Becca
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So, a couple weeks ago my husband had a mid-life crisis and dropped an absurd amount of money on a motorcycle. I decided this authorized me to drop a less absurd (still conceivably absurd) amount of money on new botanicals for my aquariums. The water in the gourami tank is just too light - I can see the fish - the Dicrossus haven't spawned in a while, the 55 has a new scape and could use some "statement" pieces... you know, fish world problems.
This time I focused on things my growing assortment of wood-eating plecos and biofilm browsing shrimp might appreciate, along with a few items I was hoping my Parosphromenus might find worthy of a spawn. The discount from last week was just too good to pass up and most of my original order was just no longer leaching the good stuff (though several items still exist).
Normally, when I want tannins, I just toss a cr*p-ton of oak leaves in my tanks, but that gets messy and they do degrade quickly, plus they only go so far. Oak leaves are great, and cheap. I like cheap, but I was emboldened by the recent death trap purchase... or something.
This was my 2nd time ordering from TA (you know, because I'm cheap) - shipment was fast, my order arrived in just a few days, and came with a bonus extra - coco curls in a cute burlap puch. The most impressive thing about this is that it wasn't a random bonus. The coco curls were something Scott added to my last order when he heard I was working with chocolate and licorice gouramies. This little extra was something specifically (I think, at least) geared toward the fish Scott knows I keep.
I haven't had an experience this nice with a retailer since the time Josh from Batfish showed up at BFD2 with fish I hadn't ordered but he knew I wanted and couldn't find. This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to retailers, even if they are more expensive than oak leaves.
In other news - I did try the Aqua Tropica pleco disks and my plecos (Blue Panaque, L-183, Leopard Frog, "Flier") went apesh*t for them. I wasn't even sure all of those plecos were still in my tanks, but they came out of the woodwork, quite literally, for this stuff.
This time I focused on things my growing assortment of wood-eating plecos and biofilm browsing shrimp might appreciate, along with a few items I was hoping my Parosphromenus might find worthy of a spawn. The discount from last week was just too good to pass up and most of my original order was just no longer leaching the good stuff (though several items still exist).
Normally, when I want tannins, I just toss a cr*p-ton of oak leaves in my tanks, but that gets messy and they do degrade quickly, plus they only go so far. Oak leaves are great, and cheap. I like cheap, but I was emboldened by the recent death trap purchase... or something.
This was my 2nd time ordering from TA (you know, because I'm cheap) - shipment was fast, my order arrived in just a few days, and came with a bonus extra - coco curls in a cute burlap puch. The most impressive thing about this is that it wasn't a random bonus. The coco curls were something Scott added to my last order when he heard I was working with chocolate and licorice gouramies. This little extra was something specifically (I think, at least) geared toward the fish Scott knows I keep.
I haven't had an experience this nice with a retailer since the time Josh from Batfish showed up at BFD2 with fish I hadn't ordered but he knew I wanted and couldn't find. This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to retailers, even if they are more expensive than oak leaves.
In other news - I did try the Aqua Tropica pleco disks and my plecos (Blue Panaque, L-183, Leopard Frog, "Flier") went apesh*t for them. I wasn't even sure all of those plecos were still in my tanks, but they came out of the woodwork, quite literally, for this stuff.
