On Oct 2, 5:27 pm, Gill Passman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The rams are bolivians....not had much success with any other type but
> these have kept going for over almost 2 years...I've got 4.....sold as
> 2 males and 2 females......one keeps down one end of the tank....the
> other 3 live at the opposite end......
>
> The sole remaining Tiger Barb is sold in the UK as a "gold" - he/she
> is pretty stunning but the problem has been with the resident plec
> "Shrek"....unless they are pretty nifty at night they just get
> killed....if I could catch the Tiger Barb I'd perfer to take it back
> to the LFS rather than just provide expensive Pleco food...I can't
> catch it but don't want to provide additional live food to Shrek......
>
> Tempted by the cardinals but have liquid chalk for water and although
> I have an RO unit I prefer to keep the freshwater tank simple.....the
> marine take up all my time on RO production....
>
> Rummy noses are great fish :-) my preferred lfs though, normally keeps
> them in tanks with remineralised RO water....I've had some success
> getting them into my tank and love them to bits.....I can search
> around for other LFS's in the area that keep them in hard
> water....IIRC my current fish come from one of these rather than the
> RO place......
>
> I keep getting tempted to set up a betta tank as the fish in my LFS
> are stunning added to which they have some gorgeous reds......and I am
> a soft touch for pure red bettas.....they have one in with the cherry
> barbs....I keep joking that if they could catch "that rather gorgeous
> big red one I'd be more than happy" -I'm resisting setting up a betta
> tank but it is hard especially when being tempted by such great
> fish......but without setting up another tank, that I don't
> reallistically have time to maintain I think it is a temptation best
> ignored...
>
> Gill
Hi Gill.
Have you made any choices for your tank?
