Why not so popular?
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With the massive growth in nano tanks and the beauty of this fish I wonder why more people aren’t keeping them?
Could it be simply because they look so drag in the shop tanks?
It’s true I had been looking for them for ages and I still walked straight past them the first time in the shop. The guy did say they would get them in more often but they are hard to get.
Two shops close to me stock them all the time but they don’t sell many, which is why I think they stock them all the time :lol:
One of the things I ran into is the pet stores(and some people) don’t like them because they are so timid and don’t show well especially in a busy store setting. I was in one of the stores I supplied when I over heard the fish room manager say and I quote “there is never anything ever cool about those fish” to another employee when she said those are cool fish. I haven’t brought my fish back to that store since, just previous to that the store backed out of a pre order of 200. I specifically bred an extra 200 for them but I figured just to keep good relations I wouldn’t cause a stink..in retrospect not sure I would do the same thing again. Personally I like the fact they act naturally in the aquarium and carry on with their day as long as they are properly housed and don’t spend all day with their face stuck to the glass of the 4th wall trying to find a way out.
Some LFS”s near me state that they are hard to get, another commented that he can’t get them cheap enough (I like this guy, but he is the first to complain about customers who always want a discount on fish because a big box store has fish cheaper).
I personally think there is a catch 22 going on with these guys. With plants the right shade of green, and right “furniture” in the aquarium they provide a beautiful display, only cardinal tetras can match them. They are still hard to get, some LFS’s charge a lot for them, then they are not displayed in a manor that brings out their beauty. They will have their day again
Steve
The guy at the store I saw them at said they are one of the most beautiful fish ever when in a planted tank, yet funny enough he had them in a bare tank and they looked awful.
Many people who have them love them but you have to know what you are looking at in the LFS to appreciate them. I wonder if some people who do know how beautiful they are may also have been put off by the scare that they might be endangered and feel it’s responsible not to get them for display.
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