the tank that the kubotai, yo-yo's, and striatas were in had two dead plecos and the botias were eating off the plecos. not only that, all of them had skinny disease. and it didn't appear that they were feeding them well. on the contrary, the two i picked up in the other tank were very healthy looking, lets see if i can fatten them up.
my first sign of choosing these guys was that they were about 2" each and much fatter than the others. the 2nd sign was when i wiggled my fingers near the tank, they both came right up and started loachy dancing for me.
and now....
they have been loachy dancing for me all morning!
the sad thing is, that the quality and care that i have seen at big al's has been diminishing in the last few months. they let dead fish sit there for days and honestly i don't know if i can buy fish from them anymore. its come to the point to where many of the lfs's around here are so bad that petsmart takes better care of their fish. and thats horrible to say imho.
