Friday, August 29, 2008

New Fish: Threadfin rainbow fish, Iriatherina werneri

One of my 20 gallon tanks has been a tad neglected - The "neglect" was on purpose so I am not sure that is the correct term. In any case, It has in the last few months filled up with plants and cheery shrimp and somewhere in there a few Celestial pearl danios. The reason for the neglect and allowing it to become filled with plants was to allow the danios to breed and the shrimp to breed. It seems in both cases to have worked. The tank has a ton of shrimp and a couple new Celestial Pearl Danios.
But before the plants burst out of the tank I knew I had to clean things up and I really wanted to try some new fish. So First thing I caught about 30 of the shrimp and distributed them around to several of the other tanks and then started gradually weeding out the plants. Then it was off to the fishstore where after several rounds of the stock I finally decided to get 5 Threadfin Rainbow fish. I had been eyeing them for quite some time and figured they would make a good addition to the tank.

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