Ohhhhh I see. I have to pay for all my own pet things as well. Perhaps you could try to resell the old fake ones? I am sure your parents didn’t mindWell back then my parents spent alot of money for me and now I kinda feel bad about using their money as a kid and early teen buying unwanted stuff, I should’ve bought live plants and sells (like what I do with my elodea now) back then so parents would just stop supporting me with their money, that’s what I always feel bad about
you can SELL PLANTS???
I love those guys and have never regretted buying them. If they are multiplying like wild in your tank it means there is an imbalance in something somewhere and they are feeding on it. When things balance out they will drop down to normal numbers. Or you can get assassin snails, or snail leaches, those clear out your MTS if you don't want them. If you go buy fancy MTS you can have pretty looking ones that will squeeze out all the un-interesting and ugly brown/black MTS, bladder or other "pest" snails. In one or two tanks I have that seem well balanced and perfectly fed I don't even see the MTS at all. The few in there sit under the substrate until lights-off and then they pop out of the substrate and do a little after-hours "roomba work" before disappearing again.
hmm, i have 2 neon swordtails, they dont seem to terrorize the small guys?Not a fish, or even a creature, but I have regretted a duckweed purchase before. In some of my "closed ecosystem"(ish) setups where they are appropriately being controlled via being eaten it works out well. But I have bought it and put it into tanks where that was not properly balanced and it shortly works out to an "... oh ... oh dear, that was regrettable."
Only fish I had that was a little bit regrettable was a velvet swordtail. He was beautiful but he just kept getting bigger until one day he reached a size where he decided he would devote every moment of the rest of his life to terrorizing everything in my community tank, and I had no other space to move him to, and was far too young and poor at the time to fix that. If I just had a new appropriate home for him it would have been fine.
"And kind of a half regret, clown loaches."
Yah, I love that fish, but they just keep growing. Similar story when I bought one when I was young and didn't realize how much bigger it was eventually going to get ... and only slowly but surly requiring rehousing all along the way at each stage. Great personality and coloration though.
"You've obviously never had MTS, lol"
So much MTS hate here
"A channel catfish ... " wow, lordy. That is like one step down from putting a great white shark in a large Jacuzzi. Was he at least interesting as a pet before he filled the container completely?
That's sad, those sound interesting.
Plecos can be shy in general. I have several P.M.
Plecos can be shy. I have several different kinds. My Bristlenose is the boss in my 40 gallon. There are 4 Cory cats, 3 Hill Stream Loaches and him. It’s hilarious when I feed them, and he nudges and bumps all of them. All of mine have really good personalities. But it could be because I spoil them and give them treats. LOL
It’s the little bitty ones in the pet store I’m not exactly sure the type. It wasn’t any kind of aggression. It was exactly an inability to thrive. I had difficulties finding foods that they would eat. I tried everything from frozen to flakes, freeze dried. The last one that I got I had finally started to eat a little bit but then he died anyway. I know that they have to have certain types of food to keep their teeth worn down. Their teeth never stop growing.
