Teen aquarists

[Bichir Bro]

Good luck with the interview!

Get either one of the tanks, forget the oscars and get discus! They'll love them, may even be able to set it up as a display in the living room or kitchen.

Thanks!
I'm putting the high tech planted in the living room. It's only a little Fluval spec and that was a battle all in its own to get in the living room!
If I was going to get one or the other I would probably see about my room or my parents room.
I also would probably just get an Oscar and red hook silver dollars, cuz that seems to be a generally well liked combo in my parents.

 

[emerald76]

Hey guys, I'm taking fish up to my LFS to trade today. What should I take? I'm definitely getting rid of 30-ish guppy fry, but here's my other choices to take- (they'll take all of them)

2 adult guppies (infertile m/f)
Blue platinum angel with really weird patterning, a bad attitude, and small size
3 peppered cories
2 platies


What should I take? I'll get $1 ish for livebearers and maybe $2 per Cory, $8 for the angel. It's not about money though, I just don't know what to get rid of. My original stock plan was-

2 GBR (I HATE GBR SO MUCH RIGHT NOW, long story)
15 rummynose tetras
10 cories
1 angel

But I'm indecisive and I don't want GBR because GBR hate me... So. What should I get rid of or keep?


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[Mattfinn]

Hey guys, I'm taking fish up to my LFS to trade today. What should I take? I'm definitely getting rid of 30-ish guppy fry, but here's my other choices to take- (they'll take all of them)

2 adult guppies (infertile m/f)
Blue platinum angel with really weird patterning, a bad attitude, and small size
3 peppered cories
2 platies


What should I take? I'll get $1 ish for livebearers and maybe $2 per Cory, $8 for the angel. It's not about money though, I just don't know what to get rid of. My original stock plan was-

2 GBR (I HATE GBR SO MUCH RIGHT NOW, long story)
15 rummynose tetras
10 cories
1 angel

But I'm indecisive and I don't want GBR because GBR hate me... So. What should I get rid of or keep?


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I like your stock, get some apistos! What size tank is it?

I'll be doing the same thing in about a months time with killifry although I've been asking around and most places either won't take them or will take them for free....these are $20-$30 fish and they want them for free....

 

[emerald76]

I like your stock, get some apistos! What size tank is it?

I'll be doing the same thing in about a months time with killifry although I've been asking around and most places either won't take them or will take them for free....these are $20-$30 fish and they want them for free....

It's a thirty gal- I like the apisto idea! And that's completely ridiculous that they won't even pay a bit for them. How big can you get them before selling? Maybe bring one or two in to show them and then see if they'll take them. $5-$10 is better than nothing, but I'd think that you'd make the most money selling them here or aquabid.


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[emerald76]

I hate being a teenager.... Just took me 25 min to argue the LFS owner into giving me $8 for 32 inch long guppies! He gave the guy next to me $1 each for guppies barely 1/2 in long. So I went and bought myself 6 RCS and 6 Pygmy cories to breed. I'm going to take all the babies back there with one of my many intimidating relatives and make him pay me fair price of $3 ea for everything I bring. Ugh.


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[ImACoolguy]

I hate being a teenager.... Just took me 25 min to argue the LFS owner into giving me $8 for 32 inch long guppies! He gave the guy next to me $1 each for guppies barely 1/2 in long. So I went and bought myself 6 RCS and 6 Pygmy cories to breed. I'm going to take all the babies back there with one of my many intimidating relatives and make him pay me fair price of $3 ea for everything I bring. Ugh.


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They have to make a profit as well. In bulk guppies are bought at like 10¢ each. It's because they are so plentiful and breed super easily.


Caleb

 

[Mattfinn]

They have to make a profit as well. In bulk guppies are bought at like 10¢ each. It's because they are so plentiful and breed super easily.


Caleb

Hence why I'm trying killis.

It's a thirty gal- I like the apisto idea! And that's completely ridiculous that they won't even pay a bit for them. How big can you get them before selling? Maybe bring one or two in to show them and then see if they'll take them. $5-$10 is better than nothing, but I'd think that you'd make the most money selling them here or aquabid.


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Yeah even a specialist exotic fish store near me wouldn't take them. There's a fish farm that'll take them for $1 each but like they charge ridiculous amounts for their stock that I'd expect more for initial purchase of stock.

I'm trying to raise them till about 2-3cm and sell them. Otherwise I can always sell them as eggs.

 

[emerald76]

They have to make a profit as well. In bulk guppies are bought at like 10¢ each. It's because they are so plentiful and breed super easily.


Caleb

I brought them 60 guppies once- with an adult with me- and they paid me $1.50 each even though they had two 55 gal tanks with 300 guppies in each. They had no guppies this time in any of their tanks and they'd only give me $0.25. Difference between the two transactions? I didn't have an adult with me this time.


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[PassengerTN]

The LFS here decides if they're a "show/flashy" type guppy or a feeder guppy. They sell plain feeder Guppy's around 15¢ each and fancy types get close to $5 and higher

Jesse

 

[ExoticAquarist]

Liam, 12. Started when I was 5 with balloon mollies and red eyed tetras in a 10.6 gallon. I love these other fish kids and fish teens on here. I am not alone!


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[ExoticAquarist]

Oh, and I live in Michigan.


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[FishieKeeper429]

Who else hates when you walk into a fish store and everyone assumes that you know nothing about fish keeping just because you aren't an adult. Ugh.

 

[cgthebeast]

Then it turns outyou know more then them lol

 

[ExoticAquarist]

Who else hates when you walk into a fish store and everyone assumes that you know nothing about fish keeping just because you aren't an adult. Ugh.

OH MY GOD I KNOW. I was at a pet store in the area that was selling some not so quality discus, and I mumbled aloud that the single discus they had left had clamped fins and looked extremely stressed. The 60 year old looking man next to me said "you seem to know a lot about fish". I said yes, and that I considered myself a competent aquarist. And the guy at my good LFS originally tried to explain to me what a species tank was. Now he talks about his shipments to me. Now pretty much all the LFS stores and pet smarts in central Michigan know me.


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[bmarine]

Haha yep, and thats how you become an employee at the LFS after that lol

 

[ExoticAquarist]

Heh, dream come true!


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[zooking12]

Khalil, 16, East Coast

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[Fishobsessed7]

We should get this thread going again...


Fishobsessed7

Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Can Buy Fish Which Is Pretty Much The Same Thing

 

[FWFishTanks]

I'm Chase, from Indiana. I am a 15 year old aquarist with a many tanks for selectively breeding guppies, and a 75 gallon medium light low tech planted community

 

[keegster803]

I'm Keegan, I'm 17 years old and I'm from Indiana, and I am an addict..... I started when I was 10 and couldn't stop buying more tanks! I have a 20 gal community, 20 gal darter tank, a 10gal ocellatus pair, 1 gal blackworm tank, a 5 gal that I am currently restarting as a nano reef, and I am currently starting a 55 gallon tang community tank.


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