Busy day today. Did a big tour of various fish shops and came home with a gorgeous pair of Ancistrus and a veritable shoal of Endler's livebearers. They're happily ensconced in their own tank now. I'm loving the fact that I have all these primed filters and mature water on hand at the moment.
I'm hoping to try and ID the Ancistrus, but it might turn out way harder than I was expecting as many species look very similar and I forgot to take pictres of them before they disappeared into the castle. So far I think they are A. triradiatus.
I'm totally stoked about both purchases as these are fish I've been meaning to own for a long time. Plus they make the perfect tank mates: the Endler's hang out at the surface and the bristlenoses live near the substrate. I even gave the bristlenoses an old resin castle decoration I have, to use as a breeding site. It's wonderfully kitsch. Looks like Castle Greyskull!
Ian came round to deposit five medium-sized Tinfoil barbs with me (I'm not sure where I want to put them, so they are crammed in with my Jack Dempsey pair. Neither species seems overly keen on the idea!). I'll probably move the JDs out tomorrow. I also got some filter media and a bit of Seachem Safe dechlorinator. I have been wanting to try the latter out for a while, as Ian has been raving about it.
In return Ian got a pair of the cutteri.
And while we're on the subject of cutteri, the male I got from Simon yesterday has paired up with my biggest female and they are spawning right now in the 4' tank, with all those other greedy cichlids swimming around. Not impressed (despite being simultaneously overjoyed). I really hope they can fend them off and raise the babies. I'll be well gutted if I get back from Hastings next weeked and the young have all been scoffed.
The jags are doing a great job with the wrigglers. They move them back to the bowl each night and back into a corner each day. They're so amazingly gentle for such large fish.
My Bangui babies are taking ZM100 with no difficulty, so that's good news.
I moved the festaes back to the middle 4' tank so I could use their tank for my EBJD, who has perked up considerably as a result and even ate some bloodworm to show me she wasn't intent on dying just yet, which was a relief.
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