Re: [GSAS-Member] Mid-water fish?

[Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com>]

Lots of plants is now the plan, with the silver dollars gone. Maybe I can
get my tank the way it looked a few years ago:

http://wrongcrowd.com/gallery/aquaria/90gal1

Denny's has bosemani rainbows for $15 ea. I have never spent that much on a
freshwater fish. :) LiveAquaria.com has bosemanis for $10 though with
shipping it could be a wash compared to the local price.

If anyone sees other sources of bosemani or red rainbows in town, please let
me know.

Still open to ideas for similar critters.... mid-water, leaves plants alone,
colorful, and can get to be a few inches long.

MS



On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net>wrote:

> Yes, that's the one. Paul has a very large one. If you put lots of plants
> and get a male and female, they might spawn. Mine breed after a good meal of
> live white worms. The Celebes have been also. I don't have enough plants or
> tanks to move the parents and raise the fry, which like green water and
> rotifers. Maybe later on this summer.
>
> Susan
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Matt Staroscik wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the info Susan, that's what I was hoping for based on displays
> in
> > the LFS.
> >
> > Are these your red rainbows?
> >
> >
> http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+886+1057&pcatid=1057
> >
> > That's a very pretty fish. I'd like something with vibrant colors like
> that,
> > which is what drew me to rainbows in the first place.
> >
> > Steev, I am concerned that most rasboras might be too small. I don't plan
> to
> > stock any huge fish, but many rasboras are kind of bite-sized.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Susan Welenofsky <
> welenofsky@comcast.net>wrote:
> >
> >> Rainbows would be good as they don't hang out at the bottom, but
> mid-water.
> >> I have some red rainbows and turquoise green ones that hang there, then
> some
> >> small hyper Celebes that hang out near the top.
> >>
> >> Susan
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Matt Staroscik wrote:
> >>
> >>> The plant-destroying silver dollars are gone. I was able to find them a
> >> good
> >>> Forever Home through craigslist. When the fellow told me he had 25
> tanks,
> >> I
> >>> told him he should check out the club! He gave me some juvenile kribs
> in
> >>> trade, which was a nice gesture. I would have been happy with the fish
> >> just
> >>> getting rehomed.
> >>>
> >>> But now my 90 gal tank looks pretty empty, because the silver dollars
> >> were
> >>> big, schooling mid-water fish. Nearly all my other fish hang out on the
> >>> bottom. (And there aren't that many other fish, either.)
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas for what to replace them with? I was thinking about bosemani
> >>> rainbows but I'm open to anything... that doesn't eat plants or murder
> >> fish!
> >>>
> >>> MS
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