New things at Aquarium World

[Totenkampf]

I was just in there and they have 3/4" Amano Shrimp for 4 bucks, a 60+ member school of 2-3" Clown Loaches for 8 bucks each, and these very impressive 6" Roseline Sharks for 30 bucks each!

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[eklikewhoa]

Is that a good deal?

FRII has amanos for half that
Petsmart has loaches half off and the roselines are 3.49.....

[Totenkampf]

The amanos that I last saw at FRII were not actually amanos for that price, they were those vague 'algae eating shrimp'. i post because the true ones dont seem to be easy to come across, although HAW sells them for around that and they are huge!

the clowns were very nicely marked and it was cool to see the school of that size, alas they are in the now former discus tank. that price is probably average but the ones i have been seeing in the last six months have been scrawny. these look very good

the regular size roselines were 14 bucks which isnt so good, the two in the pics were almost the size of my hand. you cant get that at PS.

They had some nice sergeant major botia too, i am holding out for zebras tho

[eklikewhoa]

Citypets has big roseline for $19.99

The amanos I picked up from FRII were mostly males and just two have ran a muckus in my 30g and devoured all hair algae. Male amanos are smaller than females and work harder IME.

[Totenkampf]

i missed those over at citypets last time, i have only recently been paying attention to them...actually since i saw your post on the PS price. i dont like that they get so big though or i would get some now. it looks like crossochelius a bit, i wont how they do on algae? i hope i can get some in a bigger aquarium before they are endangered....

i cant get my male amanos to come out of hiding for some reason, my females are out all the time but there is still some stubborn hair algae that they wont eat. the tank is overstocked so maybe there are too many fish swimming around for the smaller males. I guess that finally got some real ones is over at FRII then, because the ones I saw were definately different...they had really sharp beaked rostrums and no markings. Even the owner wasnt sure what they really were.