This week in fish

Ooookay, so, maybe I should have remembered to post more often since things happened this week - basically, I found out that an aquarium store in town that had gone out of business was actually acquired by a different fishy enterprise - a "service" company expanded and added a retail side. And that retail side is quite possibly the best I've seen since Pets Etc. in Leesburg shut down! It's small, and the location is hideous (from my perspective) but the tanks themselves are very well kept and it's clear that the people running the show really care about their livestock. I bought a male blue ram for my planted tank.



In the cichlid tank, the sparring between the midranked yellow labs has progressed to jaw-locking stage - but still no tattered fins. The red zebra had been hiding most of the time. As the tank dynamics have changed, I've started thinking about changing the stocklist - the socolofi duo has never been meant for that tank anyway, and two of anything mbuna is a recipe for disaster. So I stuck an algae wafer in my larger fishnet, and the fish totally fell for it. Probably because I've been using the fishnets to sift the remnants of the tan sand out of the white sand, rather than chasing them around. So I waited until the little socolofi swam into the net, and swished him right out and into my quarantine tank. Not sure where he'll go next, but I'll find a new home for him before too long.

Strangely, since I took out the socolofi, the red zebra has actually taken up a spot on the front side of the tank - looks like he took over the territory the socolofi. Guess the little guy managed to intimidate the newcomer even though the red zebra is the bigger fish.