank is just juvies, 2-4.5" and that RT was 7"+ - so not a good fit size wise. In my tank I'm going to try the overstocked route, and then thin where needed as they grow up/out together.
Anyways, I picked up the following - Thorichthys aureum "red", herichthys carpintis escondido and and beautiful 'Cichlasoma' salvin female.
This store is known in the TC area of Minnesota for having an outstanding cichlid offering and now I see why. They even had like 4-5 species of Gymnos which I thought I was going to HAVE to order online to get. Pleco offering was limited (no shocker there) but other then that I'm really excited to go back there and spend some more time looking.
Kinda OT - but does anyone know of a good SA besides a Gold Suam that can hang with CA cichlids?
. Had her since she was about 1.5" and really excited it turned out to be a female instead of a male.