Spur of the moment buys

Harleyrider5

Harleyrider5

Members
I know everyone has stories for this. Have you ever made a spur of the moment buy(you had to have the fish) and then realized you have no where to house these fish? What did you buy and how did you solve the problem?


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Tony

Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres
LOL.

Definitely. More often than I'd like to admit.

Latest was the bag of dovii at last week's meeting.

Seriously?
 
jonclark96

jonclark96

Past CCA President
I've done it quite a bit, although it usually is with bags of juvies that I don't have room for long term or with an oddball in a club auction that ends up selling for a buck or two. Usually end up growing them out a bit and either selling another group of adults to make room or selling (or more truthfully, giving away) the sub adults.
 
spazmattik

spazmattik

Members
Tony said:
LOL.

Definitely. More often than I'd like to admit.

Latest was the bag of dovii at last week's meeting.

Seriously?
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lol. I was surprised about that. I did something similar just today actually... I am currently ordering from gage @ cichlidconnection.com and my order has been skipped over a few ship dates. He gave me a 30 dollar credit toward some more fish to add to the order. I said hook me up with a gorillus blue umbee..... hopefully its a female and hopefully it grows slow... :D

lease is up here in about 6 months and then looking to get into a house which means more tanks so its not to much of a stretch. ;) I don't let anything get out of hand though.. All though I am overstocked in the long run, I don't let anything get uncomfortable for the fish and I do water changes weekly at a minimum.
 
Becca

Becca

Members
Every time I see Badis... I can't resist them. Chocolate Gouramis, too... and, of course, the infamous Betta potati.
 
Tony

Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres
To be honest, with the exception of massive fish, I don't have that much regret on buying bags of fry... always room for them and assuming they'll take months to grow out, flexibility down the road.
 
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
I have done this a lot in the past but
not recently..
until the other day

Saturday I was standing off to the side talking during the auction at the CCY meeting.
I heard the person that was doing the auction say that it was a bag of haps. He said They are probably the best looking haps that you could ever get. There were 3 in the bag.

I did not hear the name.
Someone bid $4.00. I had to go 5. I won.
they hand me the bag and I handed the money over. Then read the bag. They were Red Empress...I already have at least 300 red empress. Needless to say I did not need 3 more at 1 inch.
I gave them to the lady that bid $4.00 on them.
Should have kept talking.
 
blkmjk

blkmjk

Members
I have done that on more than one occasion... My Flowerhorn is the most infamous... If you've never been to my house he loves people hates tank mates. Bought him at house of tropicals. This picture stinks but this is what an oops that your significant other loves looks like.

Drew

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cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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I once bought a small clown knife for my daughter what a cute fish right.......not so cute when its 16 inches long and eating a bag of food a week. Same whith a tiger shovel nose and red tail cat never saw twobfish grow so fast imagine my amazement when I found the shovel nose with a 4 inch yellow lab in his mouth. Oh and there was this one time not at band camp when I bought two stingrays for a 125 (the one with the knife red tail, tiger sn and arrowana).....oh the mistakes I've made! Poor fish

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halkentjr

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I have that 5 inch banded loach right here. its beautiful and spunky... and is visible about 60 seconds per day. once I bought a gar. what a goof.
 
golsama

golsama

Corresponding Secretary
I've been guilty of this a time or two. I have set up "temporary" tanks that ended up being permanent. :rolleyes:

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zackcrack00

zackcrack00

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WOW. This thread pretty much sums up my life. I used to get SO many fish at the auctions. NEVER had the room for even a fraction of them.
 
Andrewtfw

Andrewtfw

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I recall attending my first PVAS auction many years ago. I picked up a pair of pelvicachromis taeniatus. Prior to then, I had only read about them in books. I had nowhere to put them. On the way home, I stopped by my lfs and purchased a full setup for them. That was just one of many impulse buys on my part.
 
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