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Zebra plecostomus. I miss my pair...had them a while before I traded them in...now the retail is triple what I paid for them back in 1999.
Peace,
Chip
Peace,
Chip
Hwarang":3kmcpvh2 said:I would also like to take a moment to insult discus fish. Why would anyone keep these things? Just because it's difficult to care for? That's retarded. Do you know why it's difficult to care for? Because they're inbred and genetically "unsound" as a species. Have you seen a wild discus? It's not colored like a discus you might think of. People should not keep this fish. If it were a person, it would be a hillbilly with messed up teeth who runs barefoot and accidentally smacks into walls.
ah, that felt good.
they're only 'mopey' and 'slow' when being kept by people who dunno how to keep 'em
Hwarang":3diqonc2 said:they're only 'mopey' and 'slow' when being kept by people who dunno how to keep 'em
heh, well i did have my ups and downs with them, but after keeping and breeding discus in FW planted tanks for the better part of a decade, i feel confident in my discus care regiment
heckels are my favorite, actually, of all discus.
i dunno ... i just wasn't down with the ULTRA high maintenance requirements, and truthfully, my discus did show some of that cichlid attitude. in some tanks i had trouble finding the right balance of size/# of discus ... and then once i would get it down, one would die throwing the whole equation outta whack.
also, any fish that gets really scared and swims away fast only to ram into the glass and kill itself instantly ... YOU'RE CUT!
i suppose i think if they were dogs, they'd be dalmations. excessive inbreeding has turned dalmations dumb, aggressive and difficult to train.
*shruggo*
anyhow, props to ppl that can keep the discus and whatnot. I wasn't dissing you, I was dissing the fish!
davidmohr":37gdc3hn said:They look the same to me they all look like this:
cichlidtom":2ijq2dxc said:davidmohr":2ijq2dxc said:They look the same to me they all look like this:
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