niko

Today I visited Plano Pets, a store located on the corner of Spring Valley and Alma in Plano.

Despite the not-so-good words that I had heard about that store it was very interesting to see a few species of fish that one usually sees only on a picture. The pictures below were taken from the internet, not at the store, and are meant only as a reference:

- Barbus fasciolatus
An african barb with very, very nice brown coloring and a lot of dark blue almost black vertical stripes:




- Orizias javanicus
A small killiefish looking fish with glowing blue eyes. The eggs stay attached on the female for some time and often can be seen like small clusters hanging in front of the ventral fin. The body is almost completely transparent. The fish school pretty good too:


- Golden tetra
These looked amazing, I had never seen them so healthy and nice looking. I'd say they are the perfect fish for a tank with a lot of bronze colored crypts:


- Killifish
Aphyosemions, pretty rare to find at a pet fish store. This is a species close to the one they had:


- Roseline barbs


- Leaf fish:


- Neon tetras
75 cents a piece

The store is dominated by dog/cat merchandise but the interesting fish probably make it worthwhile checking every so often.

--Nikolay