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Decker504

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My outdoor pond project/experiment is going well. Initially I had green water, but I added these water hyacinths/water lettuce and the pond is now crystal clear. The manager of my LFS hooked me up w/ the plants and made me a custom pond filter using a big Little Giant submersible pump, pvc, and foam blocks. Its a 288 gallon rectangular above ground pond on my patio. Its stocked w/ baby central american cichlids and livebearers. I have 5 baby RTMs, 3 Roberstoni, 3 deppi, 1 sp turqouise, a handful of cutteri from my last pair, a pair of 4 in centrarchus, 4 locally caught mystery killies, 50+ endler/feeder guppies, mollies and today we added a group of 9 bright orange sailfin mollies.

From DJ/MC Decker
 
Awesome stock in that pond, and getting a water hyacinth to bloom is a good achievement! I love them but never got flowers.
 
Thanks chubby. They livebearers love it an have been reproducing for a few weeks now. I'm hoping the rest flower too. The manager of 50 Fathoms even hooked me up w/ 10 3 to 4in leapard frog tadpoles that were in his feeder pond, but I think they developed and hopped out already. We live near a couple big canals, so I bet they heard the call of the wild. Can't wait to see the colors on the centrals after the summer.

From DJ/MC Decker
 
Nice, your centrals will have some awesome live food this summer!
I have about 200 tadpoles in my mini pond, nowhere near maturity yet!
I'm thinking about putting centrals in there, too, at the end of may-I'm thinking Firemouths, rainbows or something completely different. Got any suggestions? It's 22.5 gallons and they will be alone.
 
I would go w/ something small and colorful from cryptoheros like sajica, spirillus, cutteri, nanoleatus, etc. Something small from the firemouth family could be cool too like aureum or pasiones. The lfs where I get most of my grass shrimp from has some panamensis and I was thinking a out throwing them in there. Where are you located? I still have a bunch of cutteri left.

From DJ/MC Decker
 
Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm in Germany.. which sucks because 1. I don't have as many fish available and 2. I have big day/night and summer/winter fluctuation..
Cutteri's would be awesome, would have to see if I can even get them here though. How hardy are they?
 
Very hardy, the race I have are very pretty. Parents had bright blue eyes w/ pastel blue and yellow through the body and female's breeding dress was amazing. I was gonna offer to send you some, but that might be difficult since your in Germany.

From DJ/MC Decker
 
Wow, sounds cool, definately going to look into them.. thanks a lot for the advice.
Yeah living here sucks fishkeeping wise.. apart from that I get Wels at 1/10 of the american price..but a Wels would eat my other fish so can't get one :(
 
Yeah but his prices are insane-I mean, you can't blame him,since he probably buys them that expensive, but still. I get them for 10 Euros here. Yes they are, which is a pity cause I would love on for my pond.
No, I can't buy from glaser since they only sell to stores. One of my LFS does though, and so do a few online shops - real awesome fish! Do they have cutteri?
 
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