Fish ID - Page 2 - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

Qwertus · 11-18-2009, 11:59 AM

I was suprised how they (petco) "misplace" a fish in my bag and only charge for the furcatus. I'll prob move it to live with my bichirs though. It's almost the same length as my bichirs so I guess it would be ok.

Six · 11-19-2009, 12:04 AM

PetCo carries furcatus? wow. never would have thought.

Qwertus · 11-19-2009, 09:10 AM

They don't, I know the current Assistant manager and asked him to specifically order it for me. Normally, you will never find rainbow fish in petco. I also got a lot of the hard to find fishes that way, its around 1/2 the price of any non-chained LFS and the fish quality is about the same if you pick them up as soon as they arrive.

I got royal falowella, ornate bichir, ropefish, hillstream loaches etc.. the same way.

MotionInsilver · 11-23-2009, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Qwertus

They don't, I know the current Assistant manager and asked him to specifically order it for me. Normally, you will never find rainbow fish in petco. I also got a lot of the hard to find fishes that way, its around 1/2 the price of any non-chained LFS and the fish quality is about the same if you pick them up as soon as they arrive.

I got royal falowella, ornate bichir, ropefish, hillstream loaches etc.. the same way.

actually my local petco has 2-3 varieties of rainbowfish in all of the time- even the threadfin ones - I see royal farowella, bichirs, ropefish, hillstream loaches all of the time too so we both have a cool manager...

and yes I agree it being a golden wonder killie is the best bet due it to being very common in the chain stores now but not petco- its more likely to be found at petsmart... I had those for a long time- they were a pleasure to have as you could train them to get food from your hand- they also are jumpers so be careful about the lids.