jenny
07-02-2007, 12:00 PM
well i got a 5ft tank delivered a few weeks ago, and there was a puffer i was keeping an eye on in the shop.
see, the tank was bought to house a nice nile/fahaka puffer that i had seen in my local fish store, real nice pink markings. the puffer had been there for 6 months and no one had showed interest, the shop guy assured me that he would still be there when i wanted him, but i couldnt reserve him. well the day before i was to pick him up, i phoned just in case, and he had been sold that morning! argh!
anyway, id nearly given up hope, having phoned around 20 odd fish stores to find this puffer only to get the response that they either didnt have them, or they were too rare to order in!
so i put my tank up for sale thinking it would be good to make the space anyhow.
well, i went to the zoo with a friend and on the way home we took a wrong turn and i had to do a u turn at a garden centre. well at the garden centre there was a maidenhead aquatics, and i figured we'd have a look, cos im just nosey and thought i'd at least buy some feeder shrimp for my current puffers.
anyway, i said to myself, if i find a nile puffer, i'll take it as a sign to keep the tank. if i dont find one, then i;'ll sell it. knowing perfectly well there was about a 1% chance of finding one. well we looked around for a good half hour, only really finding a giant mbu puffer and some tiny dwarf puffers.
the last and final tank i looked at before going home, had a nile puffer! yay! i couldnt believe it. bit expensive, but i couldnt pass it up. anyway, he's about 6-7" and will grow up to about 18", so this tank is purely for him! hes a bit dark in the pics as hes stressed from the move, but hes lightened up loads since then.
heres piccies of Pink Floyd :D lol.
the tank. no where near finished. i just chucked whatever i could find in there for now, its got a long way to go to being finished, but i couldnt leave him with nothing!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture165.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture166.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture161.jpg
see, the tank was bought to house a nice nile/fahaka puffer that i had seen in my local fish store, real nice pink markings. the puffer had been there for 6 months and no one had showed interest, the shop guy assured me that he would still be there when i wanted him, but i couldnt reserve him. well the day before i was to pick him up, i phoned just in case, and he had been sold that morning! argh!
anyway, id nearly given up hope, having phoned around 20 odd fish stores to find this puffer only to get the response that they either didnt have them, or they were too rare to order in!
so i put my tank up for sale thinking it would be good to make the space anyhow.
well, i went to the zoo with a friend and on the way home we took a wrong turn and i had to do a u turn at a garden centre. well at the garden centre there was a maidenhead aquatics, and i figured we'd have a look, cos im just nosey and thought i'd at least buy some feeder shrimp for my current puffers.
anyway, i said to myself, if i find a nile puffer, i'll take it as a sign to keep the tank. if i dont find one, then i;'ll sell it. knowing perfectly well there was about a 1% chance of finding one. well we looked around for a good half hour, only really finding a giant mbu puffer and some tiny dwarf puffers.
the last and final tank i looked at before going home, had a nile puffer! yay! i couldnt believe it. bit expensive, but i couldnt pass it up. anyway, he's about 6-7" and will grow up to about 18", so this tank is purely for him! hes a bit dark in the pics as hes stressed from the move, but hes lightened up loads since then.
heres piccies of Pink Floyd :D lol.
the tank. no where near finished. i just chucked whatever i could find in there for now, its got a long way to go to being finished, but i couldnt leave him with nothing!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture165.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture166.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/jenny6165/Picture161.jpg