hrdlife, I know nothing about turtles, but my suggestion would be to head to your nearest mom n pop fish/small pet place and talk to someone there. Don't go to Petsmart, Petco, etc....those folks don't know diddly. Don't turtles need to be able to get out of the water? This would make it difficult to find fish that could live in the same tank with them, I would think, because you would have to have a fairly shallow depth of water along with some rocks or whatever for the turtle to get up on.

Scott those killifish are awesome. I've heard of them but don't think I've ever seen any in my LFS either. Believe it or not I got my discus on aquabid. Pretty cool to get a Fed-X box full of fish! The shipping is the killer---I got my 6 discus at $10 apiece, then paid $75 for the overnight shipping. However, this still came out at about $22 per fish---locally the cheapest price on discus I could find was $25 per fish, and I had been waiting for 6 weeks for that particular store to get some back in stock before I finally gave up and went for aquabid. Everyplace else was $40 and up per discus.

I too would like another aquarium to set up as a community tank but it probably won't happen anytime soon. Discus are quite the demanding fish---I do 25-30% water changes EVERY day in their tank. We also have a 20 gallon (1 BIG angelfish, 5 zebra danios that didn't escape my net :-), 1 rubber plec, & 2 otos), a 5 gallon (1 betta), and a 2 gallon (betta #2). Saturdays I do WCs in all of the tanks. Needless to say, I dread Saturdays.

BTW Scott your tank looks GREAT. In the interests of simplicity, I have eliminated all the plants from my hex, and it now only has two flat pieces of slate leaning up against each other for a hiding place, and one big piece of driftwood. And the gravel of course, which makes me a pariah in the discus community.


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