Greets, just showing off a few of my babies in our 93 gallon. It has just changed to evening lighting and I don't know how to get the flash to turn off on my phone so that is why it looks a little strange but when I saw 'Gallagher' our red melon discus (how could you have a flat red fish called a melon and NOT name him Gallagher?) and just behind him is 'Blondie' (she & Gallagher are a mated pair) she came to us close to death but thanks to lots of love and work she is now fine. Very dainty girl, pale yellow framed in black around the back. At the bottom center, it is hard to see is 'Spike' a blue and black juvenile discus and all the way to the right under the Anubis plants is 'Blue' who is still hiding from 'Gallagher' who is trying to be a bully but who will run as soon as whomever he is chasing turns around and chases HIM! I've added a photo from the Aquarium Center where we've gotten our Discus over the years so you can see how beautiful he is. All the way on the left-hand side you can just see 'Duncan' our FEMALE (proof I had some difficulty learning to sex Angelfish) red-eye, zebra Angelfish and her mate 'Bandit' who is a blue smoke who is a lot more blue than smoke. He's only about a year old and she has got to be 5 years old by now but they took to each other when we added him because he has a sister and she was set on killing him and this is the only place I had to put him at the time. Now you can't separate them, it would be too cruel.
I'll post some more photos of my big baby as soon as I can get them. He's my black ghost knife fish and is about 9 months old and maybe 7" long at this point. He was only 3" long when we got him and I put him in our 93 gallon but he was being outcompeted for food and I was afraid we would lose him so I moved him to our 29 gallon and I am now moving him to the 49 gallon till I see how he gets on. He is my baby and I am teaching him to eat from my hand. He is going to be my centerpiece fish in my 400 gallon 'prehistoric' tank which I have wanted to have ever since I was in my late 20's. Well, I'm in my late 50's but better late than never. I've always wanted to have a tank with Bala Sharks and when I found they only did well in a school I knew it would be a while before I could do so. I'm adding a Bashir, a Snowball Pleco, a Fire Eel, and a number of others which I am considering. I'm fortunate that my father had almost 60 years in the hobby & that my sons have taken up where he left off. They all know more than I do so I have a lot of support. I just want to mention the last photo I uploaded is a photo of Duncan when she was suffering from what we now know was 'hole in the head' disease. We'd never encountered it before but thankfully we caught it early and she is fine. We didn't know the tell tale 'zit' looking lesions were one of the most telling signs of the condition. I'm so relieved we didn't lose her. She is a very special fish for our whole family as we got her at the Aquarium store who had left her in with about 20 other Angelfish who had torn her to shreds. She didn't have a fin left on her and could barely wiggle around. We gave her a little hospital tank (I think it was only 2 gallons she was so little) and nursed her back to health with everyone in the family stopping by to talk to her all day long. She became the little darling of the family. That was 4 years ago and she is still our little darling.
I think this site is wonderful and with so many people to share and help each other out, there is so much you can learn. Thanks to everyone for sharing their babies and I will get some more photos up when I am able to keep my eyes open. The COVID-19 pandemic has kept everyone in the medical profession hopping and sleep is getting to be a little hard to get at times. God Bless all, be well and stay safe.
I know the LFS I got them from loves BN plecos- so I'm assuming he'd take babies if I have any that make it!
