NonstickRon
Fish Crazy
Ok, I have a 55 with: 5 long-fin leopard danios, 7 flame tetra, 4 harlequin rasboras, 1 pair long finned GBR, 1 bolivian ram, 1 female GBR, bristle nose pleco, siamese algae eater, 2 peppered cory, 2 emerald cory, ivory mystery snail, blue mystery snail
The issue:
I have fish-farm nearby for cichlids only. The guy has been breeding for 25 years in the same place and claims to have "real-world" experience that is superior to web/book knowledge. I took my daughter up there because she's blind and I knew he would let us stick our hands in net-fulls of fish. My daughter loved it and I managed to get talked into how placid "peacock" cichlids were. I told him on the side I wouldn't be horribly devastated if the odd tetra or danio vanished. I told him I'd buy two very very juvenile fish, so I'd be able to guage whether or not it would work out. I told him to go ahead and pick them out, I trusted his experience. He sent me home with what I thought at the time was two peacock cichlids. Well, I get home and look at the note-card he told me to hang on to keep track of which fish I have and it lists "Red Peacock" and "EB Ahli". So I'm like ... "Huh... Ahli eh?" and I proceed to google my butt off. Well turns out most online profiles for the electric blue ahli tell me its a killer and its going to destroy all my plants. I called the guy today and told him what I'd found. He told me I can't believe anything I read on the internet and "The Ahli isn't any more aggressive than the Peacock" which obviously only made me feel MORE apprehensive. I'm not really sure what to do or what to believe.
On top of that, the cichlid's he sold me finally came out of hiding enough to get a good look at them. One of them is clamping one if its fins to its side, not using it much. At first I thought it was missing a fin but then it moved it a couple times. Theres some white roughness on its side. I've adjusted my tanks up in temp and added some aquarium salt in case it's ick. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10ppm. They came out of a few hundred gallon concrete vat sitting outside with only an airline and a bunch of plants/algae in it besides the fishes.
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The issue:
I have fish-farm nearby for cichlids only. The guy has been breeding for 25 years in the same place and claims to have "real-world" experience that is superior to web/book knowledge. I took my daughter up there because she's blind and I knew he would let us stick our hands in net-fulls of fish. My daughter loved it and I managed to get talked into how placid "peacock" cichlids were. I told him on the side I wouldn't be horribly devastated if the odd tetra or danio vanished. I told him I'd buy two very very juvenile fish, so I'd be able to guage whether or not it would work out. I told him to go ahead and pick them out, I trusted his experience. He sent me home with what I thought at the time was two peacock cichlids. Well, I get home and look at the note-card he told me to hang on to keep track of which fish I have and it lists "Red Peacock" and "EB Ahli". So I'm like ... "Huh... Ahli eh?" and I proceed to google my butt off. Well turns out most online profiles for the electric blue ahli tell me its a killer and its going to destroy all my plants. I called the guy today and told him what I'd found. He told me I can't believe anything I read on the internet and "The Ahli isn't any more aggressive than the Peacock" which obviously only made me feel MORE apprehensive. I'm not really sure what to do or what to believe.
On top of that, the cichlid's he sold me finally came out of hiding enough to get a good look at them. One of them is clamping one if its fins to its side, not using it much. At first I thought it was missing a fin but then it moved it a couple times. Theres some white roughness on its side. I've adjusted my tanks up in temp and added some aquarium salt in case it's ick. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10ppm. They came out of a few hundred gallon concrete vat sitting outside with only an airline and a bunch of plants/algae in it besides the fishes.
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