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Prehistoric Dragon Goby, Ghost Glass Cat, and Large Female Guppies

I bought a Prehistoric Dragon Goby (see a picture of this freakish species here) from a store where I also found the first large female guppies for sale in Costa Rica.

The Dragon Goby is very interesting insofar as appearance but he spends all his time hiding in the dense plants I setup for small fish so I almost never see him. I may end up getting another so that the sightings are more common.

I also bought a Ghost Glass Cat from the same store, whose transparent body is very unique. I’ll probably get him some tank mates soon.

I setup a smaller tank with the new female guppies and 2 new male guppies and have started to breed them. I moved some of the larger fry from a fry tank into my community tank but my angelfish ate them because they refused to hide in any of the planted areas and just sat there waiting for him. I tried to get them to go toward any of the aquarium corners, where there are rocks and dense plants but these fry just didn’t seem to be afraid of big fish and were eaten one by one.

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4 Responses to “Prehistoric Dragon Goby, Ghost Glass Cat, and Large Female Guppies”

  1. Harold Wynkoop Says:

    Why is it so hard to find Feale Guppies on the internet or pet shops?

  2. Robert Gentel Says:

    I’m not sure Harold, why not ask on able2know?

  3. Tanneryoyo Says:

    every pet store ive been to has female guppies, but not very many, and sometimes they are in the back. mostly because they are so damn ugly.

  4. John Says:

    I think its so hard to find females because the males have the color and fancy tails. I have a blue/black male a half black female a red cobra female a blue female and two orange red females. Not sure of the color variety for the red orange females. All females are going to be mated with the blue/black male unless I get a realy nice male from one of them as all were pregnant when I got them. I am also trying to get blue swordtails by breeding blue Mickey mouse platys and blue tuxedo platys to black swordtails. Black swordtail male and female platys. Quite a few babies but seeing as platys were pregnant when I got them I think they are all platy fry. I’m having fun trying.

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