What a Great Day!!!!

[Arashi]

This all happened yesterday...Sorrell's heard all about it already! lol!

I found out that one of my female platies is pregnant, so I decided to go my favorite lfs to pick up a breeding net for the fry. I get there, and as soon as I walk into the store Gina, the owner, comes running up to me and yells, "I just can't do it anymore!" and then runs away. I'm thinking, what the heck, so I follow her to a tank with cichlids and two 5" common plecos. Turned out that she had been trying to catch these two plecs for about an hour and they kept getting away from her...she was moving them to a different tank, because the cichlids were starting to pick on them. So, anyways, I asked if I could help at all, and she handed me the net...said that if I could catch them for her she would let me take them home...for FREE! So I caught them both!

Then, I decided to look around a bit and saw that they had some new bronze cory cats in. They were so cute, and since I had just lost one of my three cory cats from a heat spike in my 25 gallon tank, I decided to pick up two of the little guys. Well, a little baby C. leucomelas (my FAVORITE type of cory ) somehow got into the bag with the other two...so she gave me him for free too!!!!

I also ended up coming home with four Yucatan Mollies...they are so beautiful...velvety black with orange-gold spots!

So, I ended up getting nine fish, three of them for free! How cool is that?!?!

 

[Phantom Thief]

Wowoweewow!

Great luck! But are you sure you can fit in 2 common plecos?


P.T.

 

[FishManiac987]

Sweet awesome, yeah i am with P.T. where are those plecos going. You should have got the other fish for free, and let her keep those plecos

 

[TorPeteO]

Geez, that's a sweet deal, congratulations. I'm sure you can find somewhere to put your newfound plecos.

I remember getting 8 neon tetra for the price of 6 because two slipped into the bag, and thinking how lucky I was.

 

[cometcattle]

Very cool Arashi.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

*drool* free fish!!! Even better than free fish food!!!

 

[StrontiumDog]

NC1 Arashi

Hey take a chill pill Phantom Thief & FishManiac987

StrontiumDog bites his lips so he doesn't type in anything nasty

 

[Nisha]

Free Fish are always a good thing.
I was loving my LFS the other day because they gave me a free algae-eating shrimp.

 

[Ron]

Arashi, what city do you live in? I'd be willing to go see that place...LOL

 

[Arashi]

Thanks very much StrontiumDog. I appreciate you sticking up for me.

As for the questions about where I'm putting the common plecs? One is currently in my 25 gallon, and the other is in one of my 10...I realized that one was a bit smaller only about 4 inches, so he's the one thats in the 10. BUT I am getting a 55 gallon setup very soon, so I'll be putting at least one in there and keeping the other in the 25 for the time being.

Ron - I live in Southeastern Wisconsin...if your close by I'd love to tell you where they are.

 

[karrihug]

congrats!!!

you could always use the other pleco for a good reason to get a second 55 gal

 

[Arashi]

congrats!!!

you could always use the other pleco for a good reason to get a second 55 gal

Thanks!

And yes, we already have plans for a second...I just need to find the money and the space for it.

 

[Ron]

OPh, your in the Milwaukee area? Or Kenosha/Racine? I get lost in Milwaukee very easily, Kenosha/Racine I could go visit because my relatives live there. I live in Stevens Point

 

[Arashi]

Ron - I live about 45 minutes north of Milwaukee, in West Bend. I didn't know you were so close!

 

[Ron]

Oh, West Bend isn't too bad, it's still north.