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[Sharkshadow]

oh what about some Cory Catfish?

[unluckiness]

Deciding between peppers and bronze cories. Bronzies are cuter but would blend into the plants and sand too much imo but peppers are slightly bigger overall And when it comes to cories, quantity is far more important

Edited by unluckiness, 29 June 2020 - 03:20 AM.

[unluckiness]

[unluckiness]

The shrimp appear to be safe. One crawled up on a gouramis feeler fin and went for a ride and the fish didnt mind lol. They hide in cracks in the driftwood most of the time though. Gonna try some of the crazier colors.

Call the biggest cory Garfield but i cant tell the others apart enough to name them. Bristenose is Azatoth. Working on gourami names and the stick catfish

Edited by unluckiness, 03 July 2020 - 01:48 AM.

[MEDdMI]

Twiggy.
Also we need a pic of the entire tank.

[unluckiness]

I also go through all the trouble of looking for a pleco a cave that looks like a cave and not a plastic cinderblock and it prefers sleeping on a leaf. DOubt it can do that for much longer though since it's only going to get bigger and heavier.

[MEDdMI]

Ooh! Very nice.

[unluckiness]

The beat part about Chinatown is that they can have a restaurant called WANGZ

[unluckiness]

Huh apparently nerite snails are locally sourced.

Also this fish shop has arapaima for sale.

[MEDdMI]

Are you becoming a crazy fish man?

[Patch]

Excuse me, the proper term is "freaky fish guy"

[Sharkshadow]

Huh apparently nerite snails are locally sourced.

Also this fish shop has arapaima for sale.

fish stores always seem to have that one weird fish off in the corner for sale. the one near me has had an electric catfish for years. 

[unluckiness]

Monster fish keeping's been a thing here in the Philippines for as long as i can remember. My dad had a redtail catfish that lived in a 120 gallon tank and eventually had to be moved into a former septic tank converted into a pond. We started with two but one died when it was smaller. Also, nah, just visited the petshop hotspot looking for a decent filter since the common china-made once are kinda crap. Also kinda looking for assassin snails. Saw a bladder snail in my tank and those things never come alone.

 

Gars, stingrays, flowerhorns and oscars are fairly common. I've seen goliath tigerfish and piraiba for sale too. Not sure if it's legal but I guess the bright side of living in a third world shithole is that the gray areas are pretty huge. Should be a crime to sell pets that grow bigger than their owners though.

 

Literally every petshop has silver arowanas for sale. Probably due to the Chinese community. We never had one since my dad's big on feng shui and his Chinese zodiac sign isn't compatible with dragons which arowanas apparently are. Bichirs too probably. Not sure about where snakeheads fall under in their mumbo jumbo. 

Edited by unluckiness, 11 July 2020 - 09:24 AM.

[Sharkshadow]

there's a restaurant near my place that has a big aquarium with Florida gars in it. there neat fish but im with you on the whole don't own fish as big as you are thing. 

[MEDdMI]

I also don't want to own anything that I can't carry if needed, or that will most likely outlive me.

[Sharkshadow]

sounds like someones had the  " no we are  not getting a Sulcata Tortoise talk. " 

[TheMightyMollusk]

I admit nothing.

[unluckiness]

Saw Joker again today. Decent film. Will never not amuse me that after all the bullshit the media was spewing about this movie and violence, Frozen 2 of all things has a higher body count. 

 

 

sounds like someones had the  " no we are  not getting a Sulcata Tortoise talk. " 

 

TBH, I dunno why anybody would want one when you can get the Mediterranean Spurred Tortoise which is basically the same thing but way smaller and cuter and you can keep a bunch of them for the same space and resources.  

Edited by unluckiness, 12 July 2020 - 04:18 AM.

[Sharkshadow]

tortoise go big though. i had a similar discussion with a friend once over his desire to buy a reticulated python.  why not just get a ball python? they look similar and the ball python wont eventually look at you as a food source. 

[TheMightyMollusk]

A tortoise isn't a pet, it's a lifelong obligation. And probably someone else's obligation, too.