Briarmoor
Fish Crazy
I was in North Georgia the other day and stopped in a fish store and I had heard about just to check them out. In a giant display tank was a very large red tail catfish named Buttercup. 
The woman that runs the store is very attached to Buttercup and I guess the feeling is mutual. When the woman walks over to the tank, Buttercup hurries over and goes up and down the glass. If the woman kisses the glass, Buttercup goes nuts and presses her face to the glass too. Very cute. Buttercup is a poster child for why not to buy a redtail if you don't have a big tank or plan to get one in the near future. She is HUGE! 
Her tank mates are a Rhino Pleco, another poster child for not getting fish that are going to get really big if you don't have space, a huge common plec, a Green Terror (now minus an eye from an encounter with Buttercup) and an Oscar. The Oscar and Buttercup hang together, but the Terror hangs at the top of one side of the tank with its good eye down. If it were my tank and my fish, the Terror would find a tank of its own. Not much aggression going on, but obviously some or the Terror would still have his eye. Seems the tank is in the 200g+ range.
I don't want any huge fish like that, but have to admit that Buttercup is awefully cute and friendly.
She got her own 13th birthday party last week complete with an ad in the local paper. Sheesh. 
The woman that runs the store is very attached to Buttercup and I guess the feeling is mutual. When the woman walks over to the tank, Buttercup hurries over and goes up and down the glass. If the woman kisses the glass, Buttercup goes nuts and presses her face to the glass too. Very cute. Buttercup is a poster child for why not to buy a redtail if you don't have a big tank or plan to get one in the near future. She is HUGE! Her tank mates are a Rhino Pleco, another poster child for not getting fish that are going to get really big if you don't have space, a huge common plec, a Green Terror (now minus an eye from an encounter with Buttercup) and an Oscar. The Oscar and Buttercup hang together, but the Terror hangs at the top of one side of the tank with its good eye down. If it were my tank and my fish, the Terror would find a tank of its own. Not much aggression going on, but obviously some or the Terror would still have his eye. Seems the tank is in the 200g+ range.
I don't want any huge fish like that, but have to admit that Buttercup is awefully cute and friendly.
She got her own 13th birthday party last week complete with an ad in the local paper. Sheesh. 
