Peacock Gobies/gudgeons And Galaxy Rasboras In Shops

I know that some of you have expressed an interest in these two species. This afternoon, my husband and I visited a local garden center to look at garden stuff, but you can't expect me to go there and not visit the Maidenhead Aquatics branch inside 

This MA is in the north east of England, just south of Stockton-on-Tees. They had both peacock gudgeons (aka peacock gobies) and celestial pearl danios (aka galaxy raboras)

If you have an MA branch near you and you want these fish it is worth asking if they can order some in, if they don't already have them in stock

Hi Sue, out of interest, how much were they selling the Peacocks at? I'm still on the lookout for some of these but have now found the CPD's I was after 

The peacock gudgeons (that's what MA calls them) were £6.99 each or 2 for £12.

There are currently 5 acclimating in my tank. Hopefully 2m 3f. They were the biggest 5 in the tank, 2 have definite forehead bulges, 3 have yellow tummies. I forgot to take my reading glasses and had to peer through the bottom of my varifocals and gave myself a crick in the neck  It wasn't easy to see the fish very clearly, and I couldn't see the edges of their fins in the black net either. We'll see if I've got them right when they've settled in.

Note to self - remember the reading glasses in future!

I'll see what I can manage in a couple of days. Let them settle in and maybe colour up a bit before I get the camera out.

One of the males (ie one with a bulgy forehead) has been investigating the inside of the 'cave' used by my previous peacocks. It is a tiny terracotta plantpot with a terracotta plant ring siliconed to the wide edge of the pot. The result is a tube that gets narrower at the ends, with a hole in each end. This is at one side of the tank, together with a 1" diameter plastic tube siliconed to a piece of slate to stop it floating. At the other side of the tank is another plastic tube/slate construction and a small terracotta plantpot saucer, upside down with a small hole cut in the rim. Hopefully, if I do have 2 males they'll be able to sort out a territory each with a choice of caves.