Show off your Fish

[HannahJo]

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.

Love your post! I adore your Gallagher- who doesn't love a good looking discus! Sounds like you are super in tune with your fish and have provided them a good home! Look forward to more pics!

 

[HannahJo]

Finally caught my female betta- isn't she a beaut!

And got a snap of Butter Bean- love his grump face!

Here's some of the little guys- so hard to get a pic- always on the go! I think this pic looks like choas...

 

[Brookster123]

Some of my blubbers

 

[Autumnsky]

Finally caught my female betta- isn't she a beaut!

And got a snap of Butter Bean- love his grump face!

Here's some of the little guys- so hard to get a pic- always on the go! I think this pic looks like chaos...

Beautiful female, what a deep blue!

Butter Bean looks like a character. Very nice looking too.

Yes! Neons are everywhere and so hard to focus fast enough to get the pic. But you got them

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Brookster, your blubbers look fantastic. Those Discus are standing tall - what fins, and look sharp! That one in the front is amazing, and are the ones in the back some of the original group? They all look so beautiful.

 

[Brookster123]

Beautiful female, what a deep blue!



Butter Bean looks like a character. Very nice looking too.



Yes! Neons are everywhere and so hard to focus fast enough to get the pic. But you got them











Brookster, your blubbers look fantastic. Those Discus are standing tall - what fins, and look sharp! That one in the front is amazing, and are the ones in the back some of the original group? They all look so beautiful.

Yes 4 left from the original 8. They were starting to take each other out so I added another 3 from the same breeder. That carnation is a stud, I'll be getting some more of them.

 

[TMaier]

Sunshine has doubled in size. He/she is as big as my adult rainbow now. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/V8Na0eS1TQySWmtD0khaOA.MlfEBckv3Gx5nCR3H9Xjh3

 

[Trien1126]

Red Ingot

I just bought this fish and I thought it was a King Kong parrot. After reading online people said that it is very rare and you won't be able to find much information on this fish. It's just called AAA red ingot. They didn't mention anything about parrot and and one forum said that it wasn't a parrot.I'm a little confused here and was wondering if anybody can tell me what type of fish this is.

 

[Brookster123]

Rule of thumb. If a pink fish looks like it is saying Mooooo, it's a blood parrot.

 

[Fishlegend]

Wow nice discus! That’s blue one is stunning

 

[Fishlegend]

I might have to get one like that and change my profile pic

 

[Autumnsky]

Yes 4 left from the original 8. They were starting to take each other out so I added another 3 from the same breeder. That carnation is a stud, I'll be getting some more of them.

That is a Carnation, I have not seen that, but Wow! So very nice.

Sunshine has doubled in size. He/she is as big as my adult rainbow now. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/V8Na0eS1TQySWmtD0khaOA.MlfEBckv3Gx5nCR3H9Xjh3

Maybe gonna be big! Love the pearly body!

 

[HannahJo]

Butter Bean starting to darken! He's supposedly a "black" mustard so we'll see. He seems more lavendar/purple to me

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[Autumnsky]

Butter Bean starting to darken! He's supposedly a "black" mustard so we'll see. He seems more lavender/purple to me

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Very pretty. I had a similar one which would change colors lavender-ish then greenish, then more turquoise! Depended on his mood.

 

[HannahJo]

Ahhh- bettas are pretty neat! I was not really interested in them until I saw this sad looking fellow at the LFS and had the room so figured why not. He's turned out to be quite the character!

 

[Fishlegend]

Nice I’m glad this thread is still going I will try to post native fish pics that I found in my drain off ditch pond.

 

[Autumnsky]

Nice I’m glad this thread is still going I will try to post native fish pics that I found in my drain off ditch pond.

Cool, not sure what they are yet? Native fish are fascinating.

 

[Fishlegend]

Nope not sure but only one has died. WOW I need to keep more wild fish! And the only reason he died was cause he dried up on the floor... he jumped out of the tub . Atleast 1ft high and 2 feet away from tank wowzer!

 

[Fishlegend]

Fish pics

 

[Fishlegend]

The gecko enclosure minnows

 

[Fishlegend]

Soory for bad quality pic but they’re so fast it’s hard to get good pic