Re: [GSAS-Member] fish for sale

["matt kaufman" <igotadose@hotmail.com>]

> Sounds like the LFS guy I talked to fed me a line then. :)

*shock* Someone at an LFS not give out good advice?!!! Perhaps not know 
anything about a fish theyr'e trying to sell you?! Alert the media! Call 
KIRO Investigative reports! :-)

Heard at a shop in NJ: "People will spend $20 on a fish, but not $3 on a 
book that would tell them not to keep that fish."

> > Festivum is a far better choice, mellow, not a digger, not plant
> > destructive. My all-time favorite community tank cichild, have had them
> > many times in the past, easygoing fish.
>
> That's what I needed to know, thanks! How quickly will a festivum grow?

Not that fast growing. I had my little colony in a 90, and they maybe got up 
to 5" across the body after a couple years of more or less good husbandry.

Mind you - I think Severums a great fish, in the right tank. Like a south 
american driftwood/rock/java fern/java moss tank, which is how my buddy had 
them. He had some of the biggest sevrums I've seen. They were in either a 90 
or 100 gallon tank along with *the* biggest Oscar I've ever seen, 16" long 
at least  if I remember. They had a divider made of that 'egg crate'  
fluorescent fixture material to keep them from beating up the Oscar. Very 
amusing.

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