On 02/18/2013 10:05 AM, L L bahr wrote:
> The young people in the hobby today seem to go for salt water or realy strange exotic almost fish. They are not into platies, guppies and swordtails.
I had an aquarium when I was young, but it was just goldfish. When I
got back into it 10-15 years ago, I looked for fish that liked hard
alkaline water because that's what I had. I know most commercially sold
fish can take a wide range of water parameters, but I wanted something
that would breed.
It came down to African cichlids or rainbowfish (but not all
rainbowfish). I loved the flashing stripe and vivid colors on the
rainbowfish. Plus they went better in a planted tank. I've kept and
bred dwarf neonr.f. (M. praecox) and Batanta Island r.f. (M. synergos).
But now I'm down to some cory cats and some otoclinus.
Occasionally a store will have M. australis but I've found those to be
easily panicked - don't know if it's inbreeding or what but I've had
them kill themselves by running into the glass.
So if I want more rainbowfish it's a matter of wait and hope or buy
sight unseen and pay shipping.
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It's turtles, all the way down.
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