Ira Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 My father in law basically said he doesn't have enough time to take care of his tanks, so he's giving his fish to me. Of course, I'm already overstocked, but anyway after scooping the fish out of the pea soup and black hair algae I now have... 5Xcardinals 5Xpearl Gouramis 2Xclown loachs(VERY sick and skinny looking) 1Xbig male bristlenose 2Xsmall bristlenoses(Unsure of sex) 3Xcories of different species 1Xwhite/yellow Angelfish The angel is going to go in with my cichlids. Hopefully he'll be fine, not sure I trust it with my tetras. Everyone tells me they eat cardinals, I'm skeptical, but have never had an angel before. Same with the gouramies, never had them before. But the gouramis and clowns are going into a tank that was almost empty, I can't really quarantine all the fish, but since the clown loaches look sick i'm putting all the fish that were in that tank into a seperate one in case they do have something that kills clowns floating around in there. Right now they're in buckets scattered around the house having a cup of water added every couple minutes. I'm going to net the fish to make absolutely sure none of the black hair algae gets into my tanks. I swear some of the tanks they came from were more algae than water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Ok, the fish are all in their tanks. The seem to be doing well. It was fascinating when I dumped the angel in the cichlid tank. It swam into the front right corner of the tank and tried to hide. My two green terrors slowly glided up to it, looked it over then backed away. Then my green severum slowly glided up to it and you could see him actually turn his head back and forth examining the angel:) then he just sat there for a minute and backed away. Then a couple jewels came up and had a look then swam away. It's almost like they all were actually being careful to look unaggressive when they came to inspect the new guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Wonder what they're thinking? :lol: At least you now have some bristlenoses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 I had a couple bristlenoses before. But now I've got a few more and a nice big male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.L Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 If you even need a home for the cories .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 I think I might have ID'd the cories. Though, they're not easy to see so it's just a guesstimate. I think they're a Julii, a Metae/Bandit cory and a Pepper Cory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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