Last night Jonathan and I were sitting on the couch watching the cichlid tank, and he admitted to liking the Ps. saulosi that I had before a string of truly unfortunate events ended up killing off all of them. And I'm a bit tired of the yellow labs, so the new plan is to get rid of those four fish, and add in some red zebra females and a small starter-colony of saulosi, somewhere around nine fish total most likely. And I managed to find an online store that sells both! I'm waiting for a call-back from them, actually - they're listed as "closed" on Wednesdays so if I haven't heard from them by Thursday afternoon I'll call back myself. I'm not in an all-fired rush to put in an order as they have to check to see if they have what I want (if I'm going to pay premium for adult red zebras, I want them sexed first!) and I can't be home all day for the last half of the week to accept delivery - and I can't ship things to "work" either, considering my job as a math tutor takes me all over my area. So basically I'm hoping they have what I need right now and I can get them to ship it overnight on Friday - especially since this weekend's weather is supposed to be a break from the 100-degree misery we've been having! The only thing that's going to hurt about this plan is the price - I'm quite, quite sure that it's going to end up costing somewhere in the high vicinity of $100. If only the stores around here carried better stock and more variety! PetSmart has no business selling auratus and kenyi to the kind of customer who shops there in the first place. They should replace those fish with saulosi and find better distributors for the rest of their African cichlid stock! That way I wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of finding online retailers.
As far as the little locally-owned place goes, it's a nice shop but they aren't carrying mbuna right now, and if I'm going to put in a special order I might as well just order the fish myself and have them delivered right to my door. Less stress on the livestock that way, and I get more control over the whole process.
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