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Been out fish shopping 
31st-Jan-2008 07:05 pm
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No, not fish for eating, fish for looking at.
Today, a good friend of mine came over, and while he was here, he looked at my fish tank and declared that it's now looking quite healthy. He's good with fish tanks, so I regard him as a bit of an expert. That's why if he says the tank is in good shape I believe him.
I'd promised myself to get some nice new fish as soon as things seemed to be going well, so today was fish buying day!

We spent some time looking at all the pretty fish, and contemplating how suitable they'd be for our tank, regarding the fact that it's got a crayfish as well. Obviously, we were looking for some fast swimmers, and preferably for inhabitants of the top half of the tank, since crayfish can't go there.
One of the salespeople came over to help us and started to talk fish with us. This lady clearly knew her fish, and her crayfish too.

We ended up getting some gourami fish: I already had a lone three spot gourami lady, widowed a few months ago, and blind on one side, which makes her swim in a peculiar slanted way. But she still manages to avoid the crayfish quite well, so she deserved some sympathetic company. We got her a female friend of the same species, and a male and female of the 'gold' variety. The color variety doesn't seem to bother the fish, they make friends just the same, so the male now effectively has a harem of three ladies, which is said to be a good ratio. (I'm glad I'm not a gourami!)
In fact, it reminds me a bit of a BookCrossing meeting.
The new gouramis are much smaller than the older one, which made them much cheaper, and they'll grow soon enough.

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As the tank is quite large and well filtered, we had room left for some more. After ample consideration we decided to get some silver tipped tetras. These are fish that like to be kept in a school of at least six, but we thought it might be best to get just five of them at first and see how it works out. They live in the middle and top of the tank so they should be fine, and are described as "very alert and quite active fish". I hope that's true, because they're going to need it.
One of them arrived here sans tail. I hope it grows back. If you own a crayfish you can't very well take a fish back to the store because it lacks a tail.



All in all, the tank looks great. There's quite a bit of action now, even if seen from a distance (our living room is rather large). It looks much like I hoped it would.
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