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

[Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

WOW! I can see why you want to get it planted again.

Susan


On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Matt Staroscik wrote:

> 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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