Endlers :3

[Vanilla eXee]

biggrin Akari_32 sent me some female Endlers this week. She sent me 3, but when I opened the box, there were 12! The 3 big girls and 9 fry. We all know that I'm not the biggest livebearer fan, but I really like these girls. They're pretty friendly (come up to the front of the tank when I go near and I've only had them since 4pm), they can hold their own against the red eyed tetras and they're pretty cute. I made a makeshift fry basket out of an arizona iced tea jug. I'll get pictures of that tomorrow (and the awesome packing job that Akari did.) But here are some to tide you over:




The red one is while they were acclimating, I did drip acclimation since the water in different parts of Florida can be drastically different.  

[Akari_32]

Its probly good that you dripped acclimated them. The water here is apparently really hard, though I have 2 peices of driftwood, and one of them is still leaching pretty good, so my tank water is probly really soft lol

I'm so glad they are doing good so far! I cant wait for some better pics 3nodding  

[Vanilla eXee]

Akari_32

Its probly good that you dripped acclimated them. The water here is apparently really hard, though I have 2 peices of driftwood, and one of them is still leaching pretty good, so my tank water is probly really soft lol

I'm so glad they are doing good so far! I cant wait for some better pics 3nodding

Yeah, I don't have driftwood yet so my water is still probably pretty hard. The two big girls are great, feisty enough to keep the Red Eyed Tetras on their toes but they're not violent, and everyone else is in the 'fry basket'. I put the juvi girl in there too because she's still small enough to fit in my keyhole cichlid's mouth.  

[Akari_32]

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Yeah, I don't have driftwood yet so my water is still probably pretty hard. The two big girls are great, feisty enough to keep the Red Eyed Tetras on their toes but they're not violent, and everyone else is in the 'fry basket'. I put the juvi girl in there too because she's still small enough to fit in my keyhole cichlid's mouth.

The adults are very feisty! They used to give Link a run for his money all the time LOL  

[Vanilla eXee]

Akari_32

Vanilla eXee

Yeah, I don't have driftwood yet so my water is still probably pretty hard. The two big girls are great, feisty enough to keep the Red Eyed Tetras on their toes but they're not violent, and everyone else is in the 'fry basket'. I put the juvi girl in there too because she's still small enough to fit in my keyhole cichlid's mouth.

The adults are very feisty! They used to give Link a run for his money all the time LOL

Good, so they had practice, lol.  

[Akari_32]

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Akari_32

Vanilla eXee

Yeah, I don't have driftwood yet so my water is still probably pretty hard. The two big girls are great, feisty enough to keep the Red Eyed Tetras on their toes but they're not violent, and everyone else is in the 'fry basket'. I put the juvi girl in there too because she's still small enough to fit in my keyhole cichlid's mouth.

The adults are very feisty! They used to give Link a run for his money all the time LOL

Good, so they had practice, lol.

But Link actually sulked untill I got some Neon Tetras for him LOL Now he herds them around. Its so funny! Like a Border Collie moving around a herd of sheep rofl  

[Vanilla eXee]

Akari_32

Vanilla eXee

Akari_32

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Yeah, I don't have driftwood yet so my water is still probably pretty hard. The two big girls are great, feisty enough to keep the Red Eyed Tetras on their toes but they're not violent, and everyone else is in the 'fry basket'. I put the juvi girl in there too because she's still small enough to fit in my keyhole cichlid's mouth.

The adults are very feisty! They used to give Link a run for his money all the time LOL

Good, so they had practice, lol.

But Link actually sulked untill I got some Neon Tetras for him LOL Now he herds them around. Its so funny! Like a Border Collie moving around a herd of sheep rofl

biggrin I wish I could get a betta. They're too slow to keep with the red eyed tetras though.  

[Gabrielle_AnimalLuver]

I had to google endlers lol. Can't wait to see better pics.  

[Vanilla eXee]

Gabrielle_AnimalLuver

I had to google endlers lol. Can't wait to see better pics.

I spent an hour yesterday trying to get some better pics. My camera just work worse and worse every day. I did take a video though, so that'll be up at some point.  

[Vanilla eXee]

Upper right corner above the evil tetra:




All the way at the top above SL and his lettuce:


A FTS with the "fry basket" I made. I cut a bunch of holes all over the jug and used a shoelace to keep the opening above the water: