FISH SUGGESTION :)

[Victor Aranda]

Hello again group

I have a nice little 15 Eclipse sitting in my room, and it is severely
lacking in color. It has 11 harlequins, 2 mottled cories, and a very
docile+timid african butterfly. Decor is silk amazon sword, grass, and a
large malaysian driftwood with riccia all over the top of it (near
waterline). As you can imagine it's full of bronze, copper, black, brown,
gold, grey, and green.

I would normally say I'm at the limit for the tank what with the stock I
currently entertain but I know for sure that the tank can handle at least
one more reasonably sized small fish (1-3 inches).

The tank has the same footprint as a 10 gallon but is extra tall... at least
1.25-1.5 feet. In the past at various times I have tried to fill this
opening with a gorgeous neon dwarf gourami which died of a LFS-caught
fungus, various bettas (all were sick before i got them... damned lfs), and
recently a nice juvenile marbled angelfish which died under mysterious
circumstances. I'm really tired of getting fish already-sick from the lfs
and my lack of space disallows me to have a hospital/quarantine tank.

Prefer midwater swimmer&/feeder (it would easily have feeding dominance, no
competition), colorful, diurnal, not too aggressive.

Anyone have suggestions?

[Flash Wilson]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:52:29 -0800, Victor Aranda > wrote:
>The tank has the same footprint as a 10 gallon but is extra tall... at least
>1.25-1.5 feet. In the past at various times I have tried to fill this
>opening with a gorgeous neon dwarf gourami which died of a LFS-caught
>fungus, various bettas (all were sick before i got them... damned lfs), and

I used to use an LFS like that. Suffice to say, I now travel to
a much better one, which is a hassle to get to but very rewarding
when I get there; I can spend 30 minutes just looking at all the
fish, especially those I'll probably never get such as seahorses.

Is there another LFS you can use, even if it's 30 minute's drive away?
Keeping on using an LFS which has sick fish is silly; I've seen
nice fish that looked pretty and been tempted and each time I've
been proved wrong with deaths and illness. I don't even look there
anymore.

>Prefer midwater swimmer&/feeder (it would easily have feeding dominance, no
>competition), colorful, diurnal, not too aggressive.

I prettied up my 15g with cardinals, and also some juvenile
scissortail rasbora which are a gentle blue colour (and a less
obvious suggestion than cardies). They will get bigger (although
mine haven't obviously grown in six months) however.

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Flash Wilson
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