I live in a small (250 ft²) studio apartment, negotiating constantly with spatial (and other) constraints. Fishkeeping is a way for me to find some time off my work and stresses as a history PhD student.
Most of my tanks are of 5.5 or 10 gallon sizes, all heavily planted with a deep sand bed, unheated, and filtered with sponge filters. All tanks (except for those housing Goodeids) uses various kinds of Corydoras as clean-up fish. Temperature fluctuates in my apartment throughout the day.
Contact Information
You may get in touch with me via one of the following contact methods. I try to reply to any inquiries within a day.
- E-mail: mbai@ucsd.edu
- Facebook: Mingcong Bai
- Telegram: @JeffBai
Current Species
I predominantly maintain livebearers (Goodeids, Mollies, and Swordtails), along with medaka/ricefish and killifish on the side. I keep most of these species in species-only setups, with environments intended for breeding.
If you are interested in obtaining any of these species, please contact me for arrangements.
Adrianichthyidae / Ricefish
- Oryzias sp. (“Platinum White Medaka”)
- Oryzias sp. (“Ujo Sansyoku Medaka”)
Cyprinidae / Carps
- Acheilognathus macropterus (“Rainbow Bitterlings”)
Goodeidae / Splitfins
- Ameca splendens, Rio Teuchitlán
- Skiffia multipunctata, Lago de Camécuaro
- Xenotoca doadrioi, San Marcos
- Zoogoneticus tequila, Rio Teuchitlán
Nothobranchiidae / African Rivulines
- Fundulopanchax gardneri, Akure
Poeciliidae / Livebearing Toothcarps
- Girardinus metallicus (Yellow and black strain from Marc Allen)
- Limia nigrofasciata (“Humpback Limia”)
- Limia perugiae (“Perugia’s Limia”)
- Poecilia latipinna, Southern Florida (“Sailfin Mollies”)
- Poecilia latipinna, Salton Sea - California Aquatic Farm, 2022 (“Sailfin Mollies”)
- Poecilia salvatoris, Salton Sea - Salton Sea Farms, 2022 (“Liberty Mollies”)
- Poecilia sp., (“Red Tailed Dalmatian Mollies”)
- Poecilia velifera, Yucatán (“Yucatán Mollies”)
- Poeciliopsis gracilis, Salton Sea - Salton Sea Farms, 2022 (“Porthole Livebearer”)
- Priapella compressa (“Blue Eyed Livebearer”)
- Xiphophorus birchmanni, Orizatlán (Yellow fin strain from Mobetta/Darrell Nekoba)
- Xiphophorus helleri, Río Otapa (“Río Otapa Swordtails”)
- Xiphophorus maculatus, Río Papaloapan (“Río Papaloapan Platies”)
- Xiphophorus mayae
- Xiphophorus sp. (“Black Berlin Swordtails”)
- Xiphophorus sp. (“Red Berlin Swordtails”)
Wishlist
If you happen to have the following species, please contanct me.
- Oryzias sp. (“Youkihi Medaka,” or “Red Cap Medaka”)
Gallery
Here is a gallery of my current setups.
