Fish you regret getting rid of
Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 13:04
For a few years, I was on a damn roll with getting any fish that caught my eye. Black guppies, syno cats, tons of cories. I wasted gods know how much money on fish I bought, and then within a few months decided to sell, either because they weren't what I wanted, or some stupid excuse. Gone that way went the longfin panda cories, the syno petricolas, the black moscow guppies. The guppies, for some reason, started to die in my water; when I sold my last trio to a breeder, he has hundreds of them to this day. The synos went to a friend, and within two months they were spawning like crazy.
But those aren't that big a deal. What I kick myself over are my tatias, ones I sold last year, when money was tight and selling a few dozen of my blue-eyed ancistrus fry wasn't going to cut it. So I dug out my six adult tatia intermedia, ones I'd had for years, debated, and then sold the group. I was trying to save my L333 adult males and 6 juvies but they too went on the block a week or two later.
One guy got both groups, and he messaged me today stating that he is expecting fry from the tatias, as they laid a massive egg clump for him. I'm thrilled that we should, hopefully, have more of these fish now, but I kick myself for selling them. Should have set up another tank for them, should have sold something else, but so it goes.
But regrets aside, I did get my dream fish from a guy getting out of fish entirely, a trio of zebras. I'd rather keep them than any tatia and chances are good I can get some fry from the new breeder.
If nothing else I am getting the reputation for giving away extras when I sell, because the female Egyptian mouthbrooder was holding eggs when I sold her, the sterbai spawned for their new owner who saved the eggs, and the guppies, as I said above, are at nearly every fish club auction.
Still, damn. I regret the tatias the most.
But those aren't that big a deal. What I kick myself over are my tatias, ones I sold last year, when money was tight and selling a few dozen of my blue-eyed ancistrus fry wasn't going to cut it. So I dug out my six adult tatia intermedia, ones I'd had for years, debated, and then sold the group. I was trying to save my L333 adult males and 6 juvies but they too went on the block a week or two later.
One guy got both groups, and he messaged me today stating that he is expecting fry from the tatias, as they laid a massive egg clump for him. I'm thrilled that we should, hopefully, have more of these fish now, but I kick myself for selling them. Should have set up another tank for them, should have sold something else, but so it goes.
But regrets aside, I did get my dream fish from a guy getting out of fish entirely, a trio of zebras. I'd rather keep them than any tatia and chances are good I can get some fry from the new breeder.
If nothing else I am getting the reputation for giving away extras when I sell, because the female Egyptian mouthbrooder was holding eggs when I sold her, the sterbai spawned for their new owner who saved the eggs, and the guppies, as I said above, are at nearly every fish club auction.
Still, damn. I regret the tatias the most.
