MBUs available in Suffolk

[SirMinion]

I thought I'd share this with you all, as I know how hard they are to come by.

If anyone is looking for an MBU (giant) freshwater Puffer, in East Anglia (England), my LFS has five... count 'em FIVE of these georgeous and highly temping 'little' chaps.

I went in today to get some live bloodworm for my T.Palembangenis and was amazed to see them there.

The largest is around seventy quid (about five inches) and the smallest is about thirty. (three inches)

No indication on the label about how big they get!- people should be told. (four feet!)

So, if anyone has a spare huge tank and wants the aquatic equivelent of a Great Dane, pop over to SeaPets in Ipswich.

... now if I can just make room for another tank... can I do without a sofa?

 

[Earthgirl]

My goodness, reading your sig, do you sleep or do you take your family? I thought I was busy with all of my family plus a 3 yr old son and a husband.

 

[SirMinion]

Hehehe, my Wife shares my pet passions, including the fish so we share the work looking after them all. We have no (human) kids yet, we both work 'graveyard' shifts and are both terrible insomniacs so we have a fair bit of spare time!

It's an odd lifestyle, but it suits us!

 

[Opcn]

BUY IT! Build it a tank out of marine plywood (15 quid a 4X8 sheat)some plexiglass windows and Oil paint. Buy that little fellow thats a great price for an Mbu. GET IT!

 

[SirMinion]

Build a tank out of wood? really? is that possible?

 

[Opcn]

Yes it can be done. Use marine plywood (water proof glue lamination) lots of screws and OIL paint for use on the bottoms of boats you can keep that mbu in a smaller tank while you build its tank. It can be done. the (plexi)glass front will be the most expensive component and they lend themselves very well to WALL tanks because you always have the back ends and bottom covered anyways.

Check out the linkhttp/www.garf.org/news21p3.html#jake I'm going to do this some day.

Opcn

 

[SirMinion]

Hmmm.... *rubs chin in thought*...

 

[ryan]

The shop near me just got 22 Mbus in all around 6", not hard to find here.