29 gallon stocking advice?

[Fishies4Ever]

I was thinking maybe I could get a decent sized group of toucan once the tank is cycled and then try to breed them so I don’t have to spend as much money.

 

[anewbie]

Any ideas for what website would be good for the Cory’s where it’s pretty cheap. I live in North America.

aquahuna is pretty good because they are (a) reliable; (b) cheap shipping and (c) very generous doa policy (for mail order). there are negatives - i believe their fishes are farm raised but you should ask them if you want to know for sore; they are usually very young (this just means you don't want to put schooling fishes with full grown predators); sometime the fishes have minor defects.
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Any other place i normally use will be expensive but these days 90% of the fishes i buy (other than some schoolers) are wc and wc are alyways more expensive.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

aquahuna is pretty good because they are (a) reliable; (b) cheap shipping and (c) very generous doa policy (for mail order). there are negatives - i believe their fishes are farm raised but you should ask them if you want to know for sore; they are usually very young (this just means you don't want to put schooling fishes with full grown predators); sometime the fishes have minor defects.
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Any other place i normally use will be expensive but these days 90% of the fishes i buy (other than some schoolers) are wc and wc are alyways more expensive.

I ordered from aquahuna a couple times. The first time, about 1/3 of the fish arrived dead, and I had a bad ich outbreak afterward that decimated my established fish. My fault for not quarantining, but still. I decided to give them another chance, and had a very low survival rate that time too. I don't plan on ordering from them again.

I either order from The Wet Spot, or take my chances with inexpensive fish from the LFS and quarantine them very carefully.

 

[anewbie]

I ordered from aquahuna a couple times. The first time, about 1/3 of the fish arrived dead, and I had a bad ich outbreak afterward that decimated my established fish. My fault for not quarantining, but still. I decided to give them another chance, and had a very low survival rate that time too. I don't plan on ordering from them again.

I either order from The Wet Spot, or take my chances with inexpensive fish from the LFS and quarantine them very carefully.

Can you indicate when you ordered from them? I've ordered from them about 6 times the last 5 years including twice this year when i was buying cheap fishes to cycle a couple of new aquariums. I can say i had about 98% survival rate (purchase was about 70 days ago); what died was some young sterbai (but i re-ordered from another person and some of those also arrived doa and a couple of others died); the schooling fishes (rummy, serpae and kobtatia) all made it as well as all the pygmy. I would never buy loaches from them (don't trust their source) or cichild ('cept domestic angles; which are always a crap shot). For me their prices are cheaper than the local lfs as well as a better doa policy despite being mail order.
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For a lot of my other fishes i use wetspot (not cheap); aquaticclarity (less cheap); tangelupcichild (very expensive); jdaquatics (ok prices) and occasionally another hobbist if i'm trying to obtain something very difficult to obtain (like wc winemilleri which i'm still searching for). I would say the bulk of my fishes probably come from wetspot but they have their own issues (received a very poor health zebra loach which should never have been shipped); a runt of a clown loach which haven't grown in 3 years; and a few other issues over this yea. It takes a lot of fishes to fill a 550 and 450 aquariums so i've made about 4 purchases from wetspot the past 3 months (the cupido are fantastic and doing quite well).

As for disease not had a problem yet with either the fishes from wetspot or aquahuna the past 90 days and i've used both over the past 5 years so have a bit of experience with them (part of why i am curious about when you purchased from aquahuna). Btw the kubota rasbora i purchased from them 3 years ago are still alive. Not sure how long that species lives but they seem quite healthy.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Can you indicate when you ordered from them? I've ordered from them about 6 times the last 5 years including twice this year when i was buying cheap fishes to cycle a couple of new aquariums. I can say i had about 98% survival rate (purchase was about 70 days ago); what died was some young sterbai (but i re-ordered from another person and some of those also arrived doa and a couple of others died); the schooling fishes (rummy, serpae and kobtatia) all made it as well as all the pygmy. I would never buy loaches from them (don't trust their source) or cichild ('cept domestic angles; which are always a crap shot). For me their prices are cheaper than the local lfs as well as a better doa policy despite being mail order.
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For a lot of my other fishes i use wetspot (not cheap); aquaticclarity (less cheap); tangelupcichild (very expensive); jdaquatics (ok prices) and occasionally another hobbist if i'm trying to obtain something very difficult to obtain (like wc winemilleri which i'm still searching for). I would say the bulk of my fishes probably come from wetspot but they have their own issues (received a very poor health zebra loach which should never have been shipped); a runt of a clown loach which haven't grown in 3 years; and a few other issues over this yea. It takes a lot of fishes to fill a 550 and 450 aquariums so i've made about 4 purchases from wetspot the past 3 months (the cupido are fantastic and doing quite well).

As for disease not had a problem yet with either the fishes from wetspot or aquahuna the past 90 days and i've used both over the past 5 years so have a bit of experience with them (part of why i am curious about when you purchased from aquahuna). Btw the kubota rasbora i purchased from them 3 years ago are still alive. Not sure how long that species lives but they seem quite healthy.

I believe it was late last winter or early spring. I'm not saying my experiences are typical. It was pretty cold, which might have been the problem. I'm glad they've worked well for you.