Some pics of our desktop aquarium with our juvenile "pumpkin seeds"











Thanks to Mark for these little guys:-)

They look great.

These are the Desktop Buddies (princesses).

Yup, my princess fairy fishies:)

They look great Jen! Hope they breed for you.

Very pretty fish! Do let us know if you get some babies out of them, because you'd have plenty of folks wanting some

Cool! Let me see what I can do. How did I miss them?

Nice job, looks great.

They are awesome little fish, and Mark gave me a fantastic deal on them. Go get some, definitely!

A desktop tank! They're so cute! I'm jealous, yet again, lol. Seriously, anytime you guys wanna trade apartments, just let me know. What size tank are they in?

Right now, a 5 gallon. They grow to about 1.5" so it won't sustain them for their lifetime. Eventually they will be upgraded to a ten.

Another type closely related to them are the "daffodils," better known as Brichardi. These are the true fairy cichlids - but they grow to about the better part of 5". I wanted them initially, but I preferred the fact these guys stick to the smaller size. They do, however, for the time being, make an excellent desktop tank:-)

Which, by the way, is a marineland 5 gallon that I got on sale at petsmart for only 40 bucks. It has the led light and I bought some plants and put in black sand for the substrate with some shells for the little guys to hide in. It's a great tank, I highly recommend it as a desktop setup.

By the way mark, one day I am going to come get some Daffodils from you!!! Won't be until we get our fish room when we move, but I'm determined

I believe one of my old supervisors had the brichardi, not 100% on that, but that's what they looked like. I just love cichlids with the streamlined bodies and dainty fins like this.

Oh man me too...they call them the princess fish in either sweden or switzerland...one of those neutral S countries haha. I would have to agree with their assessment!