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Mary
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Age : 55
Location : Ireland
Registration date : 2007-12-12
| Subject: Another Fish Bargain  Fri May 22, 2009 6:19 am | |
| Some of you may recall that I got a free Hatchetfish some months back...  ... so today, I visited that LFS again in my eternal quest to find another Bolivian Ram. They only had Blue Rams, typical...  ...but I did spot a trio of Zebra Loaches and I've been meaning to add more to the three foot tank but I haven't come across them in a while. So I asked Simon, the very nice LFS guy how much they were? €8 each...  ...which I gawped at. So I cheekily asked what was the best price that he could give me the three of them for and he hummed and hawed and eventually said €15. Sold!  Even better, there was just one male Blue Neon guppy (the exact same colouring as the pair I already have) on its own so he gave me that for just €2. I saved a tenner in all and the four fish are now in the Q tank for their month of quarantine...  | |
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dekker
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Number of posts : 2030
Age : 67
Location : rotherham
Registration date : 2008-08-26
| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Fri May 22, 2009 4:13 pm | |
| nice purchase mary zebra's are great fun - darting about all over the place,
and a guppy for £2 how did you manage that. - hope all are ok great additions to your tank
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Mary
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Number of posts : 4284
Age : 55
Location : Ireland
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Fri May 22, 2009 10:35 pm | |
| Cough - that's €2 - so about 1.75 in Sterling (sorry, pound sign doesn't work). What can I say? It must be my charm...  | |
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dekker
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 4:06 am | |
| £1.75 is even better my word thats a great bargain
dekker | |
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Mary
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Location : Ireland
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 5:16 am | |
| Well it's said to never look a gift horse in the mouth and I guess this is one of those times as my bargain guppy died overnight. Oh well, I guess it was just a weak specimen to begin with and succumbed to the stress of being transferred from the LFS to the Q tank. The Zebra Loaches all seem to doing fine though.  | |
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Diana
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Age : 72
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 5:23 am | |
| Oh thats a shame Mary. At least the others are ok though. | |
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Mary
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Location : Ireland
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 5:26 am | |
| I know - bloomin' fish, why do they have to die so regularly...  | |
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Rich
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Age : 49
Location : Devonshire (Nr Hobbiton)
Registration date : 2007-12-12
| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 10:45 am | |
| 2 of the 10 gupsters I bought have died
But they are not the hardiest of fish these days from what Ive read | |
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dekker
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 6:48 pm | |
| sorry to hear you lost your guppys guys
dekker | |
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Diana
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sat May 23, 2009 7:16 pm | |
| I dont think any of the livebearers are hardy tbh Rich - they all seem to die off quickly. | |
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Mary
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sun May 24, 2009 2:36 am | |
| - Rich wrote:
- But they are not the hardiest of fish these days from what Ive read
That's certainly been my experience with guppies as I've now had 8 in total and only 2 are still surviving. However, that pair of males has been going strong for almost a year so I might've lucked out with them.  | |
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dekker
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Sun May 24, 2009 5:38 pm | |
| bit of a lottery with guppys and other livebearers
dekker | |
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Mary
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| | Subject: Re: Another Fish Bargain Mon May 25, 2009 9:26 am | |
| Indeed. | |
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