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Last night my fish club had its monthly fish auction during the meeting.

I got a beautiful blue Crawdad for $3. I felt bad for the person auctioning it, because it should have gone for a lot more (in our stores these crawdads go for $20-35). I think most people don't have tanks available for them. Either they have fish who eat the crawdad or the crawdad eats the fish. And I spent a little while plugging all the bolt holes to make sure my crawdad stays in its tank.

Here's my gorgeous new addition:


A member of our club also breeds assassin snails (not on purpose -- the assassins take care of this on their own), and I got three of them. They are beautiful snails. So what does someone like me who loves snails do with Assassins? I have heard you can feed them chopped shrimp. I will do some research. In any case, I have a few hundred snails, so my assassins will not go hungry. I know assassins breed one "pup" at a time, so they breed very slowly, I didn't think to ask. Are they safe with each other? Anyone know?


Look carefully at this picture. There's the assassins (they are out today with their siphons extended), a "peacock" loach, a darter, blue finned killie, and bunches of albino Bristlenoses and one 3 month old regular BN fry.


Does anyone know why my pictures are cutting off on the right side? I am losing about 1/3rd of the pictures. For example the picture of the crawdad shows his tail. When I posted it on loaches, I lost the back half of the picture. Thanks.

I have a few assassin snails together and there is no problem. In fact, they can't seem to get enough of each other if you know what I mean.
Haven't seen any young yet, though.

That's good to hear, Jim. I would imagine that it would make no sense for them to be cannibals, but after it took me so long to get these, I didn't want to do anything stupid. I got mine from Hank, and he said that it took a while for them to start breeding, and then they leave one jellied egg under the surface of the gravel. It develops into one young that looks like a tiny adult.

I think these guys are great. I hope to get some more cool snails. I want to have a snail tank with hard water. Got to figure out how to do it.

How many snails do you have? Do you have males and females (do they need males and females)? I need to do my research.

Great steal on the crawdad. Auctions are awesome when there's nobody who has the hots for what you want

Martin.

I agree. The Blue Crawdad is absolutely stunning.

At the big auction I got the Garra flaratra. No one knew what they were. They are adorable and fiesty and growing well.

That is pretty lucky!

The auctions have made it possible for me to get some amazing stuff. I also appreciate it so I can distribute my extra fish and shrimp, and I know they will go to a good home.

My albino BNs have a new litter. I bought another male to give my poor guy a break. He is exhausted from months of fanning eggs.