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It should also be noted that many young aquarium keepers are used to small tetras. A healthy, completely grown neon from a good wild strain ma be 4 to 5 centimeters long. These three centimeter neons that you have grown up on are the result of decades of overfishing and breeding limited stocks...
When you consider tankmates for spawning fish it is worth considering that pirahna are tetras too. Most any tetra will suck up any fry they can find. As a result of this propensity most any apisto that is spawning will kill tetras with equal relish.
There is no pat answer to your question, much more information is needed to be accurate. Generally it is not a god idea to inject a single cichlid of the same species into a tank where you have a pair. The female may attack the newbie, the male may attack the newbie, they may both attack the...
Is this the same Lisa from Canada I used to chat with in the fushroom? Larry Rogers. [email protected]. I lost touch and wondered how all goes if it is.
I see one problem of note. Your male is small in picture. Alpha males that I have worked with have been three times as large as females. Alphas tend to be more territorial and less likely to breed with their young. This is not an iron clad rule but it has always worked better for me. I have also...
Micro worms are a possibility. So are snails from an outside source. A pet shop I was in in Des Moines, Iowa was totally infested and did not care. They dealt in ornamentalists and not true aquariists. Hydra can be imported on leaves pick up in th flood plain, water staged in open containers...
I usually keep water slightly acidic and have found water hardness to be more critical than pH. The apistos I have bred seldom even attempt to spawn in hard water and those that have have turned out poor broods where there was high loss in eggs and fry developed poorly. One brood of caucatoides...
Questioning something that you do not understand is not disrespectful, it is trying to learn. A do charge pore at the terminus of the digestive tract is a complete gut. An anus is a separate muscular group attached to that pore to discharge solid byproducts of a more complex diet. Let's look at...
Dactylogyridae and gyrodactylidae are monogenetic trematodes with complete guts. Both have incompletely developed scolex that appeats somewhat disc shaped undet lower magnifications. And gut may appear to run length of body in an unstained slide and not show some structures. Still it is kust a...
My father was a biology teac
My father was a biology teacher and I started in biology at 4 years of age. Got dis-heartened in college and never bothered with a degree. I have always maintained a personal lab and have been breeding fish since I was 12, 763 species to date. I am also an avid...
There is a book,published in1989 in the US by Tropical Fish Hobbyist. It is a translation of Dieter Untergasser's Handbook of Fish Diseases. It is an excellent tool for identification and treatment of Fish Diseases.
Karin your boo says you are a biologist, what feild of study?
With as many worms present in early larval stages,and the cysts saving the individuals may have been impossible. It is a good bet that you should still treat the tank for worms to prevent further losses. Further research suggests...
I see two culprits in the smears. There are also two mysteries. The first five slides all show a flatworm of some type, likely a type of fluke. Greater magnification would be required to identify but one end appears disc-like, which usually means scolex, which means parasite. The fifth slide...
In my experience it is not the net color but the commotion in the water that scares the fish. They are triggered by anything that is outside what they consider normal parameters. Additionally some fish spook easier than others and once one starts running and flashing panic they all take to...
Welcome to curiosity, fun and impending bankruptcy. I would be far better off today if I could recover what I spent on fish yesterday but I still keep them, and enjoy them, and spend far too much on them.